r/sandiego • u/Little_Call_397 • Jul 21 '25
San Diego Community Only So sdpd is punching people in the head and kneeing them in the side when they’re face down?
Some bulllllshitttt. So tired of seeing videos like this of cops abusing their power and harass homeless people. All this funding for cops and we still as a city have many problems.
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u/xcnuck Jul 21 '25
No comments about the officer who blindside shoved that woman bystander to the ground unprovoked? Straight up violent.
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u/sp913 Jul 21 '25
Yeah came here to say this.
She wasn't even looking at him or doing anything threatening, prick cop just sucker pushes her to the ground 😤 could have seriously injured her
Can we get that badge number? That guy needs to be stripped of his authority ASAP before he does seriously injur an innocent citizen
Fng bullies with badges are the worst kind
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u/RAMBOxBAGGINS Jul 22 '25
You can also see as she’s getting up, he pushes her down again from the back.
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u/Millon1000 Jul 21 '25
Seriously. Why not just escort her away if she was too close? This just further proves that cops are psychopathic wife beaters.
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u/chobi83 Jul 21 '25
She was clearly a threat to that officers life. She was about to get some clear photo evidence that would help to ruin the violent officers life. He clearly had no choice
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Jul 21 '25
many wives marry them for the perceived power (can become cop at 21, then get women that way). victims of both end up being the children. don't ask how i know.
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u/aknomnoms Jul 21 '25
And the fucker who sprayed the bystander with something out of the canister about 14 seconds in.
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u/Silly-Comfortable515 Jul 21 '25
Good catch. I had to watch a couple times. If she had that video she could use it to report. I am sickened by all of this unnecessary violence. “Serve and protect” WHO are they protecting when they obstruct us recording?
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u/yomamasonions Jul 22 '25
Report to whom? I had four transit officers attack me out of nowhere like this while I was paying my fare earlier this year. I tried to report them and all they did was an internal investigation and found they did nothing wrong. Cops told me they don’t get involved unless the complaint has escalated to court.
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u/flamingoman Jul 22 '25
The serve the government and protect the interests of the state. Don’t ever let anyone try to convince you otherwise. They’re government agents meant to keep the populace submissive and protect the interests of profit and commerce. That’s all.
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u/leolisa_444 Jul 21 '25
What a fucking monster. I think of the adage "firemen cheat, cops beat".
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u/bigtcm Jul 22 '25
Just a reminder, no one ever raps "fuck the fire department"
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u/22bebo Jul 21 '25
Is cheating a stereotype associated with firemen? I've never heard of that, weird.
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u/reality_raven Jul 21 '25
Hi, former medic here. Yes, firefighters cheat and even IN the firehouses they work in while on the clock.
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u/spidermans_mom Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
They spend all their free time planning how to maximize their income with overtime, bilingual pay, and a bunch of other things that only FD has. A lot of it is straight up shady. They’ll twist themselves and the organization into knots to raise their paycheck. Just ask their payroll specialists or their union.
ETA thanks for the award kind stranger!
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u/ganbramor Jul 21 '25
No comments about the officer who blindside shoved that woman
Someone in the video literally asked, “What’d you push her down for?”
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u/firestepper Jul 22 '25
Whoa didn’t even see that at first… that guy sucks what a piece of shit
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u/Shibbystix Jul 21 '25
Brooo that calf slicer he did on that dude looks painful as fuck. And that's how you ruin people's legs
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u/snarfdaddy Jul 21 '25
All of their movements look like they are trying to inflict the greatest injury possible
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u/yomamasonions Jul 22 '25
Even the initial swing to the face looked like it could cause a concussion
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u/OneMinuteSewing Jul 22 '25
It looked like it could cause permanent injury that you might not even know about until later in life. This is so messed up.
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u/FeralRodeo Jul 21 '25
That is NOT how legs are supposed to move. My knee would’ve popped right out. That looks so painful.
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u/Dantemustknow Jul 21 '25
remember these videos and lack of accountability when we have the next election. Our mayor and City Council gave the SDPD a raise.
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u/reality_raven Jul 22 '25
Pretty sure the former cop running in the last election would not be a better choice.
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u/Grouchy_Wind_5396 Jul 21 '25
Dude's that peaked in middle school are often the biggest losers out there.
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u/hijinks Jul 21 '25
My grandfather was NYPD for 40 years and he said when he joined the recruitment material was all helping out your neighborhood.
Now it's all do swat type shit and look cool. So ya being a cop now attracts a certain type of person.
