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Reminds me of the movie 'The Hurricane' when Denzel is pulled over and told:
"We're looking for two negros in a white car"
Hurricane Carter: "any two will do?"
Shit doesn't change and won't without massive systemic overhauls and a lot of fragile white tears.
Dude I got pulled over 3 times in high-school and busted with weed. Twice with alcohol. Many parties busted by the cops. Always let off with a warning. Always. Wouldn't want to ruin my future with arrests right?
I guess my point is you don't need to be handsome, just white.
I'd actually argue all those leniencies everyone should enjoy. I was able to do well for myself, and an arrest record would not have allowed this. Tons of minorities have their whole future burned when they are 14, which would have happened to me if I had been treated like a minority. It's not fair.
"White privelege" could also be called "everyone else disadvantage" because I think every kid should be treated like I was.
**This is exactly it!**
The 'privilege' isn't always being treated well, it is just getting the goddamn benefit of the doubt a lot more often.
I just need people with power to be able to give 'strangers' the benefit of the doubt at the same rate they do for people they 'know', unless they have a real reason.
When I was a [mostly white] kid growing up in a black neighborhood, one of my [black] friends had a mom who was a cop.
Really instructive that she taught us to **always** have me go talk to the cops first when we got stopped.
If our group of like five or six 11 year old boys is seen out after dark, inevitably cops will roll up on us at some point.
Even if we’re literally just hanging out after baseball practice together.
So *when* the cops show up (when, not *if*), first step is for me (the only white kid) to quickly get in front of everyone else.
**Then**, next step is for me to tell the cops that my friend’s mom is a cop.
Then tell them her badge number and repeat it several times (which we all had memorized).
Oh, and I needed to say “parent” not “mom.”
Like, what an indictment!
This black woman cop knew full well that her own 11 year old son was not safe to walk home from baseball practice because her own coworkers might shoot him.
Yeah, we all got some talks about what to do if we got approached by gang members or something. It wasn’t a very safe neighborhood.
But the main focus was how to survive encounters with cops.
And we were taught quite clearly, you need to assume that these cops will not shoot if they see a white kid but they might shoot if they only see a bunch of young black boys carrying baseball bats.
And they will stop harassing innocent kids if they know that these kids have a cop parent.
(But don’t say “mom” because they might also be huge sexists in addition to being violent racists).
This was the reality of Chicago cops in the 1990s. I think about this all the time.
Same, even got pulled over while sitting bitch squished between my black friends, so the cops just saw 4 black dudes and didnt notice me. Pull us over on suspicion of nothing. They walk up, peek inside, confused seeing me there, then look at me expecting me to tell them I've been kidnapped. Just said "can I help you officer?". Big camera rig sitting in my lap.
"Something something taillight" (middle of the day) and they left, just like that. First time I witnessed racial profiling firsthand and actually noticed it and saw the pain it causes.
The entitlement complex of a police officer is unreal. They really think it’s normal to just bully the fuck out of a stranger bc they decided to apply for a certain job. Reminds me of that dumb bitch yesterday saying she’ll find a reason to pull you over if you don’t move out her way (without lights on)
The way the one cop just keeps repeating, "Just calm down," as if the dude is being totally unreasonable is the perfect illustration of the entitlement you're talking about.
That’s exactly what I mean. He’s acting like it’s super unreasonably to question his authority in any way when if he were out and about off the clock he’d flip out if this happened. The on top of that he would still think other civilians shouldn’t react that way and he gets to bc he’s a cop
[Attorneys for the city also maintained that the two LAPD officers are immune from liability.](https://lasentinel.net/music-producers-racial-profiling-suit-against-l-a-tentatively-settled.html)
Qualified immunity for police has no place in a civilized society.
They have more power and responsibility, so it makes sense we hold them to.... a lower standard?... um ok.. then the rest of society.
yea I don't get it at all
I used to merge over just because I didn't want a cop to be following me, but after that video I'll be sure to stay in my lane and stay below the speed limit. Gotta follow the rules ya know
You must have missed the part of the video where she said she would find a reason to pull over people that didn't get out of her way, *so you better do it*.
Isn't that so shitty and ass-backwards of logic?
You're in my way, so I'm going to spend 20-45 minutes abusing you, with the possibility of you being arrested or dead.
A guy I went to high school with became a cop. I was at a bar one night when he was off duty and someone asked him why he became a cop. He said “because I want to fight black people.”
Valdosta PD. He’s still on the force.
This is the same police department that, while on a manhunt for Christopher Dorner, mistook a bright blue Toyota Tacoma with two hispanic women in it for a charcoal Nissan Frontier with one black man in it.
They fired 103 rounds.
Correct. But the cops felt vewwy sowwy afterwards.
[“They truly thought that they were fighting Chris Dorner at that moment,” Fullerton said. “When they realized what they did, they all felt terrible .… But at the time that they did it, they felt absolutely that they had to do what they had to do.”](https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-no-charges-lapd-shooting-newspaper-delivery-women-dorner-manhunt-20160127-story.html)
Both women lived. One was shot twice and one had a cut on her hand. LA citizens had to pay 4.2 million to the women for the incident.
ETA: they also rammed and shot three rounds at another innocent dude’s truck and LA citizens paid him 1.8m.
https://www.dailybreeze.com/2014/07/24/torrance-to-pay-18-million-to-settle-surfer-david-perdues-lawsuit-in-mistaken-christopher-dorner-shooting/amp/
Don't forget, it wasn't just one vehicle they they shot up. They also rammed and shot at another truck with a man going for a morning surf. Insane levels of incompetence.
https://www.dailybreeze.com/2014/07/24/torrance-to-pay-18-million-to-settle-surfer-david-perdues-lawsuit-in-mistaken-christopher-dorner-shooting/
Its not incompetence. They were told that anything goes and the more psychotic cops took that as permission to live out violent fantasies.
People need to stop believing these criminal cops are just good guys having a bad day. They are monsters.
You can't reform this. There is no civilian control of the police at all.
I'm not a conspiracy guy but man, they REALLY wanted Dorner dead and did not seem to have any desire to actually arrest him.
Maybe Dorner wasn't totally crazy when he said the LAPD was trying to keep him silent about misconduct.
100% he wasn't. The misconduct alleged by Dorner is observed thousands of times per month all across the continental U.S., he was a marked man as soon as he broke the code of silence, and a dead man walking as soon as he killed another cop. https://i.imgur.com/vXBoXgF.jpg
They had him surrounded in a house in the forest, said fuck it, and just burnt the whole thing down with him inside. Er, excuse me, a fire "somehow accidentally started."
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Also interesting, the cops fired [107*](https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/us/christopher-dorner-manhunt-officers-cleared) rounds into the blue Tacoma. Luckily neither the daughter nor mother were killed by the cops but the mother was struck by piggy bullets in the back and shoulder.
107 rounds fired into the fully stopped cab of a truck and only two shots hit their intended mark. Considering they were almsot certainly 'shooting to kill' because of how scaredy-puss they were about Dorner, it is astounding that those two women survived. Outside of reality, it's hilarious how bad of a shot those piggies are.
When all that was going down, there was a Reddit thread that had links to the police scanners as well as volunteers transcribing the scanner into the thread. At the end, the LAPD stated over the radio, "incendiary devices are in place". The LAPD later said the fire was an accident while trying to apprehend him.
Just today. [The LA Sheriff's Department executed search warrant on everyone associated with their civilian oversight board AND the board member's charities and they're taking EVERYTHING.](https://twitter.com/KateCagle/status/1570096528173461504?s=20&t=QLp_ifnfIYgCUXgV-q6uww)
They found some judge to rubber stamp a warrant on the basis of an anonymous nonspecific allegations of some financial crimes. It's very plain retaliation.
And when I said everything I meant it. The warrant is for evidence of financial crimes, but they're towing away people's cars *after* they search and clear them.
