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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxcnrq wrote

Reply to comment by bangbangthreehunna in Videos show crowd cheering while cuffed ex-lacrosse player topples NYC cops, runs by someone_whoisthat

I highly doubt that considering he pretty clearly severely injured a cop. NYPD usually doesn’t like that.

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bangbangthreehunna t1_jbxf0sk wrote

Yeah but DA's office won't do their end of the bargain.

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theuncleiroh t1_jbyv6kr wrote

is there any evidence that the DA won't file charges against a seemingly-uninstigated assault on a police officer? like, a single case wherein the cops got hit during a legal arrest and charges weren't filed? this should be really easy for you to find, since it must happen so often for you to be so sure.

nypd is facing no reduction in their funding, powers, or political support. you can drop the victim mask

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxf2wf wrote

Ehhh doubtful in this instance. I bet this guy gets a couple years

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user_joined_just_now t1_jc03cgb wrote

This guy, who had at least 2 prior felony convictions on separate occasions and was arrested again in 2017 for ramming a cop with an ATV, got 1.5 to 3 years in prison for ramming a cop with a stolen car. Given that only 6.1% of felony arrests resulted in a felony conviction in 2021, I would be surprised if the guy from this incident got anything more than 2 years.

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oy_says_ake t1_jbxj20f wrote

“Clearly severely injured”? I didn’t see where the post article indicates the injuries were severe, what gives you that impression.

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxjdxi wrote

Traumatic brain injuries are no joke. Pretty clear the guy can’t even stand after his head hit the pavement. That’s at least a severe concussion and could be worse.

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Neckwrecker t1_jbycpwu wrote

>Traumatic brain injuries are no joke. Pretty clear the guy can’t even stand after his head hit the pavement. That’s at least a severe concussion and could be worse.

Need to have a brain in order to have a brain injury.

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oy_says_ake t1_jbxlcls wrote

We send our kids out to get concussions (not to mention countless repeated sub-concussive impacts) all the time because people love american football, but now one’s a reason to get all het up about someone with the temerity to resist arrest i.e. demonstrate how cops are bad at their jobs?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxm591 wrote

Like it or not people get hurt when their skull hits pavement. If you’re going to tussle on the street, know it means there’s possible massive repercussions to your actions.

I played rugby for four years with pretty reckless abandon to my body, even at my dumbest I never would have played on concrete.

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brianvan t1_jbxkasg wrote

He didn’t severely injure anything but a cop’s ego. Just like those milkshake poison cops a few years ago.

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxkntz wrote

Clearly you’ve never met anyone who has suffered a tbi and your head is used to weathering the storm of hitting concrete like it’s nothing I guess?

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Grass8989 t1_jbxm16d wrote

Just goes to show how ridiculous and out of touch people are on this sub! Justifying and encouraging assaulting cops and the “peanut gallery” filming and encouraging it.

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxnedp wrote

I think it’s more so just the way the internet works. It frequently uses anger or outrage as a driver so it brings together the most toxic and inauthentic parts of people and their opinions. I know I likely bring shitty parts of myself into discussions sometimes as well. People in the real world tend to be a lot more wide ranging and interesting than the way we all present online. And terminally online or relatively immature people tend to be so divorced from actual reality that you need to get in arguments that slamming the back of your head on concrete could result in a potentially life changing injury.

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Grass8989 t1_jbxnpge wrote

The lines are definitely becoming blurred. Go on tiktok and you’ll see half of an interaction and it’ll get millions of views with strong opinions with no context. I’m pretty sure that’s what the people filming here were hoping for. A “viral” moment, hence the antagonizing and encouraging going on.

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxpxem wrote

I mean I’m all for folks recording police officers. They need to be accountable to the broader public and body cams and citizen bystanders are good ways to do that. But yeah people trying to treat all that like a joke and just film for clout aren’t helping anyone.

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brianvan t1_jbxoo8b wrote

A cop slammed my head on the concrete once and gave me a TBI. Because someone told them I was drunk. I remember the whole thing clearly because I was at a work event & talking with my boss online & had merely stood in front of the door to a bar area in an entertainment venue, pissing off a manager who screamed at me & then lied to the cops. All charges dropped after I was processed. Still get headaches on that side of my head. Wrote an article about it for the publication I was working at during that time.

Sorry about your angel police officers. I don’t wish for them to get hurt. But “could have been hurt” is not “gotten very badly hurt”. Pushing someone over is not attempted murder. If it was, surely modern policing would be impossible as I keep seeing arrest videos where the suspect’s head is repeatedly slammed into the pavement. I don’t wish for suspects to get unnecessarily hurt either. I’ll take the downvotes for that.

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxpi11 wrote

I’m sorry that happened to you. Nowhere did I say the criminal justice system is fair, you’re one of many people who doesn’t get justice or accountability in it.

That doesn’t change the fact that slamming someone’s head against the concrete to the point of knocking them out is a serious potential injury. It’s wrong when a private citizen or a cop does it and there should be repercussions for either if done with malice.

I think in using terms like “Angel police officers” you’re speaking to a strawman and not me anymore.

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brianvan t1_jbxvp4u wrote

I love how you go from “sorry that happened” about my TBI to “you’re talking to a straw man” talking directly to facts about being a person with a cop-induced TBI. Any level of sarcasm is disrespectful and disqualifying.

That’s not a problem with police, that’s a problem with Reddit commenters.

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxwzoz wrote

I mean you’re right I could have worded the last line better, but can you forgive me for being peeved that you’d put words in my mouth that we’re way out of left field and mischaracterizing of anything I was saying? Especially considering my point boils down to we should treat tbi seriously.

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