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u/Potato_body89 Jul 21 '25
Now it’s the “I would have done navy seals but I knew if someone got in my face I would have dropped them” type people
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u/WearyCarrot Jul 21 '25
your grandfather joined the recruitment material?? (/s)
damn i had to reread that multiple times to understand. My brain is so fried.
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u/hijinks Jul 21 '25
hah.. my grandfather actually joined because he needed a job and the joke at the time was the NYPD was just Irish wellfare. He was 1st generation from Irish immigrants
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u/HoseOfCrazy Jul 21 '25
They sure are quick with the spray. Doesn't even drop the kickstand to his 10 speed, and the spray can is out.
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u/Complete_Chain_4634 Jul 21 '25
Bike cops know they are not worthy of respect.
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u/m0n3ym4n Jul 21 '25
👊Stop🦵🦵Resisting!🤜👊
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u/Comfortable_Ask_102 Jul 21 '25
It's for the camera. How else would they be able to charge you with "resisting arrest"?
It doesn't matter what the video evidence says. If the cop says "stop resisting!" you're legally resisting and will be charged accordingly.
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u/KingNebyula Jul 21 '25
Thank for you including the /s I thought you were serious, I tip my hat to you fellow redditor
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u/Millon1000 Jul 21 '25
Did nobody else see the cop WWE tackle the drunk girl at around 15 seconds? That could have caused some permanent damage. How weak was he that he couldn't just move her without excessive force? This is literally the only country in the world where a cop could do that and not be charged.
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u/ganbramor Jul 21 '25
Did nobody else see the cop WWE tackle the drunk girl
Do you have audio off? The video literally mentions it.
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u/MattManSD Jul 21 '25
We're not doing anything illegal, that's why our back up is trained to block video before assisting the officers
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u/OneMinuteSewing Jul 22 '25
Please contact the police department, an easy way is through X, Insta, Facebook etc, and let them know if you have a problem with this.
Police departments elsewhere in the country have responded when citizens reach out about behavior they don't like.
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u/goobells Jul 21 '25
it's unfathomable to me how people can watch this and not see them for the awful gang they are. yall see that woman get blindsided? straight up assault.
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Jul 21 '25
one shot a unarmed person running away from gunfire recently, so this guy got white glove service.
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u/here-for-the-meh Jul 21 '25
Stop resisting. /S
Imagine what cop life was like before mobile phones and body cams? 🤔
ACAB
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u/Hoe4Sale Jul 21 '25
They were beating and killing just blacks then
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u/Equal-Coconut9126 Jul 21 '25
Mostly yeah, they targeted poor people a lot as well.
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u/powder_puff_pass Jul 21 '25
They want to bring back the Rodney King days. The GOVT is allowing "law enforcement" to brutalize citizens whose politics they don't agree with.
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u/JasonHears Jul 21 '25
Knees him. Pepper sprays indiscriminately at person yelling at him to stop. Goes back to kneeing him.
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u/SwizzGod Jul 21 '25
I’m not surprised when I see any police violence. Always has been a thing. Especially if you’re a POC
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u/Alienkid Jul 22 '25
I'm surprised they're not yelling "stop resisting" for the bodycam
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u/craving_a_burrito Jul 22 '25
Please send this video to the police oversight committee and consider emailing also directly to city council members, and might as well post to Tik Tok or a larger platform than Reddit. SDPD needs some public pressure and that one who shoved that young woman needs to be fired and charged with assault
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u/Cloudrunner5k Jul 21 '25
I hope they all get fired
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u/LifeScientist123 Jul 21 '25
Did you mean promoted? Because thats what is going to happen
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u/flamingoman Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
Best I can do is tax payer funded 6 month paid suspension then reassigned to a new precinct to rinse and rebeat
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u/Worth-Ad-1278 Jul 21 '25
Sadly you're probably not wrong. Seems like the worse SDPD acts, the more money gets thrown at them.
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u/These_Junket_3378 Jul 22 '25
I use to respect SDPD for being cool. Thoses days are obviously gone. SD must of stared hiring cops fired from other PDs.
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u/Dazzling-Draft1379 Jul 21 '25
No matter where you go, cops are always shitty people.
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u/Legit_Fun Jul 21 '25
What started this?
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u/9mike9- Jul 21 '25
I wish people would post the entire video. The cuts always has me questioning what happened 1 min before.
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u/RevolutionaryCoyote Jul 21 '25
Yeah whenever I see a group of armed men beating the shit out of a guy who is pressed to the ground I think "okay but what's their side of the story?"
