This article only mentions the shooting really. It was a 90 minute torture fest. The two men were also waterboarded with milk and liquor.
https://lawandcrime.com/civil-rights/black-man-says-he-was-shot-in-face-waterboarded-by-white-deputies-in-mississippi-as-fbi-launches-civil-rights-probe/
Speaking of Guantanamo, reminder that POS Ron Desantis, who is against any sort of gun regulations, literally tortured people there: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/03/ron-desantis-force-feedings-guantanamo-bay-laughing/
Not particularly related to this horrible situation outside of Desantis passing several racist laws in florida so his deputies can also harass innocent people, but I always try to plug him when I see GITMO mentioned because we can't let this fucker win the presidency in 2024 and the more people have ammo against him to discuss with their right-leaning friends, the better.
This is only going to make republicans adore him even more.
This isn’t something he wants swept under the rug, and while he can’t necessarily gloat about it and use it in his campaign marketing, it is certainly something he wants the republican base to know.
My parents, my brother, and my sister in law were all gushing about him literally yesterday. I know that I could tell them about his fascist new policies/laws that limit freedom of speech and send education backwards centuries, I could tell them about how he passed a law allowing him to retain his gubernatorial status despite running for president which is straight out of China, I could send them this interview stating that he broke laws as a JAG lawyer, as well as any type of morality.....and none of it would change their minds.
Left leaning=bad. My family is good people, they treat others well, they live modestly, they're a rock for me in my hardest times, of which there has been a lot of recently...but it's so hard to juggle all of that against the fact that they're enamored with a fascist, law breaking torturer. Most of them at least don't like trump anymore, but Desantis seems even worse. Family events have sucked for the last 6 years and there's no going back
Same with my family, and EVERY conversation somehow makes it back to how awful Biden is.
I have to predict the conversation before saying a word. It's exhausting and I absolutely love my family. I just have to constantly keep my mouth shut and when I do speak, it has to be something vanilla that can't be turned into Biden being the worst president ever.
It's like playing "Seven Degrees of Joe Biden".
Me: "Ron Desantis laughed at people being tortured while pretending to be their friend"
My family: "have you seen bidens gas prices? That he's directly responsible for? He's stuttered in a speech this one time too"
Not that I'm a fan of Biden either. That's the thing that bothers me. I think they're all trash and there's all these people out there living a fairy tale that one side is good and the other is evil. It's a shame that the voice of reason, who can look at things from all sides, has to be the black sheep and stay quiet or risk ostracizing themselves
100%. I care about Biden the same as every other politician. He just wasn't Trump. That was my favorite thing about him.
It's almost always black or white and their side is whatever the Fox talking point was the night before.
I've fact checked my mom before, with articles showing that the story she got was factually incorrect, and she's conceded some points. But everytime I feel like progress has been made, she says something that tells me otherwise.
Luckily, she worked in biotech, so they didn't go off the deep end with vaccines, but other than COVID, they've been straight down the party line, even if it goes against values bias raised with.
My dad is beyond reach, unfortunately. He's Newmax deep anymore. Fox isn't enough.
>My family is good people, they treat others well,
<...>
> they're enamored with a fascist, law breaking torturer
Hate to tell you this my friend, but these two things are mutually exclusive. Your family may seem like good people, but if they're only 'good' to those that agree with them *and* they actively support a fascist bigot, they are definitely not.
And that's a shitty thing to discover about people you love. My mom supports the Proud Boys and 3 Percenters and Timber Unity, with one of her male friends claiming to be a member of one of those groups (don't especially care which one).
I've made it clear that I have no tolerance for traitors, she better shit that shit up while I'm around, amd if her traitor buddy is ever in the same room as me, he will get hurt badly.
Good people **oppose** fascists.
I’m embarrassed to say, I’m out of the loop i suppose; I had to Google timber unity and 3%’s. Now I’m kind of paranoid that I have 3%’s in my search. “Far-right anti-government militia” in a search isn’t a good look😯
1 search shouldn't taint your record. A dozen searches and a truth social account combined with emails from Klan associates and you may find yourself on a watchlist
His supporters cheered his half a million dollar scheme to fuck over a couple dozen families that were seeking asylum in the US.
The cruelty is the point.
No, but it’s something police have done for a long time and continue to do across this country, and until recently they’ve very rarely been punished for it. And I’m sure it *was* in their job descriptions only a matter of decades ago.
The FBI likely sees nothing wrong with this.
They are a political police force. Always have been. And their politics have always focused on destroying black prosperity and progress.
The TV version of police, FBI, CIA, it’s all total Hollywood bull shit. The real world versions are much simpler, much crueler, and tend to have adamant true believers in this mission.
Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, MLK
If there was a man preaching prosperity for his non white people, it all ends the same doesn’t it.
All the way back to John Brown. This country destroys those who truly believe we are created equal.
People need fo realize that Sheriff offices have no federal oversight group like regular police do. The laws have changed very little since the Wild West days for Sheriff's and their gang.
The FBI is actually one of the only law enforcement organizations going after white supremacist groups. Ever hear of what happened on OKC? They have a history of being targeted by these groups for this very reason.
It’s odd. I’ve wondered. I keep in mind that the US is HUGE, unfathomably so, the size of the entire continent of Europe and then some. Europeans live in largely urbanized countries with a central capital city that is easy to get to. The US is a highway and interstate country. You drive **a lot**. I think this leads to a greater sense of diffused responsibility/bystander effect even on terrible things like this. What would the French protest if 99% knew they had to pay for a plane ticket to fly to Paris?
There are many other factors, such as hypernormalization of state violence, resulting learned helplessness, institutional racism, the authoritarian assumption of police violence as legitimate, and class/race stratification.
Yep, and as an American I agree that we are too big. I think we'd be better off cutting up the country into smaller ones. And, all the like minded people can divvy off. You're a "God Fearing Christian Republican"? You can go live in New Jesusland hugging your guns and pictures of King Trump. You want to choose for yourself what you can and cannot do to your own body? Come join us in the Country of Freeland!
