'I can't die like this': Video shows trans man beaten by deputy during stop
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The incident in Whittier is the latest in a string of controversial force incidents involving Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies.
  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
    503·
    1 year ago

    For those that would bother to read the article, the ‘victim’ flipped off the cop while driving.

    Flipping off a cop is perfectly legal. The person you hate because and only because he’s trans is a victim of police brutality.

    but the excessive force is just as likely to come from being flipped off

    The excessive force is because a pig was abusing his little piggy authority.

    • ssboomman@lemm.ee
      431·
      1 year ago

      Imagine thinking that almost beating someone to death is a rational, normal consequence of flipping someone off. I couldn’t.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
        172·
        1 year ago

        I’m sure some conservative will be along in a few minutes to insist that the beating was just a joke.

        • gosling@lemmy.world
          202·
          1 year ago

          Beating? You mean aggressive tickling? God, the liberals are so soft these days /s

          • funkless@lemmy.world
            91·
            1 year ago

            back in my day the police murdered us for not working, or not working enough, or working too much, or wanting to work, for relaxing, not relaxing, relaxing too much, not relaxing enough, sleeping, not sleeping, sleeping too much, not sleeping enough and walking around existing and we liked it that way