Here's a link to the report: www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2023/06/16/minneapolis_findings_report_2023.06.15_0.pdf Here's my nebula, where you can access my monthly bonus videos: go.nebula.tv/bigjoel/ SMALL CORRECTION: At 22 minutes in, I say that POC youth are around 180% and 500% more likely to be subjected to bodily force and unholstered guns, respectively. In fact, they are around 1.8 times more likely, and around 5 times more likely. So, not 180%, but 80%. I'm really dumb about math and just thought percentages worked a different way, while writing this section. Very dumb error, though thankfully, the actual information is on screen.

@cfiber_inc

10 ай бұрын

I like french fries

@erikdaniels0n

10 ай бұрын

I can’t find your Blair White video

@BigJoel

10 ай бұрын

it's not up yet! will be tomorrow

@NickolaiPetrovitch

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the effort you put into this video, Joel. ❤

@kappascopezz5122

10 ай бұрын

I just went to the comments to complain about the report missing from the video description, only to find this

With cops like these, who needs criminals?

@michimatsch5862

10 ай бұрын

At least the criminals usually aren't gonna cause you a traumatic brain injury or cause you to be needed to be intubated. Much better to be mugged or have some stuff stolen. Heck, considering hospital costs even a stolen car might be cheaper than chancing an encounter with the police.

@Davserban

10 ай бұрын

​@@michimatsch5862guaranteed they don't go after the real armed criminals because they're scared shitless, just going after normal vulnerable people it seems.

@harrytruman9567

10 ай бұрын

The carceral state needs criminals! That's who! And it needs them in perpetuity.

@st.anselmsfire3547

10 ай бұрын

MPD does one better: have cops that are criminals!

@edwardzignot2681

10 ай бұрын

I come from a "bad" neighborhood. I've casually hung out with coke dealing gang members on numerous occasions, never felt like I was in any real danger, you just don't be weird or disrespectful, or ask them about business. I see a cop my blood pressure shoots through the roof. I'm a white guy. Still jacks my anxiety when one's behind me in traffic. I've personally seen 3 incidents of profiling. Once I was breaking the law but the cop went for the AA kids that just happened to be nearby. I'm not afraid of Crips, but I am afraid of cops.

What's annoying is there is a societal myth that there is a belief that the aggression is necessary because cops are always in constant danger, but when they accurately assess a threat like in an active shooter situation, they cower in fear, and the bravado they use on unarmed citizens is nowhere to be found.

@Westley6578

10 ай бұрын

They are nothing but worthless. Honestly, liberals are just as much the enemy of the people as conservatives and fascist are

@chompythebeast

10 ай бұрын

Cowardice and class treachery go hand in hand

@pallingtontheshrike6374

10 ай бұрын

not supporting police until they’re completely disarmed lul

@ThejollyFrenchman

10 ай бұрын

Exactly. They're only aggressive when they're *not* in danger.

@vappyreon1176

10 ай бұрын

​@@pallingtontheshrike6374no, never support à pig

Keep in mind that “rubber bullets” are plastic or resin and have a whopping 3% fatality rate due to the fact that they can crack bones and rupture organs.

@tundra4331

6 ай бұрын

So even if they keep you alive more then actual bullets, the life they left with you just fucking sucks

@hahashibe

3 ай бұрын

maybe don’t commit crimes in the first place

@shrike_8136

3 ай бұрын

@@hahashibe if a judge cant sentence someone to a broken arm or ruptured organ, why should a police officer be allowed?

@user-uc1hn1fm9g

3 ай бұрын

@@hahashibe Did you even watch the video?

@user-uc1hn1fm9g

3 ай бұрын

@@hahashibe Also you do realize that many police assume you did something even if you didn't do anything?

Having to plead with a police offier "Don't kill me/my son" is horrifying on a level I can't comprehend

@just_a_turtle_chad

9 ай бұрын

Cry about it

@Rustylorde

9 ай бұрын

@@just_a_turtle_chad i would say "have some fucking sympathy" but you obviously have failed at being a decent human being.