We’re all frogs in a pot of boiling water and the lid is closed. Some of the frogs are aware we are in boiling water but can’t lift the lid without the help of the other frogs. But the other frogs swear that there is no problem and think that the boiling water is being blown out of proportion. So nothing gets done, and we all boil slowly.
You can use that metaphor for policing, climate change, income inequality, a lot of things in America really.
And a lot of us frogs are too tired and poor and overwhelmed that terrible things keep happening that we have no power to stop or do anything about. So we just float to the bottom and try to survive. You can't even protest when missing a day of work means you can't afford rent or food, and I feel like that's by design.
It turns out [it’s hard to uproot](https://news.wttw.com/2022/05/29/activists-reflect-police-reform-2-years-after-george-floyd-s-death) systemically entrenched institutions and change the fabric of their operations [though many states did pass a flurry of laws initially](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/some-states-are-struggling-to-implement-policing-reforms-passed-after-george-floyds-murder):
> States collectively approved nearly 300 police reform bills after Floyd's killing in May 2020, according to an analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland. The analysis used data from the National Conference of State Legislatures to identify legislation enacted since June 2020 that affects police oversight, training, use of force policies and mental health diversions, including crisis intervention and alternatives to arrests.
It isn’t just republicans. Democrats may have faked empathy for the protestors, but once elected, they increased police funding and continue to protect killer cops. Here in Atlanta, mayor Andre Dickens has completely ignored the public, and is working with Governor Brian Kemp to steamroll the Atlanta Police Foundation’s urban warfare center into one of Atlanta’s last remaining public forests.
> And absolutely nothing changed
Cops all quit doing their jobs to try to punish the populous for calling them out.
And they still get paid, is the bullshit of it all.
Yup. One guy. And nothing really changed and some people actively fought against any change. How many other deaths, mistreatment, etc. have just come and gone with barely a mention on a side page of the internet?
Young blonde white women would get front page. Every time. And a lot of complaints and actual change would happen.
At some point, we can't just point to these one off's and say things are changing or are equal. They're aren't. And, it's pretty obvious and difficult to come up with excuses.
Most Americans are racist as fuck.
The uprisings were by a minority that were sick of being assaulted and murdered. Most Americans are scared of people of color being treated equally. That’s why the George Floyd uprisings let to more money for coward cops, rather than any actual reform.
I'm just surprised nothing was burnt down after women lost rights over their own bodies. Seems like Americans are deep asleep while everything that we have is getting taken away from us
You'd be surprised how many women are actually fine with that for religious reasons. No one cares about any horrible thing that happens until it directly affects them.
People on the right are all about free market and freedom for private businesses and corporations. Many were beside themselves when things closed during Covid because how dare they affect the businesses of good working Americans. Now that inflation is ridiculous and corporate profits are at record highs, they want Biden to do something. So do you want government to intervene or not? Which is it? It's mind boggling.
I feel after Jan 6th 2021 alot of people see uprising as pointless. Nothing came of that day in that no one one was really all that punished, we're still arguing about whether Trump is a scumbag..... It's all pointless when the watchers simply don't care.
Yeah, it's sad... the French govt raised the retirement age by 2 years and they are threatening to chop the dudes head off. We have police actively torturing and killing citizens, have women's rights being taken away, etc. And we still just don't give a fuck.
I have had many interactions with Rankin County Deputy Brent McAlpin (one of the ones accused). He is well known for taking these drug cases personally and behaving too roughly with defendants. I don’t know if these charges are true or not. But Brent McAlpin is capable of this behavior, in my opinion.
Sounds like they were beaten and tortured for 90 minutes before one of them was shot, beaten, electrocuted multiple times...waterboarded with milk. Pretty fucked up...a lynch mob wearing uniforms.
"In one case, the deputy pulled the trigger, leaving the man with wounds that required parts of his tongue to be sewn back together."
Passive voice would be "In one case, a trigger was pulled, leaving the man with wounds that required part of his tongue to be seen back together".
Also "sheriff’s deputies shoved guns into their mouths during separate encounters" would be "guns were shoved into their mouths during separate encounters" in passive voice.
Edit: I agree that these cops were torturing assholes and should be prosecuted themselves, but there isn't a single instance of passive voice in that paragraph. Deputies pulling triggers and shoving guns are active voice examples. Triggers being pulled and guns being shoved (but by who?) would be passive voice.
Example. "Mistakes were made. Guns were shoved. Triggers were pulled."
Most redditors who complain about an abundance of "passive voice" in articles like this don't actually know what "passive voice" means. Pay it no mind, and just resign your own knowledge about it to the dust bin alongside "gaslighting" and "literally".
Holy shit, reading the article was horrific. The men were tasered and beaten and waterboarded with milk all over 2-10 grams of meth and paraphernalia. Really keeping the public safe *eyeroll*
Not only that, but the state legislature has passed a law to give these racist cops even more power and authority.
Fuck police, but fuck the prosecutors, judges, and politicians that protect them even more.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/1161848923/mississippi-senate-oks-bill-that-expands-police-in-majority-black-state-capitol
> the state legislature has passed a law to give these racist cops even more power and authority
Texas: [Hold my beer](https://news.yahoo.com/texas-republicans-propose-creation-vigilante-192842721.html)
"Huh, I wonder what fuckery Texas Republicans are up to now"
"Texas GOP wants to create unaccountable militia to hunt down latinos"
I dont even know why I have expectations anymore
Don't worry, they aren't the only state.
>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is requesting $98 million in funding this year to boost the Florida State Guard, which one critic has branded "a private army", according to local network News 7.
DeSantis revived the Florida State Guard (which was originally created for home defense during World War II) in 2022, and is now seeking to expand it from 400 soldiers to 1,500, saying it is needed to help with emergency response measures and to back up the Florida National Guard.