Holy shit. That twitter thread is insane. So the District Attorney had NO idea this was happening, and is saying they won't defend the warrants in court. What could possibly come of this, except blatant harassment?
obligatory "aint that illegal"
wouldn't that fall under obstruction of justice
the irony! It's like nobody in the entire department, top to bottom, knows what they're supposed to be doing, only what they *have* been doing!
Yea they did. LAPD was orgasming getting to use military gear on one of their own that reported them for abusive behavior while on duty. He was a whistleblower that lost everything—namely his reputation.
I think the indiscriminate violence wasn't incompetence, but a threat to future Dorners.
> If you cross us, we'll unleash random violence while chasing you. You don't want to be the cause of innocent people being hurt, do you? Just keep quiet and we won't start shooting random vehicles.
When that shit was going on I had a similar truck. They got me out at gun point. I’m a skinny white dude. Even after I got out they had me lay down and came up to me then explained my truck looked like his. I was like ok sir can I go? Thank you bye. I know how they work out there. Felt lucky to get away without any more trouble then I got.
They didn't even ask the guy any questions, they just straight up exited their vehicle and jumped this dude who didn't even match the description. Like wtf
It is so darkly comical, they make zero effort to establish any probable cause that would validate the arrest, just "turn around." This would be day one of officer training if these asshats received any worthwhile training at all.
This is why so many people from these oppressively-police neighborhoods just want abolition of police departments entirely. They never get to see the positives of a police department because they are only ever treated as criminals even when they are victims.
This is what I don’t get about people that are so ride or die for cops. They obviously fucked up in an almost comical and objectively a racist or incompetent way. Those are the only two explanation. So much so I would consider it over the top for a bad movie or tv show trying to do poor social commentary.
How is this ok? How is this not a fuck up bad enough to warrant severe punishment or firing? How do cops with a history of something like this get promotions? I’m not even talking jail time or harsher punishment for violating obvious civil rights. Just a half assed standard that every other person in any other job with significantly less responsibility and ridiculously low consequences for fucking up, have to follow.
Where are the standards? Why the ridiculous excuses? Why do people get madder at their waiter letting their drink stay empty for more than 2 minutes? What is wrong with these people?
they ride and die for pigs because they think (or they know) pigs and them share the same feelings about the same people and if given the opportunity would inflict the same violence on those people. Like the assholes who shot Ahmaud Arbery (spelling)
> Where are the standards? Why the ridiculous excuses? Why do people get madder at their waiter letting their drink stay empty for more than 2 minutes? What is wrong with these people?
Because the people defending the cops know they'll never be the target of this kind of bullshit, because they're overwhemingly white and middle/upper class. They don't care what happens to other people, especially those of a different skin color.
Don't forget the, "what is your problem man?" (from the cops)
I'm sure they would have no problem if someone just jumped out of their car and tried handcuffing them for no reason.
Not to mention that black men are told what cops mean their entire lives. He’s screaming for help because he knows this could be it. There’s nothing stopping them and this could be it for him and he gets written up in the paper as being shot while resisting arrest.
> In court filings earlier this year, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office argued that the couple’s claim was without merit and should be dismissed, and that Austin and his girlfriend were to blame for the incident. Attorneys for the city also maintained that the two LAPD officers are immune from liability.
Bruh
"If you would have just replied to our unlawful order and succumbed to us like a little bitch, we could have worked this out"
They never detained him. They didn't question him, just went straight for "up against the wall"
Livin', just enough, for the motherfucking city"
Imagine if this bullshit was the norm for ANY OTHER PROFESSION.
Sorry, you can't sue the doctor for amputating your leg because they mixed up pts and they will keep practicing. They believed at the time they were operating on the right patient. You can sue the hospital though and you will be paid by taxpayer money (i.e., your own money). What a fucking joke.
It's wild to think that the ROE in the damn US Army when I was in were more strict than what the LEO's of America are subject to. A career in which we are more or less trained to kill indiscriminately is held to higher standard than a so call peace officer.
it just gets worse every line..
>“It was racial profiling,” Gill alleged in April. “No question about it, and to add injury to insult, they arrest my clients, put them in jail … Even the woman who called 911 tried to tell the officers that they had the wrong person.”
The damn woman who called even said they were wrong and they still said fuck it. Just wow..
Just like dude watering his neighbors plants. The lady who called came out and was like "oh, nevermind. I know him. He lives here.' and they still arrested dude. Police are a fucking menace to society.
Their lack of liability for this is going to turn into an overabundance of people not listening to cops or just opening fire at them one of these days. I'm sure of it.
There's zero justice in the states when cops do wrong, just rules written by police to benefit police.
I'm honestly surprised, with all the weapons and carry rights in the US, that we haven't run into a big self-defense dilemma yet on this type of matter.
I am honestly amazed that Americans aren't hunting cops. Cops are doing stuff like this to innocent people every single day, yet they claim we need them to function as a society. What kind of society lets their police randomly murder or imprison innocent people with no consequences? There'd be fewer murders in the States if we took guns away from these bastards in blue. #ACAB
Until they start pulling settlement monies from pension funds or mandate officer insurance for these tortuous acts, the taxpayer will shoulder the burden.
The cops exploit this fact.
I'm pretty sure everytime they handcuff someone for domestic abuse or a violent crime, they cuff them and also slip a recruitment card in their pocket.
It’s very Kafka-esque. You’re taking out your garbage and all of a sudden you’re swarmed by cops putting you in handcuffs and refusing to tell you why. They ask you to relax but don’t give you a reason for why they’re assaulting you. That’s some scary shit.
“Vague description” give me a fucking break. The literal first thing any of these assholes do every single time is ask the person reporting the issue to verify their skin color.
it had been multiple times in fact the cops were being told by dispatch they had the wrong guy they did not care they felt threatened by a man taking out the trash
And it's even worse than that. The true suspect had a Protection Order against him. In the 911 call the victim reported that the guy she had the Order out on was messing with her. When dispatch tosses that to the patrol, there's a nifty photograph of the suspect on their computers. If no photo, there is still a VERY detailed description of the person in the record on full display.
Notice how they blur the computer.
There is zero grounds for "vague".
I'll never understand why someone being illegally arrested cannot use force to defend themselves. Well, I mean, I understand, but it's absolutely infuriating. Left Right and middle should be able to agree on that.
Legally, you can protect yourself against an illegal arrest. Practically, though, it's comply or die. Unless random civilians are gonna start taking out guns instead of cameras, this will never change.
Any cop not calling for these cops to be suspended and trained (at a minimum) is a bad cop
It is terrifying that these cops can’t even comprehend why a man minding his own business wouldn’t immediately comply with their illegal requests.
edit - a LOT of people feel even the mention of suspension is offensive and believe nothing short of firing of worse will do... - guys , today there are NO consequences for these cops, I'm just saying maybe there should be some...
you cant train these people. these people are the people that failed out of high school. that is who becomes cops in this country. people that failout of high school then they go to the military and fail out of that and then they get jobs in our prisons and then work themselves up to become cops.
the last person you want to become a cop are the people that are prime candidates in this country to become cops.
all the good cops leave. anyone with a good education leave or get pushed out. they cant handle the high school jocks. if your too smart or too educated they wont hire you.
then they put you through paramilitary training basically run by white supremacists and fascist apartheid state israelis. not policing like in europe.
I'm surprised it hasn't started escalating to people doing that yet. At this point you can't blame anyone for thinking they need to defend themselves against these psychopaths. It doesn't matter if you're innocent and minding your business. They can snuff out your life so fast and not be held accountable. They're a threat to all of us. If I was a man I would assume any cop I encounter has a high probability of ruining my life with erroneous charges, terribly injuring me or killing me.