@emmettbrown3463

9 ай бұрын

@@just_a_turtle_chad what are you on about????

@emmettbrown3463

9 ай бұрын

what the fuck is that account even

@I_Like_Ike53

8 ай бұрын

​@just_a_turtle_chad you're so cool and edgy, everyone admires you 😐

There's something almost darkly comical about a police officer trying to act like a badass Dirty Harry-type cop saying one liners while he's literally throwing a woman to the ground for jaywalking. If these pathetic scumbags were characters in some sort of movie or show they'd be criticized for being written too one-dimensionally.

@Strogman25

10 ай бұрын

"The villains are too cartoonish. It isn't believable. I mean, this isn't a Disney movie! Give it some nuance!"

@lavellelee5734

10 ай бұрын

​@@Strogman25😂😂

@Username-2

9 ай бұрын

Hahaha well said.

@Jkjoannaki

Ай бұрын

I've seen that. I've seen fascist evil characters being "too much" and then we have a minister in my country that almost copies homelander quotes and attitude and people believe it and are impressed and influenced and im like.... this is supposed to be a caricature, not a personality. Wtfffff

@nachshonlorian188

Ай бұрын

I was cracking up throughout that whole segement. It just sounded like something straight out of a south park episode.

It is completely within our rights, as per the first amendment, to give a cop the middle finger. Please, remember this, but also remember that they clearly don't care about people's rights.

@taylorward7576

10 ай бұрын

that's where the second comes in :)

@workshoptelescope

10 ай бұрын

That is no longer true. States are taking steps across the country to codify any speech directed at law enforcement that can be considered abusive to be unprotected or outright illegal.

@kathunter2130

10 ай бұрын

A trans man in LA was just beaten and arrested by an officer who followed him to a convenience store because the cop didn’t like that he had flipped him off. He was charged with assaulting an officer.

@chompythebeast

10 ай бұрын

Remind every cop that class traitors aren't welcome in your town. 1312 means *all* cops, every last one, at every moment

@robeiva2788

10 ай бұрын

@@taylorward7576 The second amendment? You really think that shooting a cop is going to end well for you?

My dad and I were listening to this video when he turned to me and told me with a completely straight face. “What people don’t understand is that officer had LDS, it makes it extremely hard to deal with people.” and I was trying to run through a bunch of legal terms in my head, before I finally turned to him and asked what it was. “Little Dick Syndrome”

@AK-bf2ho

9 ай бұрын

Oh my god, you're dad is a legend 🤣

@fandomcringebucket

9 ай бұрын

King shit, honestly

@idiot.with.the.painted.face.

9 ай бұрын

thanks for making me smile while thinking about such a dark topic

@SADIE_Maybe_SADISTIC

9 ай бұрын

I love your dad-💀

@TheManinBlack9054

9 ай бұрын

body shaming aint cool

"Rights? Yeah, serves them rights!" *_- Unnamed MPD Sergeant after pepper spraying a homeless man for attempting to not freeze to death in an empty parking lot_*

@fluffypinkpandas

6 ай бұрын

THAT SPICY HOT SENSATION AUGHTA WARM HIM UP > Unnamed MPD Private adding in

@user-yy7tr2hg8s

Ай бұрын

so perfectly cheesy

Reminder that as a barista if I make a costumer's drink wrong I legitimately might be fired, but if a cop repeatedly beats or kills unarmed people that they will continue working on the force for decades

@SleepyMatt-zzz

10 ай бұрын

People in the police force have less accountability than the army, it's completely absurd.

@Rey99m

10 ай бұрын

Because your job is to make drinks right, their job is to beat people up

@MrMayhem-yo2wh

10 ай бұрын

You’re a barista, your opinions mean nothing

@austin5259

10 ай бұрын

You forgot about the promotion they get for "keeping the peace"

@ImperialRonod

10 ай бұрын

​@@MrMayhem-yo2wh my bu$$y is made of saltwater.