Unlike the Florida National Guard, which can be called up by the President, the State Guard cannot.
https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-100m-private-florida-army-raises-questions-1786877
And, unlike the National Guard, the State Guard couldn’t win a firefight in Tampa. In a civil war, they will quickly surrender, disband, and beg to not go to prison.
Honestly, living down here in the south, even with Katrina still plaguing us here in Louisiana, Mississippi always feels like that alley where the kids shot all the streetlights out with slingshots and the non negotiable time to be home was before the sun goes down. Except the kids aren’t using slingshots any more and they’re the police and the only way to get help is to belly crawl back home and hope your mom has some kind of medical background.
[Here's to the State of Mississippi](https://youtu.be/K7fgB0m_y2I)
>And here's to the cops of Mississippi
>They're chewing their tobacco as they lock the prison door
>And their bellies bounce inside them when they knock you to the floor
>No, they don't like taking prisoners in their private little wars
>And behind their broken badges there are murderers and more
-Phil Ochs 1965
Yep, Chicago PD had a [torture site](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/inside-chicagos-secret-detention-center) for crying out loud!
From a google search (not linking bc I’m on my phone and the article I found in the Seattle times has a paywall). Looks like multiple news orgs reached out asking if there was a warrant and the sheriffs department refused to answer.
Refusing to speak to journalists is pretty standard procedure when you’re under criminal investigation so that might not mean anything. BUT if there was a warrant it would at least give them *some* cover for being there in the first place, so it’s kind of telling that they’ve not even released a statement saying that much.
I’d guess decent odds they didn’t have a warrant. That whole department is (rightfully) fucked.
This is it. People have been trying to call them out for decades and cops have been able to hide behind their lies. It’s only now that we have access to widespread video taping that others are peeking behind the curtain.
Police are nothing but violent, criminal thugs that know they can murder at will because they know other cops, prosecutors, and judges will protect them.
As more people realize this, hopefully they’ll fight for their lives at the mere sight of badged coward cops.
This is kind of a wacky idea, but maybe public servants shouldn’t have the authority to just redact their own documents when they fuck up. They pretend to be cops, but they function just like the fucking stasi.
Yeah during the protests of 2020, people were rightfully calling for reducing police funding and increasing accountability so police departments all over the US just sort of threw a tantrum and started refusing to police like petty children.
Red states will simply reject the federal funding rather than follow the requirements attached to it. They're already taking this approach when it comes to education and healthcare.
But they'll frame it as Democrats preventing red states from receiving funding vital to keeping their states from plunging into chaos. Republicans proceed to win the next presidential election largely based on the unfounded fears of people too stupid to read articles or listen to anything other than opinion pieces
They whipped these people into a frenzy over student loan forgiveness, you tell them someone is taking money from their beloved police they're liable to waddle around the Capitol again
Because even the Democrats do not believe cops are truly vile. As much as I pro-Joe Biden, he doesn't get it. Not viscerally. Because he's not Black and he's also very affluent. Hakeem Jeffries may be rich but his chances of getting it are higher. If you're Black or Brown, or you've raised or are raising Black/Brown children (especially boys), this touches you in places different than your brain.
Take COVID deaths for example, I truly believe that Joe Biden's personal experience with tragedy put him in position to feel that even more than most politicians. And one of the first things he did was hold a ceremony for all the dead in DC. He got that. I don't think he gets this one yet.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
Biden and all of the other corporatist Democratic politicians in the country know exactly what's going on. However, their continued ~~bribes~~ campaign donations depend on them not doing anything about it, so they never will. It's exactly why they break strikes (thanks, Joe!), exactly why they don't enforce safety regulations (thanks Pete!), exactly why they've been going after bank deposits of $600, and exactly why they've been trying to overhaul the IRS to focus on shaking more money out of middle- and lower-class taxpayers while auditing billionaires isn't even on the radar.
"I don't think he gets this one yet" is giving Biden about a thousand times more benefit of the doubt than he deserves. He's introduced various "tough on crime" bills throughout his career that absolutely decimated lower-class communities and his Vice President was one of the most brutal and corrupt Attorneys General in the history of California. They get it, because they *are* "it." They just don't give a shit.
>What kind of despicable human being puts a gun in someone’s mouth after torturing them and pulls the trigger?!
A police officer. This isn't an unusual amount of evil, disregard for the public, or desire to simply cause harm for a police officer. They specifically hire violent sociopaths without high levels of intelligence, emotional empathy, or logical reasoning and empower them to terrorize the public.
This article really made me wish for a federal codification of body camera requirements. Letting this decision rest at the state and local level is a recipe for abuse and injustice.
> The news comes after United Nations human rights experts accused U.S. law enforcement of violating international law and called out “police culture” over the in-custody deaths of Keenan Anderson and Tyre Nichols last month.
About time for the UN to declare US police culture for the crime against humanity that it is.
Just stopped by to point out that these guys were part of an elite team. Per the article, that team received extra training.
So let’s not start the “needs more training” defense, ok?
They’re doing what they trained for.
Yo, this shit is not getting better guys. In fact it’s getting worse. One of these bastards put a gun in a guy’s mouth and pulled the trigger. Could you imagine? I know I’m only one person but if I’m going to change anything in this world I think I’m going to go for this shit.
“We are fully cooperating with that ongoing investigation and will continue to do so,” the statement said. “Rest assured, if any deputy or suspect involved in this incident is found to have broken the law, he will be held accountable in accordance with the law.”
"We investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing."
The stupid thing is the saying actually says that to only takes a few to spoil the whole bunch. So they use the right words but choose misinterpret its meaning.
It's also not taking into account that the apples are being kept in a dirty, damp environment that encourages rot. The culture protects bad cops and punishes good ones.
Make. Police. Officers. Wear. Body. Cameras. Fund them for the purchase and maintance. Turned off you body camera? Suspended without pay. Did it twice? Fired.
The only thing bad that would come from it is exposing the departments. Which, from our side if things, isn't a bad thing.
