A police officer dragged Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill out of his car and then forced him face first on to the ground during a traffic stop

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Out of control racist pieces of shit cops. That’s all true.

    Also, separately and not related to this incident, Hill is a piece of shit human being.

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      3 months ago

      Yup. There’s no need to argue at all. Just stop the guy, give them the ticket and move on. If a guy is too angry to deal with, so be it. It’s not like talking louder or dragging him out is going to fix whatever happened 5 seconds ago that made the cop stop the driver. Just stop being racist pieces of shit cops, that’s all we ask for.

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        3 months ago

        Moreover, you now have their plate, which has their address on it. Mail the damn ticket if you’re scared to deal with it in person or whatever.

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          Exactly! Get that license plate real good and high tail it out of there. No need to stay and make a bunch of kids miss their dad for a lifetime. Fucking get some doughnuts at the Wendy’s and leave people alone!

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              It’s good for them to waste time too. What now doughnuts?! No sir! If you want doughnuts you’ll have to drive over to the DMV and wait in line (Doughnut Manufacturer & Vendor).

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    If I, as a teacher, responded to a less-than-compliant, and upset student by even lightly putting my hand on them I would be fired and charged that day. Police, if we are going to have them at all, need to be able to handle this kind of situation without resorting to violence. Period.

    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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      Police, if we are going to have them at all, need to be able to handle this kind of situation without resorting to violence. Period.

      Then we need to stop hiring conservatives as police. Normal (non-conservative) people don’t behave this way, cops or not.

  • Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Sounds like they served and protected the crap out of him. This is what we now expect from our public servants 🤷

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      3 months ago

      Now? Police have been treating people this way since forever. Especially minorities.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    I’m at work and can’t watch the video. Why’d they pull him out violently? Was there some struggle beforehand, or did the cop just decide to be an asshole?

    and what was the outcome? Was he arrested? Let go?

    • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee
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      The guy rolled up his window when the cops were talking to him. Any normal person would have spent the night in jail if they did the same, and then they would be paying to get their car out of impound, and then maybe their license would have been suspended too.

      I’m not saying what they did is right, i’m saying cops in this country are assholes. That’s what we expect them to be. That’s what the policies ask them to be. That’s what their bosses want. It’s what the elected officials who set the laws and guidelines they must follow want. It’s what most very old white people want.

      We need real change, we just won’t see it in our lifetime. We’d sooner see another dictator trying to conquer the world and committing genocidal acts than do anything to address the police problem here. Nowadays cops are just legalized bullies, just the way the ownership wants.

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      3 months ago

      Hill was being a punk and rolled his window up on them. One of them roid raged out and yoinked him out of the car. I think they figured out who he was (probably thought he was a drug dealer based on him being black and the nice sports car) and gave him his traffic tickets and let him go.

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        He provided the paperwork they required from him and chose not to continue the conversation. When asked to step out of the car he complied and was thrown to the ground. He is not required to speak to them so why is he a punk?

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    I feel really sorry for this guy

    What kind of unhinged parents call their kid Tyreek?

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    Cops have an impossible job. Everyone has a gun, so it would be stupid of them to assume he wasn’t armed, which is why they ask you to keep your window rolled down. All he had to do was keep his window rolled down for the traffic stop, which is not an unreasonable request, but it was one he deliberately disobeyed. Instead, he acted out, so they treated him like a delinquent. There are actual victims of police overreach that will never know publicity like this. People who did everything asked of them and still suffered. Tyreek acted like a petulant child “how dare they give ME a speeding ticket!?” so they treated him like one. This is a nothing burger.

    I have no problem at all with rich pieces of shit getting treated like the scumbags they are.

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      Agreed! Even though it’s a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to Have a Gun Police have EVERY RIGHT TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK US BECAUSE WE HAVE GUNS!

      FREEDOM!

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      This is how you would treat a petulant child? Someone needs to make sure you never have access to children.

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      There’s no law that that a cop can order you to roll your window down. This was needlessly escalated by the cop for no reason other than ego.

      You got some black polish on your lip, there.