Here's a link to the report: www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2023/06/16/minneapolis_findings_report_2023.06.15_0.pdf Here's my nebula, where you can access my monthly bonus videos: go.nebula.tv/bigjoel/ SMALL CORRECTION: At 22 minutes in, I say that POC youth are around 180% and 500% more likely to be subjected to bodily force and unholstered guns, respectively. In fact, they are around 1.8 times more likely, and around 5 times more likely. So, not 180%, but 80%. I'm really dumb about math and just thought percentages worked a different way, while writing this section. Very dumb error, though thankfully, the actual information is on screen.
@cfiber_inc
Жыл бұрын
I like french fries
@erikdaniels0n
Жыл бұрын
I can’t find your Blair White video
@BigJoel
Жыл бұрын
it's not up yet! will be tomorrow
@NickolaiPetrovitch
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the effort you put into this video, Joel. ❤
@kappasphere
Жыл бұрын
I just went to the comments to complain about the report missing from the video description, only to find this
@GeeVee1978
Жыл бұрын
There's something almost darkly comical about a police officer trying to act like a badass Dirty Harry-type cop saying one liners while he's literally throwing a woman to the ground for jaywalking. If these pathetic scumbags were characters in some sort of movie or show they'd be criticized for being written too one-dimensionally.
@Strogman25
Жыл бұрын
"The villains are too cartoonish. It isn't believable. I mean, this isn't a Disney movie! Give it some nuance!"
@lavellelee5734
Жыл бұрын
@@Strogman25😂😂
@Username-2
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha well said.
@Jkjoannaki
5 ай бұрын
I've seen that. I've seen fascist evil characters being "too much" and then we have a minister in my country that almost copies homelander quotes and attitude and people believe it and are impressed and influenced and im like.... this is supposed to be a caricature, not a personality. Wtfffff
@nachshonlorian188
5 ай бұрын
I was cracking up throughout that whole segement. It just sounded like something straight out of a south park episode.
@cnidariantimes
Жыл бұрын
I'm a lifelong twin cities guy. Since childhood I was told by my parents and teachers to just stay way away from the police. MPD and SPD have been the scariest gang in the city since i could remember. When my Parents moved here in the early 80s they were told by their new neighbors not to call the police unless you absolutely had too. No one suggested they had been any better in the 60s, or the 50s. These thugs have been a blight on our city for generations. They are systematically corrupt and violent and I've always feared them more than any crime in my hometown.
@annapelch29
Жыл бұрын
It's crazy how far that sentiment travels, too. I grew up two hours away from M/SP in Wisconsin, and as teenagers, we were always told by our parents to watch for the cops when we'd head to the cities for shopping or whatever. They were what was scary to our small town parents, not "big city crime"
@marquisdelafayette1929
Жыл бұрын
I’m from Philly and it’s the same ol shit here. LE is the problem. I lived in some of the “worst” neighborhoods and was always more scared of the cops then I was of “criminals”. We don’t have gangs like other cities and each small block is like a small business. So they openly sell drugs, yelling out “crack, dope, hard” and “pull up” as you drive by. But they are all running a business. So people getting robbed or assaulted or threatened? They take that EXTREMELY seriously, and are respectful of you if you MYOB. My brother was buying $500 on drugs, dude waiting overhead and tried to pull some shit.. badgering him to throw him a “bag or two, you won’t miss it. Dudes on the block saw him hassling and went after him with 2X4s. The “bad guys” are the ones handing out water bottles and Little Cesar’s during heat waves to the addicts/homeless and doing more than 99% of the cops or anyone else does. Most are just trying to get by but have been painted as liars (“yeah SURE the police planted evidence, that’s exactly what a criminal would say “ which has been proven time and again w/videos).
@wcjerky
Жыл бұрын
"Hey, it looks like the Italian Mafia has abandoned Napoli and decided to come to Minneapolis." "Oh, thank God! Finally, some justice!"
@philzeo
Жыл бұрын
@@marquisdelafayette1929as Philly fam, I couldn't agree with you more. Cops love force, but people got your back if something goes down like 90% of the time while the cops just drive by then PULL YOU OVER the moment you start driving. Jawns corrupt.
@RagingRugbyst
Жыл бұрын
@@wcjerkyah you'd for sure stop HEARING about the injustices, you'd just stop hearing from chatty people from time to time.
@X-SPONGED
Жыл бұрын
"Rights? Yeah, serves them rights!" *_- Unnamed MPD Sergeant after pepper spraying a homeless man for attempting to not freeze to death in an empty parking lot_*
@fluffypinkpandas
10 ай бұрын
THAT SPICY HOT SENSATION AUGHTA WARM HIM UP > Unnamed MPD Private adding in
@Шелсометотнераяту
5 ай бұрын
so perfectly cheesy
@stephengrigg5988
Ай бұрын
@@Шелсометотнераятуperfectly cheesy?.... yeah, not the wording I'd use
@andrewklang809
Жыл бұрын
Just read today that a cop handcuffed someone inside a squad car that had been left on the railroad tracks. A train came by and -struck- demolished the car, severely hurting the arrestee. The court ruled that there was no evidence the cop intended any harm, so they were acquitted of all but a misdemeanour. No jury, judge ruled summarily. A cop has to DELIBERATELY TRY to kill someone, and admit to it, before they would ever be held accountable, barring one-offs like a multi-million-person national protest movement.
@legrandliseurtri7495
Жыл бұрын
That would be seen as attempted murder if anyone else had done this. What the fuck.
@bmutante7597
Жыл бұрын
I remember this on another video, cant remember which though
@bmutante7597
Жыл бұрын
m.kzitem.info?sp=mAEA&search_query=police+leave+suspect+on+train+tracks+ here's the footage, its not from the analysis in which i saw it but the footage is... surrral, one of the most blatantly fucked up things i have actually seen police do
@beanieguitarguy4070
Жыл бұрын
I know you said you read about it, but that’s not just an article. There’s full body cam footage of the incident. From the time the officers had spotted the train to the time the train made contact with the car, they had MORE than enough time to move either that car or the victim out of the vehicle. They parked the vehicle on the tracks, however it doesn’t take that long to hop in the seat, release the e-brake get into gear and slam the gas to get off of those tracks. Now let’s assume that they were panicking, which would be fair. Trains are pretty scary when they’re heading towards you. They could have quickly opened the door (as far as I remember, no attempt was made), grabbed the victim out of the car, made sure they were on their feet and run together to a safe distance. They could and SHOULD have done either of things, and had plenty of time to do so. Trains are not sneaky, the train was blaring it’s horn, and they are on tracks. You can stand pretty close to them very safely.
@Alexander_Grant
Жыл бұрын
Oh don't worry, the cop got slapped with a couple of misdemeanors. She got acquitted of manslaughter. Justice is served!
@beepyou34
Жыл бұрын
With cops like these, who needs criminals?
@michimatsch5862
Жыл бұрын
At least the criminals usually aren't gonna cause you a traumatic brain injury or cause you to be needed to be intubated. Much better to be mugged or have some stuff stolen. Heck, considering hospital costs even a stolen car might be cheaper than chancing an encounter with the police.
@Davserban
Жыл бұрын
@@michimatsch5862guaranteed they don't go after the real armed criminals because they're scared shitless, just going after normal vulnerable people it seems.
@harrytruman9567
Жыл бұрын
The carceral state needs criminals! That's who! And it needs them in perpetuity.
@st.anselmsfire3547
Жыл бұрын
MPD does one better: have cops that are criminals!
@edwardzignot2681
Жыл бұрын
I come from a "bad" neighborhood. I've casually hung out with coke dealing gang members on numerous occasions, never felt like I was in any real danger, you just don't be weird or disrespectful, or ask them about business. I see a cop my blood pressure shoots through the roof. I'm a white guy. Still jacks my anxiety when one's behind me in traffic. I've personally seen 3 incidents of profiling. Once I was breaking the law but the cop went for the AA kids that just happened to be nearby. I'm not afraid of Crips, but I am afraid of cops.
@QueerGritty
Жыл бұрын
As a prior criminal defense attorney- this is every jurisdiction. In my local jurisdiction many of the law enforcement agencies eliminated body cams so they can’t get caught in lies. I once had a case of a man walking on the side of the highway. The cops send police dogs after him, tore open his arm and he needed 88 staples and then threw him off the overpass and he landed on his head with a TBI. They charged him with “battery on a law enforcement officer” despite the fact that the officer was on video beating the man as his dog ripped his bicep open. My prosecutors defended the cops and sought a prison sentence. Part of the problem with policing in this country is that prosectors back up their lies and put the cop’s victims in jail without bond to bully them into pleading guilty. I no longer work in that area of law, it made me sick. I have many more disgusting stories.
@mes4prez
Жыл бұрын
This is so sickening to hear. I'm glad you no longer deal with such cases, thank you for sharing your story, these cases and others like them are not one-offs, or exceptions by any means.
@gluttonousslave
Жыл бұрын
good, now apply this to the biggest police department the one in EVERY county
@Nefville
Жыл бұрын
That's exactly how it is here in Louisville with the LMPD. Police issues aside, people should be suspicious when the conviction rate in China is just 6% higher than it is here. 99 vs 93. There is no way in hell that 93% of people accused of a crime are guilty, what happens is exactly what you said, prosecutors ask for extremely high or no bonds to bully people into pleading guilty. They threaten people with longer sentences for simply exercising their rights to a trial. Something is very wrong with the justice system here and I don't blame anyone for wanting no part it.
@Prikense
Жыл бұрын
wait, they send dogs over what? walking?
@k80_
Жыл бұрын
@@Prikense police dogs are trained to attack people on command, they send the dog if they think they will be able to get away with “he was fleeing”
@Doombacon
Жыл бұрын
Minnesota resident here, two kids I was in special ed with in highschool were killed during wellness checks their parents had called for them because they had missed some phone calls. Both of these took place years prior to the scope of this investigation. I have had an unrelenting fear that someday a cop is going to knock on my door while I'm sleeping, break down the door when I don't respond and injure or kill me after I wake up startled like what happened to my peers. The police in my state are currently and have for decades been a threat to public safety.
@fluffypinkpandas
10 ай бұрын
be like me and set the expectation early on that you will never check your emails or phone so that they dont act shocked and think its an emergency when you dont do exactly that
@SumeriyaYaxlaka
7 ай бұрын
I have a dawning suspicion that this is real... And I am having a genuinely difficult time wrapping my head around this story..
@RafaelSouza-pr4gs
5 ай бұрын
this is probably the most alarming and messed up account on this whole comment section and that's saying something. american police are ridiculously incompetent when it comes to dealing with mentally unwell or neurodivergent people
@petermmm42
5 ай бұрын
What the fuck, that's actually terrifying, I am so sorry that happened to you, them, and their families
@petermmm42
5 ай бұрын
Poor kids, that should never happen to anyone ever
@jessesteelman1238
Жыл бұрын
12:42 'You can talk, you can breathe.' In court while speaking about George Floyd's case a pulmonary specialist explained why it's literally the opposite. The person is letting air out because that's the easy part, its expanding your chest again with that pressure that's the hard part.
@jam-trousers
5 ай бұрын
Good pick up. We call it positional asphyxia in NSW. You don’t have to be actually choking to be at risk of fatal asphyxiation. The fact they can get away with this level of scientific awareness puts them somewhere in 1850 in my book
@tommyhubbard342
3 ай бұрын
You expect conservatives to understand basic logic?
