Trump already confirmed they were real by saying they were illegally obtained.
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In possibly the most fucking 2020 thing imaginable, the bodycam footage of the police sent to pick up Parscale shows them mowing him down into the street apparently without provocation.
ACAB, even when they're doing the right thing. Sigh.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
As much as I enjoy watching that piece of shit get fuckin bodied by a cop from the side...
Why the fuck are there multiple cops with rifles and fuckin tactical vests/helmets for a shirtless, mildly overweight drunk dude?
Why the fuck did the cop straight up assault him rather than simply ask him to place his hands behind his back and be detained pending questioning? Is fuckin highschool football tackling the dude standing there part of standard procedure?
It's such bullshit. When someone is in the state of mind that they are suicidal, or having a psychotic episode, and the police come and just violently attack unprovoked, it just leads to more trauma, making it that much harder to get the existing issues fixed. That video is so fucked up, but it's surprisingly not uncommon.
I mean, to be entirely fair: I'm not gonna defend Parscale here because there is corroborated reporting to the effect that he was being verbally and physically abusive to his wife. That and him being a corrupt scumbag.
But as Edge pointed out; it doesn't require an entire SWAT team to respond to a domestic violence call and shit like that is more likely to escalate the situation. This was beyond excessive force even for a shithead of this sort.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Well, there's some hope. Even through 2008, when it was obvious the Iraq War was a failure, people still supported Bush over it, and it had relatively high approval (though not like the 90%+ in March 2003 despite being obviously a scam). But now, 17 years after the Iraq War started, it's almost universally reviled, and you're hard pressed to find people who say they supported it.
Likewise, the ACA was widely despised when the bill was being passed. A mere 4 years later when Republicans tried to run on abolishing it, they were roundly rebuked by those who relied on it, both conservative and progressive. That issue also had an illuminating few things about the electorate: when it was called Obamacare, conservatives hated it. But if you called it the ACA in your polling, and polled on the things it actually did, they were fiercely protective of it.
All this is to say that American conservatives are very tribalistic, but when their tribe fades from power, they disavow it, because all they care about is today.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. --Frank Wilhoit
Yes, my point is this happens to not complete scumbags. This behavior is really common when they send police to any suicidal or psychotic episode. and it only exacerbates the problem. And then if someone has another breakdown they're less likely to reach out for the help they need because the police have no fucking idea how to handle these situations.
Naw man, that septuagenarian had it coming. He was walking towards the riot-geared cops menacingly, and was just pretending to be bleeding from the brain due to head trauma to lure cops in to attack them!
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This won't dispel any such myths, sadly. Because there's always the, "This is an isolated instance and won't happen to ME!" crowd.
Yes, I get being cautious when there is domestic violence potential AND you found guns in the house. But the dude was mostly naked, obviously had no weapons on him, was surrounded, and was talking calmly to a cop. To just body slam him into the pavement is wrong, full stop.
Yeah, Parscale is a piece of shit, but he still has his rights, and he was apparently suicidal. He needed help, he did not need to be physically attacked.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. --Frank Wilhoit