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Vtfla t1_iy59cyt wrote

Charged with misdemeanors….for tossing around someone with a broken neck, while mocking him. Misdemeanors

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8ell0 t1_iy5tj0g wrote

Jfc, a Misdemeanor?!?!?

For paralyzing a person?!

There are teens/young adults in jail and with bigger charges for having an ounce of weed

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mces97 t1_iy60bcp wrote

Well hopefully the feds investigate this for civil rights violations.

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DontUSuck t1_iy7vz66 wrote

Probably some paid vacation time as well.

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hunkyboy75 t1_iy8bhb8 wrote

Confirmed. They’ve been on “paid administrative leave” since June.

If I fuck somebody up really bad, can I get a 5-month paid vacation?

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DontUSuck t1_iy8fgaq wrote

Not too many jobs offer those kind of perks.

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Xpector8ing t1_iy96qn0 wrote

Outside of the “justice” business (its adjudicators,solicitors and their minions)? NO!

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hunkyboy75 t1_iy8ybzd wrote

Mostly government jobs. You fuck up that bad anywhere else and you’re fired now, not tomorrow, not next week, not next year, NOW. Get your shit and GTFO.

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8ell0 t1_iy85rnw wrote

Ugh, I woke up and read this and your right. This just ruined my day.

To think the system gives them that while colored people shit bricks if they forgot to put on their blinker at a stop sign and get pulled over for that.

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czechmaze t1_iy9plif wrote

All five officers appear to be Black or Hispanic so the system is "giving" colored people that also.

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Xpector8ing t1_iy95m3x wrote

Definitely helped satiate, assuage their libidos during whatever kind of sex they did afterwards!

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HoldThePhoneFrank t1_iy6xenq wrote

meanwhile, people get felony assault charges because they tried to stop a cop beating them with a flashlight

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outerproduct t1_iy748dx wrote

Following ride in police van my ass. Yeah, I sometimes break my neck in a ride with Uber, on what planet? These police fellating headlines need to go.

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Plantsandanger t1_iy7g2n9 wrote

Jesus Christ, I seriously thought it was an update on the Freddie gray case - just realized it’s ANOTHER black man tossed around a police van with a broken neck while society’s supposed protectors laugh and ignore the permanent damage and/or death they are causing a defenseless person

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Vulturedoors t1_iy7miaq wrote

It's happened more than twice, in fact. Which isn't surprising since they put handcuffed people in the back of a metal van without a seatbelt.

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ChopChop007 t1_iy95qd9 wrote

Nickel Rides. I learned a name for this in history class, cops have been doing this for a long time.

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canzicrans t1_iy8kpnw wrote

I thought the same thing, and the police are still arguing that they have qualified immunity! Go America, where qualified immunity trumps all rights!

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Im_100percent_human t1_iy7c6kr wrote

>Cox's family filed a federal lawsuit against the city of New Haven and the five officers.... Four of the officers filed motions last week claiming qualified immunity from the lawsuit, arguing that their actions in the case did not violate any "clearly established" legal standard.

While this does seem like a gross undercharge, it may shut down the officers' motion.

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mces97 t1_iy6l91o wrote

I don't know what's worse, not charging them, or charging them with misdemeanors, which means less than 1 year in jail. And they're likely not to even get that.

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kandoras t1_iy8gcqd wrote

Misdemeanors might not even be enough ro force them to get a new job with the next department down the road.

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sunibla33 t1_iy94b9v wrote

And still working, I believe. They'll be a bunch of high-fives at the station house after the judge lets them off with a warning not to be caught again doing something like this.

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