@cinnabar555
2 ай бұрын
@@tommyhubbard342lmao 😭😭😭 true
@TriSpedsOfficial
Ай бұрын
@@tommyhubbard342and you think Democrats will? That's comical when you're both the laughingstock of our country
@dustypartition
Жыл бұрын
It is completely within our rights, as per the first amendment, to give a cop the middle finger. Please, remember this, but also remember that they clearly don't care about people's rights.
@taylorward7576
Жыл бұрын
that's where the second comes in :)
@workshoptelescope
Жыл бұрын
That is no longer true. States are taking steps across the country to codify any speech directed at law enforcement that can be considered abusive to be unprotected or outright illegal.
@kathunter2130
Жыл бұрын
A trans man in LA was just beaten and arrested by an officer who followed him to a convenience store because the cop didn’t like that he had flipped him off. He was charged with assaulting an officer.
@chompythebeast
Жыл бұрын
Remind every cop that class traitors aren't welcome in your town. 1312 means *all* cops, every last one, at every moment
@ince55ant
Жыл бұрын
its illegal for them to just kill you but the law doesnt stop their guns working
@Trunks1200
Жыл бұрын
A few months ago a friend of mine got jumped in my work parking lot by a group of men who did not like that he was in an interracial relationship with one of their sisters. Thankfully a few of my friends from work were there to defend him and despite being outnumbered they fought them off. I arrived on the scene right as the fight was ending. Everything cooled down and we talked for a while before the police showed up. One of my coworkers called them. Mind you the situation was resolved at this point. The officers questioned us, and afterwards got back into their cars and sat watching us. About 10 minutes later two of the guys who started the fight came back to the parking lot and started shouting at us, heckling us and trying to egg us on back into a fight. We let the police know and they sat in their car doing nothing. My friend, a black man, and one of the people who was jumped originally yelled back at them to go away saying "you already lost, take the L and get out of here." He stepped a bit closer while doing this, and at this moment, not a moment sooner, the police jumped out of the car. A white police officer ran my coworker down and tased him to the ground before laying his knee on his back for minutes on end. The people who jumped him ran away, and no one chased them. My friend complied, and we on the sidelines yelled at the cop saying they had the wrong person, and yelling at him to let our friend go. The other cop on duty an older white man stepped up to us and put his hand on his gun. He shouted that if we got one step closer that he would shoot us. These people are criminals through and through. The only thing calling them will ever do is make things worse or do nothing at all.
@bobjones2959
Жыл бұрын
Honestly this is shocking. I could never have imagined that officers of the law would behave like that. Of course I was always sympathetic with protestors but I think I had still not realized the full extent of how bad it was. These are no longer rightfully officers, they behave like a mafia and ought to be treated like one. After these revelations every. Single. Member of the MPD should be given criminal charges. This kind of erosion of public trust and utter lack of accountability is disgusting.
@welshlout3400
Жыл бұрын
That’s a chilling story. I can visualise the focussed, predatory stare of the cops like the T-1000. Might as well be done with it and just employ outright automatons with hard-coded biases if this is the quality of law enforcement typical of a human police officer.
@Linkman95
Жыл бұрын
I think its really important to know what "rubber bullets" are and it should be mentioned every time they come up. They are not soft rounds. They are rubber coated grenade sized rounds that *are* *not* *intended* *to* *be* *fired* *directly* *at* *targets* . They are meant to be fired at the ground, so they lose momentum and then bounce back up at a crowd. But officers often fire these directly at people, causing immense amounts of bodily harm.
@SoundFantasy
Жыл бұрын
Correct if you can’t handle yourself being shot by a rubber bullet you should double consider shooting at crowds. It’s disgusting.
@Pantsinabucket
Жыл бұрын
In the case of shotgun rubber bullets, it is literally just a lead slug coated in rubber. Then again, actually learning how to use their service weapons is a burden we cannot place on our precious baby policemen.
@tsrenis
Жыл бұрын
I think it's equally important to get this right so I'm just gonna correct you here, they're not meant to be fired at the ground at all, that makes them unpredictable. They are meant to be fired at the lower body. Despite their advertised use as supposedly non-penetrative relatively safe munitions, they're far less safe than is even being described here. They're capable of causing both blunt and penetrative trauma and if fired at close range they can hit people at the same impact as actual live ammunition. Basically if you already think they're unsafe, double that.
@Linkman95
Жыл бұрын
@@tsrenis I'll take your word for it. I think the key point is they aren't meant to be fired at peoples faces
@patiotaiza
Жыл бұрын
The police blinded several people during the 2019 protests in Chile by firing rubber bullets directly at their faces
@jaymeselliot8181
Жыл бұрын
cop to unarmed person: GET ON THE GROUND, STOP RESISTING *tases* cop to active shooter: *hides and calls backup who also hides*
@GuyWithInternet.
Жыл бұрын
I think there’s only been one good response I’ve seen and that one was the Nashville shooting if I remember. It however doesn’t excuse things like Uvalde in the slightest. How do you have dozens if not hundreds of cops with body armor and weapons and not go charging in because “what if we get shot” like what do you think is happening to the chuldren?
@jaymeselliot8181
Жыл бұрын
Its odd. Sometimes they are in there like a dirty shirt guns a-blazin' and other times they keep their distance, i guess it depends on who's on shift that day. Some cops love killin people, other ones avoid it unless absolutely necessary
@SewerRat3000
Жыл бұрын
They get a power rush when hurting people who are unarmed
@Tortillasoup-se7sh
4 ай бұрын
These are two different department
@adorablepandaring1975
Жыл бұрын
when my family used to live in downtown minneapolis, my dad was beat up during a routine traffic stop. apparently the cops thought he had stolen his car, even after they discovered he hadn’t. he never received an apology from the police department. my dad is a fairly conservative guy, but he absolutely hates the police because of that incident.
@3_pancakes767
Жыл бұрын
He only needs to be personally effected in every conservative way for him to become any better of a human?
@gibra-elwalker8022
Жыл бұрын
@@3_pancakes767 a long anime style arc of this guy purposefully getting his father victimized by public institutions in order to create awareness.
@elvingearmasterirma7241
Жыл бұрын
@@3_pancakes767 Yes that tends to be a trend in conservative people. They don't ever learn to flex their empathy skills
@M-Soares
Жыл бұрын
@@3_pancakes767 Some people will still defend the cops even if personally wronged. My best friend's stepdad is a black conservative. He has been assaulted by cops while doing nothing at all but he still says "i was at the wrong place at the wrong time (he was a block away from a protest) so the officer had a reasonable excuse to act that way"
@VCV95
Жыл бұрын
Make sure to remind him his conservativism is what caused the cops to beat his ass that day. He voted for his own ass to get kicked. Remind him every time he tries to say dumb shit, and bring him the actual laws, funding, judges, etc his votes caused for that to happen. Bring him the evidence of his own folly. Unless y'all aren't on bad terms, then i would still gather the evidence, sit him down, let him read through it, and have an honest, hard conversation about how he is supporting more people being attacked like him. It's an in to change hearts and minds, but only if y'all are fairly close.
@thisoldboy4111
Жыл бұрын
It should be illegal to call the use of "rubber" bullets anything but lethal force
@Jokoko2828
Жыл бұрын
Nah man, this projectile that can break bones is totes non-lethal cause it's made of rubbery plastic.
@bestaround3323
Жыл бұрын
@@Jokoko2828lead coated with rubber.
@jacobjankowski
Жыл бұрын
They are called less lethal munitions not less than lethal
@ZovcDrafts
Жыл бұрын
They'll find a way to shoot people one way or another.
@milesyalzin2018
Жыл бұрын
True, even then you gotta aim to the right spots to make sure you're not causing serious injuries with them, and surprise surprise, they almost never are.
@joannaellis7890
Жыл бұрын
Teacher here- one time a student started having a full-blown panic attack in my classroom, and when I kneeled down in front of her to coach her through breathing exercises, she said, "Don't touch me!" You know what I did? Not touch her and continued helping her with breathing exercises until the nurse showed up. How is this hard?
@ethanb4017
Жыл бұрын
There is a reported statistic that 40% of police officers domestically abuse their spouse. It is hard for these people to not immediately use force because they have been allowed the ability through every avenue in their life. Every time a TBI in this video was mentioned, I teared up because I have worked with so many individuals with TBI and they have so much trouble existing without help.
@jorenvanderark3567
2 ай бұрын
@ethanb4017 That statistics is BS. It's closer to 17 percent (which is still 4 times the national average) We don't need to make up things to make the cops look bad. Thank you very much.
@diablominero
Ай бұрын
You're not on trenbolone. Many cops are. Being on androgens and progestogens at the same time causes emotional disturbances in a lot of people, and trenbolone (which is both androgenic and progestogenic) has a reputation for being the most impressive anabolic steroid.
@deanpope2055
9 ай бұрын
Telling someone to sit down and saying “I’m gonna mace ya” is Buck fucking wild, like what are you even supposed to do atp? Sit down and get maced? I’d run
@miecha4445
9 ай бұрын
Scary thing is if you run they'll do worse than mace ya
@SurpriseOwl-nt5ux
3 ай бұрын
You'd get tased tho😔
@minnethreat
3 ай бұрын
you'll be shot in a driveby by a police car. I've seen MPD driving down Lake street with guns out the window in broad daylight.
@deanpope2055
3 ай бұрын
@@minnethreat that’s so scary, like genuinely
@Slowther87
Жыл бұрын
I work at a mental health hospital where Im one of the very few males. I can't tell you how many times a patient codes and is extremely violent towards other patients and workers. Every time this happens, we are able to safely subdue the coding patient with me and a couple of other female workers with no problem without anyone getting injured. If we can do this multiple times a week, I think a highly funded police force should be able to handle people having a crisis without any kind of weapons.
@skeetsmcgrew3282
Жыл бұрын
To me it's like working in a kitchen and then being like, pft I'm not reaching in that oven, there's a 1% chance I might get burned. Instead I'm gonna use a pair of tongs even though more often than not it's gonna fall on the floor and be ruined. If you don't wanna get hurt, don't be a cop. There are thousands, millions of jobs that come with inherent risks, but only cops get to completely negate all the risk through totalitarian violence
@Detroittruckdoctor55
Жыл бұрын
You hit them tranquilizers bruh lmao
@coolguyjki
Жыл бұрын
@@Detroittruckdoctor55 Even if they did, which they don't, are you suggesting that being tranquilized is worse than being shot? Are you 12?
@_derpderp
Жыл бұрын
God bless mental health workers especially in-patient. My life was saved by someone like yourself (as well as the other patient assaulting me), if it’s happened on the streets one if not both of us would be dead. Cops need to do observation in psych wards regularly to see the good and the bad and see what happens to some people who they make life harsher for on the outside.
@_derpderp
Жыл бұрын
@@skeetsmcgrew3282Unfortunately many are there for the higher wages and more indemnity than they would find in other professions in their area :/ or are ex-military but didn’t gain any useful enough skills to transfer to civ life. law enforcement ends up matching the most closely to their aptitudes and expectations of what civ life ought to be- hierarchical and dangerous.