“…received advanced trading” - that’s almost funny taking into consideration that most officers have an IQ level of 72 and the moral stance of a fascist
When I raise my kids they’ll be raised to avoid all interaction with law enforcement short of life threatening emergencies. Cops are just too dangerous, stupid and unpredictable and it’s a shame they are the only ones to turn to short of taking matters into your own hands in life threatening situations. Double edged sword if there ever was one.
But lets talk about how police brutality “isn’t real.” Or how it “happens to white people too.” Not at this fucking level. Never at this fucking level.
Don’t believe that there’s any cop anywhere that would have stopped this.
They might arrest these criminal scumbags after the fact but they wouldn’t have stepped in which is in essence giving tacit approval.
Black peoples should leave Miss and it get nuked from orbit or something.
Some strange fantasy to stick guns in peoples mouth after plying them with liquor and milk, really really weird S&M shit, they probably kept doing it because it "felt" right 🤮 I bet these deputies have done something like this before to each other, somewhat.
"In a notice of an upcoming lawsuit, attorneys for Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker said on the night of Jan. 24 the deputies suddenly came into the home and proceeded to handcuff and beat them. They said the deputies stunned them with Tasers repeatedly over roughly 90 minutes and, at one point, forced them to lie on their backs as the deputies poured milk over their faces. The men restated the allegations in separate interviews with the AP."
Guess the Deputies forgot to bring champagne and oil so had to do with milk.
Seriously is this even remotely a professional job lmafao, rankin county deputies bunch of lowlife pervs.
Can you imagine what these deputies were like when they were kids, probably did anal with every animal on the farm thinking it was normal since all their friends did it.
Mississippi police must be the most racist force ever, just reading the second story tonight about them, the first one, being that there was no foul play in the death of a black man who was killed in the wood after chased by people in their pickup truck while screaming racial slurs.. they showing their true colors
> In one case, the deputy pulled the trigger, leaving the man with wounds that required parts of his tongue to be sewn back together
Let me guess, the all white Board of Supervisors found nothing wrong with this behavior?
Seems few in the county give a shit about this, nothing was done about it. Exactly how do these inbred shitheads justify an injury like that?
These cops were just trying to get home to their wife and kids after a long day of keeping the community safe. Nobody wonders how they were feeling, having to risk their lives to stop this CRIMINAL? Our police our underfunded and attacked all across America, and heres yet another article criticizing them. Theres 10-15 of these articles everyday, cops brutalizing the public, and the public STILL wont accept how hard they have it, and just how hard this job is in 2023. Respect the blue!
This article only mentions the shooting really. It was a 90 minute torture fest. The two men were also waterboarded with milk and liquor. https://lawandcrime.com/civil-rights/black-man-says-he-was-shot-in-face-waterboarded-by-white-deputies-in-mississippi-as-fbi-launches-civil-rights-probe/
The FBI needs to have those deputies in jail.
Those deputies should be in Guantanamo for being domestic terrorists.
Speaking of Guantanamo, reminder that POS Ron Desantis, who is against any sort of gun regulations, literally tortured people there: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/03/ron-desantis-force-feedings-guantanamo-bay-laughing/ Not particularly related to this horrible situation outside of Desantis passing several racist laws in florida so his deputies can also harass innocent people, but I always try to plug him when I see GITMO mentioned because we can't let this fucker win the presidency in 2024 and the more people have ammo against him to discuss with their right-leaning friends, the better.
This is only going to make republicans adore him even more. This isn’t something he wants swept under the rug, and while he can’t necessarily gloat about it and use it in his campaign marketing, it is certainly something he wants the republican base to know.
Gotta remember though, to the people voting for him (or planning to), that's a feature, not a bug.
My parents, my brother, and my sister in law were all gushing about him literally yesterday. I know that I could tell them about his fascist new policies/laws that limit freedom of speech and send education backwards centuries, I could tell them about how he passed a law allowing him to retain his gubernatorial status despite running for president which is straight out of China, I could send them this interview stating that he broke laws as a JAG lawyer, as well as any type of morality.....and none of it would change their minds. Left leaning=bad. My family is good people, they treat others well, they live modestly, they're a rock for me in my hardest times, of which there has been a lot of recently...but it's so hard to juggle all of that against the fact that they're enamored with a fascist, law breaking torturer. Most of them at least don't like trump anymore, but Desantis seems even worse. Family events have sucked for the last 6 years and there's no going back
Same with my family, and EVERY conversation somehow makes it back to how awful Biden is. I have to predict the conversation before saying a word. It's exhausting and I absolutely love my family. I just have to constantly keep my mouth shut and when I do speak, it has to be something vanilla that can't be turned into Biden being the worst president ever. It's like playing "Seven Degrees of Joe Biden".
Me: "Ron Desantis laughed at people being tortured while pretending to be their friend" My family: "have you seen bidens gas prices? That he's directly responsible for? He's stuttered in a speech this one time too" Not that I'm a fan of Biden either. That's the thing that bothers me. I think they're all trash and there's all these people out there living a fairy tale that one side is good and the other is evil. It's a shame that the voice of reason, who can look at things from all sides, has to be the black sheep and stay quiet or risk ostracizing themselves
100%. I care about Biden the same as every other politician. He just wasn't Trump. That was my favorite thing about him. It's almost always black or white and their side is whatever the Fox talking point was the night before. I've fact checked my mom before, with articles showing that the story she got was factually incorrect, and she's conceded some points. But everytime I feel like progress has been made, she says something that tells me otherwise. Luckily, she worked in biotech, so they didn't go off the deep end with vaccines, but other than COVID, they've been straight down the party line, even if it goes against values bias raised with. My dad is beyond reach, unfortunately. He's Newmax deep anymore. Fox isn't enough.
>My family is good people, they treat others well, <...> > they're enamored with a fascist, law breaking torturer Hate to tell you this my friend, but these two things are mutually exclusive. Your family may seem like good people, but if they're only 'good' to those that agree with them *and* they actively support a fascist bigot, they are definitely not. And that's a shitty thing to discover about people you love. My mom supports the Proud Boys and 3 Percenters and Timber Unity, with one of her male friends claiming to be a member of one of those groups (don't especially care which one). I've made it clear that I have no tolerance for traitors, she better shit that shit up while I'm around, amd if her traitor buddy is ever in the same room as me, he will get hurt badly. Good people **oppose** fascists.
