:cool-zone: end this fucking blight of a country. love and power to the people who head out to protest tonight.

don't watch this if you value your sanity.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Back in 2020 they cried because they thought their food was poisoned. At the very least, I hope they feel that level of fear again. If they’re lucky, the stress + Covid will peacefully kill them first

    • familiar [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I think between the four videos, you can get a complete picture of what happened, no?

      • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        But it's so fucked up that it has to be this way. The harder it is to access information, the fewer people engage with it

        • Shoegazer [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It’s also on Vimeo too lol. Cops have posting their executions on YouTube for years and now they post what they themselves describe as “worse than Rodney king” on a site barely used by the mainstream

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Is that it? I was under the impression that it was like an hour-long beating. There's only a few minutes of violence in video 4 and none of it is directly captured.

        edit: and 3

        • familiar [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Video 2 has the main beating starting at about 2min in. after they drag him over by the car, you can watch him lay by the car for another 20-25 minutes after that handcuffed with no medical attention. I would say that on it's own tells 75% of the story and would be enough to convict on its own. The other three videos are just context.

            • familiar [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Hope that helps make sense of things, let me know if you still see it differently, and be sure to take a break comrade

              • happybadger [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                I've watched 2 through the beating and it's still shorter/less graphic than I thought it would be given the state's preparation for protests. George Floyd was watching a man be strangled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and this was declared much worse in the lead-up to its release. Still a horrific murder, but I guess I was expecting something even more gratuitous than just severely beating him with a baton for no reason. I can't tell if my barometer for public shock factor is broken after so many similar videos.

                • THC
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                  1 year ago

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                  • happybadger [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    It's horrific on its own. I've just never seen such a national effort to mobilise a response to a police murder.

                    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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                      2 years ago

                      :cool-zone: scared them in a new way and they really don't want people to take any lessons from it

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          one of it is directly captured.

          As far as I know - the cops' cameras were still on. If so - having a stationary camera from far away is a deliberate framing so it doesn't look as bad as it actually was.

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            yeah and there was no up close video of the guys standing around him when he was laying next to the cop car either.

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              It's beyond sad how the powerful, the influential, the police (and so many others) frame stuff in a certain way and the media's response is nearly entirely unquestioning.

              I bet we don't even know how many cameras were working and how many were mysteriously off or "broken". At one point there were ~10 cops milling around. God only knows what video and audio was recorded up close.