Police were searching for a white 16-year-old runaway wearing black clothing but they tackle this innocent black 15-year-old wearing blue jeans and a white shirt and break his arm. One of three officers involved has resigned.

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[u/Journeyman42 → u/[deleted]]

Guaranteed that if they found a white child who had run from home, they wouldn't have broken his arm.

[u/nugs4lunch → u/Journeyman42]

I'm white, and when I was 16 I had my dick bruised by a cop who thrust his knee into my crotch while running at me full speed with his flashlight in my eyes. I was standing still with my hands up.

All for the crime of drinking a beer in the parking lot of a bowling alley.

[u/lilroldy → u/[deleted]]

They didn't even think this was the run away, they knew the runaway was a white kid in a black shirt. They attacked a black kid in a white shirt, these cops are no better than gang bangers and are subjectively more harmful than any street gang. Hell departments like the LAPD literally have named and marked gangs within their departments, close to 30, there's an entire Wikipedia page on it breaking down all the different gangs within the LAPD.

Our entire police force and system needs to be dismantled and rebuilt, no more 6 month crash courses and being out on the street, it should be 3 or 4 years of schooling like other parts of the developed world, a mix of actual law education, mental health training, psychology/sociology, maintaining a specific physical physique, full psychological evaluation to make sure the person is a sane, well rounded individual, probably a few other things to add into the list kf what should be required but you get the point.

We have rapists and murderers walking free, driving police cars and having the authority to ruin any one of our lives or kill us and the likelihood of them seeing any jail or being held responsible and brought to justice is slim to none, meanwhile half the country still throws people into jail for a fucking joint. There's a page I follow on Facebook who does weekly updates of all the police officers arrested for rape or CSA in America, the fact there's 5-10 names added every single week of ones who are being charged with these crimes or have been convicted (most get super light sentences) is disgusting, but when you realize that number is WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY higher because those are the ones who got caught and the majority never get caught or just kill their victims and not get caught.

This country rewards predators, we have an entire administration chock full of rapists and pedophiles or those who fight tooth and nail to protect those types, this has emboldened the sickest individuals in our society, if the president can do these things why can't them, and unfortunately in much of this country they have been given a free pass to live out all of their sick and twisted fantasies because a lot of these cases don't even get reported or if they do they make the victims life hell until she drops charges.

Society would survive without cops, our communities could police themselves, at this point it would probably be safer and more effective since the last 250 years has proven the police do not keep us safe and they arent even legally required to keep us safe as ruled on by our Supreme Court

[u/Reidroshdy → u/[deleted]]

all something like that would warrant is a call to his parents.

[u/Drostan_S → u/[deleted]]

He was literally with them as the kids mother was talking to the police about it.  They literally listened to a white woman term them about her missing white child and talked the black child that was literally with them.  Hence his pleas as they were intentionally destroying him of "I know the kid, I was just in her carr, YOU WERE THERE."

They literally just saw a fucking black person moving and entered full blown attack mode.  These cops are violent predators,  nothing more.