The video released Monday shows a tense moment in which former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson yells at Sonya Massey over moving a pot from the stove.
    • j_roby@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      216·
      4 months ago

      I’m really not a fan of that type of dehumanizing language. But I understand the sentiment. This is one of the worst cases in recent memory of law enforcement’s complete lack of regard for human life… This was a really difficult video to watch…

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        4 months ago

        This is one of the worst cases in recent memory

        As someone with an ok memory and awareness of the news, it’s one of the worst cases caught on camera today.

      • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        OTOH being a cop is literally dehumanizing. Not even being rhetorical, the effects on a person’s psychology are profound.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    14·
    4 months ago

    You know the cops hella murdered someone when capitalist propaganda uses exculpatory copspeak like “chaotic”.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    10·
    4 months ago

    “What are we suppose to do?”

    Jeez, maybe not commit murder over what was not even a threat?

    They could have stepped out, easily. They could have thrown a flashlight at her. They could have used a pillow to stop any water IF she actually thrown some. They could have even shot her not in “her fucking face”

    Like, there were so many options before immediately going for murder.

    And the fact that he said “I can shoot you in your fucking face” a second before, shows that he had time to consider his action and decided that he wanted to murder her.

    Nothing stopped him from shooting her in any other body part (which would also be horrific, but maybe not murder)

  • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    The police exist to serve the state against the interests of the citizens of that state. They are the only people who are empowered to do unwanted violence within the physical bounds of a state, and they do violence to protect the interests of the state, not to protect the citizens.

    The difference between the state’s interests and those of its citizens are not small. The police are not here to help us. That is incidental to their purpose, which is to hurt us. Sending the police to help someone in emotional distress is absolutely absurd.

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    So I never really got into the Watchmen show that aired for a season on Amazon. Bear with me; I’m going somewhere with this…

    If anyone remembers that show, there are two scenes that always stuck with me. One was of course the Tulsa massacre. I had never heard of it and it was just chilling to me. That’s a whole other discussion, but it’s not the scene that directly applies here.

    The other scene is (IIRC) literally the first scene of the show, where the cop is at a traffic stop, he gets the persons information and goes back to his car to run it. It comes out that there’s something sketchy about the guy (I don’t remember what), and he has to call in to a civilian observer explaining the situation and asking them to unlock his gun if they decide that it’s warranted…

    Anyway, that idea (regardless of how feasible it may or may not be in reality) has been literally burned into my brain from two minutes of a show that I remember literally nothing else about.

  • Doom@ttrpg.network
    2·
    4 months ago

    This why ACAB his partner should’ve shot his ass right there. Cause he’s a cop he can’t be a villain? You know what you saw