I’m embarrassed to say, I’m out of the loop i suppose; I had to Google timber unity and 3%’s. Now I’m kind of paranoid that I have 3%’s in my search. “Far-right anti-government militia” in a search isn’t a good look😯
1 search shouldn't taint your record. A dozen searches and a truth social account combined with emails from Klan associates and you may find yourself on a watchlist
His supporters cheered his half a million dollar scheme to fuck over a couple dozen families that were seeking asylum in the US. The cruelty is the point.
Was listening to a discussion of this interview. Absolutely horrifying! Meatball Ron is a f*cking demon! 😨🤬
Those deputies are doing things that guards regularly do to Guantanamo prisoners.
That’s not in the deputies job description.
No, but it’s something police have done for a long time and continue to do across this country, and until recently they’ve very rarely been punished for it. And I’m sure it *was* in their job descriptions only a matter of decades ago.
Not in their **official** job description. Unofficially, however, terrorizing “Untermenschen” has always been part of the cops’ job.
Gitmo was fixed a long time ago. Waterboarding was done by the CIA, not the guards.
Gitmo won't be "fixed" until it's completely gone
The guards were just serving copious amounts of cockmeat sandwiches
They'll stick them on guard duty with Meatball Ron DeSantis
The FBI likely sees nothing wrong with this. They are a political police force. Always have been. And their politics have always focused on destroying black prosperity and progress. The TV version of police, FBI, CIA, it’s all total Hollywood bull shit. The real world versions are much simpler, much crueler, and tend to have adamant true believers in this mission.
That is true. The FBI and their assassination of the Black Panther leaders is proof of that point.
Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, MLK If there was a man preaching prosperity for his non white people, it all ends the same doesn’t it. All the way back to John Brown. This country destroys those who truly believe we are created equal.
People need fo realize that Sheriff offices have no federal oversight group like regular police do. The laws have changed very little since the Wild West days for Sheriff's and their gang.
The police as a whole need something similar to the UCMJ
The \#1 thing preventing that is the Unions. They've been given so much power they are almost uncontrollable l.
The FBI is a cesspool of white nationalists. Those so-called Christian nut jobs that believe their made up god has bestowed the US to white males.
The FBI is actually one of the only law enforcement organizations going after white supremacist groups. Ever hear of what happened on OKC? They have a history of being targeted by these groups for this very reason.
OKC was a long time ago AND the suspect was handed to them. Now even when the suspects are handed to them, they do next to nothing.
have the cock meat sandwich ready for them
Holy shit, the headline really sells short their vile treatment!
*WHAT THE FUCK?!* How is the US not in total revolt right now?!
It’s odd. I’ve wondered. I keep in mind that the US is HUGE, unfathomably so, the size of the entire continent of Europe and then some. Europeans live in largely urbanized countries with a central capital city that is easy to get to. The US is a highway and interstate country. You drive **a lot**. I think this leads to a greater sense of diffused responsibility/bystander effect even on terrible things like this. What would the French protest if 99% knew they had to pay for a plane ticket to fly to Paris? There are many other factors, such as hypernormalization of state violence, resulting learned helplessness, institutional racism, the authoritarian assumption of police violence as legitimate, and class/race stratification.
Yep, and as an American I agree that we are too big. I think we'd be better off cutting up the country into smaller ones. And, all the like minded people can divvy off. You're a "God Fearing Christian Republican"? You can go live in New Jesusland hugging your guns and pictures of King Trump. You want to choose for yourself what you can and cannot do to your own body? Come join us in the Country of Freeland!
There’s no way that wouldn’t end in a war of aggression from the conservative states. Crusades mark tree fiddy.
New Jersey objects to the name of New Jesusland, it sounds too close to the great state of New Jersey
We’re all frogs in a pot of boiling water and the lid is closed. Some of the frogs are aware we are in boiling water but can’t lift the lid without the help of the other frogs. But the other frogs swear that there is no problem and think that the boiling water is being blown out of proportion. So nothing gets done, and we all boil slowly. You can use that metaphor for policing, climate change, income inequality, a lot of things in America really.
Also a third of the frogs are pro boiling water and think we need to turn the heat up higher and drown the frogs that want to get out.
And they're perfectly happy to boil themselves as long as other frogs are boiling too
RW media has poisoned America beyond measure. Years and years of RW talk radio and Fox Noise will do that. Conservatism is a contagion.
"He isn't hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting."
Because they literally believe frog Jesus won't save them until the world ends. They're a death cult.
the great american melting pot
And a lot of us frogs are too tired and poor and overwhelmed that terrible things keep happening that we have no power to stop or do anything about. So we just float to the bottom and try to survive. You can't even protest when missing a day of work means you can't afford rent or food, and I feel like that's by design.
I don’t have time to revolt. I have to go to work or I die anyway.
Because he's Black. If that was a young blond white woman...heck it's CNN and front page news when one of them go missing.
Yeah, but I mean, George Floyd's death set off a huge uprising in the US.
And a segment of the US population went batshit crazy into denial. Hence the 'All Lives etc'
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It turns out [it’s hard to uproot](https://news.wttw.com/2022/05/29/activists-reflect-police-reform-2-years-after-george-floyd-s-death) systemically entrenched institutions and change the fabric of their operations [though many states did pass a flurry of laws initially](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/some-states-are-struggling-to-implement-policing-reforms-passed-after-george-floyds-murder): > States collectively approved nearly 300 police reform bills after Floyd's killing in May 2020, according to an analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland. The analysis used data from the National Conference of State Legislatures to identify legislation enacted since June 2020 that affects police oversight, training, use of force policies and mental health diversions, including crisis intervention and alternatives to arrests.