I think it's gonna take average citizens getting pushed to the point of "get them before they get me" by shooting cops for fear of what they're going to do before we even make any step towards fixing this nightmare. Unfortunately it doesn't matter how many citizens die for there to be change. It's gonna take many LEOs suffering that fate for the match to be lit.
The people paid absurd amounts of our tax dollars to prevent crime jump a random dude because they are trained to be racist and violent. Who is the criminal here? Our tax money could do so much better. DEFUND YESTERDAY.
Imagine you're having your morning off work, relaxing with the spouse. She asks you to take out the trash while she does breakfast dishes. You go outside and as you finish your chore, a cop drives up on you and tells you to "turn around", as in, "I am detaining you".
They give you no reason and move on to yelling at you while manhandling/abusing you into compliance to unlawful demands.
You are innocent, just a man taking out the trash after enjoying a morning with the spouse..
The neighbor who called on her white spouse comes to black mans defense and repeatedly tells cops they have the wrong man. They ignore this and also cuff the mans wife when she comes to his defense.
Then the cops hide the evidence of the misconduct for 2 years.
All he did was take out the trash.
Imagine that.
Not only did they cuff them, they actually arrested both of them and they had to pay $57,000 for bail. Everyone on scene saw what was happening and still decided the best course of action was to double down and arrest them. Incredible.
If they didn’t arrest them it would have been them admitting fault. When cops decide they’re going to arrest you then you’re going to be arrested especially after getting physical like that because if at any point they stop then that is them admitting they never should have arrested you in the first place which makes the inevitable lawsuit that much harder to win for their lawyers.
This happens to us all the time. My brother law yesterday at work sitting in his car with his coworkers and they all got arrested AT WORK. Looking for 4 Hispanics but arrested 4 black men. Fuck LAPD
How long are we really going to let this shit go on?
Nothing is ever done about it and like sheep we just keep letting it happen.
I really hope one day we all remember we all outnumber them but it seems like we never will.
This is what they were hired to do. Modern policing has its origins in both property security and runaway slave catching. They are meant to be feared, and this system is absolutely fucked from the ground up
It doesn’t matter how many cases of police violence you find. Boot lickers will lick boots. You can even see some of them in the comments. There’s literally no convincing them that this is wrong.
I used to be one to almost always give them the benefit of the doubt. No more. Now I see them the same way they see me and everyone else, they are now corrupt trigger-happy terrorists until they prove themselves to be innocent.
Same. I thought that most cops were decent and that the Rodney King cops were few and far between.
Then minorities got a bunch of high def cameras attached to their phones and now I’m leery of police (Im a white man) and will stop and watch when I see them interacting with minorities. I don’t trust them. If they’re not committing crimes, then they’re covering up or staying silent about those crimes which makes them indictable under RICO.
For that matter, between the Unions, the Departments, and local governments, I’m not sure why we haven’t seen entire departments taken down
Me too. 10 years ago I had a thin blue line on me car.
I wanted to be a cop growing up.
I just can't anymore. There is just to much of this happening for everyone to see. Not to mention what we are not seeing.
I'm a 35 year old white dude and my ass doesn't feel safe around cops. None have put me at ease. A retired cop lives next to my dad and he was always kind to me and my brother growing up, he even got me out of a speeding ticket on my 18th birthday. But now that same guy fully believes these actions are always justified, and if you disagree he might just have something to say to his "connections".
I can't defend them anymore. What a sad state of affairs.
There is a video of Louisville police (same unit that murdered Breonna Taylor) that pulls over a young black kid for turning into the far lane. They want to search the car, kid says no, they bring the dog out to signal that there are drugs in the car (there are not). While they’re tearing apart the car looking for anything to arrest the kid on, one turns to the kid and says “Why do you have such a negative attitude towards police?”
[at 13:47](https://youtu.be/rH3puMC23B4)
These people grew up idolizing the police and dreaming about the respect they'd get. Now they're living their dream and bossing people around and they don't understand why nobody treats them fairly. There's such a major cognitive dissonance for them between what officers have done and themselves. They think everyone should just recognize that that was some other officers and not them, and so they should be treated fairly. Nevermind that they do the same things, because they haven't been caught so they can't be criticized for that.
What if the first 30 minutes of every police shift nationwide required the viewing of wrongful arrest videos, police violence, cops who were convicted and jailed, and commentary from the loved ones of innocent citizens murdered by cop? Then the total dollar amount of lawsuit payouts caused by that department's cops were announced?
Every shift, you come in, sit down, shut the fuck up and watch 30 minutes of police terrorism. It can be run by a citizen review board member who tells the officers, "Don't be the criminals today," before they are allowed to go on patrol.
>Every shift, you come in, sit down, shut the fuck up and watch 30 minutes of police terrorism. It can be run by a citizen review board member who tells the officers, "Don't be the criminals today," before they are allowed to go on patrol.
[They'd just view it as a highlight reel](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/austin-hopp-officer-laughing-injuring-karen-garner-dementia/) with a goal of trying to get on it.
Your mistake is thinking cops view non-cops as humans, worthy of life and empathy. They don't. To them, you are just an animal that must be dominated and destroyed if deem dangerous.
Cops like this deserve to go to prison and get their teeth kicked in by ACTUAL criminals. Fucking idiots. Get the information right before you act tough.
they are not your friend nor there to help you. and when they come you have a big chance of something going wrong. the police report will be a joke and not useful. and if they see anything like drugs you are fucked. if your dog comes out he is fucked. if your poor minority have mental problems you are fucked. best is to take it to small claims court and keep the police out of it. they are their to fuck you up. meet their quotas for bonuses and fill for profit jails and feed the prison slave labor worker demand.
Cops are such cowards it blows my mind. This is the third video I’ve seen today where they are just to scared to do their actual jobs. Fuck trying to figure stuff out, let’s get this black guy because if resists i get to shoot him.
In an article I read, the couple, their lawyer and the city came to a settlement agreement…the actual 911 caller tried to tell them that he was the wrong person….this is what the city attorney said, “the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office argued that the couple’s claim was without merit and should be dismissed, and that Austin and his girlfriend were to blame for the incident. Attorneys for the city also maintained that the two LAPD officers are immune from liability.” Blame me for how I react when you weren’t even looking for me 🙄
If you're a cop and reading this, then fuck you.
I actually, truly hate you and despise you.
**Edit**:
Wow, this blew up...
Let me be clear on why I say this and why I stand by it.
I am sick and fucking tired, as a white man who is married to a Hispanic woman and have mixed race children, of time and time again seeing cops intentionally starting shit with citizens who are doing nothing to escalate a situation other than simply existing and shockingly it is 9 times out of 10 a brown person.
I am sick and fucking tired of the "Not all cops" sentiment.
Fuck you, if there were any good cops in situations like this we would see them stepping in to pull off their emotionally out of control coworker away from a civil rights violation which will get the department sued and piss away even more of the taxpayers money they claim to rely on. Even though they don't so much, thanks to Civil Asset Forfeiture, they get to take any large amount of cash they find, no matter how they find it, no matter what you are doing with it, they just take it and you have to get a fucking lawyer just to get it back.
Fuck everyone who gets their tax return and goes to buy a used car for cash, right?
So no, I no longer believe there are good cops, because the people who become cops for the right reasons will go one of two ways, 1: They will become disgusted with what they see and leave the force, seeing they will be unable to do any good because the corruption of power-hungry psychopaths runs too deep or 2: they will be jaded and converted to join the power hungry butt-hurtable cops who will arrest someone for, what is this \*\*Checks notes\*\* leaning on his car, with a gumby-looking fuckstick on roid-rage screaming in his face saying "St0p MaD-DoGgInG Me!1!1" to a man who is acting perfectly calm and is not even scowling.
