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jeffw OP , (edited )
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I have spent a couple years badmouthing this dude, but the police bodycam footage is pretty crazy. It’s also crazy to me that a bunch of Miami cops would pull over one of the city’s most well-known athletes and nobody was like “gee, maybe we shouldn’t go so hard on this one, he’s famous”

Samvega ,

Thought process might well have been: “This is an uppity black man, we’d better show these types a lesson.”

Brkdncr ,

Police def overdid it, but part of the problem might be that some people would prefer to pay the fine for speeding because it’s insignificant to them. This specific component of the legal system is broken because it treats the wealthy exactly the same as everyone else.

Maven ,

Fines need to scale based on the wealth of the perpetrator. It should be an equal punishment for breaking the law.

Bell ,
@Bell@lemmy.world avatar

I expected to come here and see the police way out of line. Instead they are a little bit, but Hill was disrespectful and non-compliant.

ABCDE ,

Good way to justify police violence.

jeffw OP , (edited )
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry, did you say something rude? That’s a paddlin slam down on the pavement

Samvega ,

“A black person annoyed them. Of course a cop can’t put up with that!”

Samvega ,

…Hill was disrespectful and non-compliant.

When the police came round, repeatedly, to my childhood house, after being called by my mother because my father was raping and beating her, the police laughed.

Maybe the police, as a collective, will deserve respect in some hypothetical future where they don’t often harm the innocent, and don’t often make the world worse.

MelonYellow , (edited )
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Excessive use of force by the cop who clearly wanted to escalate. Tyreek Hill also wasn’t being smart in the way that was handled. We already know how paranoid and trigger happy law enforcement can be. People like to act tough on the internet, but I wouldn’t DARE roll up tinted windows during a police stop knowing how shit could escalate. I’m trying to have them see my hands at all times. That’s exactly the kind of shit that can happen when you’re just trying to get home safe. Whatever it is, it’s not worth it.

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