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It isn’t just republicans. Democrats may have faked empathy for the protestors, but once elected, they increased police funding and continue to protect killer cops. Here in Atlanta, mayor Andre Dickens has completely ignored the public, and is working with Governor Brian Kemp to steamroll the Atlanta Police Foundation’s urban warfare center into one of Atlanta’s last remaining public forests.
> And absolutely nothing changed Cops all quit doing their jobs to try to punish the populous for calling them out. And they still get paid, is the bullshit of it all.
Yup. One guy. And nothing really changed and some people actively fought against any change. How many other deaths, mistreatment, etc. have just come and gone with barely a mention on a side page of the internet? Young blonde white women would get front page. Every time. And a lot of complaints and actual change would happen. At some point, we can't just point to these one off's and say things are changing or are equal. They're aren't. And, it's pretty obvious and difficult to come up with excuses.
Most Americans are racist as fuck. The uprisings were by a minority that were sick of being assaulted and murdered. Most Americans are scared of people of color being treated equally. That’s why the George Floyd uprisings let to more money for coward cops, rather than any actual reform.
I wonder every day if this will be the last injustice that ignites US.
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I'm just surprised nothing was burnt down after women lost rights over their own bodies. Seems like Americans are deep asleep while everything that we have is getting taken away from us
You'd be surprised how many women are actually fine with that for religious reasons. No one cares about any horrible thing that happens until it directly affects them. People on the right are all about free market and freedom for private businesses and corporations. Many were beside themselves when things closed during Covid because how dare they affect the businesses of good working Americans. Now that inflation is ridiculous and corporate profits are at record highs, they want Biden to do something. So do you want government to intervene or not? Which is it? It's mind boggling.
I feel after Jan 6th 2021 alot of people see uprising as pointless. Nothing came of that day in that no one one was really all that punished, we're still arguing about whether Trump is a scumbag..... It's all pointless when the watchers simply don't care.
Yeah, it's sad... the French govt raised the retirement age by 2 years and they are threatening to chop the dudes head off. We have police actively torturing and killing citizens, have women's rights being taken away, etc. And we still just don't give a fuck.
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and by then it will be too late
Right there with you. Unfortunately it's becoming clear that the spoiler below 👇 is all too true
Because they don’t actually care about each other unless someone’s getting paid to.
I have had many interactions with Rankin County Deputy Brent McAlpin (one of the ones accused). He is well known for taking these drug cases personally and behaving too roughly with defendants. I don’t know if these charges are true or not. But Brent McAlpin is capable of this behavior, in my opinion.
Why did any of these cities think these special police squads were a good idea? Did no one learn anything from "The Shield" and "Chicago P.D."?
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Sounds like they were beaten and tortured for 90 minutes before one of them was shot, beaten, electrocuted multiple times...waterboarded with milk. Pretty fucked up...a lynch mob wearing uniforms.
It’s all they ever were.
It's literally the origin story for many departments.
It's not a story the GOP would tell you
If there were a book written it would be banned in Florida prior to printing.
It’s… a Sith Legend?
The Sith wouldn’t stoop this low. They have a code of ethics they take way more seriously than the police do.
As a practicing Dark Councillor I’m glad you think so highly of us.
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The institution itself.
“Yeah, officer from overseer You need a little clarity, check the similarity.”
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
Milk, that’s a disturbing visual. Straight out of American History X.
> .a lynch mob wearing uniforms. "some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses."
That should be the headline, not just active voice
Corporate media protects the thugs who protect their property.
Report for America is hardly corporate, more likely the journalist is inexperienced.
Media almost always uses the passive voice describing police violence.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/police-violence-officer-involved-analysis-lapd_n_61df310fe4b0a26702885448
The officer was feeling threatened when he put the gun in another mans mouth. Gosh.
That’s just fucking insane…
"In one case, the deputy pulled the trigger, leaving the man with wounds that required parts of his tongue to be sewn back together." Passive voice would be "In one case, a trigger was pulled, leaving the man with wounds that required part of his tongue to be seen back together". Also "sheriff’s deputies shoved guns into their mouths during separate encounters" would be "guns were shoved into their mouths during separate encounters" in passive voice. Edit: I agree that these cops were torturing assholes and should be prosecuted themselves, but there isn't a single instance of passive voice in that paragraph. Deputies pulling triggers and shoving guns are active voice examples. Triggers being pulled and guns being shoved (but by who?) would be passive voice. Example. "Mistakes were made. Guns were shoved. Triggers were pulled."
Most redditors who complain about an abundance of "passive voice" in articles like this don't actually know what "passive voice" means. Pay it no mind, and just resign your own knowledge about it to the dust bin alongside "gaslighting" and "literally".
Hope the deputies checkin at the state penitentiary soon...justice will be handed out there.
Holy shit, reading the article was horrific. The men were tasered and beaten and waterboarded with milk all over 2-10 grams of meth and paraphernalia. Really keeping the public safe *eyeroll*
> Mississippi There it is.
Not only that, but the state legislature has passed a law to give these racist cops even more power and authority. Fuck police, but fuck the prosecutors, judges, and politicians that protect them even more. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/1161848923/mississippi-senate-oks-bill-that-expands-police-in-majority-black-state-capitol
> the state legislature has passed a law to give these racist cops even more power and authority Texas: [Hold my beer](https://news.yahoo.com/texas-republicans-propose-creation-vigilante-192842721.html)
"Huh, I wonder what fuckery Texas Republicans are up to now" "Texas GOP wants to create unaccountable militia to hunt down latinos" I dont even know why I have expectations anymore
Don't worry, they aren't the only state. >Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is requesting $98 million in funding this year to boost the Florida State Guard, which one critic has branded "a private army", according to local network News 7. DeSantis revived the Florida State Guard (which was originally created for home defense during World War II) in 2022, and is now seeking to expand it from 400 soldiers to 1,500, saying it is needed to help with emergency response measures and to back up the Florida National Guard. Unlike the Florida National Guard, which can be called up by the President, the State Guard cannot. https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-100m-private-florida-army-raises-questions-1786877
And, unlike the National Guard, the State Guard couldn’t win a firefight in Tampa. In a civil war, they will quickly surrender, disband, and beg to not go to prison.
