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1. post_b+c5[view] [source] 2020-06-07 00:55:05
>>srames+(OP)
When a 75 year old man is trying to return a police helmet to them, and they push him down causing him to bleed from his head and ears, and they fire two officers who did it, and the rest resign from the riot group in purpose in support of the two who pushed him, what else could you possibly expect?

https://twitter.com/WBFO/status/1268712530358292484?s=20

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2. mythrw+K5[view] [source] 2020-06-07 01:00:45
>>post_b+c5
And before resigning, they all walk by the guy bleeding on the ground purposefully not looking.

Hard to watch that and not be horrified.

I guess this guy has been a constant gadfly at protests for some time. I don't know if that had anything to do with it or not but shocking.

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3. rootus+yf[view] [source] 2020-06-07 02:48:29
>>mythrw+K5
This came up on a law enforcement subreddit. Riot police training is that the front line always keeps moving in order to provide a security barrier, the medics behind them will attend to anybody injured. In this case the medic was national guard. Supposedly it took 18 seconds between the time the man fell and the time the medic reached him.

So the initial shove was pretty horrific, but the line movement at least has a plausible explanation.

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4. NotSam+le2[view] [source] 2020-06-07 23:25:43
>>rootus+yf
It wasn't a riot situation, it was a human situation, he was just standing there. Don't forget that also the initial police report (they put it on their twitter even) that someone "had tripped". It was the usual denial of the situation with lies that we see so much now, that actual video can expose. If that video of the old guy going down wasn't taken, we'd never have known.
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