My mother LOVES the MPD, she likes the fact that they hate BLM and needlessly injure peaceful protestors. And then she wonders why my sister cut all contact with her.

@tomorowsnobodys

10 ай бұрын

Based sister

@ThejollyFrenchman

10 ай бұрын

What's the bet she changes her tune when a cop does something to her?

@actinopterygiis

10 ай бұрын

you need to cut contact with that freak

@sampines5494

10 ай бұрын

@@ThejollyFrenchman Then she’ll say: But I never thought the leopards would eat my face! - woman who cheered for leopards eating people’s faces police force

@CGcorruptproductions

10 ай бұрын

Disowning your own family member because they don’t care about politics 😂

cop to unarmed person: GET ON THE GROUND, STOP RESISTING *tases* cop to active shooter: *hides and calls backup who also hides*

@GuyWithInternet.

9 ай бұрын

I think there’s only been one good response I’ve seen and that one was the Nashville shooting if I remember. It however doesn’t excuse things like Uvalde in the slightest. How do you have dozens if not hundreds of cops with body armor and weapons and not go charging in because “what if we get shot” like what do you think is happening to the chuldren?

@jaymeselliot8181

9 ай бұрын

Its odd. Sometimes they are in there like a dirty shirt guns a-blazin' and other times they keep their distance, i guess it depends on who's on shift that day. Some cops love killin people, other ones avoid it unless absolutely necessary

@SewerRat3000

9 ай бұрын

They get a power rush when hurting people who are unarmed

@Tortillasoup-se7sh

20 күн бұрын

These are two different department

12:42 'You can talk, you can breathe.' In court while speaking about George Floyd's case a pulmonary specialist explained why it's literally the opposite. The person is letting air out because that's the easy part, its expanding your chest again with that pressure that's the hard part.

@jam-trousers

Ай бұрын

Good pick up. We call it positional asphyxia in NSW. You don’t have to be actually choking to be at risk of fatal asphyxiation. The fact they can get away with this level of scientific awareness puts them somewhere in 1850 in my book

The sickening part is there are plenty of people who will hear all of these accounts, and not only still support the MPD, but support them enthusiastically. For a shockingly large percentage of the country, this is what policing is supposed to look like. They think the problems in the world are caused by people no longer obeying authority, and they think that disobedience should be punished with overwhelming physical violence.

@marcello7781

10 ай бұрын

Even worse, there are people who think the police should be composed by military-like death squads that gun down and torture whomever they deem as a criminal, in a similar fashion to Filipino authorities or Brazilian BOPE, not realizing that this abuse of power leads to a wider corruption and keeps the kingpins of criminality safe. The cherry on the top of the cake is that these people are the same that whine about the brutality of authorities in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

@mallninja9805

10 ай бұрын

Those are the same people that cry about the constitution and the founding fathers the loudest. Clearly, they did get the "don't give your armed government thugs too much power" message the founders were trying to convey.

@arturoaguilar6002

10 ай бұрын

True. Some people are very supportive of over-punishing suspects on the spot (even when giving punishment isn't a cop's job). Derived from the "criminals deserve all the bad things happening to them, no matter how inhumane or cruel" mentality.

