We don't have police. Just corporate enforcers. Pinkertons in different uniforms. Oh, you are accused of a 17 cent theft and didn't do it? Eat lead I guess. I'm just so tired.
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If you get your house broken into, or your car stolen the police can't even be bothered to pretend to care. They treat your theft like an inconvenience to them and will tell you there's nothing they can do.
But if you're a corporation, they'll rush right over and cripple a shoplifter for stealing a banana.
- Robbery
- Hooliganism
- Another protest
Bananas are $10
Lucille, is that you?
All this for a misdemeanor.
There's always money in the banana stand.
There seems to be a lot of gaps in that timeline in the 1800s, wonder what they were doing then 🤔
SCOTUS: processing, processing, processing…..
Complete! If you don’t like it then just vote in a different police chief or mayor!
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Blame boomers and genX. Black/brown ppl have been preaching about police brutality for decades. The only reason they weren't beating the shit out of white ppl then was they where middle class. Now that everyone is either rich or poor they're coming for the rest of you.
It took cellphone footage for ppl to start believing and by then it was too late to do anything
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She said he told her that he picked up four bananas, one of which he ate on the way to the register, and that he told the cashier that he needed to pay for four bananas even though she scanned only three. Anjelica Lee said her father told her he was followed closely while he was shopping by a white female employee, who, she said, accused him of stealing the banana he ate.
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“At first, I was trying to ask her what happened, and she was like, ‘People like you and him shouldn’t come into the store if you don’t have money to pay for things,’” Anjelica Lee said. “My mom is white, and my dad is Black. So I’m mixed. So I think she meant Black people. And it just escalated from that, and she went to cussing me out.”
JFC. Racist piece of shit.
Fuck the cops. Fuck this piece of garbage cashier.
Fuck all this.
Wow. Non American here. My kid regularly eats while I shop. I just bring empty packets to register for them to scan and they normally throw them out for me. No problem. Like zero problem.
I don't even think our police would show up if they were called. They take 3hrs to turn up to a home invasion, so I doubt they'd show up for a banana. This is a crazy level of policing.
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“At first, I was trying to ask her what happened, and she was like, ‘People like you and him shouldn’t come into the store if you don’t have money to pay for things,’” Anjelica Lee said. “My mom is white, and my dad is Black. So I’m mixed. So I think she meant Black people. And it just escalated from that, and she went to cussing me out.”
You can almost guarantee the victim will be Black.
Every. Fucking. Time.
Every time. Every. Single. Time. For real.
A police spokesperson said Monday that the body camera video would not be released until the cases are resolved.
That could take years! That's unacceptable.
They are hoping that by then people will forget about it and not notice when its dumped so theres no outrage.
We need a national oversight agency where all this footage should be sent to so it is managed by a neutral 3rd party. Why the fuck would we allow criminals to manage the evidence against themselves?
I've been saying that for years.
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...presumably because it's damning.
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Even if he was justly accused of stealing a banana, what in the actual fuck?
Police in the US escalate situations instead of de-escalating them. In any country this would have been solved after a short conversation.
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Someone needs to ship a ton of bananas to the police everyday until the body camera footage is released.
Isn't Florida that state that releases everything?
Yes, though lately it's been taking a lot longer. The state government under 25 years of GOP rule isn't too fond of the Sunshine Law.
I see they opted for the Israeli definition of "measured and equitable response".
Reminder that the IDF trains US cops. Palestinians are used as guinea pigs for policing techniques.
In the US steal a banana get paralyzed, somehow private property even if just a banana is worth more than people
He wasn't even stealing anything. It has nothing to do with theft and everything to do with his skin color I guarantee it.
Well bananas are like $0.53 a pound, $.065 for the organic ones. So it is a pretty clear case.
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ACAB
Hey morons, that Monty Python sketch about defending yourself from being attacked with a banana by shooting the attacker was supposed to be a joke.
I sure hope they disarmed the guy.
The cops’ report noted that she “struck him in the arm against his will”.
I am absolutely fucking disgusted by this weasely use of language
Did anybody read the article and see the part where she were threatening the employees with a bat and admitted to it?
I think they’re sort of burying the lede on this one.
I would completely expect the police to show up, armed and ready for someone who did just receive a call about threatening people with a metal bat.
Fuck the police and what they did to him, but let’s not pretend like this isn’t a whole other thing than the headline.
That being said, can anyone tell me what the cops did to this dude other than make him sit in the back of a police car I very well might’ve missed it.
The latter part of that article go wild
To answer your question on what the cops did:
Anjelica Lee said. “My dad said to me: ‘Don’t get out of the car until they can fully see you, because they’re going to shoot.’ And after he said that, nine or 10 of them jumped on him, and then they slammed him on the car.”
She said she could hear her father screaming: “You’re hurting me. I can’t breathe.”
This is all from the woman's perspective. But it sure seems suspicious that he had chest pains that the police's story can't explain.
And kidney injury, supposedly.
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She said she feared for her father’s safety, so she got a bat from her car, approached the woman and told her to “pick on someone her own size, someone able-bodied.” She said she did not threaten the woman with the bat. Still, she said, the woman called police.
If you walk up to someone with a bat in your hand and tell them to pick on someone your own size, you are threatening them with the bat.
If not to be a threat there is no purpose to bring the bat
From her account the Karen in the store had already laid hands on her father at this point and was then continuing to follow and harass him. Sounds like self defense to me.
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