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.
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.
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.
Hey now, they also specialize in oppressing minorities.
No, they specialize in protecting minorities. Minority. You know which one.
- Robbery
- Hooliganism
- Another protest
Bananas are $10
Lucille, is that you?
There’s always money in the banana stand.
All this for a misdemeanor.
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
We don’t have police. Just corporate enforcers.
They’re the same thing.
They really shouldn’t be. The US is seriously fucked up.
She said he told her that he picked up four bananas, one of which he ate on the way to the register, and that he told the cashier that he needed to pay for four bananas even though she scanned only three. Anjelica Lee said her father told her he was followed closely while he was shopping by a white female employee, who, she said, accused him of stealing the banana he ate.
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“At first, I was trying to ask her what happened, and she was like, ‘People like you and him shouldn’t come into the store if you don’t have money to pay for things,’” Anjelica Lee said. “My mom is white, and my dad is Black. So I’m mixed. So I think she meant Black people. And it just escalated from that, and she went to cussing me out.”
JFC. Racist piece of shit.
Fuck the cops. Fuck this piece of garbage cashier.
Fuck all this.
A police spokesperson said Monday that the body camera video would not be released until the cases are resolved.
That could take years! That’s unacceptable.
They are hoping that by then people will forget about it and not notice when its dumped so theres no outrage.
We need a national oversight agency where all this footage should be sent to so it is managed by a neutral 3rd party. Why the fuck would we allow criminals to manage the evidence against themselves?
I’ve been saying that for years.
I the rules for body cam requests in the city I work for. It can only be denied for the following reasons:
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The video was taken in a private home and the homeowner does not consent to the release.
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The video is of a non-jailtime citation/interaction and the principal civilian captured on film doesn’t consent to the release.
The second one is because the city is a tiny enclave for the super-rich (average new home is about 6 million dollars), and there’s celebrities and stuff getting pulled over pretty often. We had tons of ORRs from paparazzi for all incidents.
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Even if he was justly accused of stealing a banana, what in the actual fuck?
Police in the US escalate situations instead of de-escalating them. In any country this would have been solved after a short conversation.
USSA VatniksMurica.
Someone needs to ship a ton of bananas to the police everyday until the body camera footage is released.
Isn’t Florida that state that releases everything?
Yes, though lately it’s been taking a lot longer. The state government under 25 years of GOP rule isn’t too fond of the Sunshine Law.
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In the US steal a banana get paralyzed, somehow private property even if just a banana is worth more than people
Well bananas are like $0.53 a pound, $.065 for the organic ones. So it is a pretty clear case.
I actually think they are $10, Michael.
Hospital bananas maybe
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He wasn’t even stealing anything. It has nothing to do with theft and everything to do with his skin color I guarantee it.
Neoslavery
I see they opted for the Israeli definition of “measured and equitable response”.
Hey morons, that Monty Python sketch about defending yourself from being attacked with a banana by shooting the attacker was supposed to be a joke.
I sure hope they disarmed the guy.
The cops’ report noted that she “struck him in the arm against his will”.
I am absolutely fucking disgusted by this weasely use of language
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Afaik over there are all out of shape so I would use the term “sport” loosely, but I’m all for more people getting into sports, especially the ones that benefit the society.
Probably should be televised, have events with a panel of judges to score each shot.
Cops: “Well, yeah, but he was black soooo…”
This case needs to be highlighted to a DA or an org that will bring a suit to have the PD pay for this man’s hospitals bill and some sort of settlement for the distress caused to him and his family.
Tragic. He was just happy to see them after all.
Fuck the system.
Yeah, uh, what the fuck?
