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Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana

A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.

PanArab ,

In the US steal a banana get paralyzed, somehow private property even if just a banana is worth more than people

Everythingispenguins ,

Well bananas are like $0.53 a pound, $.065 for the organic ones. So it is a pretty clear case.

whostosay ,

I actually think they are $10, Michael.

Emerald ,

Hospital bananas maybe

Misconduct ,

He wasn’t even stealing anything. It has nothing to do with theft and everything to do with his skin color I guarantee it.

uis ,
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Neoslavery

Ibex0 ,

A police spokesperson said Monday that the body camera video would not be released until the cases are resolved.

That could take years! That’s unacceptable.

A_Random_Idiot ,

They are hoping that by then people will forget about it and not notice when its dumped so theres no outrage.

fidodo ,

We need a national oversight agency where all this footage should be sent to so it is managed by a neutral 3rd party. Why the fuck would we allow criminals to manage the evidence against themselves?

DrPop ,

I’ve been saying that for years.

rekabis ,

Why not a national police force, such that a disgraced cop can’t just mosey on to the next town over and get hired there?

One of the big problems with America is that it is so frictionless for cops to just city-hop whenever they fuck up.

At least in Canada, with the RCMP being in most cities and towns, it is damn difficult for any RCMP officer to job-hop. Especially when the RCMP is a clear cut above in training, and anyone who tries to job-hop from them to a city cop will be intensely questioned as to why they are downgrading so significantly.

Yes, the RCMP has some pretty bad apples; power doesn’t corrupt so much as it attracts the corruptible like flies to excrement. And the RCMP gives its officers plenty of power, for sure.

But in just the last few years alone, I have seen RCMP officers disciplined for behaviour that wouldn’t have even raised an eyebrow in any U.S. police force.

chiliedogg ,

I the rules for body cam requests in the city I work for. It can only be denied for the following reasons:

  1. The video was taken in a private home and the homeowner does not consent to the release.
  2. The video is of a non-jailtime citation/interaction and the principal civilian captured on film doesn’t consent to the release.

The second one is because the city is a tiny enclave for the super-rich (average new home is about 6 million dollars), and there’s celebrities and stuff getting pulled over pretty often. We had tons of ORRs from paparazzi for all incidents.

spider ,

…presumably because it’s damning.

negativeyoda ,

Even if he was justly accused of stealing a banana, what in the actual fuck?

uis ,
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USSA Vatniks Murica.

platypus_plumba ,

Police in the US escalate situations instead of de-escalating them. In any country this would have been solved after a short conversation.

Pothetato , (edited )
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Tragic. He was just happy to see them after all.

Fuck the system.

nifty ,
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This case needs to be highlighted to a DA or an org that will bring a suit to have the PD pay for this man’s hospitals bill and some sort of settlement for the distress caused to him and his family.

raynethackery ,

Someone needs to ship a ton of bananas to the police everyday until the body camera footage is released.

uis ,
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Isn’t Florida that state that releases everything?

john_fla ,

Yes, though lately it’s been taking a lot longer. The state government under 25 years of GOP rule isn’t too fond of the Sunshine Law.

yuriy ,

The cops’ report noted that she “struck him in the arm against his will”.

I am absolutely fucking disgusted by this weasely use of language

michaelmrose ,

What is the name of the employee?

NoIWontPickaName ,

Mr. Fuk Uhipy

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