[Graphic: Death shown] I found a genuine reason for armed protests.

Man this and the lady calling 911 saying she was being attacked by the birdwatcher are really f'ing disturbing.

 

That was awful.

Still don't need guns to protest though. Just need people to shake the apathy and come out in numbers.

 

I'm waiting on the usual suspects to step in and say if the guy wasn't doing anything illegal in the first place, this never would have happened.

 

WTF. Does anyone know if that man did end up dying?

That officer is a straight up murderer. He was doing it knowing he was on camera just to prove a point.

 

Nevermind. I found it.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020...minneapolis-police-fbi-called-to-investigate/

 

Wow... that was brutal to watch.

‘He Should Not Have Died’: Video Of Fatal Arrest Shows Minneapolis Cop Kneeling On Man’s Neck

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020...minneapolis-police-fbi-called-to-investigate/

 

Officers were idiots

or police are not properly trained , or rather I should say they are trained to protect themselves first and civilians second

those extra people showing up filming didn’t help . Normally you’d think the pressure of a camera would cause the officers to calm down and treat people more gently.... in this case it triggered (gotta come home to my family mode) and the officers felt more threatened .

instead of relaxing on the subdued guy they decided to hold him down even harder and perceived the camerawoman and any other bystanders as hostile .

if the officers had a legit reason for holding the guy (say he had been putting up a huge struggle and they were trying to tire him out / some other plan) all the one guy had to do was calm the situation down and explain .

I’m surprised they didn’t pull a gun on the crowd . Guess things really are getting better :/

 

And the police officer is at home relaxing with full pay.

Also the police report they note in this article is just garbage. Trying to paint a picture of someone who was intoxicated with a serious medical condition so they can try and say he died of natural causes which is laughable if it wasn't so sad. It's as if these cops are rubbing it in at this point.

 

I didn’t even see two other officers . I just saw the guy doing crowd control in the front and the guy on the detainee.

I’m not arguing that civilians shouldn’t have the right to do exactly what they did .

the officers obviously handled the extra crowd factor very poorly .

in your opinion does the guy stay on his neck longer , shorter , or the same time if the crowd never shows up ? My money says that he would have gotten off earlier if no crowd showed up . Your right , there is a bit of “don’t do what people are telling me to do”

I think it goes back to training...these guys are probably taught , control the crowd , don’t give in , escalate the situation by pulling a weapon if need be , you are in control you are in charge

I don’t know if it was Ego , fear , training , pure idiocy and intent to harm someone .... I don’t care .

I can’t go into these police officers heads . But , they need to be trained better so they KNOW not to respond like this and have it ingrained . How is it not in the manual once a dude is unconscious that you get off his airway !?

you can’t say this is a rogue individual action because the dude had backup there . Therefore the issue is systemic . Police aren’t trained on how to de-escalate situations

 

Exactly. If the officer was in fear for his life, the other officers would have picked up on that, and rushed to help him. The fact that the other officer doing crowd control was acting the way he was, and the way the other officer strolled by to check his pulse after he was dead, tells me that the murderer officer here was probably senior to the other officers, and someone they were afraid to undermine. I would have loved to know what was going through the mind of the asian officer doing crowd control two feet away from his partner murdering a man. He knew what was happening, and he did nothing. Was it out of fear of his partner? Was it because they just do that all the time and it's just something he's numb to? Or is he just that much of an idiot??

My intuition here tells me he did nothing out of fear.

 

Either relaxing, or ******** bricks about how he's going to be in prison for the next decade.

Not defending the cop here -- looks like murder to me though I'll await more facts -- but I feel some sympathy for him because of the video. You can watch the victim die on screen, which is horrible. More than anything else, he needs justice. You can also watch the perpetrator in this tense situation make a bad and fateful decision that will ruin his life. I would not want to be that guy. If it was me in that video, I'd probably be on suicide watch now.

 

This has nothing to do with training or de-escalation skills. These guys aren't that incompetent. Look at their faces, and read their body language. He knows what his knee and body weight are doing to the man's neck. The crowd control partner knows what is happening two feet away from him and does nothing. Sorry but that is a BS explanation.

 

I watched the whole video just to make sure. Those are bad cops and need to get fired and investigated. This is not good policing, I have always supported the good cops because their jobs aren’t the easiest in the world, but they need to clean house and get rid of the bad ones.

 

That cop should be arrested for murder.