: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.

  • 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.