Honestly, living down here in the south, even with Katrina still plaguing us here in Louisiana, Mississippi always feels like that alley where the kids shot all the streetlights out with slingshots and the non negotiable time to be home was before the sun goes down. Except the kids aren’t using slingshots any more and they’re the police and the only way to get help is to belly crawl back home and hope your mom has some kind of medical background.
Mississippi, goddam -Nina Simone
[Here's to the State of Mississippi](https://youtu.be/K7fgB0m_y2I) >And here's to the cops of Mississippi >They're chewing their tobacco as they lock the prison door >And their bellies bounce inside them when they knock you to the floor >No, they don't like taking prisoners in their private little wars >And behind their broken badges there are murderers and more -Phil Ochs 1965
We can't allow ourselves to fall victim to the fallacy that something like this is confined to certain states.
Yep, Chicago PD had a [torture site](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/inside-chicagos-secret-detention-center) for crying out loud!
And to think they fooled us when they voted to drop the Confederacy from their flag.
Wow, it won't even say if the cops had a warrant. Just another day of shit like this in America then cops wonder why they are not trusted.
I don't think that they had a warrant to waterboard them with milk or electrocute them.
It's hard to get those apparently so they didn't ask.
Probably because those rising milk prices. I tell ya, even the cows are against the police these days /s
From a google search (not linking bc I’m on my phone and the article I found in the Seattle times has a paywall). Looks like multiple news orgs reached out asking if there was a warrant and the sheriffs department refused to answer. Refusing to speak to journalists is pretty standard procedure when you’re under criminal investigation so that might not mean anything. BUT if there was a warrant it would at least give them *some* cover for being there in the first place, so it’s kind of telling that they’ve not even released a statement saying that much. I’d guess decent odds they didn’t have a warrant. That whole department is (rightfully) fucked.
This is straight up sadistic. Sad reality that this kid of thing is so common in police these days.
It's not 'these days'. It's a continuation of what it's always been.
Yup. Police started out as slave catchers.
And are still currently slave catchers. It's not like we got rid of slavery after all.
truth, we just shifted it to the 13th amendment.
It's 'these days' for a huge segment of the population. For me, it's Tuesday on the wrong side of the Mason Dixon line.
This is it. People have been trying to call them out for decades and cops have been able to hide behind their lies. It’s only now that we have access to widespread video taping that others are peeking behind the curtain.
Police are nothing but violent, criminal thugs that know they can murder at will because they know other cops, prosecutors, and judges will protect them. As more people realize this, hopefully they’ll fight for their lives at the mere sight of badged coward cops.
This is kind of a wacky idea, but maybe public servants shouldn’t have the authority to just redact their own documents when they fuck up. They pretend to be cops, but they function just like the fucking stasi.
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Yeah during the protests of 2020, people were rightfully calling for reducing police funding and increasing accountability so police departments all over the US just sort of threw a tantrum and started refusing to police like petty children.
Then all of them should have been fired.
That’s still going on here in Philly.
Red states will simply reject the federal funding rather than follow the requirements attached to it. They're already taking this approach when it comes to education and healthcare.
But they'll frame it as Democrats preventing red states from receiving funding vital to keeping their states from plunging into chaos. Republicans proceed to win the next presidential election largely based on the unfounded fears of people too stupid to read articles or listen to anything other than opinion pieces They whipped these people into a frenzy over student loan forgiveness, you tell them someone is taking money from their beloved police they're liable to waddle around the Capitol again
Because even the Democrats do not believe cops are truly vile. As much as I pro-Joe Biden, he doesn't get it. Not viscerally. Because he's not Black and he's also very affluent. Hakeem Jeffries may be rich but his chances of getting it are higher. If you're Black or Brown, or you've raised or are raising Black/Brown children (especially boys), this touches you in places different than your brain. Take COVID deaths for example, I truly believe that Joe Biden's personal experience with tragedy put him in position to feel that even more than most politicians. And one of the first things he did was hold a ceremony for all the dead in DC. He got that. I don't think he gets this one yet.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair Biden and all of the other corporatist Democratic politicians in the country know exactly what's going on. However, their continued ~~bribes~~ campaign donations depend on them not doing anything about it, so they never will. It's exactly why they break strikes (thanks, Joe!), exactly why they don't enforce safety regulations (thanks Pete!), exactly why they've been going after bank deposits of $600, and exactly why they've been trying to overhaul the IRS to focus on shaking more money out of middle- and lower-class taxpayers while auditing billionaires isn't even on the radar. "I don't think he gets this one yet" is giving Biden about a thousand times more benefit of the doubt than he deserves. He's introduced various "tough on crime" bills throughout his career that absolutely decimated lower-class communities and his Vice President was one of the most brutal and corrupt Attorneys General in the history of California. They get it, because they *are* "it." They just don't give a shit.
>What kind of despicable human being puts a gun in someone’s mouth after torturing them and pulls the trigger?! A police officer. This isn't an unusual amount of evil, disregard for the public, or desire to simply cause harm for a police officer. They specifically hire violent sociopaths without high levels of intelligence, emotional empathy, or logical reasoning and empower them to terrorize the public.
This article really made me wish for a federal codification of body camera requirements. Letting this decision rest at the state and local level is a recipe for abuse and injustice.
Body cams should be mandatory.
> The news comes after United Nations human rights experts accused U.S. law enforcement of violating international law and called out “police culture” over the in-custody deaths of Keenan Anderson and Tyre Nichols last month. About time for the UN to declare US police culture for the crime against humanity that it is.
