1y ago

After a handcuffed ride in the back of a police van, a man was left paralyzed and needed his legs amputated, lawsuit alleges

edition.cnn.com After a handcuffed ride in the back of a police van, a man was left paralyzed and needed his legs amputated, lawsuit alleges | CNN

A man filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging he was paralyzed and needed his legs amputated after police officers in St. Petersburg, Florida, put him in restraints, placed him in the back of a police van without a seatbelt and then drove in a reckless manner.

Cuffed in the back of a van with no seatbelts. You can get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt in your car.

You're viewing a single thread.

36 comments

As always, ACAB.
(I hate that this is becoming a daily occurence.)
- It's always been like this, friend. We just have better optics on it now.
  
  So true. Still depressing as hell tho. :(
  
  It has, but exposing enough people to injustice like this as much as possible as loudly as possible is how to peacefully change entrenched systems.
  
  No doubt, I'm all for the increased optics. But, police abuse of power has likely dropped a bit since everyone has a video camera in their pocket, but due to the nature of the statistics we'll never know for sure one way or another.
  I was mostly arguing against the notion that things have gotten worse when the truth is that it's just more visible. Same goes for stupid people and crazies.
- Spell it out for me?
  
  All cops are bastards. No exceptions.
  
  This is not a healthy outlook on the world.
  Population generalization is extremely toxic. Yeah, lots are corrupt, but "Everyone that has job x" is patentably false, and is simply an emotional reaction and lashing out.
  It does nothing to solve any problems and just produces new ones. No progress is made that way, it's the opposite of progress towards solving a problem. Are you here to just emotionally vent or are you here to actually hold a conversation?
  We don't need more people acting like petulant adults who are entirely emotionally driven. We need more people who are willing to look at problems and figure out how we can organize to solve them.
  
  Population generalization is generally wrong, but we're not talking about inherent personal traits here. Anyone who chooses to become a cop is suspect to begin with, and they'll find they aren't a cop for very long if they don't back the bastards. Do a google search for police whistleblower retaliation if you need an infinite source of examples.
  
  Would you agree that all fascists are bastards? What about the fascist-adjacent collaborators who do nothing to stop the fascists, sometimes even actively defending them? Do you agree that they're all bastards?
  For most professions, you'd have a point, but just like fascists aren't like most politicians, cops aren't like most professions.

36 comments