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Hopefully all of them
The report also describes one of the officers at the scene – who has since been charged with second-degree murder – as a “victim.”  

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the cop using the baton to beat Tyre. >

He got pissed off because he's such a stupid fuck he pepper sprayed himself. >

You’re all so mean to the cops.  First they have to deal with domestic violence tendencies, and now you’re picking on a man who pepper sprayed himself before he lost his temper and beat a man to death.  He is also a victim here… of himself! >

So do you think the wind carried it into his face as he was macing Nichols, or did Barney Fife over there yank it out of his holster backwards? >

If you have a crowd of people and deploy an aerosol, everyone will be affected. Simple as. >

Gangs by another name. If you can't be a crook, be a cop! >

The police are the largest organized crime syndicate in America. >

Criminals with badges >

The whole damn bunch needs to go, some of those guys had numerous complaints, they all knew. >

The bigger point is that it is ridiculous we have so little oversight for police that they can easily falsify reports until something horrendous happens that thrusts them into the national spotlight.
Is the only thing police here have going for themselves is that they won’t take bribes… because they could beat the person to death and take all the cash as evidence? >

They did the same trick with bodycams. Bury the footage or take off the vests while screaming “Stop resisting” “Let us see your hands” or “Drop the gun” — even though none of those things are happening. 
Even if the footage does make it to court all the police can say is they thought he was resisting or reaching or grabbing for a weapon. It doesn’t matter if the video shows otherwise. The lawyers will argue these officers are in “dangerous situations” and need to “make decisions in seconds” and they “feared for their life and safety” and hey look the video proves it, you can clearly hear officer yelling at the suspect to drop the gun. 
All it comes down to is did the officer have reasonable suspicion to believe his life was in danger — regardless of the truth. The whole system is fucked. >

And that’s the biggest tell it’s mostly a lie.
If I’m a cop in the US I’m deadly afraid that every bozo can have a gun and a routine stop can potentially become a shootout.
You know what my main fucking concern would be if that’s my life? Campaigning to no end to get guns away from civilians. I don’t feel like dying so I don’t want people I’m inconveniencing to have access to weapons.
Since they absolutely are not doing this, the entire ‘i was scared routine’ is bullshit. >

Of course it wasn't. 
And how many other reports has information like this been left out of? >

Time for ALL media to report police statements as "claims" in their reporting and articles. Their word is no better than anyone else's. They have proven that they deserve zero benefit of the doubt. >

Honestly I'd never take a cop at their word, regardless of the situation.
Just to be clear, not saying they are all bad, I've known a TON of great cops.   But most? They seem eager to beat you down and get the arrest. >

They are legally allowed to lie so one should assume they are always lying. >

Has anyone ever thought of, oh, I dunno, making it a serious offense for an officer to lie, rather than giving them a free pass?  It seems to me if you permit lying, you're advertising to liars. >

It's part of their qualified immunity. >

And nobody's ever thought to say, "Hey maybe that's not such a great idea to incentivize officers to lie?" It would be a super simple thing to change and would make a HUGE difference. It's just like, this seems like EXTREMELY bad policy, but everyone acts like it's given. >

Plenty of people think it's outrageous, but so is qualified immunity as a whole. It needs to be stricken down and cops should be held to a higher standard under the law. >

So, more of a creative writing exercise than a police report.  Is that taught at the academy? >

No need, ChatGPT will be writing them up any minute now. >

Absolutely shocking that the police would lie!!! >

In other news, water is wet. >

Water isn’t wet. What water touches is wet. >

Water touches itself >

I'll take "Things Water And I Have In Common" for $1000, Alex. >

Just imagine all the cases that DON'T get caught on tape. >

Only reason something happened here was video >

Same with Floyd; even with all the video from multiple angles (any of which had been missing they were likely getting away with it) it was a constant excretion of

"this giant deadly drugged VERY VERY BLACK MAN was SO dangerous and so threateningly disobeying lawful orders (to stop breathing) we think he even took one of our guns, holy shit if not for the HEROISM of our Jesus-loving officers how many would have died!"

