The Eric Garner video you might not have seen is even more disturbing

perhaps if they were to give you some warning, like describing it as “even more disturbing” than the other Eric Garner video, then at least you’d have some hint

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I wrote that in consideration of people that might want to know what the video is without having to watch it. But you know, whatever, watch it if you want to.

Yeah, or at least some form of video-embedding that requires the user to actually click on what they want to watch, instead of mind-controlling our hands to do it against our will.

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That explains why my clicking hand is going on a murderous rampage. I had to cut it off and throw it in the freezer.

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So, finally at home where I can actually watch the video:

The MSNBC linked piece has an interview at the end, in which the wave to the camera thing is discussed.

The interviewee says (paraphrased): the city has already paid out 3 settlements for violence inflicted by Pantaleo.

That’s something that would have come out at a proper trial, one where there was an adversarial relationship between the prosecution and the defense.

The little “hi mom” wave at the end? That would have been the last thing the jury saw in the prosecution’s closing argument.

But there won’t be a trial, because the person who presented the case to the grand jury was acting more like a defense attorney than someone who wanted to get an indictment.

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Nope, the title does not imply that and you need to click the video to see it and I assume your an adult and therefore you can choose to not click it!

The video shows a load of shitty cops being particularly bovine in their response to a man in distress. They cannot respond to him as a person due to institutionalised methods of treating anyone who has become a “suspect”

Disgusting!!

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This! This! This!

It’s just one more horrible insult, one more blow in beating into us that “cops are better than mere citizens.”

Once you have been harmed by a cop, rendered unable to resist (if that’s what you were doing in the first place…) count on being restrained for hours, even if that restraint interferes with medical personnel being able to treat your wounds or save your life.

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Since there seems to be some confusion as to why this video may be useful, I developed a use case for it.

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UML?

Do it again with stick figures. I can’t follow this.

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As would a good share of Americans under the circumstance.

Protect the population you have, not the one you wish you had.

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Yes BoingBoing, i find this very relevant, interesting, and critical information of the sort I’m not finding other places.

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The title implies no such thing. Go ahead an reread it. No evidence of, as YOU put it… “snuff films” other than the ones mentioned in your comment, and presumably in your head.

It’s easier to control your own imagination than it is to control other people’s mouths.

33 minutes I have to wait until I can :heart: this!

If you aren’t a Systems Analyst, you’re a Project Manager…

Or you know enough about both of those jobs to make fun of them :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m entitled to that, right? Just tell me what to think. I crave other peoples opinions to show my allegiance to, not facts and original sources to think through on my own! /s

Sorry, but yes. Downvote if I could.

Silly commenter, he thinks his opinion matters here, amiright?

The other day, when perusing mishap videos, I stumbled over a security camera footage from China where four workers were killed with electricity after they pushed a metal scaffolding on wheels onto a (presumably 6kV) overhead line.

It went forwarded to a friend who runs a company, for the purposes of safety training of his workers. Because the moment where all four workers suddenly went limp drives the point home pretty hard.

These things, harsh as they are, have their uses.

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I was more distracted by the goon who turns to the dying man–still handcuffed–and orders him to speak to the paramedic.
That he was handled “like a piece of meat” is an empty complaint, though–that’s simply how you get a heavy, incapacitated person on a gurney. It seems to me that he should have had a neck brace (SOP for trauma, or at least that’s what they told me in EMT school), but maybe they figured it would do more harm than good to a man who was asphyxiated.

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I was a nurse tech when I was in college and we were definitely told to apply neck support in any neck injury. Considering that she didn’t attempt to clear his airway and didn’t check for breathing when encountering a non-responsive patient makes me think she wasn’t all that interested in her standards of care.

I hope someone at her licensing board has seen this performance.

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