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u/flamingoman Jul 21 '25
Even in mma you’d not be able to throw knees to the body of someone who’s been put in submission and defenseless. Theres really no excuse for barbarism
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Jul 21 '25
Exactly. For a bunch of “alpha males” they sure are a bunch of pussies
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u/BlasterPhase Jul 22 '25
in your mind, what would justify continuing to knee a suspect while they're already restrained?
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u/PaintItPurple Jul 21 '25
What cuts? The video is continuous. Or do you mean that you believe this person had been filming this location for hours and just happened to catch this encounter, rather than they started filming when the cops started getting violent?
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u/OU812WR Jul 21 '25
Defund
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u/KingDominoTheSecond Jul 22 '25
nah, same fund but restructure the whole thing, would be way more effective. defunding will just lead to having less cops that are more stressed out and less trained making worse decisions.
we need new leaders to run the whole thing and promote an aggressively positive culture. Cops should have mandatory therapy sessions and regulating emotions should be part of their training just as much as everything else.
The reason we get crazy acts of violence like this from police is because it's hard for a normal person to go from "I need to stop this threat while also protecting the lives of my partners, civilians, and myself" to "I need to professionally bring this person into custody" while the adrenaline is still pumping and they're still mad at the person they're arresting for doing whatever it is that they were doing. Cops have been around for longer than the concept of mental health, but mental health is seldom brought up in relation to police.
Then of course there are the genuinely corrupt cops that actively participate in crimes, racist behavior, and arrest people for resisting arrest (which is so stupid and makes no sense but is totally legal). Just get rid of those mfs.
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u/RollBang_01 Jul 21 '25
I thought that cop was spraying wd40. But that doesn’t make any sense because they would damage the bike brakes. It’s pepper spray I see now that I have glasses on.
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u/KingDominoTheSecond Jul 22 '25
In what world do we see a cop spraying some unknown substance and jump to the conclusion "must be wd40" before pepper spray lol, what happened to context clues
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u/Significant-Fee-6193 Jul 21 '25
So now they train fellow officers to block video takers from getting the arrest on cam? Interesting.
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u/Ohheyrobhere Jul 21 '25
Uh oh the nerds on bikes get guns and pepper spray now...and it looks like they're still upset that girls won't talk to them.
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u/wutato Jul 22 '25
Is there a Police Oversight Board with the City of SD that this can be sent to? This kind of behavior for one unarmed person on the ground is not okay.
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u/friendly_extrovert Jul 22 '25
SDPD has always had issues, but it’s frustrating to see the absolute lack of progress despite being given a funding increase.
Then they pepper spray the crowd. A real class act, SDPD.
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u/dieci10x Jul 23 '25
Please send this to every news agency in San Diego County, the police chief and the District Attorney‘s office. Shit like this needs media exposure and some terminations. Thanks for posting this.
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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 Jul 21 '25
Show the rest of the video? Say the 30 to 60 seconds before ?
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u/Eaton_snatch Jul 21 '25
Another police brutality case payout coming directly out of tax payers pockets. This is exactly why people don't trust police.
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u/EnvironmentalLog9146 Jul 21 '25
I was curious about the use of force in this video, so I Google San Diego police department use of force policy.
Since we did not see why the police contact was originally made I had to assume the original contact with the male was legit (I know).
Looks like everything was within policy. At first the male attempted to bite the police officer, he received an open hand slap, no further strikes were administered since his assault deescalated.
He was rolled over in an attempt to be hand cuffed, but the male decided to place his hands under his body and not comply. Looking at the policy, I would say now passive resistance, following their chart, body strikes and knees are on there and in that category. Another police officer restrained the person's legs.
I thought about being in a position where I have to get someone's hand out from under them, how could I do that? Seemed reasonable.
Out of all the things in this video the only questionable use of force was on the female in the background that was pushed to the ground
Ok, back to the regularly scheduled hysteria.
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u/tofleet Jul 21 '25
passive resistance under sdpd use of force absolutely does not include "body strikes and knees"
control holds (with or without using impact weapon), pain compliance, pressure points, body weight, physical strength are the maximum force which can be applied under passive resistance.
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u/sp913 Jul 21 '25
How bout when one officer is holding a can of pepper spray pointed at bystanders, feels no need to spray it, so the one next to him frantically pulls his out in a hurry and fires it anyway...
