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A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.

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[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 165 points 4 months ago (7 children)

We don't have police. Just corporate enforcers. Pinkertons in different uniforms. Oh, you are accused of a 17 cent theft and didn't do it? Eat lead I guess. I'm just so tired.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you get your house broken into, or your car stolen the police can't even be bothered to pretend to care. They treat your theft like an inconvenience to them and will tell you there's nothing they can do.

But if you're a corporation, they'll rush right over and cripple a shoplifter for stealing a banana.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey now, they also specialize in oppressing minorities.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

No, they specialize in protecting minorities. Minority. You know which one.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

  1. Robbery
  2. Hooliganism
  3. Another protest
[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] SilverCode@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

Lucille, is that you?

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

All this for a misdemeanor.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

There's always money in the banana stand.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

There seems to be a lot of gaps in that timeline in the 1800s, wonder what they were doing then 🤔

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

SCOTUS: processing, processing, processing…..

Complete! If you don’t like it then just vote in a different police chief or mayor!

[–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

then just vote in a different police chief

You can do this?

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Some police chiefs are elected yes.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow. Who can run for police chief?

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

For elected positions technically anybody.

Practically it’s a police officer endorsed by the previous chief and/or police union.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Blame boomers and genX. Black/brown ppl have been preaching about police brutality for decades. The only reason they weren't beating the shit out of white ppl then was they where middle class. Now that everyone is either rich or poor they're coming for the rest of you.

It took cellphone footage for ppl to start believing and by then it was too late to do anything

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We don’t have police. Just corporate enforcers.

They're the same thing.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They really shouldn't be. The US is seriously fucked up.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They always will be because people are inherently evil and domineering, and quite simply can't be trusted with that kind of power.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

Just how they want us. I feel you, but fuck the corporate garbage world those motherfuckers are trying to build.

Time to tear shit down and fix it. The world doesn't have to be like this. We just need to tell the corporations to fuck off and regulate them again.