A video that captured the brutal arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers in Florida has led to an investigation and calls for motorists to consider protecting themselves by placing a camera inside their vehicles.

The footage shows that William McNeil Jr., 22, was sitting in the driver’s seat, asking to speak to the Jacksonville deputies’ supervisor, when authorities broke his window, punched him in the face, pulled him from the vehicle, punched him again and threw him to the ground.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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    28 days ago

    This kind of police brutality needs to be a capital offense. We need to start hanging these pigs. Abusing your authority to this level is a crime on the level of treason. You absolutely deserve to die if you do this to another human being.

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      28 days ago

      I have long been a proponent for mandatory and severe sentencing guides/augments for public officials who violate their oath and duty.

      So I agree with you whole heartedly.

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      The death penalty might be a bit extreme, however, I am in favour of a dystopian tournament where these cunts have to face a series of increasingly dangerous tasks in order to be provided with food.

      Could call it Pig Game.

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        How is it extreme? They have literally beaten black people and minorities to death for years. But if you want to kill one single cop for doing this it is all of a sudden too extreme? Wtf.

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          Yes. I think the death penalty is barbaric and would make us as bad as they are. Better to either educate, or lock em up and throw away the key, so they can spend the rest of their lives regretting their actions. Preferably in an dystopian pig game scenario as a warning to everyone else.

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      27 days ago

      The government should not take away anything that it cannot provide. It can’t make life so it should not take it.

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        27 days ago

        That’s a really concise formulation of my own beliefs on this matter. My opinions on how society should handle justice are experiencing extended renovations, so it’s useful to stumble across complex ideas distilled so effectively. Thanks!

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        27 days ago

        Normally I would agree however in this situation a government official took a life so it’s the government self cleansing.

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      28 days ago

      While I agree that this should be a severe offence that removes the perpetrator permanently from any employment from city to federal, killing people just brings you down to their level.

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        27 days ago

        So? They won’t come up to our level so we’ll just have to beat them at their level. We aren’t going to win this by playing by a set of rules they don’t have to follow.

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      At the very least an old school tar and feathering and run em out of town on a rail (watch the series John Adams if you ever thought tar and feathering was silly)