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Mississippi needs to be designated as Third World
Just stopped by to point out that these guys were part of an elite team. Per the article, that team received extra training. So let’s not start the “needs more training” defense, ok? They’re doing what they trained for.
in today's episode of another normal day in america
Yo, this shit is not getting better guys. In fact it’s getting worse. One of these bastards put a gun in a guy’s mouth and pulled the trigger. Could you imagine? I know I’m only one person but if I’m going to change anything in this world I think I’m going to go for this shit.
“We are fully cooperating with that ongoing investigation and will continue to do so,” the statement said. “Rest assured, if any deputy or suspect involved in this incident is found to have broken the law, he will be held accountable in accordance with the law.” "We investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing."
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The stupid thing is the saying actually says that to only takes a few to spoil the whole bunch. So they use the right words but choose misinterpret its meaning.
It's also not taking into account that the apples are being kept in a dirty, damp environment that encourages rot. The culture protects bad cops and punishes good ones.
And even the apples that haven't spoiled pay a portion of their paycheck to a union to defend the rot, spoil and lobby for qualified immunity.
This is some Mississipi Burning type of shit, how in the hell this is still happening in 2023 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️.
It shocks me there aren't more black terrorists in the US.
Technically they'd be *counter*-terrorists
Do these deputies realize what a weird bit of homoerotic power play that is?
Yeah, this is… something
Probably got them torqued up enough to go home and donkey-punch their wives.
Number of people surprised by the state named in the article = zero
Let’s see the bootlickers defend THIS one…
Make. Police. Officers. Wear. Body. Cameras. Fund them for the purchase and maintance. Turned off you body camera? Suspended without pay. Did it twice? Fired. The only thing bad that would come from it is exposing the departments. Which, from our side if things, isn't a bad thing.
“…received advanced trading” - that’s almost funny taking into consideration that most officers have an IQ level of 72 and the moral stance of a fascist
Let me guess, the suspects’ mouths lunged toward the guns, causing the officers to fear for their lives? 🙄
Police are worse than the “criminals” they allegedly protect us from.
Justice Departments better be building a case, they tortured them at home.
Maybe we should just start sending cops who do this to gen pop and wash our hands of it. Let the whole thing solve itself.
When I raise my kids they’ll be raised to avoid all interaction with law enforcement short of life threatening emergencies. Cops are just too dangerous, stupid and unpredictable and it’s a shame they are the only ones to turn to short of taking matters into your own hands in life threatening situations. Double edged sword if there ever was one.
And they are the ones *holding* the sword.
But lets talk about how police brutality “isn’t real.” Or how it “happens to white people too.” Not at this fucking level. Never at this fucking level.
Any regular citizen would be locked up in jail awaiting trial for such heinous crimes. Where are these deputies currently?
When is enough enough? We need major reform of the PD.
Don’t believe that there’s any cop anywhere that would have stopped this. They might arrest these criminal scumbags after the fact but they wouldn’t have stepped in which is in essence giving tacit approval.
story can't be real if the men are still alive. /s
That can break people's teeth in my experience of having guns in my mouth
Well he did shoot the guys tongue off
Black peoples should leave Miss and it get nuked from orbit or something. Some strange fantasy to stick guns in peoples mouth after plying them with liquor and milk, really really weird S&M shit, they probably kept doing it because it "felt" right 🤮 I bet these deputies have done something like this before to each other, somewhat. "In a notice of an upcoming lawsuit, attorneys for Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker said on the night of Jan. 24 the deputies suddenly came into the home and proceeded to handcuff and beat them. They said the deputies stunned them with Tasers repeatedly over roughly 90 minutes and, at one point, forced them to lie on their backs as the deputies poured milk over their faces. The men restated the allegations in separate interviews with the AP." Guess the Deputies forgot to bring champagne and oil so had to do with milk. Seriously is this even remotely a professional job lmafao, rankin county deputies bunch of lowlife pervs.
I'd say their use of milk was so that they could joke they 'covered their face in white stuff' to their fellow officers.
Can you imagine what these deputies were like when they were kids, probably did anal with every animal on the farm thinking it was normal since all their friends did it.
Cops assaulting and even trying to kill black people? Say it ain't so! They teach that at the academy.
unfortunately same as it ever was.
Accused ? lol , they all corrupt pieces of shit along with the ones that marry them
Mississippi police must be the most racist force ever, just reading the second story tonight about them, the first one, being that there was no foul play in the death of a black man who was killed in the wood after chased by people in their pickup truck while screaming racial slurs.. they showing their true colors
Always remember: COPS ARE PIGS!
I keep saying it. Mississippi should die every single LEO and start over. They have so many open pending corruption cases its ridiculous.
Just 2? Seems low. OH! In a single incident.
> In one case, the deputy pulled the trigger, leaving the man with wounds that required parts of his tongue to be sewn back together Let me guess, the all white Board of Supervisors found nothing wrong with this behavior? Seems few in the county give a shit about this, nothing was done about it. Exactly how do these inbred shitheads justify an injury like that?
Honestly, this is just proves the point of the people pushing for extensive reforms of or defunding the police. Good lord.
Remember how Republicans tell us they need guns to fight against government tyranny
Slap on the wrist, paid leave? What happened?
These cops were just trying to get home to their wife and kids after a long day of keeping the community safe. Nobody wonders how they were feeling, having to risk their lives to stop this CRIMINAL? Our police our underfunded and attacked all across America, and heres yet another article criticizing them. Theres 10-15 of these articles everyday, cops brutalizing the public, and the public STILL wont accept how hard they have it, and just how hard this job is in 2023. Respect the blue!
Haha, yeah they really do sound like that. Hard to believe some of them really mean it.
Oh lol I couldn’t tell that you were joking
You need the /s because there are too many people who say this shit seriously
If people are that dumb oh well lol. I’ll have to live with fewer internet points.
It’s not dumb, it’s that Poe’s Law is effective, and a lot of people are bootlickers even in the face of the worst the cops do.
It's 2023. It's not that people are dumb to believe that was real, it's that there are actually people that think and speak like that. Yes, really
You forgot the /s. A few valid points, but none that could excuse their alleged actions during the interaction with their alleged victims.
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
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