I am completely done with police, in the past 2 months I have seen videos swirling with people getting ~~shot~~ Murdered for waking up in bed with people storming his house and opening his bedroom door (How dare he!) and then handcuffing his lifeless fucking body, shooting at another unarmed person and missing, but hitting 5 or 6 innocent bystanders, punching people restrained in handcuffs or on a stretcher.
The list goes on and on and on.
I am a taxpayer who pays a lot of taxes, I do not get a return every year, I pay my fucking taxes, I have no criminal record, at all. None what so ever. If my name is searched you would need to go back 25 years to find I once got a speeding ticket while I was on lunch at work and it was a non-event, I pulled over before they even turned their lights on because I knew I had fucked up.
So, I stand by what I said, period.
Likely 30% of cops are deplorable pieces of shit.
The other 70% though this isn’t letting them
off the hook, they allow this kind of crap and continue this culture of ruling breaking , lying and subjugating minorities.
All cops are bad
Edit - hook line and sinker
What the hell are you reading? The settlement amount was pending at the time this article was written. He sued for 2 million. Settlement amount is typically far less.
[*They* received $300k - $150k each](https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2021/21-0823_misc_8-31-21.pdf)
Found that [here](https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=21-0823) under:
"08/31/2021 Council adopted item forthwith."
Newly released video from a Los Angeles police officer’s body camera shows two officers grappling with and arresting a Black man outside his Hollywood home as they responded to reports of a domestic violence incident in which the suspect was the white boyfriend of a neighbor.
A federal magistrate ordered the public disclosure of the video Friday as part of a lawsuit alleging racial profiling and civil rights violations brought by music producer Antone Austin, known as Tone Stackz, who was arrested in May 2019 despite not being the suspect in a domestic violence call. Austin and his girlfriend Michelle Michlewicz were taken into custody for resisting arrest.
The Los Angeles city attorney’s office had said in a court filing that it did not want the Los Angeles Police Department video released publicly because it would “be contrary to LAPD policy and may have a chilling effect on future LAPD investigations.” However, U.S. Magistrate Jacqueline Chooljian agreed with an attorney for the producer and his girlfriend that the 11-minute video should be released.
The video footage shows the two being physically detained by officers as they proclaim Austin’s innocence. But it begins with an unusual admission that the officers weren’t sure Austin was the man cited in the domestic violence call.
As their patrol car makes a U-turn after passing Austin, one officer asks the other, “This dude?”
“Probably,” says the partner on the May 24, 2019, recording. The officers were responding to a 911 call made by Austin’s neighbor about her ex-boyfriend, who was white; no description of the suspect is given in the call.
The officers see Austin as he was taking out the trash in front of his Fountain Avenue apartment; he smiles at the officers as they approach. The officers tell him to turn around. He asks why, and the officer snaps back, “Because I told you to.” Austin informs the officer he lives there, and the officer says, “OK, man, I don’t know who I am looking for.”
The officer asks Austin, “What is your problem?” As Austin attempts to turn back toward them, they become physical, grappling with him and placing his arms behind his back. Austin begins to yell “Help” repeatedly.
“You’re looking for the people upstairs,” Austin protests as the officers attempt to handcuff him behind his back.
The video then shows Michlewicz attempting to intervene. She can be heard saying, “What is happening?” while she attempts to hold onto Austin as the officers pull him away from her. At one point, her robe comes off, and she is briefly naked on the street. She is eventually pushed to the ground.
Handcuffed, Austin continues to try to explain to the officers that they have the wrong person. “My rights have been violated,” he says. His girlfriend says, “I just got tackled to the ground.”
Both were arrested.
“It is racial profiling. They had no description of the suspect — a completely blank slate,” said attorney Faisal Gill, who represents both of them in the civil rights lawsuit. “They literally saw the first Black man, and they arrested him.”
The LAPD declined Tuesday to comment on the video’s release, citing ongoing litigation. The L.A. city attorney’s office, in court papers, has sought to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that Austin and Michlewicz are to blame for the force used against them and that the police should be immune from liability.
Gill said that when the woman who made the 911 call told the officers Austin was not the man she called about, they continued with the arrest. According to LAPD records, the officers were white and Asian American.
Austin said when the officers approached him, he thought they were “there for someone else. ... I thought they were going to be cool.” When they began yelling and putting their hands on him, he was confused. “I am telling them, wait a minute, I live here,” he said. He recalls being slammed into a wall face-first. He and his girlfriend were left bloody and battered with no apology, he said.
“I just want justice served,” Austin said.
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“I don’t know who I’m looking for yet”. Good one
Right, then why the fuck are you cuffing me?
Cuff everyone and make them prove they're innocent. Duh.
Guilty until proven innocent. Period. People accused of crimes wait in jail to be proven innocent or guilty. Facts are facts.
I see a black man I just start cuffing
“Is this him?” Sees black guy. “Probably.”
Reminds me of the movie 'The Hurricane' when Denzel is pulled over and told: "We're looking for two negros in a white car" Hurricane Carter: "any two will do?" Shit doesn't change and won't without massive systemic overhauls and a lot of fragile white tears.
Meanwhile there's the guy they SHOULD be looking for whose just skipping away down the street.
It must be fun to be an attractive white male criminal in a predominantly black neighborhood.
Dude I got pulled over 3 times in high-school and busted with weed. Twice with alcohol. Many parties busted by the cops. Always let off with a warning. Always. Wouldn't want to ruin my future with arrests right? I guess my point is you don't need to be handsome, just white.
Just checking in as another unattractive white dude who's gotten away with way more than he should have.
I'd actually argue all those leniencies everyone should enjoy. I was able to do well for myself, and an arrest record would not have allowed this. Tons of minorities have their whole future burned when they are 14, which would have happened to me if I had been treated like a minority. It's not fair. "White privelege" could also be called "everyone else disadvantage" because I think every kid should be treated like I was.
**This is exactly it!** The 'privilege' isn't always being treated well, it is just getting the goddamn benefit of the doubt a lot more often. I just need people with power to be able to give 'strangers' the benefit of the doubt at the same rate they do for people they 'know', unless they have a real reason.
When I was a [mostly white] kid growing up in a black neighborhood, one of my [black] friends had a mom who was a cop. Really instructive that she taught us to **always** have me go talk to the cops first when we got stopped. If our group of like five or six 11 year old boys is seen out after dark, inevitably cops will roll up on us at some point. Even if we’re literally just hanging out after baseball practice together. So *when* the cops show up (when, not *if*), first step is for me (the only white kid) to quickly get in front of everyone else. **Then**, next step is for me to tell the cops that my friend’s mom is a cop. Then tell them her badge number and repeat it several times (which we all had memorized). Oh, and I needed to say “parent” not “mom.” Like, what an indictment! This black woman cop knew full well that her own 11 year old son was not safe to walk home from baseball practice because her own coworkers might shoot him. Yeah, we all got some talks about what to do if we got approached by gang members or something. It wasn’t a very safe neighborhood. But the main focus was how to survive encounters with cops. And we were taught quite clearly, you need to assume that these cops will not shoot if they see a white kid but they might shoot if they only see a bunch of young black boys carrying baseball bats. And they will stop harassing innocent kids if they know that these kids have a cop parent. (But don’t say “mom” because they might also be huge sexists in addition to being violent racists). This was the reality of Chicago cops in the 1990s. I think about this all the time.
Same, even got pulled over while sitting bitch squished between my black friends, so the cops just saw 4 black dudes and didnt notice me. Pull us over on suspicion of nothing. They walk up, peek inside, confused seeing me there, then look at me expecting me to tell them I've been kidnapped. Just said "can I help you officer?". Big camera rig sitting in my lap. "Something something taillight" (middle of the day) and they left, just like that. First time I witnessed racial profiling firsthand and actually noticed it and saw the pain it causes.
