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Cops 5: Barney Fife, Now in Real Life!

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You know why all those reports about ineffectiveness and such make the news? Because it's news. It's not the norm. It stands out. You rarely hear about the hundreds of interactions that go well, because THAT is actually what happens every day.

And thank you for the compliments on my uncle. He is retired (finally) after 35 years on the force. He wanted to serve longer than my great-grandpa (33 years on the force).
 
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This is insane. The entire STL police department leadership needs to be gutted for lauding these tactics.
 
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aparch said:
St. Louis undercover cop assaulted and arrested, USAF officer arrested for walking with his wife. U2 stagehand who was mere feet from the bar he walked out of thrown to the ground and arrested.

And their acting police chief celebrated these actions.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...e2dcc3de-f228-5311-a35f-e60e1bd9ebee.amp.html

Jesus fu**ing Christ. This is 1967 Detroit all over.
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Hey man they were obviously doing something wrong. They should have just complied or something!

Lt. Alex Nelson, 27, who works in cyberoperations at Scott Air Force Base, was walking around his neighborhood with his wife when they became trapped between quickly closing police lines. He said he was kicked in the face, blinded by pepper spray and dragged away.

“It’s our street,” he said. “I hear the police say it was their street, but it’s literally my street. I have coffee on that street, and I own property on that street. We were not active protesters. We were looking into the neighborhood to observe events that were unfolding.

“I’m very sad how they treated me and my wife through the escalation of violence they used on me. It was incredibly unnecessary. I’ve had training on how to arrest and be arrested, and I capitulated to every demand that was made of me, even before I was on the ground. We were told to move back, and we moved back. We were told to move this way, we moved this way. We obeyed every command that we heard. We were never given an order to disperse. Not once.”
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Wait guess not.

This is out of control...this is martial law type crap. You cant just arrest anyone who is on the street just because you are assuming they are protesting. The amount of civil rights violations just in these few cases is astounding. And this isnt a rogue cop or some bad apples this is the entire department!

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A documentary filmmaker from Kansas City, visiting with his wife, said he was knocked unconscious during the sweep. Drew Burbridge, 32, said he never heard orders to disperse until officers started to advance, banging their batons and chanting, “Move back.”

“I turned my camera off and asked if there was anywhere I could go, but I was denied the right to leave,” he said. “I didn’t want to be a part of this.”

Officers ordered him to turn his camera off and get down on the ground, and he complied.

“The only thing I cared about then was putting my arms around my wife,” he said. “I just, I just kept saying: ‘It’s going to be OK.’”

Burbridge said officers then grabbed him by both his arms and dragged him away.

“I just said: ‘I am a member of the media, I am not protesting, I am not resisting,’” Burbridge said.

An officer sprayed his face with a chemical, his head was forced into the ground and an officer ripped his camera from his neck.

Burbridge claims his hands were then bound by zip ties before two officers started kicking him in the back, neck, arm and legs while he lay restrained on the ground. He said he was knocked unconscious on the pavement for about 10 to 30 seconds.
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This is insane. The entire STL police department leadership needs to be gutted for lauding these tactics.
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So disgusting. This is not a tiny minority anymore- departments are rotting. White people can keep denying this though.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
So disgusting. This is not a tiny minority anymore- departments are rotting. White people can keep denying this though.
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Of course it's a tiny minority. If it wasn't, why would they be reporting it as news? The news never reports anything that happens all the time. That's why it's news you silly-head.
 
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So I was falling asleep and heard about six cop cars fly down the street. Turned on the scanner app. Sounds like there is some **** going down at Hyvee in Oakdale. Setting up a fairly large perimeter.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
So I was falling asleep and heard about six cop cars fly down the street. Turned on the scanner app. Sounds like there is some **** going down at Hyvee in Oakdale. Setting up a fairly large perimeter.
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What became of this?
 
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Kepler said:
What became of this?
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Best I could tell, someone at Hyvee hit a silent alarm and the cops responded after like two minutes or so. By then the guy was already gone. They set up a couple block perimeter and were pulling in cops from the county and a couple other cities. Dogs were called out but lost the scent.

Not entirely sure what went down.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Turning off the cams needs to be a felony.
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Easy for me to argue that turning off dash cams or body cams is obstruction of justice. In many cases obstruction is already a felony. Wake me up when the next cop that turns off (or actually even fails to turn on) is CHARGED with obstruction, let alone prosecuted diligently enough to secure a conviction.
 
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