Corey Bracken (disabled vet) Tazed by Florida Jasper Police while eating in car
Posted Feb 1, 2018, 3:04 PM UTC
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I didn't see this on here. Sorry if it's a repost. Here's a link to his facebook post about this: https://www.facebook.com/WATE6OnYourSide/posts/2036804769685501 Has his video on it from his side.
Basically, he says they told him he wasn't being detained but still acted as though he was. He starts filming, they step up the aggressiveness, demand he gets out of the car (I can't find a reason why this order was given), he finally decides to acquiesce and reaches for his cane, they don't like him reaching so they batter him and ultimately taze him. They then force him out, search his car and find some pot and paraphenalia (which is now medicinally legal in FL) and charge him with obstruction and possession of narcotics. ACAB.
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Yes, but some are born that way, they are lost, it is the ones who choose to be that way that might be reclaimed.
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What does ACAB mean?
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All cops are bastards
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His reach was a little iffy, and he should have told the police what he was reaching for. But that is an easy mistake any one of us could make under stress.
What was completely out of line was the continued escalation after he told them ten times he was disabled and even showed his disabled placard. My question to anyone who might support this arrest is this: what more could the driver have done to notify the police he has a disability? Are we to expect American police to completely ignore disabilities in favor of having violent control of a nonviolent situation?
Not to mention that according to the OP (in the youtube comments) all charges were dropped as there was no RAS for them to approach in the first place. I bet they saw a "sketchy" van and decided to go fishing.
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Are we to expect American police to completely ignore disabilities in favor of having violent control of a nonviolent situation?
What I expect of American police, quite honestly, is that they are a) aggressive and b) dumber than a box of hair
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His reach was a little iffy, and he should have told the police what he was reaching for.
The police should not have the default mindset of everyone is trying to kill them. They are taught to assume the worse when they see someone reaching and it leads to officers over reacting.
A cop getting shot on the job is like winning a shitty lottery, 46 died in the US from gunfire in 2017 while 987 were shot and killed by police. Just to put this in perspective, around ~250 win over a million dollars in the lottery every year and 39 died from lightning strikes in the US in 2016 I wish I could estimate the total amount of encounters police have per year to show how minuscule their risks are compared to even farmers, or garbage men, let alone fishermen and loggers. These people take these jobs and should assume the risk without endangering others.
When someone is stopped by the police, they should not have to explain what they are reaching for, It should just be assumed they are reaching for their wallet until they actually know there is a weapon.
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Are suicides included in that "gunfire" number? I would think not since it is labeled as in the line of duty, but it's hard to tell.
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Are suicides included in that "gunfire" number?
To my knowledge, yes, and also includes 'postal' style suicides.
That number includes 2 accidental gunfire deaths and one death from being shot 31 years prior. 5 of the remainder are k9's.
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At least they didn't shoot the dogs.
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that was probably my main take from it as well. I was actually surprised they didn't kill the dogs
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TFTP has an article on this. They mention in an update the one cop no longer works for the police department. Probably got hired at another.
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Let alone someone who is handicapped.
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Yeah, duh, you just fall out of the car onto your face to loose another tooth, I don't see the issue here.
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Don't forget to laugh at someone's pain as a dog whistle to let all the other psychopaths know that you are one of them.
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I'm surpised those fucking jarheads didn't shoot the dog. Glad, but surprised.
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Wow...such brave, honorable police. So cowardly and afraid of everything it is embarrassing.
This is the best we can find to protect us? This?!?
Jesus Christ on a cracker, this is sad.
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Two large cops breathing hard after going after one small skinny guy. Then laughing about it afterwards. Wow. Just... wow.
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This is abhorrent! How could the police do such a thing to such vulnerable people? What world do we live in where—
Oh, it’s in Florida? Never mind.
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This is abhorrent! How could the police do such a thing to such vulnerable people? What world do we live in where—
Oh, it’s in
FloridaMerica? Never mind.
FTFY.
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So if a pig walks up to me and I’m doing nothing illegal and he starts barking orders at me I have to comply? How is that not a fucking police state.
It is.
Exactly.
Don't let somebody tell you that your own eyes are lying to you.
If it looks like a police state, and quacks like a police state...
Pigs don't bark.
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