@seanmangan6674
Жыл бұрын
Minneapolis resident here, the mentality around here is just don't call the police. They will escalate the situation and that's when things get dangerous
@sexymonkeyman5850
Жыл бұрын
Same, I am white yet have had many bad experiences with the police I can’t imagine how bad it is for people who aren’t white
@terrellturner162
Жыл бұрын
If they even show up to begin with...
@beccak8166
Жыл бұрын
I get scared to call 911 here. When I was psychotic, I called 911 for an ambulance and requested an officer not come. I wasn't lucid, but I did remember how many distressed mentally ill people are killed by cops. I was assured an officer wouldn't come. Within like 15 minutes, first person to show up was a cop, hand on his hip (where his gun was) He kept trying to get me to come down and talk to him, despite my growing distress and insistence I would not. I'm an EMT now, and horrified by this. These people don't have the training, let alone the humanity, to deal with distressed people.
@pdjinne65
Жыл бұрын
Just remember that you are paying for that service you cannot use... (and so am I)
@thebagofsalt
Жыл бұрын
@@pdjinne65if it's anywhere like where I am that's more than half your municipal tax dollars
@Sootielove
Жыл бұрын
Having to plead with a police offier "Don't kill me/my son" is horrifying on a level I can't comprehend
@TurtleChad1
Жыл бұрын
Cry about it
@Rustylorde
Жыл бұрын
@@TurtleChad1 i would say "have some fucking sympathy" but you obviously have failed at being a decent human being.
@emmettbrown3463
Жыл бұрын
@@TurtleChad1 what are you on about????
@emmettbrown3463
Жыл бұрын
what the fuck is that account even
@I_Like_Ike53
Жыл бұрын
@just_a_turtle_chad you're so cool and edgy, everyone admires you 😐
@amiatanamedmichelle5539
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in a part of Minneapolis known as “Near North”, close to the outskirts of the city and the neighboring town of Crystal. MPD once stopped to talk to me and my friends. We were all girls, all between ages of 10 and 12, hanging outside of a Hy-vee where we just purchased snacks and sodas. Yes, we were loitering. I don’t believe loitering should be a crime, but I digress. A squad car pulls up in the handicap parking spot in front of us. A man over six foot came out, and IMMEDIATELY started alleging that we were s*x solicitors, prost*tutes. Some of the girls were scared and ran off. Me and my best friend and I girl I didn’t really know remained. He asked to see our IDs. Being that we were tweens, not even teens, we did not have identification. I offered to show my student ID in my wallet, showing that I was in fact a middle school student. The officer backed down and was walking back towards his vehicle, but not without saying something along the lines of “girls your ages should be playing with dolls not grown men”. After that incident I never hung out with people if it wasn’t a public park or someone’s parents house. It traumatised me from having the “city kid” experience of having freedom to explore unsupervised.
@12monkey57
Жыл бұрын
You should come to Crystal. It’s a great city
@magicalgrim3471
5 ай бұрын
That’s insanely fucked girl Hope things are better for you these days
@apricot8301
4 ай бұрын
That's absolutely disgusting. Wish you knew who the officer was.
@ViperPain141
4 ай бұрын
@@apricot8301So that he can be put on a list.
@stephengrigg5988
Ай бұрын
Another pdf in blue
@alexisallegret8295
Жыл бұрын
It's important to note this isn't only limited to the USA. I live in Australia and the police are brutal towards Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander peoples. I have personally witnessed a small 12 year old indigenous girl get violently pinned to the wall by an over 6 foot police officer as she allegedly assaulted someone. When I filed a complaint, I got a call by a srgt who told me that she reviewed the footage and saw nothing wrong with the policeman's actions. She completely brushed off my allegations of excessive force and maintained he acted appropriately.
@unconventionalideas5683
Жыл бұрын
You should have sent it to the media and posted it to KZitem. That would’ve made it into a national incident.
@nabstablook22
Жыл бұрын
That’s so horrible. I can’t believe the police are the same over here.
@calc2323
Жыл бұрын
In Perth they chuck indigenous people in the back of paddy wagons (no seatbelts are there at all) and speed over speedbumps for sport. One officer had a photo he took of a dead indigenous man he had discovered as his office desktop photo as a joke in the station. Lots of excessive force. Lots of discrimination.
@kaileymo
Жыл бұрын
True. Even though this is about the MPD, I don’t think it would be that much of a stretch to make some assumptions about every other police department. That may sound like a huge generalization, but I honestly don’t think it is. They love to throw around the line about “a few bad apples”, but seem to be purposely leaving out the last part of the anecdote.
@recursiveslacker7730
Жыл бұрын
@@unconventionalideas5683if you shed light on government corruption in Australia you just get your house set on fire, just ask friendlyjordies.
@cryptik1895
Жыл бұрын
As a Minnesotan, I'm glad you're covering this, the amount of people that defend these pigs is very disheartening.
@bestaround3323
Жыл бұрын
A lot of these officers deserve the death penalty. The main issue with the death penalty is that it can't be taken back, so evidence needs to be air-tight. There is zero argument that they did these things.
@KILLSQUAD__
Жыл бұрын
@@bestaround3323 See comments like this I hope the FBI watches, these are the mass shooters. Just like the one in Dallas on their PD.
@yeahno555
Жыл бұрын
As a former Minnesotan - leave the Minneapolis area if you're in it.
@ciromoriello7054
Жыл бұрын
@@bestaround3323what about the body cam footage?
@glovesflared
Жыл бұрын
@@bestaround3323 they don't deserve death penalty in civil court, they deserve revolutionary justice, to be judged by the people they have oppressed (same outcome tho lol)
@arkorat3239
Жыл бұрын
They sound cartoonish evil, like a writer trying to make the enforcer as unlikable as possible. I'm honestly surprised that they don't straight up kill the people interfering. These scumbags are right at home in The Boys.
@ztl2505
Жыл бұрын
The cop stating he’s a proud racist is the sort of thing I’d probably call lazy, on the nose writing if it were a TV show and not real life
@kylesmith5633
Жыл бұрын
Blue hawk, do you have any comment on the recent killings (that you just happened to commit)?
@Are_you_eyeballing_me
Жыл бұрын
“The Shield” TV-show seems more and more like a documentary
@mileskile9520
Жыл бұрын
They’re literally worse than the storm troopers, whos name were based on German soldiers in world war 1.
@leonodonoghueburke4276
Жыл бұрын
@@ztl2505 "The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense" - Some author
@bens1cultist405
Жыл бұрын
Keep in mind that “rubber bullets” are plastic or resin and have a whopping 3% fatality rate due to the fact that they can crack bones and rupture organs.
@tundra4331
10 ай бұрын
So even if they keep you alive more then actual bullets, the life they left with you just fucking sucks
@shrike_8136
7 ай бұрын
@@giselhernandez8 if a judge cant sentence someone to a broken arm or ruptured organ, why should a police officer be allowed?
@Claudius-s4c
7 ай бұрын
@@giselhernandez8 Did you even watch the video?
@Claudius-s4c
7 ай бұрын
@@giselhernandez8 Also you do realize that many police assume you did something even if you didn't do anything?
@Eldiron
7 ай бұрын
@hahashibe Galaxy brain solution. I'm going to live forever by just not dying :D
@segue2ant395
Жыл бұрын
Generous to say 'failed to de-escalate' when all the examples so far the police have escalated a normal situation into something violent. Refusing unwanted untrained treatment for a broken nose, jaywalking, and not wearing a seat-belt all escalated to armed assault.
@juniperrodley9843
Жыл бұрын
"Failed" implies they were trying in the first place.
@shmimple6600
Жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in the city this report doesn't even feel vindicating. You see this and sometimes more as part of daily life. Even the campus, which has its own police force, has pigs driving across the bridge on the pedestrian level. I have been harassed by cops in cars driving behind me on the sidewalk. THE SIDEWALK.
@drinklewinkle
Жыл бұрын
Those U cops are absolute garbage, I was stuck working at the Walgreens on University by the East Bank stop and they were literally within sightline of us and every business on that block. To the point that if anyone called 9/11 it would go to them first, but they did fuckall to help if we ever had medical emergencies, threats, students in danger. The fuck are they there for then? To go around and harass kids at the U, because I sure as hell didn't see them doing anything ever.
@TheTransitmtl
Жыл бұрын
I am so sorry you have to live this. As a Canadian living in Montreal this is shocking. By no means is our police department blameless but I would never hesitate to call them. I have seen them de-escalate more often than not.
@makeitthrough_
Жыл бұрын
@@TheTransitmtl "As a Canadian living in Montreal" Jesus Christ, I'm so sorry to hear that. Like, Canada in general is fine but Montreal sounds like a full on corrupt shitshow
@Ayanislucky
Жыл бұрын
The U of M cops are evil
@chrismanuel9768
Жыл бұрын
@@TheTransitmtlAs an American, I've literally had a cop that thought he was my friend brag that he liked to pretend his flashlight was a bodycam so he could get people to fall in line, but that he didn't have to worry about doing whatever he wanted because none of them actually wear bodycams
@rollinnollin546
Жыл бұрын
It should be pointed out that the classification of rubber bullets as “non-lethal” is pretty dubious. Rubber bullets can kill or maim, especially when fired directly at a person, which is not their intended use. They are meant to be bounced off the ground to decrease velocity before reaching their target, although police seem to rarely use them in this way.
@InsufficientGravitas
Жыл бұрын
They can be fired at a person directly but aiming for the head or shooting while at a close range is likely to kill or maim and should be used sparingly, the issue with bouncing being that they can bounce unpredictably and cause injury.
@sloanekuria3249
Жыл бұрын
@@InsufficientGravitas "should be used sparingly"? or "should be a criminal offense"?
@MouldedMind
Жыл бұрын
@@InsufficientGravitas if after bouncing they still can cause injuries how bad would they be when fired directly.
@tonywords6713
Жыл бұрын
It's hard to imagine a more frighteningly Orwellian phrase than "STOP RESISTING".
@mikexstad1121
Жыл бұрын
As a Minnesotan, let me recommend you look into the police using Ketamine on people. It happened to my buddy as he was peeing in an alley. They accused him of a sex crime, drugged him, then tried to get him to sign papers while under the influence. Behind the Bastards Podcast, did a great deep dive into MPD
@benjamincox4211
Жыл бұрын
Yeah they overdosed an autistic black man in Colorado with ketamine injections
@emmanuelle2977
Жыл бұрын
that is so fucked up
@fablecouvrette5334
Жыл бұрын
As merely a casual martial artist, I can say there's no such thing as a safe choke- and the proportional response to someone constricting your neck in any way is, as if they are trying to kill you. Not that anyone requires expertise to know that. Your body tells you "I'm gonna die right now if I don't fight back" when your neck is restrained, and your body is fucking right.
@fablecouvrette5334
Жыл бұрын
Any of those pigs would shoot to kill with no hesitation if someone got their hands around their neck, and would say "I had to, I was defending my life". But when they do it, they expect absolute compliance like the victim shouldn't have a survival response. They insist we're all docile sheep, and then behave like they're under attack when we don't act like sheep.
@legrandliseurtri7495
Жыл бұрын
@@fablecouvrette5334 Yes, that's so infuriating. Random people are expected to blindly trust the police even when they're physically threatened.