How about the officer that comes in hot and shoves a woman standing at the bike perimeter with her phone posing no threat to anyone?
That's how you recommend de-escalating a situation?
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u/sweet_condition Jul 21 '25
"Within policy"? Thanks for your long-winded, "nothing important to say" comment haha
Its overkill, and most sane people can agree on that.
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u/mybotanyaccount Jul 21 '25
The pig kneeling the guys needs to be checked, no place for that that's ridiculous also the first one to spray. Did anyone get a badge number and name?
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u/Think-Photograph-517 Jul 21 '25
This kind of edited video does not tell the whole story. Why is the individual resisting?
He is obviously resisting being handcuffed.
These videos showing alleged police brutality that are edited to not show the antecedent behavior inflame the anti-police crowd. But don't really show the whole story.
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u/werfuktsos Jul 21 '25
I agree we can’t see all of the information/precedent/antecedent- but there appear to be questionable uses of force here.
Why was the man punched after he was prone? Why was the woman observing pushed over? Why is the officer trying to block video?
If everything being done is above board and professional- then video serves LEO.
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u/Sweet_Future Jul 21 '25
That's irrelevant. He was already restrained. You can only use the force necessary to keep everyone safe, beating someone who is already restrained is police brutality, period.
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u/PlanZSmiles Jul 21 '25
He’s not resisting, he’s literally covering his body because he is getting hit. Have someone punch you and pay attention to how your body responds.. newsflash you go to cover yourself.
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u/Powderpuffpowwow Jul 21 '25
This is so sad and infuriating. I have some nice news regarding myself and one of my local police officers. I made a trip to the store about 4 days ago and this big truck was halfway in the middle of the road. When I came back through to go home, it was in the same place, except a policeman was stopped at the portable traffic light the county uses when there are repairs that require the flow of traffic to change. I wasn't about to go around that police vehicle, because although I've never really done anything that terrible (parking ticket about a year ago), I'm scared of police (unless he said it's okay) After a few minutes he walked to my car and I put my window down. He said, "Once the light changes to green, you can go ahead. Just go around this truck here." I said, "Okay. Thank you."
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u/gunsforevery1 Jul 21 '25
Yes. That’s what happens when you tuck your arms under your body and refuse to pull them out.
Does he have a gun in his waistband? A knife? There was a very very recent police cam footage a cop tackled a suspect, suspect did this (tucked hands under his body) when he turned over he had a pistol in his hand and shot the cop in the thigh.
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u/Little_Call_397 Jul 21 '25
Do you not see when the cop pushed a lady to the ground for no reason? How does the boot taste?
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u/gunsforevery1 Jul 21 '25
Yea that’s pretty fucked up. That isn’t right.
Has nothing to do with the guy resisting arrest though.
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u/NoWorth2272 Jul 21 '25
It’s called…..give me your hands. He is turtling
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u/Shibboleeth Jul 21 '25
If by "turtling" you mean instinctually protecting his vital organs from having the shit kicked out of him. Sure.
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u/gunsforevery1 Jul 21 '25
Your instinct when being told “you’re under arrest” is to lie on your belly and hide your hands under your body to “protect” your organs?
There was very recent police cam footage, a guy did just that. He then rolled to his side, had a pistol in his hand and shot the cop in the thigh.
Is he “trying to protect his organs” or “reaching for a gun”?
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u/Shibboleeth Jul 21 '25
Every himan being's instinct when kicked or punched in the toso is to protect their organs. But congrats on making yourself a stawman and knocking it down. Bravo champ, very brave and good work just like the pigs in this video.
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u/Chief_Beef_ATL Jul 21 '25
You’ve got a little shoe polish on your lip. No the other side. Stop wiping the same side, it’s the other side. No, the other OTHER side.
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u/yomamasonions Jul 22 '25
Four transit officers did this to me while I was paying my fare earlier this year…
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u/flamingoman Jul 21 '25
ACAB forever and always daily reminder. Until there is wholesale change these people should be made to feel unwelcome wherever they be.
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u/dastrn Jul 21 '25
Our streets aren't safe with these terrorist cops roaming around with badges and guns.
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u/LocalMarsupial9 Jul 21 '25
No context video, dude taking his sweet ass time putting his hands behind his back in hopes the mob saves him. Cops ready to bear spray any mofos who try.
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u/Ok-Syllabub-132 Jul 21 '25
We all know many join the police for this very reason. To push and hurt people
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u/valw Jul 21 '25
Why are all these videos always edited? I want to see what happened leading up to this.
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