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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Stop Resisting !" These are the new magic words.
According to several recent videos I have viewed, beating the shit out of some handcuffed sot is permitted if the cop shouts the magic words while doing so.
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"Stop Resisting !" These are the new magic words. (Original Post)
Hoppy
Jun 2015
OP
I think they're all hoping the audio is captured, but they're blocking enough of the video to make
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jun 2015
#1
Surprised they bother to say anything to that Black dad, how do people watch that and not burn
randys1
Jun 2015
#2
Yeah. Noticed that. A guy could be hit by a semi on foot running and the cops are yelling....
Liberal Veteran
Jun 2015
#3
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. I think they're all hoping the audio is captured, but they're blocking enough of the video to make
a grand jury unwilling to indict them, or a regular jury to convict. Seems to work most of the time.
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. Surprised they bother to say anything to that Black dad, how do people watch that and not burn
something down?
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)3. Yeah. Noticed that. A guy could be hit by a semi on foot running and the cops are yelling....
...."Stop resisting!" over and over even though the guy is either dead or out cold.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)4. Decades ago I heard a bouncer smugly explain that it was common to loudly exclaim "Don't touch me!"
while proactively shoving a patron, as a way of covering one's ass while roughing up a patron.
I have no doubt whatsoever that cops have their own bag of tricks, chuck full of ways to avoid accountability.