Looks like the majority of black people disagree with them.
Itâs not racial. Theyâll do it to you too.
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Help me understand what happened in this recent case. Were they beating him because he wasnât complying? Or was it something else?
Looked to me like
Police âStop moving!â
kick
Victim writhes in pain
Police âI said donât move!â
tase
repeat
Because they could.
More charitably, because cops are human and subject to the same flaws as everyone else, anger, mob mentality etc.
I feel no obligation.
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Itâs hard to tell in the video. I just watched another one. In the beginning it looks like heâs resisting. Iâve never once seen a cop let you go home after resisting. If they say give me your hands, or lay down on your stomach, it isnât a request. Theyâre going to get the cuffs on you one way or another.
The whole thing was hard to watch, and it never should have happened. Iâm not excusing the police from what I saw on that video, but the victim gets the Darwin award. Sorry. My wife absolutely hates it when I victim blame. But I hate seeing stuff like this happen when it could have been easily avoided.
"Self-hated ⌠"
Perhaps Van Jones should quit looking in the mirror. 
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Iâm sure a CNN poll would show the opposite.
According to Van Jones ⌠âself-hatred.â
Anouther Rhodes scholar
GOP âstood in the wayâ of police reform that could have prevented death of Tyre Nichols: MSNBC analyst
Hooray for you.
Butler obviously wants a culture wherein all you have to do to avoid arrest is to run away.
âButler answered affirmatively: âItâs 100% a culture problem. Old school policing lore says if a guy tries to run when officers want to arrest him, he pays for it. Bad apple cops follow that principle, but thatâs not what the majority of hard-working, law-abiding officers do or should do.ââ
You understand that this is already the law, right?
Heâs entirely correct - and I think your response proves his point.
Despite how you may feel, it is murder for a cop to kill someone for running away from them. Period, full stop.
If you want to change the laws, and make it legal for police to kill people who donât follow their orders, youâre welcome to petition your local legislatures to do so.
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Hereâs another example - a double-amputee, hopping away from police on his leg stumps, shot and killed from behind. Itâs all on video.
Sickening.
Do you have a link to the âall on videoâ, video?
Itâs in the link I posted. Here it is again:
https://twitter.com/WaFlo998/status/1619367585744822272?t=8VrEoWQr0jfJA9I_aBVloA&s=19
It is definitely not federal or state law that police cannot use force to stop a fleeing suspect. There are more stringent requirements on using deadly force, that can only be used in certain cases. See 9.51 of the Texas penal code.
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