This isn't the kind of shit that can be solved with policy. This is a hostile, heavily-armed occupying force that not only consistently refers to itself as being above civilians, but views civilians as cattle to slaughter or fuck as it sees fit on a good day. >

Won’t be the last police report that contains purposeful and objective lies about the murder they committed. 
Fire every single one of the folks involved in this mess. 
And we need:


the DOJ to look into EVERY police brutality complaint against that department for the last decade+ (as well as any deaths and injuries in custody).


the state AG/FBI/DOJ to review every single “bullshit” arrest by that department (ie charges that a cop can invent on the spot to harass folks, like “disturbing the peace”, “disobey lawful order”, “resisting arrest”, “loitering”, “interfering with police”, etc…)


This incident - as horrific as it was - DOES NOT HAPPEN SPONTANEOUSLY OR IN ISOLATION. 
Folks focus on the horror and the gore. 
But each of these cops were 100% comfortable with taking turns killing a guy. 
There wasn’t any “hey, is Joey cool with this use of force”?
They. All. Knew. They. Were. Gonna. Murder. Him. 
And they did it with zero guilt or hesitation. >

All police reports should attach all body cam footage and be available for public review once filed. >

*without objection from the victim/perpetrator >

Except that in this case the perpetrator is the police >

Tale as old as time, by the enforcement class of the oligarchs. >

History repeats, and as such the only solutions to such tyrannical mentalities also remain unchanged. >


From unconfirmed sources, Tyre was dating one of the officers ex girlfriends. This was payback.

Wait a second! If they prove this in court, it would become a first degree murder. >

I've been waiting for some shit like this to come out. I know cops are fuckheads and do this shit all the time just for fun, but this one seemed extremely personal. >

I was thinking the same thing, it seemed super personal and they acted like a hit squad honestly >

I figured the guy who kicked him and then limped around afterwards would be the one to file a complaint that said he was attacked by Tyre. >

The fact that for some reason a cops words are treated as having more value and truth than other people especially defendants on trial is insane given how often cops lie their asses off.
The American justice and it's police needs a total overhaul. National standards for police training that all cops have to be trained to. Certification that can be revoked (just like lawyers etc) and tracked so fired cops can't just get a job one county over. Insurance for cops (the insurance industry has a lot of clout and would push for changes if cops cost them too much money) and most importantly an end to qualified immunity.
Another thing i would add is all cops must have body cams and for them to be used at all times when interacting with people. Any use of force against someone would have the footage reviewed by an independent body for wrongdoing. Any cop using force without body cam footage to back it up gets charged with the crime they would have committed were they not a cop (assault, murder etc) >


Another thing i would add is all cops must have body cams and for them to be used at all times when interacting with people

A few other things with this:

The cops shouldn't be able to turn off the cameras
The footage shouldn't be housed anywhere the cops have access to
ANY interaction, citation, or arrest needs to have footage of the minutes preceding the incident as well as the entire incident attached to the file. Otherwise, any charges stemming from the incident become null and void.
Any complaints for excessive force and things like that need to be reviewed by a citizens' review board
The DOJ needs to have a specific department in each state to handle prosecutions of police officers and nothing else >

Yup all of those would be part of my plan. >

Same thing as when the initial report on George Floyd said that someone had a medical distress.
The exact description used.
"Two officers arrived and located the suspect, a male believed to be in his 40s, in his car. He was ordered to step from his car. After he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambulance where he died a short time later." >

Medical distress from having a knee pinned to his neck for over nine minutes. >

If the police report lies, whoever wrote it should be tried for obstruction of justice or conspiracy to cover up a crime. The whole point of the police is to serve and protect the people. They did none of that and tried to cover it up. 
Lock the whole gang up >

If it wasn't clear after Uvalde
COPS LIE A LOT >

How many previous cases that involve this team will now be called into question?