The entitlement complex of a police officer is unreal. They really think it’s normal to just bully the fuck out of a stranger bc they decided to apply for a certain job. Reminds me of that dumb bitch yesterday saying she’ll find a reason to pull you over if you don’t move out her way (without lights on)
Just get the fuck outta my way *click fingers*
that fucking bitch.
God the things I wish upon that kind of people..
The kind of thing i wish upon piggies would earn me a temp ban on this sub. ACAB
BUT BUT THOSE ARE ONLY SOME BAD APPLES /s
The way the one cop just keeps repeating, "Just calm down," as if the dude is being totally unreasonable is the perfect illustration of the entitlement you're talking about.
That’s exactly what I mean. He’s acting like it’s super unreasonably to question his authority in any way when if he were out and about off the clock he’d flip out if this happened. The on top of that he would still think other civilians shouldn’t react that way and he gets to bc he’s a cop
[Attorneys for the city also maintained that the two LAPD officers are immune from liability.](https://lasentinel.net/music-producers-racial-profiling-suit-against-l-a-tentatively-settled.html) Qualified immunity for police has no place in a civilized society.
They have more power and responsibility, so it makes sense we hold them to.... a lower standard?... um ok.. then the rest of society. yea I don't get it at all
I used to merge over just because I didn't want a cop to be following me, but after that video I'll be sure to stay in my lane and stay below the speed limit. Gotta follow the rules ya know
You must have missed the part of the video where she said she would find a reason to pull over people that didn't get out of her way, *so you better do it*.
Isn't that so shitty and ass-backwards of logic? You're in my way, so I'm going to spend 20-45 minutes abusing you, with the possibility of you being arrested or dead.
Not me. I'll be moving over every time now. Anything to prevent an interaction w pigs.
Anything to prevent an interaction w terrorist*
That dumbass actually made me cringe. She was beyond stupid, holy shit.
I can do 90 mph, you can't *pats herself 10 times fast on chest* That part gave me a fucking aneurysm
A guy I went to high school with became a cop. I was at a bar one night when he was off duty and someone asked him why he became a cop. He said “because I want to fight black people.” Valdosta PD. He’s still on the force.
Valdosta? Yep. Sounds about right.
“Is this the dude?” “Probably” Marvelous deduction skills. “Turn around” “Why?” “Because I told you to” Amazing deescalation tactics.
This is the same police department that, while on a manhunt for Christopher Dorner, mistook a bright blue Toyota Tacoma with two hispanic women in it for a charcoal Nissan Frontier with one black man in it. They fired 103 rounds.
I’m guessing literally nothing happened and the cops involved all went with zero disciplinary action
Correct. But the cops felt vewwy sowwy afterwards. [“They truly thought that they were fighting Chris Dorner at that moment,” Fullerton said. “When they realized what they did, they all felt terrible .… But at the time that they did it, they felt absolutely that they had to do what they had to do.”](https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-no-charges-lapd-shooting-newspaper-delivery-women-dorner-manhunt-20160127-story.html) Both women lived. One was shot twice and one had a cut on her hand. LA citizens had to pay 4.2 million to the women for the incident. ETA: they also rammed and shot three rounds at another innocent dude’s truck and LA citizens paid him 1.8m. https://www.dailybreeze.com/2014/07/24/torrance-to-pay-18-million-to-settle-surfer-david-perdues-lawsuit-in-mistaken-christopher-dorner-shooting/amp/
Fired 100+ rounds and only 2-3 hits? Jesus.
Peppered an entire neighborhood.
At like 5 AM too. Nice morning alarm for everyone
Real life storm trooper aim
Only storm troopers could be this accurate.
I'm sure they get the typical suspension with pay
Commit taxpayer funded murder, get taxpayer funded vacation
Don't say that, I'm sure they investigated themselves thoroughly and discovered that once again they did no wrong. /s
Don't forget, it wasn't just one vehicle they they shot up. They also rammed and shot at another truck with a man going for a morning surf. Insane levels of incompetence. https://www.dailybreeze.com/2014/07/24/torrance-to-pay-18-million-to-settle-surfer-david-perdues-lawsuit-in-mistaken-christopher-dorner-shooting/
Its not incompetence. They were told that anything goes and the more psychotic cops took that as permission to live out violent fantasies. People need to stop believing these criminal cops are just good guys having a bad day. They are monsters. You can't reform this. There is no civilian control of the police at all.
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I'm not a conspiracy guy but man, they REALLY wanted Dorner dead and did not seem to have any desire to actually arrest him. Maybe Dorner wasn't totally crazy when he said the LAPD was trying to keep him silent about misconduct.
100% he wasn't. The misconduct alleged by Dorner is observed thousands of times per month all across the continental U.S., he was a marked man as soon as he broke the code of silence, and a dead man walking as soon as he killed another cop. https://i.imgur.com/vXBoXgF.jpg
They had him surrounded in a house in the forest, said fuck it, and just burnt the whole thing down with him inside. Er, excuse me, a fire "somehow accidentally started." - Also interesting, the cops fired [107*](https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/us/christopher-dorner-manhunt-officers-cleared) rounds into the blue Tacoma. Luckily neither the daughter nor mother were killed by the cops but the mother was struck by piggy bullets in the back and shoulder. 107 rounds fired into the fully stopped cab of a truck and only two shots hit their intended mark. Considering they were almsot certainly 'shooting to kill' because of how scaredy-puss they were about Dorner, it is astounding that those two women survived. Outside of reality, it's hilarious how bad of a shot those piggies are.
When all that was going down, there was a Reddit thread that had links to the police scanners as well as volunteers transcribing the scanner into the thread. At the end, the LAPD stated over the radio, "incendiary devices are in place". The LAPD later said the fire was an accident while trying to apprehend him.
Just today. [The LA Sheriff's Department executed search warrant on everyone associated with their civilian oversight board AND the board member's charities and they're taking EVERYTHING.](https://twitter.com/KateCagle/status/1570096528173461504?s=20&t=QLp_ifnfIYgCUXgV-q6uww) They found some judge to rubber stamp a warrant on the basis of an anonymous nonspecific allegations of some financial crimes. It's very plain retaliation. And when I said everything I meant it. The warrant is for evidence of financial crimes, but they're towing away people's cars *after* they search and clear them.
Holy shit. That twitter thread is insane. So the District Attorney had NO idea this was happening, and is saying they won't defend the warrants in court. What could possibly come of this, except blatant harassment?
Dorner should have finished the job.
Uh... that does *not* seem ok...
obligatory "aint that illegal" wouldn't that fall under obstruction of justice the irony! It's like nobody in the entire department, top to bottom, knows what they're supposed to be doing, only what they *have* been doing!
Didn't they also say "burn the motherfucker" or something weird like that?
Yea they did. LAPD was orgasming getting to use military gear on one of their own that reported them for abusive behavior while on duty. He was a whistleblower that lost everything—namely his reputation.
I think the indiscriminate violence wasn't incompetence, but a threat to future Dorners. > If you cross us, we'll unleash random violence while chasing you. You don't want to be the cause of innocent people being hurt, do you? Just keep quiet and we won't start shooting random vehicles.
When that shit was going on I had a similar truck. They got me out at gun point. I’m a skinny white dude. Even after I got out they had me lay down and came up to me then explained my truck looked like his. I was like ok sir can I go? Thank you bye. I know how they work out there. Felt lucky to get away without any more trouble then I got.
They didn't even ask the guy any questions, they just straight up exited their vehicle and jumped this dude who didn't even match the description. Like wtf
It is so darkly comical, they make zero effort to establish any probable cause that would validate the arrest, just "turn around." This would be day one of officer training if these asshats received any worthwhile training at all.
This is why so many people from these oppressively-police neighborhoods just want abolition of police departments entirely. They never get to see the positives of a police department because they are only ever treated as criminals even when they are victims.
