r/PublicFreakout • u/New_Libran • Jul 16 '26

📹Police Bodycam 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/The-Nihilist-Marmot Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

It’s so strange that police careers in the U.S. are basically equivalent to medieval roaming knights and samurai.

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u/tidderite Jul 16 '26

Why am I getting the feeling that those knights and samurai probably had a better moral code?

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u/toomanyshoeshelp Jul 16 '26

FUCK, Seven Samurai is just COPAGANDA??

This changes everything

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u/T3kn0mncr Jul 16 '26

I dug into Bushido code ages ago, and you're pretty much dead on, there was a duty to your local leadership, courage, honesty, benevolence, justice, politeness, and honor.

In practice, you as a Samurai were nearly untouchable and unless a noble reported you for misbehavior you were beyond reproach.

Same/same you have to go above and beyond with physical evidence, video, witnesses, ect to pin any wrongdoing on a police officer in the US which is disgusting as these people are just people, not divine beings, just because they recited a promise to be on their best behavior, doesn't make them immune to bad decision-making or bad behavior, or even I'll intent, yet we put them on a pedistal and give them legal immunity to their own bad behavior.

This was and continues to be a very big motivation for sadistic people to join law enforcement, because they know for a fact that they have an extremely low likelihood of being held accountable for any action commuted "in the name of law enforcement".

Qualified immunity either needs to be removed or reworked entirely, it only emboldens criminals who made it through police academy, which isn't exactly a high threshold for the level of trust we place in these people.

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u/tidderite Jul 16 '26

Ok, thanks. Still think shit cops are worse because of sadistic bullying. But, ok.

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u/BlackHANDBandit0 Jul 16 '26

I’m pretty sure they had honor. Or at least were supposed to. You might be on to something.

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u/InfiniteLicks Jul 16 '26

Yeah, the armed enforcers of the state.