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‘I can’t die like this’: Video shows trans man beaten by LA County Sheriff's deputy during stop

web.archive.org 'I can't die like this': Video shows trans man beaten by deputy during stop

The incident in Whittier is the latest in a string of controversial force incidents involving Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies.

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One of those witnesses claimed that Brock punched the deputy, which camera footage does not show and the deputy did not allege.

I fucking hate people.

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- Agreed, but also eye-witness testimony is notoriously inaccurate.
  
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  This is why police shout "stop resisting!"
  
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- What a hero citizen, out there making up crimes that no one even asked them to.
  
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- The deputy also claimed that he was punching Brock because Brock was biting him on the hand. The EMTs noted no bite marks, and the only injuries the deputy sustained were fractured knuckles from repeatedly punching Brock in the head. The video also doesn’t show any biting, and the biting claims were quietly dropped when the deputy learned that the whole thing had been captured on security cameras.
  
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- To play devil's advocate, it is perfectly possible that person genuinely saw it as that. Eyewitnesses in chaotic situations are inherently untrustworthy and prone to misinterpret things and even create false memories when questioned. Especially if it was someone that, naively, still trusted in cops for some reason, it's easy for the mind to create some assumed aggression by the victim, because only that way their worldview can remain intact ("a police officer wouldn't have been that brutal without good cause" as an assumption, basically.)
  
  Still, I agree, it is wild. Especially since even the bastard assaulting the driver here didn't claim that. And I agree, it is also very much possible it was an overzealous fascist that just wanted to cover for the cops in a way more zealous than the cops themselves by consciously lying.
  
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  Eyewitnesses in chaotic situations are inherently untrustworthy and prone to misinterpret things and even create false memories when questioned
  
  The general public has no idea how bad and unreliable eyewittnesses are. It's probably for the better.
  
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The cop did this because he got flipped off. Even from a cynical point of view of this, this is a lot of effort for something so small.

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- Right, now imagine that you have an incredibly fragile ego, you peaked in highschool, and you perceive yourself as being above others because of your station in the police force.
  
  I'm not shocked it happened. Just disgusted. He's the animal that should be behind bars, not enforcing the law.
  
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  Dangerous animals aren't generally afforded the privilege of being locked away. Just sayin'.
  
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Are air fresheners illegal in LA?

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- Technically yes, in the same way window tint or requiring a front license plate is.
  
  The law is applied selectively to groups of people they don’t like and used as a justification to pull you over for doing nothing wrong.
  
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The Sheriff’s Department has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks for two other use-of-force incidents caught on camera, including one in which a deputy punched a woman in the face while trying to take her child.

This doesn't sounds like a case of anti-trans hate, which I was actually expecting

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- LASD is, without hyperbole, a gang.
  
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- While the incident of the violence itself could have happened with the deputy unaware of brutalising a trans man, with the article not showing indications of this being the primary motivation, his treatment while in custody clearly shows further relevant mistreatment.
  
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Finally trans men are being treated equally, beaten by the LAPD

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- Actually, trans people have been more likely to be brutalized by police for a long time
  
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-police-idUSKBN0M02JM20150304
  
  https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/6/23/21295432/police-black-trans-people-violence
  
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  It's a joke, at the LAPD's expense.
  
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- Can always count on conservatives to find a way to celebrate police violence.
  
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  I assume it was a joke in poor taste. A conservative would have said it was a deep state plant or that they had it coming for smoking weed or something.
  
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For those that would bother to read the article, the ‘victim’ flipped off the cop while driving. Sure, maybe the cop is an angry asshole, but the excessive force is just as likely to come from being flipped off as the cop seeing a transgender person.

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- For those that would bother to read the article, the ‘victim’ flipped off the cop while driving.
  
  Flipping off a cop is perfectly legal. The person you hate because and only because he's trans is a victim of police brutality.
  
  but the excessive force is just as likely to come from being flipped off
  
  The excessive force is because a pig was abusing his little piggy authority.
  
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  Imagine thinking that almost beating someone to death is a rational, normal consequence of flipping someone off. I couldn’t.
  
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  @Ensign_Crab @HybridSarcasm
  
  ACAB always and forever.
  
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- Fuck cops, and fuck you for victim blaming. He has a constitutional right to flip off any cop, any time he wants for any reason, per the Supreme Court.
  
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  Fuck you too. Dumbass performs an act of aggression and is surprised when the favor is returned. Cop or not, that’s fucking stupid.
  
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- No quotes around victim there buddy
  
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