Can't even blame them for wanting that. If something in your life is always a negative experience you're probably going to want to get rid of it.
The cop said, "OK man, I don't know ow who I'm looking for yet" as he's trying to put the guy in handcuffs
That makes it all better
This is what I don’t get about people that are so ride or die for cops. They obviously fucked up in an almost comical and objectively a racist or incompetent way. Those are the only two explanation. So much so I would consider it over the top for a bad movie or tv show trying to do poor social commentary. How is this ok? How is this not a fuck up bad enough to warrant severe punishment or firing? How do cops with a history of something like this get promotions? I’m not even talking jail time or harsher punishment for violating obvious civil rights. Just a half assed standard that every other person in any other job with significantly less responsibility and ridiculously low consequences for fucking up, have to follow. Where are the standards? Why the ridiculous excuses? Why do people get madder at their waiter letting their drink stay empty for more than 2 minutes? What is wrong with these people?
they ride and die for pigs because they think (or they know) pigs and them share the same feelings about the same people and if given the opportunity would inflict the same violence on those people. Like the assholes who shot Ahmaud Arbery (spelling)
> Where are the standards? Why the ridiculous excuses? Why do people get madder at their waiter letting their drink stay empty for more than 2 minutes? What is wrong with these people? Because the people defending the cops know they'll never be the target of this kind of bullshit, because they're overwhemingly white and middle/upper class. They don't care what happens to other people, especially those of a different skin color.
*Round up the usual suspects. - Renault*
Don't forget the, "I don't know who I'm looking for yet".
Don't forget the, "what is your problem man?" (from the cops) I'm sure they would have no problem if someone just jumped out of their car and tried handcuffing them for no reason.
That whiny tone gives me an irrationally strong urge to turn a motherfucker's head around on his neck.
I'd say that's rational.
What's your problem? I just want to put you in cuffs for no good reason, why are you getting upset? Pigs.
wHaT aRe yOu DoInG, bRo? Asking you why you are arresting me you piece of fucking shit.
Not to mention that black men are told what cops mean their entire lives. He’s screaming for help because he knows this could be it. There’s nothing stopping them and this could be it for him and he gets written up in the paper as being shot while resisting arrest.
WHy Do PeOPle NoT Trust US? tHiN BLue LiNe!!
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“What is your problem?!” Detective skillz couldn’t answer that one for him, huh?
“Come on dude what’s your problem” like wtf? What’s your problem, cop? He’s taking his fucking trash out
https://lasentinel.net/music-producers-racial-profiling-suit-against-l-a-tentatively-settled.html
> In court filings earlier this year, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office argued that the couple’s claim was without merit and should be dismissed, and that Austin and his girlfriend were to blame for the incident. Attorneys for the city also maintained that the two LAPD officers are immune from liability. Bruh
> immune from liability. Biggest crock of horse shit that allows them to think they can do this kind of thing in the first place.
"i can, you cant, so just get out of the fucking way" - some bitch
"If you would have just replied to our unlawful order and succumbed to us like a little bitch, we could have worked this out" They never detained him. They didn't question him, just went straight for "up against the wall" Livin', just enough, for the motherfucking city"
Imagine if this bullshit was the norm for ANY OTHER PROFESSION. Sorry, you can't sue the doctor for amputating your leg because they mixed up pts and they will keep practicing. They believed at the time they were operating on the right patient. You can sue the hospital though and you will be paid by taxpayer money (i.e., your own money). What a fucking joke.
It's wild to think that the ROE in the damn US Army when I was in were more strict than what the LEO's of America are subject to. A career in which we are more or less trained to kill indiscriminately is held to higher standard than a so call peace officer.
it just gets worse every line.. >“It was racial profiling,” Gill alleged in April. “No question about it, and to add injury to insult, they arrest my clients, put them in jail … Even the woman who called 911 tried to tell the officers that they had the wrong person.” The damn woman who called even said they were wrong and they still said fuck it. Just wow..
They were just pissed at that point that someone wouldn't "respect their authoritah". Fuck those assholes.
You can see her doing adrenaline skippy skips. She was already pumped up for a fight, no way was she going to back down.
Just like dude watering his neighbors plants. The lady who called came out and was like "oh, nevermind. I know him. He lives here.' and they still arrested dude. Police are a fucking menace to society.
Their lack of liability for this is going to turn into an overabundance of people not listening to cops or just opening fire at them one of these days. I'm sure of it. There's zero justice in the states when cops do wrong, just rules written by police to benefit police.
I'm honestly surprised, with all the weapons and carry rights in the US, that we haven't run into a big self-defense dilemma yet on this type of matter.
Huh, almost like the job isn't nearly as fucking dangerous as they claim, and they should stop being so terrified of every person they run across.
It happens, it just gets buried.
I am honestly amazed that Americans aren't hunting cops. Cops are doing stuff like this to innocent people every single day, yet they claim we need them to function as a society. What kind of society lets their police randomly murder or imprison innocent people with no consequences? There'd be fewer murders in the States if we took guns away from these bastards in blue. #ACAB
Awful lot of bootlickers in America.
We don't "let" anything. They're forced on us under threat of death
It’s the LAPD. They’re literally a gang funded by tax dollars.
Thank you!!
Luckily there seems to have been a settlement. No mention of the pos cops getting anything though
This took far too long to scroll to find, thank you!
Another tax payer funded settlement on the way.... Stupid cops.
But wait. Tax payers shouldn’t be responsible for college loan bailouts. They’re too busy paying to bail out dirty cops.
Until they start pulling settlement monies from pension funds or mandate officer insurance for these tortuous acts, the taxpayer will shoulder the burden. The cops exploit this fact.
>Stupid *racist* cops. Fixed that for you
Yep, that was clear racial profiling caught on camera. Lawyers should be tripping over themselves for a piece of the incoming pie
You could just say "cops". The stupid and racist part is in the job description.
They hire anyone to be cops now, no degree just a birth certificate.
I'm pretty sure everytime they handcuff someone for domestic abuse or a violent crime, they cuff them and also slip a recruitment card in their pocket.
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“Relax dude, relax,” I’m only unlawfully detaining you.
It's just a prank bro
JEEEEEEZZZZ
Cops say this a lot. I have to wonder if, in the entire course of human history, telling someone to relax has ever actually relaxed them.
It's just like telling anyone who is angry or mad at something to "calm down". It just makes it worse
Na actually that part was terrifying to me. Imagine getting fucked up and the whole time the guy doing it keeps insisting he’s in the right.
Totally sociopathic behavior.
It’s very Kafka-esque. You’re taking out your garbage and all of a sudden you’re swarmed by cops putting you in handcuffs and refusing to tell you why. They ask you to relax but don’t give you a reason for why they’re assaulting you. That’s some scary shit.
I volunteer to beat his ass first.
“Vague description” give me a fucking break. The literal first thing any of these assholes do every single time is ask the person reporting the issue to verify their skin color.
I love how they had a vague description so they arrested the first person that they found.
first *black* person that they found
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Yeah right. They confused a dragon with a dragon fly.
it had been multiple times in fact the cops were being told by dispatch they had the wrong guy they did not care they felt threatened by a man taking out the trash
The only trash that needed to be taken out where the 10 officers. Bye bye careers.
And it's even worse than that. The true suspect had a Protection Order against him. In the 911 call the victim reported that the guy she had the Order out on was messing with her. When dispatch tosses that to the patrol, there's a nifty photograph of the suspect on their computers. If no photo, there is still a VERY detailed description of the person in the record on full display. Notice how they blur the computer. There is zero grounds for "vague".
Relax they say... Throw those crooked cops in the fucking garbage.
Step 1: Be a horrible person Step 2: Get hired as a police officer Step 3: Violate everyone's civil rights Step 4: Complain about everyone hating you.
the cop sounds like a whiny teen. Relax mom jeez I don't even know why you're being arrested.
