Has Anyone Here Ever Experienced Police Brutality? Does Anyone Personally Know Someone Who Has?

Civilian oversight
Make Police Chief and elected official maybe
They have to be held accountable to the public

Rocket River

 

Is that the voice of your hard working black colleagues with no interest in firearms or drugs?

 

Yes, I was forced onto my knees (gravel on the side of the road and I was in shorts), face shoved into the hot grill of the cop's Bronco 2, asked several questions, accused me of stealing car stereos, didn't like the answers I gave them in response to that accusation and beat the living crap out of me with their clubs. I was 14.

We were just obnoxious teenagers walking around our neighborhood intoxicated, and they singled me out I'm guessing because I had long hair at the time. I'm not sure how they contacted him, but my dad showed up on scene and took me home and told me I was lucky I didn't get an MIP or a criminal mischief charge.

Nearly everyone I grew up with in high school got the same if they were drunk and underage in public (very normal where I grew up) and lippy with the local cops back then.

It also happened in Tel Aviv years later as an adult. I was yanked off a guy who I had ran after to get back a wallet stolen from my friend, tackled and was yelling at and punching in the face, and the cops slammed me into the concrete, put into a submission hold, cuffed and smacked me around, but just a few unfriendly slaps and some yelling. They also did the same to the other guy, and put us in the same back seat where he spat on me and I head butted him and then they smacked us some more. They told me I was going to be tried for assault and battery but I was out in a few hours due to witnesses (including said friend whose wallet I re-acquired ).

Oh, and in the early 2000s, across the street from a motel I stayed the night before in rural Arkansas, was a mowed field with a baseball diamond in it. I jogged around it and realized it belonged to some factory next to it. Before I could finish my morning workout, local cops were on scene with shotguns yelling at me to put my hands over my head and walk slowly toward them. They asked for ID, which I didn't have because I was wearing pocketless jogging pants with only my motel key in the waistband. They said they were called by people in the factory that thought I was casing their cars to break into them. I asked if jogging was a crime in Arkansas.

What did they do? They held me at gunpoint and called in for backup.

Once backup arrived, they cuffed me, put me in the back seat of the car, and asked my address (which was in Los Angeles) and kept me there until CA DMV verified my identity (over an hour).

There are also many, many experiences with LAPD harassing me when I worked as a street vendor in parades who would threaten to confiscate my goods (and money) despite me having a legal permit. They would make up extralegal reasons to threaten me, and I had to talk myself out of handcuffs maybe half a dozen times but I always managed to avoid anything worse.

 

in Manila, the cops gave me two choices: get into an enclosed pick up truck filled with fresh dumb so they take me to the station so I can plead my case ,or pay them upfront.

in Riyadh, one summer noon 120+ degree ,going to the bank ,a tiny outraged middle age guy was screaming: you took my parking spot! the parking lot was almost empty, I ignored him and walked away to the bank, when exited, cops were waiting for me : you disrespected an elderly! they locked me in the back seat with windows closed and no ac, for about an hour as they were persuading that guy to drop his charges!add insult to injuries ,I could hear them saying this guy is crazy please let him go!

so yeah I think the police in the US are highly professional from my limited experience

 

we all got weaknesses boy! Mines just violent crime! I had to do it cuz I dont look and sound like em!

1 stereotype deserves another, especially with it being easy to hide behind a screen to push your anti white narrative.

When 13% of AA's commit far more violent crime than 65% of whites and asians combined, a smarter or peace loving person would address internal factors that he can control.

 

TABC roughed me up good once, outside of the Marquis II on Bissonnet. Made the mistake of going outside (after 2 cocktails, 6pm after work) to try and help my drunk housemate (who had been there for a couple of hours) who was being ****ed with by the WestUPD & TABC. They promptly sat me on the curb ("Don't Move, You're Drunk!") for an hour until I got bored of waiting (and watching drunks walk out of the bar and get in their cars and drive away) and trying to tell them that we walked here and are happy to walk home, blah blah blah so I started walking home; the Tahoe with full lights blazing comes screaming around the corner and got me within sight of my house. TABC kid slammed me all over the side of the Tahoe, made me kneel in the gravel on the side of the road with his knee in my back, called me names...and all that happened was a night in WestU jail and a dropped charge.

But I was a 30 year old white kid.

 

White lives matter more.

 

TABC/Vice cops are total dickheads. My dad used to own a few bars and he has more than a few stories about them.

 

I guess it sounds anti-white to easily triggered snowflakes who are also clumsy bigots.

How long will you stay with us this time "senator"? We're all dying to read your white supremacist views you casually drop hints over time.

For a tough guy you sure are rattled by colored people.

 

I am truly sorry to hear that, but I'm not surprised. The TABC shouldn't exist in the first place. They are essentially the Protestant Morality Police of Texas. It's a artifact from Prohibition and I would support any governor that campaigned to get rid of it.

 

If I hadn't been white, I know exactly what would had happened.

 

This guy did while in his own home.