@InevitableTruth247
Жыл бұрын
@@fablecouvrette5334 you are describing the monopoly on violence. police have the monopoly on violence. when they shoot it is normal and just, because they have been granted the awesome powers from the state. when the citizen engages in self defense, it is seen as an act of violence against the officer, and as such you will be tried in court if you live to tell the tale.
@0r0chimaruG0ku
Жыл бұрын
Lived in Minneapolis, grew up there actually. Got robbed at least 50 times, maybe more. Still got more love for anyone walking the street than any cop in that city. I remember getting jumped by some oldheads about one block off nicolette mall (a busy downtown parkway). It was probably about 1 am, and they had me pushed up against a wall and were kicking my friend repeatedly in the ribs and stomach. Cops drove by us, window open, looked right at us and did nothing. Nothing. Just kept driving. What purpose do they serve I wonder. One of the oldheads caught up with me and we ended up being cool with each other because we stayed in the same building. He made it up to me. Criminal gang members who beat up my friend and stole my money and already broken iphone are nicer and more apologetic than cops in that city.
@shinballzilla9048
Жыл бұрын
That is a very scary thought holy shit
@user-md3wm7vu1f
Жыл бұрын
how do you get robbed 50 times? do you spend lots of time outside late at night or are you extremely short or something?
@0r0chimaruG0ku
Жыл бұрын
@user-md3wm7vu1f people look at me and say "now there's a guy that won't shoot us if we run his pockets"
@0r0chimaruG0ku
Жыл бұрын
@@user-md3wm7vu1f have you ever been robbed?
@03eeon
Жыл бұрын
This is interesting to me. I live in a very safe city and have never been victimized despite being relatively frail and passive. I think it’s because I’m black in a majority white town, but it’s actually crazy to me that someone can have been robbed/jumped 50 times. Did you not think to get a gun for protection?
@christopherdomenichelli8977
7 ай бұрын
I remember hearing a story of some kid who got arrested for making fun of the police after the police failed to stop a school shooter
@NolanTHEecguy
Ай бұрын
Holy shit I’m just I don’t know that kid who made fun of the officer had all his rights to there’s something called I don’t know THE FIRST FUCKING AMENDMENT that cop has blood on his hands
@gamesandglory1648
Ай бұрын
@@NolanTHEecguy there have apparently been court cases where people were given assault charges for insulting cops, so yeah, it's fucked.
@NolanTHEecguy
Ай бұрын
@@gamesandglory1648Jesus Christ why can’t police do what they fucking do and not act like Angelo Brontë from red dead redemption
@lilyevans7597
Жыл бұрын
Shocking that in a country with such a brutal, militarized approach to policing, you can still have a dept that is actively extra malignant. Worst of the absolute worst
@Sputterbug
Жыл бұрын
I mean we have a lot of those. LA is another one
@madisonsnellings8501
Жыл бұрын
Albuquerque will just shoot them and ask questions later, I don't know how they compare but they're pretty bad as well.
@hobocode
Жыл бұрын
Norms of the absolute norm
@lavellelee5734
Жыл бұрын
@@madisonsnellings8501huh?! Wanna elaborate on that😅
@fartmaster6977
Жыл бұрын
@@madisonsnellings8501this all started cuz of that goddamned heisenberg fellow.
@kathrynm1042
Жыл бұрын
As someone who has dealt with and heard stories about the MPD, I am so glad you made this video. I am a white woman and all of my interactions with them have been horrible. I am sickened by the way they treat people of color. I have a girlfriend who was in an abusive relationship with an MPD cop. They ended up promoting him to sergeant. Anyone who is proud of these cops has not spent any time with them.
@gigachad6885
Жыл бұрын
Then go spend more time with black people (who are 13% of the population, yet do 52% of the crimes, and 60% of the murders), I'm sure you will be sooo much safer... Afterall, the few tickets, harsh words and rough handlings you had are much worse that high amounts of rapes and murders, right ? Yes those cops suck and are corrupt, but the people they deal with on a daily basis are even worse. Avoiding both will help you live a safer life
@Stuck_in_the_US
Жыл бұрын
If you think mpd is bad the entire Arkansas government is/ was pure hell(look up the boys on the track)
@Trunks1200
Жыл бұрын
More accountability when a police officer wounds a dog then when they kill a black person. Insane.
@NGEvangeliman
Жыл бұрын
Turns my stomach.
@thejohnkaufman
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fucking maddening
@norikofu509
Жыл бұрын
What do you mean? US cities were literal war zones from a outsider perspective because they killed a Black man
@selenuntius
Жыл бұрын
Given the six foot fence mentioned, I'd put money on that household having decent means
@norikofu509
Жыл бұрын
@@leshtricity Floyd was a POS, who didnt deserve to live inn a normal, fuctionnal society. but he didnt deserve to die like that tbh
@haloslippin6894
Жыл бұрын
This video is absolutely nuts. I remember during the riots thinking that the burning of the police precinct was a step too far. I am now open to the idea that it was completely justified.
@zenraloc
Жыл бұрын
Yeah FR, i had no idea
@zenraloc
Жыл бұрын
This sounds like something straight out of a movie
@TurtleChad1
Жыл бұрын
This still doesn't justify riots
@talsen6495
11 ай бұрын
@@TurtleChad1idk. Riots were over the failure of law. Causing monetary damage seems like a pretty mild consequence compared to the city funding and protecting what is effectively a terrorist organization.
@tarrellkurtz502
10 ай бұрын
@just_a_turtle_chad Disgusting! Do you even live in MN? If not, don't speak as if you know what's justified. You don't know what it's like to be arrested for nothing! Put in jail against your will because the police felt they could alter my parents statements. I won that case after 2 years, but they deliberately attempted to pin my family against me. If that's not a corrupt gang to you, idk what is. Stop being blind to the injustice
@terrioestreich4007
Жыл бұрын
One of my cousins called the Mpls police because her boyfriend assaulted her, they bullied her, yelled at her and acted like everything was her fault. She felt like they were mad at her for calling them and it added to an already traumatic experience. They treat everyone like garbage, black or white, men or women
@josephmocol1702
Жыл бұрын
MPD are made up of garbage people. Other departments in the metro look at MPD like they are fucking monsters. It says a lot when fellow cops from other departments don’t want to associate with you.
@vlad5042
Жыл бұрын
i love how annoyed cops get when they feel like you've wasted their time. like don't you know the time i've spent here talking down to you could've been spent doing something useful, like beating up someone's mother for not slowing down at a yellow light.
@hobocode
Жыл бұрын
Same thing happened to me in small town american. It's all cops everywhere.
@no_peace
Жыл бұрын
They treat everyone like garbage but they treat Black people worst. Any other identity only makes it worse.
@Demiglitch
Жыл бұрын
@@vlad5042 Hey, that's out of line! They don't need an excuse to beat up someone's mother.
@1drumshark
Жыл бұрын
Without cops, who will shoot your neighbors dog?
@Founder6087
Жыл бұрын
The criminals will, because no police will be there to stop them
@bdarecords_
11 ай бұрын
@@Founder6087 That has been debunked. There are so many articles, essays and even studies about this if one is willing to inform themselves. Police as a system should not exist anymore. Let's assume a Super AI has the power to change society completely, abolish capitalism and whatnot. In a perfect world, police would ALWAYS be abolished and if you are optimistic and believe that eventually every injustice will be abolished and be it in hundreds of years, police as a system has no future and will not exist in it.
@nocturnelux3391
7 ай бұрын
Do the ATF count as cops in this case, or are they different?
@yungtago9161
6 ай бұрын
@@Founder6087 the police wouldn't stop them anyway, they're too busy harassing minorities
@Jkjoannaki
5 ай бұрын
@@Founder6087how often do cops prevent crime? Most times they search for accused criminals, not future ones. It's a matter of luck if they ever prevent actual crimes. Most detectives admit anyway that majority of crimes happen within houses or buildings in ways that are legally protected by being viewed by the cops without evidence of criminal activity. When did the cops ever prevent a rape? Most crimes that are perpetuated again and again are crimes made by those who the cops protect. That's why there's not police violence in fascist or Christian or zionist protests.
@cassidyauld6413
Жыл бұрын
minneapolis resident here! loved this video, you did an excellent job showing how fucked our police are. one thing you also could have mentioned, our police are notorious for failing to investigate sexual assault cases. in 2019, it came out that minneapolis police failed to test 1700 rape kits in the past 30 years
@ichaukan
Жыл бұрын
The fact that they still lie so brazenly and easily even when wearing body cameras shows that they are entirely unfit to be in any position of authority.
@timothymclean
Жыл бұрын
I disagree. The problem is with authority itself. They understand the assignment-it's just something that never should have been assigned.
@no_peace
Жыл бұрын
I mean yeah it's systemic but they're also rotten
@UwURainUwU
Жыл бұрын
The Jaywalking story really hit me as a British person especially because there are no such laws and pedestrians almost always have priority. It's just so fucking obvious these "people" are just looking for a legal outlet for their own violence and hatred.
@MTmerm
Жыл бұрын
these cops would have an anyeurism driving through any road thats decently busy with pedestrians
@AceRasputin
Жыл бұрын
So you think you can just walk down the middle of the M25 and nothing can be done to stop you? There’s no such laws?
@LeftPhilip
Жыл бұрын
@AceRasputin what are you talking about jesse
@voigto
Жыл бұрын
@@AceRasputin Just in case you weren't being an obtuse fuckhead, no that would not be jaywalking. It would be against the RTRA, unless it is necessary for them to do so as a result of an accident or emergency or of a vehicle being at rest on a motorway.
@trutwhut6550
Жыл бұрын
@@AceRasputinnot really, they could get in trouble for endangering the public with their actions if it was a particularly busy day.
@maceotrigger8625
Жыл бұрын
I was born and raised in Minneapolis and I can say first hand that this is one of the most calculated and evil gangs in the history of America. I have not only been the victim of this but have first hand seen the effects of this. One of my first exposures to this was coming home and at the end of my street was a dealers house and me and my friends saw the cops violently raiding the house. This culminated with the cops releasing an attack dog on a man who was on the ground face down begging for his life I will never forget the sounds he made I really hope he’s okay today
@shaunbarrie2263
Жыл бұрын
This sounds like the kind of situation one would think to call the police for, and yet...
@oldgreenknees1205
Жыл бұрын
Cops only treat you the way you let them. #2ndAmendmentIsForCorruptGovernmwnt
@lavellelee5734
Жыл бұрын
@@shaunbarrie2263they're already there 😅
@PhantamSam
Жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Minneapolis, I went to high school a few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Left a little less than a decade ago. Took me a while to get the courage to watch this one. Some personal anecdotes: -My (black) aunt has lived in the south, Chicago, and NYC. I will always remember sometime in the 2000s she told me the MPD was far and away the most racist police force she has interacted with. -My friend, a photojournalist, had his finger broken with a rubber bullet while taking pictures of the George Floyd protests. - I was involved in a car crash over a decade ago. The police were leading an illegal chase through residential streets, with an officer telling me in the hospital that they were going 80-90 miles per hour. This chase lasted for several miles beyond the point it should have ended, and only ended when the driver they were chasing struck my car and sent it flying through the air. I should have died, but ended up with only two broken legs and several months of my college career in a wheelchair. The department that led the chase was the same department that would kill Floyd and was burned down in the uprising. I was watching from across the country, but never felt greater catharsis than when that station burned.