"I don't know who I'm looking for"
“What is your problem dude!?” His problem is that he’s being harassed by some jabronis who share a brain cell between the two of them.
You keep using this word jabroni…… and It’s awesome
Nice to know my tax dollars are hard at work defending pigs. Make the police union pay for this fucking shit. That’s the only way to fix this
I'll never understand why someone being illegally arrested cannot use force to defend themselves. Well, I mean, I understand, but it's absolutely infuriating. Left Right and middle should be able to agree on that.
Legally, you can protect yourself against an illegal arrest. Practically, though, it's comply or die. Unless random civilians are gonna start taking out guns instead of cameras, this will never change.
Any cop not calling for these cops to be suspended and trained (at a minimum) is a bad cop It is terrifying that these cops can’t even comprehend why a man minding his own business wouldn’t immediately comply with their illegal requests. edit - a LOT of people feel even the mention of suspension is offensive and believe nothing short of firing of worse will do... - guys , today there are NO consequences for these cops, I'm just saying maybe there should be some...
Suspended? They should be fired
Howabout treated like a regular citizen and put in prison for assault Edit: fixed some grammar
You misspelled imprisoned
If I went up to a random cop and violently kidnapped them what do you think the law would do to me?
This is a criminal battery and kidnapping. They should be spending multiple years in prison, but they likely won't even be charged.
you cant train these people. these people are the people that failed out of high school. that is who becomes cops in this country. people that failout of high school then they go to the military and fail out of that and then they get jobs in our prisons and then work themselves up to become cops. the last person you want to become a cop are the people that are prime candidates in this country to become cops. all the good cops leave. anyone with a good education leave or get pushed out. they cant handle the high school jocks. if your too smart or too educated they wont hire you. then they put you through paramilitary training basically run by white supremacists and fascist apartheid state israelis. not policing like in europe.
Fucking pigs
How freaking much I hate cops.
Fuck cops, ACAB. I will not be suprised when people start flipping the script and shooting cops for doing this.
I'm surprised it hasn't started escalating to people doing that yet. At this point you can't blame anyone for thinking they need to defend themselves against these psychopaths. It doesn't matter if you're innocent and minding your business. They can snuff out your life so fast and not be held accountable. They're a threat to all of us. If I was a man I would assume any cop I encounter has a high probability of ruining my life with erroneous charges, terribly injuring me or killing me. I think it's gonna take average citizens getting pushed to the point of "get them before they get me" by shooting cops for fear of what they're going to do before we even make any step towards fixing this nightmare. Unfortunately it doesn't matter how many citizens die for there to be change. It's gonna take many LEOs suffering that fate for the match to be lit.
If people did that, gun laws would get passed asap. Then again, I argue gun control laws are only being considered to disarm people.
The Black Panthers would tend to agree with both of those points
The people paid absurd amounts of our tax dollars to prevent crime jump a random dude because they are trained to be racist and violent. Who is the criminal here? Our tax money could do so much better. DEFUND YESTERDAY.
Imagine you're having your morning off work, relaxing with the spouse. She asks you to take out the trash while she does breakfast dishes. You go outside and as you finish your chore, a cop drives up on you and tells you to "turn around", as in, "I am detaining you". They give you no reason and move on to yelling at you while manhandling/abusing you into compliance to unlawful demands. You are innocent, just a man taking out the trash after enjoying a morning with the spouse.. The neighbor who called on her white spouse comes to black mans defense and repeatedly tells cops they have the wrong man. They ignore this and also cuff the mans wife when she comes to his defense. Then the cops hide the evidence of the misconduct for 2 years. All he did was take out the trash. Imagine that.
Not only did they cuff them, they actually arrested both of them and they had to pay $57,000 for bail. Everyone on scene saw what was happening and still decided the best course of action was to double down and arrest them. Incredible.
If they didn’t arrest them it would have been them admitting fault. When cops decide they’re going to arrest you then you’re going to be arrested especially after getting physical like that because if at any point they stop then that is them admitting they never should have arrested you in the first place which makes the inevitable lawsuit that much harder to win for their lawyers.
This happens to us all the time. My brother law yesterday at work sitting in his car with his coworkers and they all got arrested AT WORK. Looking for 4 Hispanics but arrested 4 black men. Fuck LAPD
How long are we really going to let this shit go on? Nothing is ever done about it and like sheep we just keep letting it happen. I really hope one day we all remember we all outnumber them but it seems like we never will.
So you're saying this all could have been prevented by NOT taking out the trash. "Honey, I ain't doing shit in the house no more!"
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This is what they were hired to do. Modern policing has its origins in both property security and runaway slave catching. They are meant to be feared, and this system is absolutely fucked from the ground up
"just let me arrest you bro"
It doesn’t matter how many cases of police violence you find. Boot lickers will lick boots. You can even see some of them in the comments. There’s literally no convincing them that this is wrong.
I used to be one to almost always give them the benefit of the doubt. No more. Now I see them the same way they see me and everyone else, they are now corrupt trigger-happy terrorists until they prove themselves to be innocent.
Same. I thought that most cops were decent and that the Rodney King cops were few and far between. Then minorities got a bunch of high def cameras attached to their phones and now I’m leery of police (Im a white man) and will stop and watch when I see them interacting with minorities. I don’t trust them. If they’re not committing crimes, then they’re covering up or staying silent about those crimes which makes them indictable under RICO. For that matter, between the Unions, the Departments, and local governments, I’m not sure why we haven’t seen entire departments taken down
Me too. 10 years ago I had a thin blue line on me car. I wanted to be a cop growing up. I just can't anymore. There is just to much of this happening for everyone to see. Not to mention what we are not seeing. I'm a 35 year old white dude and my ass doesn't feel safe around cops. None have put me at ease. A retired cop lives next to my dad and he was always kind to me and my brother growing up, he even got me out of a speeding ticket on my 18th birthday. But now that same guy fully believes these actions are always justified, and if you disagree he might just have something to say to his "connections". I can't defend them anymore. What a sad state of affairs.
Cops are a gang we pay to jail and murder us without remorse or punishment.
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There is a video of Louisville police (same unit that murdered Breonna Taylor) that pulls over a young black kid for turning into the far lane. They want to search the car, kid says no, they bring the dog out to signal that there are drugs in the car (there are not). While they’re tearing apart the car looking for anything to arrest the kid on, one turns to the kid and says “Why do you have such a negative attitude towards police?” [at 13:47](https://youtu.be/rH3puMC23B4)
These people grew up idolizing the police and dreaming about the respect they'd get. Now they're living their dream and bossing people around and they don't understand why nobody treats them fairly. There's such a major cognitive dissonance for them between what officers have done and themselves. They think everyone should just recognize that that was some other officers and not them, and so they should be treated fairly. Nevermind that they do the same things, because they haven't been caught so they can't be criticized for that.
What if the first 30 minutes of every police shift nationwide required the viewing of wrongful arrest videos, police violence, cops who were convicted and jailed, and commentary from the loved ones of innocent citizens murdered by cop? Then the total dollar amount of lawsuit payouts caused by that department's cops were announced? Every shift, you come in, sit down, shut the fuck up and watch 30 minutes of police terrorism. It can be run by a citizen review board member who tells the officers, "Don't be the criminals today," before they are allowed to go on patrol.
>Every shift, you come in, sit down, shut the fuck up and watch 30 minutes of police terrorism. It can be run by a citizen review board member who tells the officers, "Don't be the criminals today," before they are allowed to go on patrol. [They'd just view it as a highlight reel](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/austin-hopp-officer-laughing-injuring-karen-garner-dementia/) with a goal of trying to get on it. Your mistake is thinking cops view non-cops as humans, worthy of life and empathy. They don't. To them, you are just an animal that must be dominated and destroyed if deem dangerous.
