So it turns out the nypd RPD held down and strangled a man in distress untill he died. This happened MONTHS before George Floyd, but it was apparently buried. Recently they released the bodycam footage, showing he pleaded for the police not to shoot as he was disabled, which prompted them to cover his head with an "anti spittle/bite" hood and knelt on him until he died.
From what i've read, no cops have been fired, let alone charged with anything.
No jokes this time.. i'm sad and knackered and i don't know if i have anything insightful to say about this.. but couldn't find this on the chat, i felt like we should know and not let the murder go unknown.
I at least feel like the topic of police abolition has gone from pie in the sky to something that actually gets discussed now, at least. I think plenty of people in the US are at least waking up to not only how brutal the police are, but how indignant and stubborn to even the slightest reforms they are.
"Body cams!" and "deescalation training!" doesnt seem to work as well now as it did five years ago, now that weve had five more years of evidence of how woefully unaccountable the police are.