@Sahdirah
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your stories with us. ❤
@schemesthefox1255
Жыл бұрын
Now I know not to ever go to that place. I can't imagine living there for so long
@PhantamSam
Жыл бұрын
@@schemesthefox1255 it’s not like it is a hellish place all the time. I moved out to NYC afterwards, worked in the South Bronx for a few years, and work in the projects in Manhattan now. I’ve seen some awful shit in many places. In it’s favor, Minneapolis has lovely parks and lakes, the cost of living is low, and healthcare is world class. Like any city it has its problems, and MPD just happens to be the major one.
@skoop651
Жыл бұрын
less police means more crime, especially in america if you are so desensitized to crime that you think it's normal, that doesn't mean other people want the same to happen to their areas violence should be discouraged by any sane society
@skoop651
Жыл бұрын
@@PhantamSam guess what causes the problems in those cities?
@Goblin_Wizard
Жыл бұрын
I live in Minneapolis and another neighbor just put up a thin blue line flag yesterday. I don’t get how anyone could support such a racket.
@tankiller9638
Жыл бұрын
I don't get why you would do that in the first place given the shear animosity towards cops in Minneapolis person is asking to get random shots at their house
@SomeRandomDevOpsGuy
Жыл бұрын
They probably think that will help then not get attacked by the cops
@FlareStorms
Жыл бұрын
@@SomeRandomDevOpsGuybased optimus prime pfp
@Jimpiedepimpie
Жыл бұрын
If you get your wages from the goverment they're still your friends, aren't they?
@Saibellus
Жыл бұрын
if i lived there is have that shit on my car, my clothes, fuck is get a tattoo like a damn talisman if it protected me even a little from these cops
@Redawesomeoby
Жыл бұрын
Oh boy, a career where I can beat someone to the brink of death and NOT get charged for it? Sign me up - Every prespective cop ever
@bazzfromthebackground3696
Жыл бұрын
That's what happens when you have an entire generation of cops raised on "Law & Order" and all of its spin-offs. They wanna be TV.
@Dexter037S4
Жыл бұрын
Not Law & Order, but more Blue Bloods and The Shield. Hell L&O today is like the most leftist cop show out there (other than the Canadian ones, which due to laws up here, are actually more realistic than US ones, and everyone is an asshole).
@sentientnatalie
Жыл бұрын
I'd say it's mostly Blue Bloods, one of the most insidious copaganda pieces, basically ultra-conservative "Back the Blue" porn.
@leaffinite2001
Жыл бұрын
@sentientnatalie all cop shows peddle lies and fearmongering, painting cops as heros constantly at threat of death.
@kawaiimunism
Жыл бұрын
Police have essentially always been like this. From their inception, they've functioned as a legally-sanctioned gang authorized to use violence essentially with impunity so long as they maintain state power. _Our Enemies in Blue_ by Kristian Williams is a good history on the topic.
@Zanador
Жыл бұрын
Law & Order might be copaganda, but the cops in that show generally act pretty normal and respectable and it's rare that anything particularly violent happens outside of the inciting incident for the episode. If these guys wanted to be like L&O they wouldn't be acting like this.
@cfnretro6448
Жыл бұрын
I have lived in Minneapolis for a lot of years. As a black man, I’ve had police respond in an aggressive manner towards me in an incident where I called them. They honestly are bullies, who hide behind their badge.
@sentientnatalie
11 ай бұрын
Why I would actually think twice before calling the cops, even if I may well really need them.
@TimmyTheTinman
9 ай бұрын
@@sentientnatalie then why are you gonna do if someone threatens your life?
@sentientnatalie
9 ай бұрын
@@TimmyTheTinman Surely you mean what, not why, your use of the latter part of speech makes no sense. What would I do if a cop threatened my life? That's the real question, ofc to answer yours, if a non-cop threatened my life, they would do nothing outside of seeing it as an excuse to intrude and manufacture for themselves a free collar, especially in America, but even over here, our cops are being Americanised, which naturally makes them a lot worse than they already are. Anywhere capitalism's cops are, the risk of death to their "enemies" skyrockets. So be careful how you approach calling the cops, won't you? Your butchered question isn't the gotcha you think it is... Btw, I wish you as much of a Happy New Year as you tried to usher in for me lol.
@cinnabar555
2 ай бұрын
they’re not even bullies atp they’re terrorists
@Toenail_VR
2 ай бұрын
Rage Against The Machine was right.
@ava2977
Жыл бұрын
I still remember that haunting horrible footage of the elderly man just walking during the 2020 protests and the cops pushed him on the ground. He had a serious brain injury and couldn’t walk for weeks. But their charges were dismissed ultimately. How can we possibly be okay with a system that does this?
@mechanomics2649
Жыл бұрын
Lots and lots of propaganda. Generation after generation is told, from a young age: "Police are good, police are your friends." They're taught that police are heroes and paragons of good.
@michaelfiori6700
Жыл бұрын
Then trump made of him and said he was faking it. No joke look it up. The president at the time said that old Mas antifa and was faking it.
@falcon_arkaig
Жыл бұрын
I just BET if a civilian pushed that elderly man and caused brain damage they'd be in jail. But for some reason Cops don't get punished? What kind of justice system is that?
@hairymcnipples
Жыл бұрын
Because it's literally what they're there for. Unfortunately peaceful protest is unlikely to fix this. The role of the police in the USA is to terrorize the citizenry until they cannot challenge capital. Police in other liberal nations have similar aims but more palatable - or at least less obviously abhorrent - methods.
@intensebug
7 ай бұрын
Worst part is he had an officer's helmet in his hand and was trying to return it. A simple act of kindness and this guy ends up on the concrete, blood pooling around his head while the police step around and over him. One pauses out of basic functioning empathy and his buddy notices and pulls him along. Like a half hour drive from my old place. No accountability. It's so transparently evil.
@mr.fleming709
Жыл бұрын
PD’s are the only organizations where a single member could cost the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars and still keep their job
@Jkjoannaki
5 ай бұрын
Lol so true. If it wasn't state funded violence it wouldn't be able to continue as a criminal/mafia/corporate organization
@rebajeanforever3700
Ай бұрын
Really, lol Think! What about Covid? How about pharmaceutical? Hospitals? Prison The list can go on and on that do harm to people and pay out and still keep there jobs. These last 30 to 40 years should show you. Damn, look at our education system etc. Go ahead take the law enforcement away and then see what happens. Lol, bring out the UN police, smh....then see how you like it!
@76678-m
Жыл бұрын
Calling them a criminal organization is an insult to criminals. I’m not even exaggerating. Many people we call “criminals” are incarcerated for petty and often harmless “crimes,” and those who are incarcerated for harming others are simply made worse by our injustice system.
@btarczy5067
Жыл бұрын
I think state-sponsored terrorists would be an apt description. Don’t know if one could get away with a title like that but yeah, „criminal“ doesn’t quite hit the severity of what is happening. With criminals it is usually assumed that they would be held accountable if caught.
@CBRN-115
Жыл бұрын
Licensed thugs is what they are
@fellinuxvi3541
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, but that's not the definition of criminal
@Dubmaster3
Жыл бұрын
Actual violent criminals and gang members I have met were not nearly as bad as these cops.
@philipajfry
Жыл бұрын
A cop I knew personally once told me he basically permanently crippled someone for pissing him off.
@bdarecords_
11 ай бұрын
Was he proud of that? I bet he was.
@philipajfry
11 ай бұрын
@@bdarecords_ why else would he tell a 13 year old kid? He was proud, and I was terrified.
@bdarecords_
11 ай бұрын
@@philipajfry So sick
@minnethreat
3 ай бұрын
that was Thomas Lane. he also bragged about running over dogs for fun and deliberately trying to hit kids in crosswalks with an unmarked car.
@youtubegarbage7876
2 ай бұрын
Yeah... they are awful people.
@felicitys3621
Жыл бұрын
My dad and I were listening to this video when he turned to me and told me with a completely straight face. “What people don’t understand is that officer had LDS, it makes it extremely hard to deal with people.” and I was trying to run through a bunch of legal terms in my head, before I finally turned to him and asked what it was. “Little Dick Syndrome”
@AK-bf2ho
Жыл бұрын
Oh my god, you're dad is a legend 🤣
@fandomcringebucket
Жыл бұрын
King shit, honestly
@vforvaleriie
Жыл бұрын
thanks for making me smile while thinking about such a dark topic
@SADIE_Maybe_SADISTIC
Жыл бұрын
I love your dad-💀
@TheManinBlack9054
Жыл бұрын
body shaming aint cool
@isaacbacka8731
Жыл бұрын
I know it probably doesn’t interest you to make another police department video. But please check out the Anchorage PD in Alaska. They are notoriously inept, one of the most statistically violent police forces in the country both domestically speaking and towards civilians, and for the past 3 police chiefs have been successfully fighting back against body cams being issued. They finally got sued and forced to, and then a few weeks later release a statement delaying it by a year for no reason. Plz spread the word and help us make them accountable
@VoonNBuddies
Жыл бұрын
The problem with the police is not that they often use excessive violence against innocent people, it's that they can, and there is nothing you can do to stop them. If a cop wants to touch you, hurt you, kidnap you, kill you, there is simply nothing that you can do to stop them that won't make it worse. If a criminal assaults you on the street, you can defend yourself. If a cop walks up to you and immediately tazes you, defending yourself is a crime. And more than a crime, it's an excuse for the officer to escalate the violence. We could replace or "train" every single cop working today and it wouldn't change this fact: the only thing that can prevent a cop from hurting you, is the cop themself. It's the Police as an institution, not just the police as a group of people, that needs to go.
@MrGoldfish8
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Organised violence by the state is labelled "justice" but when we defend ourselves it's a "riot", it's "terrorism", it's "crime".
@OlleLindestad
Жыл бұрын
What would an improved alternative look like?
@beccak8166
Жыл бұрын
@@OlleLindestad Highly recommend the CNN article "What the US would look like without police, as imagined in 3 scenarios"👍 for more reading about an ideal world, mother Jones "What a World Without Cops Would Look Like"
"Defending yourself is a crime" you hit the nail on the head with that
@StriderWolf
Жыл бұрын
man minneapolis might actually be safer without any police force at all. this is insane.
@ahdog8
Жыл бұрын
not even a "might." they would absolutely be safer!
@kawaiimunism
Жыл бұрын
_everywhere_ would be safer without any police force at all
@SlaughterHouseEducation
Жыл бұрын
Yeah it’s almost like what we’ve been saying makes perfect sense in context
@stopsperging6064
Жыл бұрын
@@SlaughterHouseEducation I mean if you want someone to take your views you have to give them the context in which it works not just a bold statement of defund all police its like asking to send an alarm bell off in someone who might not inherently disagree with you but believe in some form of police
@bencheevers6693
Жыл бұрын
Nah Minneapolis is like Baltimore, Chicago and LA, the cops are nasty but the criminals and gangs are quite savage
@saturn_v42
Жыл бұрын
Imagine someone barely gasping out the words "I can't breathe," and some absolute dweeb says "Well if you can't breathe, how are you talking right now?" We've got a regular Sheldon Cooper cop over here.
@bonkersTwoThousand
Жыл бұрын
This genuinely fucking terrifies me. I live in the county and am very vulnerable to this shit. Knowing i could be a victim of this behavior for simply walking down the street forces me inside my house in utter fear.