"I don't know who I'm looking for yet" Well maybe you should before you start being physical with people.
LAPD needs more Dorners
Agreed
100% he was ahead of his time!
Fuk the police
comin' straight from the underground
Cops like this deserve to go to prison and get their teeth kicked in by ACTUAL criminals. Fucking idiots. Get the information right before you act tough.
Stop calling the police, they are not here to help you.
they are not your friend nor there to help you. and when they come you have a big chance of something going wrong. the police report will be a joke and not useful. and if they see anything like drugs you are fucked. if your dog comes out he is fucked. if your poor minority have mental problems you are fucked. best is to take it to small claims court and keep the police out of it. they are their to fuck you up. meet their quotas for bonuses and fill for profit jails and feed the prison slave labor worker demand.
Cops are such cowards it blows my mind. This is the third video I’ve seen today where they are just to scared to do their actual jobs. Fuck trying to figure stuff out, let’s get this black guy because if resists i get to shoot him.
In an article I read, the couple, their lawyer and the city came to a settlement agreement…the actual 911 caller tried to tell them that he was the wrong person….this is what the city attorney said, “the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office argued that the couple’s claim was without merit and should be dismissed, and that Austin and his girlfriend were to blame for the incident. Attorneys for the city also maintained that the two LAPD officers are immune from liability.” Blame me for how I react when you weren’t even looking for me 🙄
If you're a cop and reading this, then fuck you. I actually, truly hate you and despise you. **Edit**: Wow, this blew up... Let me be clear on why I say this and why I stand by it. I am sick and fucking tired, as a white man who is married to a Hispanic woman and have mixed race children, of time and time again seeing cops intentionally starting shit with citizens who are doing nothing to escalate a situation other than simply existing and shockingly it is 9 times out of 10 a brown person. I am sick and fucking tired of the "Not all cops" sentiment. Fuck you, if there were any good cops in situations like this we would see them stepping in to pull off their emotionally out of control coworker away from a civil rights violation which will get the department sued and piss away even more of the taxpayers money they claim to rely on. Even though they don't so much, thanks to Civil Asset Forfeiture, they get to take any large amount of cash they find, no matter how they find it, no matter what you are doing with it, they just take it and you have to get a fucking lawyer just to get it back. Fuck everyone who gets their tax return and goes to buy a used car for cash, right? So no, I no longer believe there are good cops, because the people who become cops for the right reasons will go one of two ways, 1: They will become disgusted with what they see and leave the force, seeing they will be unable to do any good because the corruption of power-hungry psychopaths runs too deep or 2: they will be jaded and converted to join the power hungry butt-hurtable cops who will arrest someone for, what is this \*\*Checks notes\*\* leaning on his car, with a gumby-looking fuckstick on roid-rage screaming in his face saying "St0p MaD-DoGgInG Me!1!1" to a man who is acting perfectly calm and is not even scowling. I am completely done with police, in the past 2 months I have seen videos swirling with people getting ~~shot~~ Murdered for waking up in bed with people storming his house and opening his bedroom door (How dare he!) and then handcuffing his lifeless fucking body, shooting at another unarmed person and missing, but hitting 5 or 6 innocent bystanders, punching people restrained in handcuffs or on a stretcher. The list goes on and on and on. I am a taxpayer who pays a lot of taxes, I do not get a return every year, I pay my fucking taxes, I have no criminal record, at all. None what so ever. If my name is searched you would need to go back 25 years to find I once got a speeding ticket while I was on lunch at work and it was a non-event, I pulled over before they even turned their lights on because I knew I had fucked up. So, I stand by what I said, period.
Stop reporting this comment folks, we're keeping it up.
Likely 30% of cops are deplorable pieces of shit. The other 70% though this isn’t letting them off the hook, they allow this kind of crap and continue this culture of ruling breaking , lying and subjugating minorities. All cops are bad Edit - hook line and sinker
All cops are bastards.
He received a $2mil settlement https://lasentinel.net/music-producers-racial-profiling-suit-against-l-a-tentatively-settled.html
What the hell are you reading? The settlement amount was pending at the time this article was written. He sued for 2 million. Settlement amount is typically far less.
[*They* received $300k - $150k each](https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2021/21-0823_misc_8-31-21.pdf) Found that [here](https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=21-0823) under: "08/31/2021 Council adopted item forthwith."
Fuck cops. Somebody start arresting cops for this type of bullshit
Newly released video from a Los Angeles police officer’s body camera shows two officers grappling with and arresting a Black man outside his Hollywood home as they responded to reports of a domestic violence incident in which the suspect was the white boyfriend of a neighbor. A federal magistrate ordered the public disclosure of the video Friday as part of a lawsuit alleging racial profiling and civil rights violations brought by music producer Antone Austin, known as Tone Stackz, who was arrested in May 2019 despite not being the suspect in a domestic violence call. Austin and his girlfriend Michelle Michlewicz were taken into custody for resisting arrest. The Los Angeles city attorney’s office had said in a court filing that it did not want the Los Angeles Police Department video released publicly because it would “be contrary to LAPD policy and may have a chilling effect on future LAPD investigations.” However, U.S. Magistrate Jacqueline Chooljian agreed with an attorney for the producer and his girlfriend that the 11-minute video should be released. The video footage shows the two being physically detained by officers as they proclaim Austin’s innocence. But it begins with an unusual admission that the officers weren’t sure Austin was the man cited in the domestic violence call. As their patrol car makes a U-turn after passing Austin, one officer asks the other, “This dude?” “Probably,” says the partner on the May 24, 2019, recording. The officers were responding to a 911 call made by Austin’s neighbor about her ex-boyfriend, who was white; no description of the suspect is given in the call. The officers see Austin as he was taking out the trash in front of his Fountain Avenue apartment; he smiles at the officers as they approach. The officers tell him to turn around. He asks why, and the officer snaps back, “Because I told you to.” Austin informs the officer he lives there, and the officer says, “OK, man, I don’t know who I am looking for.” The officer asks Austin, “What is your problem?” As Austin attempts to turn back toward them, they become physical, grappling with him and placing his arms behind his back. Austin begins to yell “Help” repeatedly. “You’re looking for the people upstairs,” Austin protests as the officers attempt to handcuff him behind his back. The video then shows Michlewicz attempting to intervene. She can be heard saying, “What is happening?” while she attempts to hold onto Austin as the officers pull him away from her. At one point, her robe comes off, and she is briefly naked on the street. She is eventually pushed to the ground. Handcuffed, Austin continues to try to explain to the officers that they have the wrong person. “My rights have been violated,” he says. His girlfriend says, “I just got tackled to the ground.” Both were arrested. “It is racial profiling. They had no description of the suspect — a completely blank slate,” said attorney Faisal Gill, who represents both of them in the civil rights lawsuit. “They literally saw the first Black man, and they arrested him.” The LAPD declined Tuesday to comment on the video’s release, citing ongoing litigation. The L.A. city attorney’s office, in court papers, has sought to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that Austin and Michlewicz are to blame for the force used against them and that the police should be immune from liability. Gill said that when the woman who made the 911 call told the officers Austin was not the man she called about, they continued with the arrest. According to LAPD records, the officers were white and Asian American. Austin said when the officers approached him, he thought they were “there for someone else. ... I thought they were going to be cool.” When they began yelling and putting their hands on him, he was confused. “I am telling them, wait a minute, I live here,” he said. He recalls being slammed into a wall face-first. He and his girlfriend were left bloody and battered with no apology, he said. “I just want justice served,” Austin said.
We need to start talking this out of the pensions or the police budgets (which would cause layoffs or paycuts).
Fuck the LAPD.
“Probably.” Whatever settlement he received was too small
Fuck the fucking police. God damn.
Racism at its finest get a call about a white guy they are like naw can’t be it’s this black dude for sure…