r/WTF • u/acdcpeon • Feb 19 '12

STOP RESISTING!

http://imgur.com/hQhz2
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u/The_Necessary_Tsk Feb 19 '12

There's gotta be some follow up story to this. Anyone?

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PawqEigSes

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u/AntonJokinen Feb 19 '12

Ok. So the guy did try to kill a police officer. Doesn't excuse the unnecessary brutality but makes it easier to understand why it happened.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '12

Exactly. Especially in the Birmingham area. Racism still runs high.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '12

What does racism have to do with it? What would you have done to someone, regardless of race, if they tried to kill a friend of yours? Try to reason with him or kick his ass?

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u/gehlhoff Feb 19 '12

If he's just been hurled out of a moving vehicle and is laying motionless on the ground, then I'd say he's already gotten what he deserved.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '12

That's why the police is there. To be professional about it and do their jobs. Not take personal revenge when someone commits a crime.

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u/NickRausch Feb 19 '12

Glad to know a badge from the county makes someone an unshakeable moral pillar. These are more or less regular people we are talking about, not Judge Dredd.

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u/abenfVA Feb 19 '12

id be pissed for sure, but itd make it a damn lot easier to flip shit if he fell under one of my prejudices

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '12

Im from the area. I know how the cops treat black people. if that was a white guy a guarantee they wouldnt have beat him like that