@raychbez
Ай бұрын
What county? We're talking about a city police department. Unless you live in Minneapolis and walk down the street often. What are you so scared of? Pick me comment.
@rebajeanforever3700
Ай бұрын
Minneapolis is a dangerous city. You constantly have to watch your surroundings. Even if you think you're only touched by it by walking a lot downtown, you are fooling yourself. Everywhere you go, you can place yourself in harms way. Downtown walking, on a bus, in contaminated public bathrooms. Going to stores and being followed cause they want to rob you. Robbing is very high in Minneapolis. Northside is very dangerous. Even if you feel you will not be a victim, you're wrong. Every crime is taking place. It happens to you or others. Lets say by some miracle, nothing has happened to you physically, but mentally it is happening every day. All the shootings, the innocent and not so innocent, are being shot and killed. Never knowing when you go outside that there could be a victim laying there dead. People over there suffer from pstd ɓy all of it, and no one who lives there for any length time will suffer with it. Even the cops who work in those high crime areas. I could say more, but the truth hurts.
@blink_nimbledigit
Жыл бұрын
I live in Mpls and during the protests after George Floyd I was scanning police radios to help inform protesters. I overheard police officers joking and getting excited about being cleared to use pepper spray grenades in response to some of the officers (with full shields) having some rocks thrown their direction. It was sickening.
@kalisederoche
Жыл бұрын
as someone pepper sprayed in those protests, that is chilling to hear
@someonelse2
Жыл бұрын
Hey! Good comment and thanks for your work, you should really change your pfp after this though just in case 👍
@blink_nimbledigit
Жыл бұрын
@@someonelse2 fair point!
@johnhatchel9681
Жыл бұрын
When your soft, sorry ass needs help we all know who you're calling.
@Drogba757
Жыл бұрын
Fuck around and find out. 😂
@mythic_snake
Жыл бұрын
I've said this before and I'll keep saying it: There is only one law in their eyes. It is the law of unquestioning compliance. If you break this law (whether it is real or imagined), you are subject to immediate termination. No other laws matter. Only compliance matters. The number of non-cops who support this mentality and the cops who abuse their power is sickening. Authoritarianism is a disease.
@rafaravioli
Жыл бұрын
This is the thread that ties all these incidents together. None of these people were violent toward the cops, but most/all of them did not immediately comply in some manner, which led to their extrajudicial punishment/execution.
@danielmerchant5533
7 ай бұрын
This disregards the numerous cases where victims tried to comply, where multiple officers gave conflicting orders, where officers used force recklessly harming bystanders, where officers used force on dogs, or where non-compliance was invented or encouraged to justify police violence. "Why didn't they just comply" is a common take on what amounts to a sweeping violation by cops of my right as an American to have a justice system involving elected judges and trials by peers where innocence is presumed until proven guilty. What's the use of voting for a judge if the cops are going to circumvent my representative? Was jury duty that big of an upset to the economy that we're giving away our right to be involved in judging our peers? It's an affront to democracy and a perversion of justice.
@mythic_snake
7 ай бұрын
@@danielmerchant5533 VERY good point!
@Scriven42
Жыл бұрын
Cops and Klan go Hand in Hand. Same now as ever.
@_weasel
Жыл бұрын
I'd like to suggest you use the term "Less lethal" rather than "Non-lethal," as it better reflects the level of danger and harm these weapons are capable of causing.
@Jacket430
Жыл бұрын
Love how as soon as bodycams start becoming mandatory we just *happen* to catch cops doing an endless string of shitty things. Terrified to imagine what they were doing without the cams...
@tilog6839
4 ай бұрын
This is an excellent summation of how much the Minneapolis Police Department sucks. After they killed George Floyd there was an attempt to defund them, but that didn't happen. However, they're so awful that they ended up defunding themselves. Today, they're desperately scrambling to try to recruit people because few people want to work for them. Decent, well-adjusted people who have other options are not interested. And, since the spotlight is on them, they can't hire from their usual pool of sociopaths. As a result, the Minneapolis Police Department is about 1/3 smaller than it was in 2018. That's good news because dirty cops only create more problems.
@stephengrigg5988
Ай бұрын
And Minneapolis isn't a smoking cinder? How is that even possible? The cops tell me they are the only ones that can keep us safe.
@yum9918
Жыл бұрын
Reminder that tasers are less lethal, not non-lethal. Every single time a taser is shot, it is potentially lethal force being used, and should be treated as such. It is lesser escalation than gunshots, but it is still potentially lethal force. Edit: Same for rubber bullets, doubly so for 40mm (grenade launcher caliber). Cue the Generation Kill scene.
@Dreigonix
Жыл бұрын
I implore everyone not to judge Minneapolis by our god-awful police system, and to not fall into the mental trap of “good thing _our_ police department isn’t that bad”. If it seems that way, it is only because they have done a better job of covering up their abuses.
@bewawolf19
Жыл бұрын
I judge Minneapolis by the people living there not realizing things such as murder, rape and robbery are bad. That and the fact Minneapolis constantly votes to fuck over the rural parts of the state. I do find it funny though that Minneapolis views their police as systematically corrupt and abusive, and then keep the very same people in charge for a century.
@beccak8166
Жыл бұрын
Your friendly reminder that around 90% of police officers in Minneapolis do not live here. This is an occupying force
@CheddarDrip
Жыл бұрын
@@beccak8166so? I’m pretty sure they would still suck if they commuted from Woodbury instead of Seward. This is the same dodgy excuse we used when we burned down the police station on lake. No, it wasn’t “bad actors from out of town” it was us, because they suck. Just own it. We don’t need to pretend everybody within the imaginary bounds of our city lines are just automatically “better”
@beccak8166
Жыл бұрын
@@CheddarDripthey do commute from woodbury, that's my point. These aren't community members. These are outsiders occupying our city. Lol at the thing about the station, I live right near there. I know what you're talking about. Yah an out of towner was charged for the act but that thing was going down either way 💀 To be clear, I don't think that our problem with police would be solved if they were from our city and not the suburbs. I'm an abolitionist, not a reformist. But I think it's good to point out that, like I said, this is an occupying force who has an extremely powerful union and no other ties to the city other than a track record of brutalizing it. I think that's something to keep in mind when educating people about the police in our town.
@Dreigonix
Жыл бұрын
@@beccak8166 TRUE!
@ezraorwhatever
Жыл бұрын
I was in a Minneapolis high school during the protests following the murder of George Floyd. There where armored vehicles everyday for months outside. And I kept thinking how do we have these. What war are they fighting. That was the first time I realized that the police where not on the side of the people, they where at war with us. I feel deep shame that I could ever have thought otherwise.
@kaden-sd6vb
Жыл бұрын
You shouldnt feel shame that you thought like that, you should feel pride that you learned the truth. Most people aren't capable of that these days...
@hywodena
Жыл бұрын
I had the same realization. I was in Portland and realized as police continued attacking peaceful protesters. The protests in Portland were not always peaceful, but usually were. The police seemed to treat us the same either way. Every riot started as peaceful, and did not become violent until the police made it that way. They were always the ones escalating. Seeing the police waging war against us was.. horrifying. It made me realize that it wasn't just a handful of bad officers and failed accountability. I realized the police do not protect people, that is not their job. The whole system is corrupt.
@gigachad6885
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure you would've prefered to live close to George, because robbing your pregnant mother by pointing a bun at her stomach is better than seeing a few armored trucks stop lootings
@DaHuntsman1
Жыл бұрын
@@gigachad6885 Honestly, better that than have a completely unaccountable organization with military equipment that treats our cities as a shooting gallery.
@usernamesarestupid7104
Жыл бұрын
@@gigachad6885 your name is cringe
@micahshannon2818
Жыл бұрын
I grew up on the Northside of Minneapolis. When my parents house was broken into, the only thing the cops did was tell us to get a dog. When I was younger, the MPD responded to a domestic dispute at my neighbors’ house. The neighbors had a pittbull, which the cops shot and killed.
@exipolar
Жыл бұрын
I’m reminded of how popular the Punisher logo is with the police. It’s emblematic of their fantasy of being vigilantes who dispatch an imagined form of justice against a perceived impotent system
@olefredrikskjegstad5972
Жыл бұрын
It bears mentioning as well that cops pretending to be The Punisher completely misses the point of The Punisher.
@exipolar
Жыл бұрын
@@olefredrikskjegstad5972 just like how chuds miss the point of Rage against the machine and generally love super imposing the the aesthetics of their fantasies onto their lives
@olefredrikskjegstad5972
Жыл бұрын
@@exipolar that time Paul Ryan said he was a fan of Rage and the band responded when asked that Paul Ryan was the literal embodiment of the machine they were raging against comes to mind
@galactic85
Жыл бұрын
Im starting to think that making a bunch of alcoholics with guns the go to "solution" for preserving safety in our country might have been a very bad idea.
@lordchaa1598
Жыл бұрын
This is occurring in every police precinct in America. It’s actually worse in small towns because police really are Judge, jury and executioners in the small towns and rural communities they inhabit.
@thekestrel9290
Жыл бұрын
If you watched a single video by Code Blue Cam you'd know it isn't EVERY precinct. Milwaukee at least has their shit figured out
@byronholt2031
Жыл бұрын
@@thekestrel9290"If you would watch this carefully curated, cherry-picked propoganda, you would see that the propaganda worka."
@thekestrel9290
Жыл бұрын
@@byronholt2031 I never said it wasn't cherry-picked, it definitely is. It just shows that at least one district is Milwaukee doesn't have bad cops. They have a history of not being bad cops at least since 2018. This one single cherry-picked precinct is not bad. The cherry-picked nature of that channel doesn't negate the fact that not every precinct in America is like that, as the original comment stated
@fighttheevilrobots3417
Жыл бұрын
@@thekestrel9290Acab. ALL.
@thekestrel9290
Жыл бұрын
@@byronholt2031 the channel code blue cam is obviously not representative of cops as a whole, as statistics will very clearly prove. It merely serves as definitive proof against the claim that all cops are bad. It's almost like making sweeping generalizations about entire groups of people usually isn't accurate
@lukeumhoefer
Жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in Minneapolis, I can anecdotally confirm everything in this video. Our police force and god awful joke of a mayor Frey are in DESPERATE need of a wake up call.
@ChuckCannon
Жыл бұрын
Are you going to share your anecdotes?
@juggalotus164
Жыл бұрын
Imagine if someone pointed out all the crimes that cop's have to deal with compared to these few incidents most are probably justified
@lukeumhoefer
Жыл бұрын
@@juggalotus164 ??? The entire report filed by the Department of Justice was founded, and initially started based on the fact that none of these incidents were justified in any extent.
@juggalotus164
Жыл бұрын
@lukeumhoefer were you there I bet they were justified yall just being bitch ass criminals
@maddieb.4282
Жыл бұрын
@@juggalotus164wow deranged perspective
@foxblogz
Жыл бұрын
this is exactly what we mean when we say acab. maybe not all 517 officers did something like this, but they were all complicit. A cop who so much as lets this happen unreported is a terrible cop.
@Yoraeryu
9 ай бұрын
there are two types of good cops: former cops and Former cops
@rencogu2877
Жыл бұрын
as a minneapolis resident i have never trusted our police force. they are slow to respond, unhelpful, and often abusive. the heinous acts that have been committed by them, that are now being revealed, makes me lose any faith that i previously may have had in my city's law enforcement.
