I can't wait for the day when a thumb shaped humanoid squeezes the life out of me with their donut encrusted thunder thighs of impending justice.

  • PurrLure [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Police call and Footage CW

    Imagine sending a hit out on a guy just for hanging out near your yard and talking to himself. Quote from the caller "He's not doing anything wrong, he's just scaring my wife". Holy shit, people still haven't learned that calling the cops on someone is a death sentence in this country.

    EDIT: Second call was about him carrying around Walgreens baskets full of alcohol that were allegedly stolen. So worst case scenario here we're talking non-violent, petty theft. WOW, totally worth executing someone for. I hate this country. They asked the caller if he had a weapon and they responded "No, he has a comb, looks like he's been brushing his hair." Sooooo scary.

    When the cop arrives Mario is in a tiny park near a public road and next to a house but not even on their property, it's fucking fenced. Bougie cowards. Cop calmly asks him a few questions like "Do you want to hurt yourself?" He responds "It's not like that... " while wobbling around and dropping a few bits of trash (yet he picks up the trash right away). Cop makes a call to ask if any Walgreens had thefts that day. The dude overhears and starts anxiously mumbling about the call, but he stays standing where he is and doesn't get angry. A few minutes later the cop gets a "Negative." response and answers "Affirmative". Cop starts getting impatient and asks for name and ID, saying they'd arrest him if he couldn't provide it. Mario gets nervous and keeps talking about his day and starts standing on the stumps next to him. Cops tell him to get his hands out of his pockets. He doesn't right away so each cop takes an arm, lifts it up, and gets him off the stump claiming they don't want him to hurt himself. But in reality they're starting to arrest him and putting his hands behind his back. Mario realizes the cops are arresting him and panics, saying he didn't do anything, but he's not violent about it. He just tries to wriggle his arms out. They tell him firmly to cooperate over and over again and a minute later Mario unsuccessfully tries to run.

    17:30 is when things start getting violent. The cops tackle him instantly and successfully cuff him about 2 minutes later. Then one of the cops says "We're gonna take care of you, ok?" While putting his knee on the guy's upper back and putting his weight into it. Mario yells "Thank you!" in pain. He keeps repeating "Thank you." while the cops confirm they have him. This should have been the end of it, but no, of course the cops had to fucking kill him. They ask him questions and he answers them, sometimes trying to get up in between answers. Mario says his birth year is... 1984. Promise I'm not shitposting here. Cops tell him they think he had too much to drink that day, and they're pretty calm. Cops say he's kicking but that's hard to confirm with body camera footage. Mario is grunting, groaning, and having a hard time breathing. Suddenly cops say "We have no weight on his chest" to the body cam this time, and one cop ushers the other two to get off him "No weight, no weight!" like they knew what they had just done. They turn him over around 22:40 and at this point his face is blurred out, so I assume he's dead. They quickly take off his jacket and check for a pulse and perform CPR, but to no avail. They killed a man just for being drunk in public.

    • LangdonAlger [any]
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      3 years ago

      Alameda is a very white, wealthy enclave entirely surrounded by east oakland on one side and the bay on the other, but is separated by a few small bridges or tunnels. This breeds a paranoid, classist, racist mindset among the residents.