@drinklewinkle
Жыл бұрын
Nah don't worry though they can swiftly respond at a speedy 3 hours to ask if the incident is still happening.
@sloanekuria3249
Жыл бұрын
as an American resident, I find this as well.
@vappyreon1176
Жыл бұрын
The cops here arent too bad in a physical violence sense, but hearing this about you Minneapolis, how have yall not had a damn uprising?
@mes4prez
Жыл бұрын
@vappyreon1176 the George Floyd protests come to mind, the effects of that branched much further than just Minnesota, I'd even say worldwide for a second there wasn't a person who was connected to the internet that didn't know about the unrest here, but I agree it's still not enough, at this point more organized protests and uprisings should be commonplace among all the BS we see from these pigs, but I'll guess we'll get there when we get there
@drinklewinkle
Жыл бұрын
@@vappyreon1176 There was, the shocking twist is not much changed except the cops got worse.
@platonicexorcism5077
Жыл бұрын
I live in Minneapolis and i absolutely fucking despise the MPD they consistently escalate and worsen situations that would’ve been trivial without their involvement.
@dokidokiduckie
Жыл бұрын
The saddest part of all of this is that this is a pattern mirrored by almost every police force in the United States.
@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327
Жыл бұрын
Not nearly as bad in other areas but yes its a big issue, its eerily similar in other countries like the uk to where the issue has been getting worse and worse
@RileyWritey
Жыл бұрын
@@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327 British police are terrible but luckily unarmed most the time. They're also just pathetic and non-threatening in general.
@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327
Жыл бұрын
@@RileyWritey eh no british police regularly rape people and have committed unlawful violence many times. also there is an extreme lack of police focused on everyday crimes especially harder ones
@greeksquad2884
Жыл бұрын
It makes me a little sad that the first time people actually talk about Minneapolis it’s in the context of our police force being terrible. It’s totally justified tho.
@davidhatred7275
Жыл бұрын
at lest you've got amphetamine reptile!
@veginito9927
Жыл бұрын
Hey if it makes you feel better it's my favorite American city to visit since its so close to home it feels like home :)
@williamedge5130
Жыл бұрын
Remember when Minneapolis was a centre for funk music and not a poster boy for police brutality and misconduct? Good times (RIP Prince)
@swellson8133
Жыл бұрын
@@davidhatred7275Holy shit how do you know what that is?!?
@SnareRushJunkie
Жыл бұрын
@@davidhatred7275Hell yeah AmRep! Our noise rock scene (and music scene in general) is still pretty great.
@markw.schumann297
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate the sense of proportion you are providing here. If we took _just the incidents you read out loud,_ and realize that they're coming from a force of only about five hundred officers total, it's *still* a batshit number of cases of abusive conduct. Lots of us graduated in high school classes around 500 people. It would be _really remarkable_ if one or two classmates acted out this violently, ever, in your four years in high school. But this right here is dozens and dozens of amply documented incidents. The proportions here are shocking.
@Caffeine_Addict_2020
Жыл бұрын
I mean in my high school they didn't hand out tasers and pistols, so that first part is definitely true. But the only way I believe that only 1 or 2 kids in your high school were involved in fights/assaults is if you were homeschooled
@markw.schumann297
Жыл бұрын
@@Caffeine_Addict_2020 We're not talking about "fights," Rocky, we're talking about cops walloping people for existing.
@Caffeine_Addict_2020
Жыл бұрын
@@markw.schumann297 I really don't see a difference between "cops walloping people for existing" and "students walloping people for existing". Is it the anger? Because I promise I've seen far angrier high school fights, they were just too small to put each other into the hospital. I didn't go to anything close to a rough high school, and I saw dozens of fights personally. I'm not sure if you've just forgotten, or didn't go to a high school, but it's ridiculous to say that 1 or 2 students out of 500 are the only ones to have viciously beaten another student. Teenagers are vicious
@Quadrophiniac
Жыл бұрын
Honestly this type of behavior by police is prevalent across all of North America. I have lived in several major cities in Canada and the United states, and situations like the ones you shared happen every day.
@TheHippyProductions
Жыл бұрын
it's not as bad as Minneapolis in most places though. Ive had several run in with honestly good cops who gave breaks on charges for cooperating in Vegas. people only focus on the bad ones because it's easier to be negative especially when youre uncooperative. Minneapolis, tho, they seem to beat people just for existing it's insane
@Aliasass
Жыл бұрын
@@TheHippyProductionsNo they focus on the bad ones because they are goons and murderers who get away with every horrible thing they do
@jonnanino
Жыл бұрын
@@TheHippyProductionspeople focus on the bad ones because having just one is a huge problem, and it makes all the supposedly good ones implicated in the horrible acts.
@nas84payne
Жыл бұрын
14:21 😮 The way my face was in shock when Joel revealed the officer was Chauvin. That is chilling knowing he did the same thing to the kid as he did George Floyd (I do know about the multiple complaints about him before the Floyd murder). The police are more dangerous than any of the “traditional” gangs in America.
@crispy7499
11 ай бұрын
At least most gang violence is between gangs. Cops don't have those standards apparently
@minnethreat
3 ай бұрын
Chauvin has done that knowingly 4 times. We'll never know what he didn't record.
@Marconius6
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure tons of people will be crying "not all cops" in response to this, but I would suggest there is a certain personality type more likely to take on a career focused on telling people what to do, and on occasion making them comply by physical force.
@pastalasagna2924
Жыл бұрын
Well, levels of force would and *should* be investigated and reviewed should any level force be used. I would suggest you are making a blanket statement without knowing much how force is applied to situations Edit: I'm not excusing MPD by any means btw. Any misconduct by LEOs should be punished. There should be accountability. But it is indeed a few bad tyrant, oathbreaking cops that gives the rest of the officers a bad name.
@arandomcommenter412
Жыл бұрын
Always do research on your local PD to know whether or not they are actually going to help you.
@jedisalamander2457
Жыл бұрын
I live in Minneapolis, and people wonder why i hate the police
@jkfecke
Жыл бұрын
I live in the Twin Cities, and I dont
@bones_man327
Жыл бұрын
@@jkfeckewatch this full video and try to say that shit again
@tefkah
Жыл бұрын
@@bones_man327I think they mean "I don't wonder why they hate the MPD, it's obvious". They made another comment saying the MPD should be burned down
@dkim3444
Жыл бұрын
@@bones_man327 i think they were saying that they don't wonder why people hate the police, because it's obvious
@bookbagfox
Жыл бұрын
The cases of cops straight up letting diabetics get very ill or die because of hypoglycaemia or hyperglycaemia in their ‘care’ are so terrifying to me that they’re why I never get involved in protests and stuff, because as a type 1 diabetic I could just be straight up killed by being restrained and unable to treat myself in those situations. The UK is nowhere near as awful as this but it’s still enough to make me stick to the sidelines because of my health needs.
@persoro4015
Жыл бұрын
Nah, the uk police is fucked up, just because Americas police is more variable, the British police often feel more bold because unlike the Americans, there’s not a set of bill of rights
@Cnichal
Жыл бұрын
I think that’s what killed Sean Levert. Even being a famous musician didn’t save him.
@really_nickeybakes821
Жыл бұрын
i’m barely through the excessive force section and i feel sick to my stomach. holy fuck
@Hinipe
4 ай бұрын
Me too, had to take breaks from watching.
@understanding77
Жыл бұрын
I would also like to add that my friend Ethan was hit by a rubber bullet and lost vision in one of his eyes. Just one of the many ways MPD harms the people they are supposed to protect and serve.
@alistairshiels7654
Жыл бұрын
Whenever having a conversation about the police, the question people who haven't warmed up to the idea of even defunding them bring up is the resulting uncertainty of their safety. On some level I understand where this is coming from because that's what I have also been told. But I can't look at what the police in Minneapolis, and who they attack, and who they protect without the thought 'how can people see this as our protection?' The police do not protect you, that isn't what they are there to do. They are apart of a system that is there to control. It should not surprise anyone that the police are more akin to a racist street gang than a force of good.
@CarrotConsumer
Жыл бұрын
Not everyone has police like the MPD, or if they do they haven't had a negative interaction with them. You can't expect these people to agree on something they don't personally experience.
@finalcut612
Жыл бұрын
@@CarrotConsumer yes you can't it's called empathy and rationality.
@Trxpppy2cold
Жыл бұрын
Police are doing their job in that their job is to act as an occupying force to the proletarian. Police under our economic and social structure are employed to be as brutal and violent as possible. Remember they don’t protect and serve citizens they protect and serve capital and capital owners. They are seen as the last bastion and protecters of the system if every other one fails.
@laurelgardner
Жыл бұрын
@@CarrotConsumer you may have a point. I mean, YOU have this whole damn video right here and you STILL aren't listening.
@NMahon
Жыл бұрын
@@CarrotConsumer I'm not even American and totally support defunding the US police. These stories are sickening and anyone with a heart can see that it's wrong and change is needed
@desdemona950
Жыл бұрын
i am so astonished & thankful to see natives included in a video like this by a white creator. we're almost always left out of coverage entirely, especially on police brutality.
@Solstice261
Жыл бұрын
One question, what is the correct way to call native Americans? Somehow that name doesn't seem correct specially when they deserve their own sovereignty even though seldom given those deserved rights, is there a name with which natives identify themselves more?
@Frogface91
Жыл бұрын
@@Solstice261I think "indigenous" is the most popular term these days?
@jamessherlock6912
Жыл бұрын
He isn't white.
@jamessherlock6912
Жыл бұрын
@@Frogface91Well no. Because you have black people in parts of your country specifically antfia idiot's who claim they are "Indigenous" because Maxim.
@Solstice261
Жыл бұрын
@@Frogface91 ok thank you
@BaronBudd16
4 ай бұрын
I live in North Minneapolis. Can confirm. MPD is absolute garbage. I live in a majority POC neighborhood and it’s appalling how the police treat the community, and how underserved we are in terms of actual safety and law enforcement in an appropriate helpful way. I’ve had to call the police many many times and they have never helped.
@arfinjalal4563
3 ай бұрын
Hey baron its terrible you live in a city that has a gang that pretends to be cops
@Killmebeforeikillu
Ай бұрын
Northside psy I'm smoking naya, wheezy, ob and 14😂
@MissyGail4eva
Жыл бұрын
Two words: Qualified Immunity Until that is dismantled, these vicious gangs, under the guise of police departments, will continue to proliferate throughout this country...and there will be No Justice, No Peace.
@pancakes8816
Жыл бұрын
The unions are the issue here, plain and simple. Had a friend who's mom worked in the police force. He said those unions are so good, they can get away with literally anything. Reform the unions, and as a bonus get rid of qualified immunity, then you should see things better than before
@Casshio
Жыл бұрын
@@pancakes8816 It was always so wild to me that the US generally demonizes all kinds of unions but not the police ones. Hmmmmm, I wonder why...
@sonnykennison3249
Жыл бұрын
@@pancakes8816 The Unions, qualified immunity, getting rid of them would be good but we know what police were like in the US before qualified immunity and before police unions and they weren't fuckin good. In many ways they were far worse than they are now. The issue is police as a concept in capitalism. The US system is based around exploitation and police are the enforcement arm of the system, quite literally, they are law enforcement. They police doing evil shit isn't some perversion of the system, it is the system working as intended.
@pancakes8816
Жыл бұрын
@@sonnykennison3249 yeah uh look, police in every system are just dogshit, communism, socialism (they quite literally are a socialist concept, community pitches in and funds this thing. Thats socialism plain as day) and capitalism, there isn't a single economic system where police are "good". So no its not a systemic issue in that sense, its an issue of America letting shit that happens when it shouldn't. We shouldn't let unions be so good that you can legally murder people, we should see a cop kill someone, go "I don't care if your union gives me a HE, you're going to jail for an unjustified murder". Turning this into an economic issue is just dumb. We have the means to fix these corrupt forces, we just can't because the people overseeing them are just as corrupt. "Who watches the watchmen" and all
@MissyGail4eva
Жыл бұрын
@@sonnykennison3249 absolutely, as the original purpose of forming police and sheriff departments was to protect and reinforce property rights..and that mainly included capturing runaway slaves. It never has and never will be about the 'to protect and serve' dogma plastered across their tax-payer funded vehicles.. not until the entire institution of 'policing' is dismantled and rebuilt from scratch. And, considering the advent of projects like Cop City near Atlanta, that won't be anytime soon. Sigh😒
@Land_of_nod
Жыл бұрын
Just a day after this video was released, MN state patrol murdered another black man in Minneapolis at a "routine traffic stop". Ricky Cobb II.
@darkritualpass
Жыл бұрын
This is why the people who are like "defund the police is such a crazy slogan, you can't say that." Literally what other solution is there to such a systemically bad organization than to just dissolve the whole thing and ensure these 571 people never have the power to just randomly assault anyone they want.
@skeetsmcgrew3282
Жыл бұрын
Because then the entire city burns to the ground in chaos? You can't just throw away an entire institution that enforces law and order the way you throw away a 2 year old smart phone. You actually have to fix it. Arguably the solution is to actually spend MORE money on the police. Make sure they understand that they get paid $60k+ a year because they are being watched like a hawk, and one wrong move and they are thrown in jail with the rest of the criminals. Unfortunately people get to live in their fantasy world without cops because it will never happen, even if they somehow were literally defunded the state police and national guard would step in. I guarantee that six months after the police were defunded any city in America would become a war zone with no economy and literal fires in the streets like a post-apocalypse
@starfrost6816
Жыл бұрын
Defund the police, sure, but abolish the police I haven't seen anyone provide a meaningful alternative that isn't just PBAN (police by another name)
@darkritualpass
Жыл бұрын
@@starfrost6816 police that are actually trained properly and held accountable and more specialized to the services they actually need to provide. Get rid of the power hungry psychos and bullies who peaked in high school.
@GBsavant
Жыл бұрын
@@darkritualpass”trained properly” aka funding
@darkritualpass
Жыл бұрын
@@GBsavant AKA the current unions and makeup of the organization has to be completely destroyed and rebuilt into something functional. AKA defund the police and fund programs that train people to actually aid in public safety and help people
@TSZatoichi
Жыл бұрын
This would be a perfect opportunity for some Democrat in congress to use the filibuster and read this report, and others like it, on the floor of the house for everyone to hear.
@joannaellis7890
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately that would require them to literally do anything meaningful at all, which we all know by now they are woefully incapable of doing
@mykal4779
Жыл бұрын
Or for Minneapolis' Democrat mayor to do something about it. I'm not holding my breath.
@IamMe11200
Жыл бұрын
I'm from Finland, where police training takes 3 years. The only time I've ever seen a gun was at the Paris airport, I've never seen a gun in Finland, even though gun ownership numbers are quite high, because hunting is common especially in the north. There's not really many other ways to get a gun either. When I learned that police training doesn't take even a year in the states, I was absolutely horrified. I also don't understand why police officers are sent to a scene with mentally ill people having episodes. Here it's usually an ambulance with people trained to handle those kinds of situations. even if it was a police officer, excessive force would never happen. I think recently a police officer here got fired because they sprayed peaceful climate change protestors with tear gas, and that was seen as way too excessive (and it was). American police forces absolutely need a massive change (like a complete, absolute change), it's insane how fucked the system is. Thank you for doing through the report, this was very educating.
@dwi2921
Жыл бұрын
I honestly consider Finland to be a stirling example of gun good ownership and discipline. You can basically own anything if you try hard enough (even machine guns) and stuff hardly ever happens. Your cops carry guns, and don't just shoot and ask questions later. Not to say I agree with everything Finland does. But it's better than a lot of places on these issues.
@persoro4015
Жыл бұрын
Don’t fucking carry water for European pigs either, just because they have more training doesn’t mean that that at the end of the day doesn’t mean similar behavior isn’t noticed
@c.w.8200
Жыл бұрын
It's crazy, as an Austrian our police could learn from the Finnish police, I don't have a high opinion of them, but are they much better trained and vastly less corrupt than the US police? Yes, imagine that!
@ononono7016
Жыл бұрын
@@c.w.8200 how does the Austrian police act like?
@hex2637
Жыл бұрын
@@ononono7016depends on the part of austria, your political affiliation and your ethnicity. Police in Vienna are worse than police in the rest of Austria, especially there we had multiple cases of abuse of authority without any real consequences for the police officers. They can even go to jail for up to 6 months or be sentenced to 1 year probation and keep working for the police (prison sentences in Austria are short, many cases of assault that caused grave bodily harm result in something like 6 months in prison). We also have the typical problem here of police officers not telling on their colleagues when they do something illegal. If you're a leftist or a brown person, especially in Vienna, you also might have problems with the police. Overall though, police here are not a threat to you if you are calm, engage with them in a respectful manner and don't go to leftist protests. Just know that in Austria insulting people is illegal and police will make use of this every time.
@russellarson4690
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, from a Minneapolis resident. MPD is like the fucking mob. Everyone here knows they will do whatever they want and there's nothing you can do about it. You might get a settlement, if you can afford to sue, but it will cost you an eye.
@needsmetal
Жыл бұрын
Because criminals in this state have rights than us
@JohnnyMJiron
Жыл бұрын
@needsmetal we're aware the MPD have more rights that us. That's why we want those criminals ran out of the city.
@needsmetal
Жыл бұрын
@@JohnnyMJiron so do the carjacker and gang members St Paul protects
@sk8chkn
Жыл бұрын
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@spinningindaffodils
Жыл бұрын
There's this episode of Cops from the 90s that takes place in Minneapolis. An elder man barricades himself in his suburban home with a firearm, makes demands and has no hostages. The boys in blue deck themselves out in green fatigues, paint their faces, and pray to go completely Rambo on this guy. They wait behind cars, itching to pull the trigger. I found it a little disturbing. This video proves nothing has changed since.
@youtubeuniversity3638
11 ай бұрын
No hostages. The man is alone. In his home. And the cops plan to Rambo a man whose only real threat is that he'll shoot himself of all people...
@frozennorth3426
Жыл бұрын
Hello from Minneapolis. They’re not great. Everyone’s known it for decades. They’re famous internationally for it. The report; Garland’s announcement of it, and the non-solutions coming out of it, also did a great job of not addressing the root of the problem, which is the same everywhere in the US, so nothing will change.
@vincentguttmann2231
Жыл бұрын
European here: what solution would you propose, short- and long-term?
@iversiafanatic
Жыл бұрын
I totally get it. But I do think having the government say “these cops are racist” is actually good for people in the sticks who are still in denial about this stuff. People from my state (oregon) are so incredibly stupid, they’ll pretend Minneapolis police are cool as hell without listening to a single person who’s from there. It’s sad the government saying it’s happening is what it takes for those people, but unfortunately, that’s what it takes. Maybe this report will change some peoples minds if they read it, and they’ll actually seek out your point of view… I dunno, that’s my hope. :(
@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
Жыл бұрын
@@vincentguttmann2231 they gotta fire all shitty cops and replace them with real cops, with strict oversight and a strict code of conduct.
@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868
Жыл бұрын
@@vincentguttmann2231 You do know there are like... papers on this, right? Organizations whose existence is dedicated to talking about this stuff, people whose jobs are to research and find effective solutions and propose them. Going to a random person in a comment section when there are dozens of other places where you could find qualified people who have done research to answer your question and who have already put answers out online instead is just kinda weird Edit: If you want specific places to look, check out the APA, Brady United, Brookings, the ACLU, and anywhere else that pops up if you google like "solutions to police brutality," "police reform," "proposed solutions to [either of the previous listed things]," or your own original query
@vincentguttmann2231
Жыл бұрын
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 In case it seemed that way, I wasn't trying to be the "so what do you propose" smartass, that, in the end, doesn't listen and just points out mistakes. OP said that the report wasn't addressing the root of the problem, so I wanted to (genuinely) know what they think the root cause is, and what they think would be a partial or complete solution to this all, as they are from Minneapolis and probably know better that will or won't go through, or be effective.
@evanweaver1060
Ай бұрын
I lived in the Minneapolis area for a number of years right between the twin cities. I was there for the BLM protests of 2020 and the unjust murder of George Floyd. I remember people told me to stay safe from the rioters and it really made me wonder about the dichotomy of what i was personally seeing versus what people outside the cities were being told/shown, because i was much more afraid of the police than i was of the protestors. Marshal law was enacted. Press was being fired at. Constitutional rights were being ignored. National Guard convoys were patrolling the streets. White supremacists were openly counterprotesting for the sake of hatred.
@brightwinter9334
Ай бұрын
George Floyd was a psyop. It was set up to get people riled up and test Martial Law!
@Softboyswitcoke
24 күн бұрын
Thats very interesting. In europe the news didnt cover any police brutality or a mention of marshal law. We were told on the news that the rioters were breaking property and people being hurt. Obviosly i knew that those things happened but i knew why. I understood why people were destroying stuff and that people where most likely hurt by police.
@Kiwipai
Жыл бұрын
What I can't understand is how the right, which keeps talking about how they need the 2nd amendment in case of an overreaching government, is so enamored with the government death squads.
@abelabel3664
Жыл бұрын
Because such death squad furthers their interests and maintains their power
@masterchef3019
Жыл бұрын
Because the death squads kill the people they despise
@ItWasSaucerShaped
Жыл бұрын
Because they know the death squads will be on their team. They talk rights, but they seek enshrined and enforced privilege - they know the cops are solely a danger to the kind of armed possession (and speech) that would oppose an authoritarian regime.
@Chunmeista
Жыл бұрын
IMO it's because "big government" and "small government" doesn't make much sense: rather there's only government which sides with you, and government that does not.
@justsomeredspy
Жыл бұрын
"The right" is not a monolith. There are plenty of gun-loving conservatives that want nothing more than to see these officers pay for what they've done. (Trust me, I speak from experience.) Most of the pro-police sentiment in conservative communities has to do with upholding the law and protecting people against violent criminals, something that an effective police force does do. However, that's an entirely different discussion from the kind of serious rights violations this report describes. Granted, some people are just racist asshats, but it's important to acknowledge the difference between being pro-police and being pro-violence. Anyone who conflates the former with the latter is either ignorant or, as is often the case, simply being unnuanced. That goes for both sides (pro-police and anti-violence.)
@roramdin
Жыл бұрын
This was phenomenal and sobering. Very different from anything else you've done but incredibly necessary.
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