@ItWasSaucerShaped

10 ай бұрын

I think of the either conservative or centrist parents that call the cops on their kids, with no doubt an overly simplistic and paternalistic view of how authority works & how authoritative systems operate. Then their kids end-up dead or maimed & traumatized, with their horrified pleas immortalized in policing transcripts. IMHO, people only enthusiastically support the MPD & similar policing bodies out of a deadly ignorance about how such systems radicalize their membership and court violence until it not only becomes the primary solution to any conflict but the desired outcome of every interaction. The thing to be done, period. When we depict policing in media, even when we do our best to provide an honest assessment, we are forced to do the viewer a disservice by the mere act of competent editing. We can't show the viewer how every cop is sitting around bored for 90% of their job, on call with nothing to do, then summoned at random intervals to whatever problem while being trained & conditioned to the idea that the only meaningful activity they'll likely get to do is be violent and giving them toys whose only function is violence. And often we don't do our best to show this at all - we show a dynamic, science-and-strategy-centric environment where cops are always busy cracking cases and collaring sophisticated criminals. An institute of old, wise and salty Fathers eager to tame an urban jungle with measured force & discipline - the childish fantasy that is the pristine ideal of the patriarchy. The reality of a bunch of ever-more-angry, ever-more-cynical gangsters on state payroll who really, really just want an excuse to go out and hit somebody because at least that would be something to do, and really, really just want to torch the black neighborhood because in their brains that neighborhood is the reason they don't get to be the sophisticated Father cops shown on TV (and also just because the hate black people and mostly signed-up as cops to harass / assault / kill black people after being recruited by an increasingly racist police force).

@joemomma3648

10 ай бұрын

The cruelty *is* the point.

As a prior criminal defense attorney- this is every jurisdiction. In my local jurisdiction many of the law enforcement agencies eliminated body cams so they can’t get caught in lies. I once had a case of a man walking on the side of the highway. The cops send police dogs after him, tore open his arm and he needed 88 staples and then threw him off the overpass and he landed on his head with a TBI. They charged him with “battery on a law enforcement officer” despite the fact that the officer was on video beating the man as his dog ripped his bicep open. My prosecutors defended the cops and sought a prison sentence. Part of the problem with policing in this country is that prosectors back up their lies and put the cop’s victims in jail without bond to bully them into pleading guilty. I no longer work in that area of law, it made me sick. I have many more disgusting stories.

@mes4prez

10 ай бұрын

This is so sickening to hear. I'm glad you no longer deal with such cases, thank you for sharing your story, these cases and others like them are not one-offs, or exceptions by any means.

@scarecrow559fresno

10 ай бұрын

good, now apply this to the biggest police department the one in EVERY county

@Nefville

10 ай бұрын

That's exactly how it is here in Louisville with the LMPD. Police issues aside, people should be suspicious when the conviction rate in China is just 6% higher than it is here. 99 vs 93. There is no way in hell that 93% of people accused of a crime are guilty, what happens is exactly what you said, prosecutors ask for extremely high or no bonds to bully people into pleading guilty. They threaten people with longer sentences for simply exercising their rights to a trial. Something is very wrong with the justice system here and I don't blame anyone for wanting no part it.

@Prikense

10 ай бұрын

wait, they send dogs over what? walking?

@k80_

10 ай бұрын

@@Prikense police dogs are trained to attack people on command, they send the dog if they think they will be able to get away with “he was fleeing”

Minnesota resident here, two kids I was in special ed with in highschool were killed during wellness checks their parents had called for them because they had missed some phone calls. Both of these took place years prior to the scope of this investigation. I have had an unrelenting fear that someday a cop is going to knock on my door while I'm sleeping, break down the door when I don't respond and injure or kill me after I wake up startled like what happened to my peers. The police in my state are currently and have for decades been a threat to public safety.

@fluffypinkpandas

6 ай бұрын

be like me and set the expectation early on that you will never check your emails or phone so that they dont act shocked and think its an emergency when you dont do exactly that

@SumeriyaYaxlaka

3 ай бұрын

I have a dawning suspicion that this is real... And I am having a genuinely difficult time wrapping my head around this story..

@RafaelSouza-pr4gs

Ай бұрын

this is probably the most alarming and messed up account on this whole comment section and that's saying something. american police are ridiculously incompetent when it comes to dealing with mentally unwell or neurodivergent people

@petermmm42

Ай бұрын

What the fuck, that's actually terrifying, I am so sorry that happened to you, them, and their families

@petermmm42

Ай бұрын

Poor kids, that should never happen to anyone ever

the biggest difference between the mafia and law enforcement is that at least the mafia is relatively honest about being an organization of criminals

@taxirob2248

2 ай бұрын

I've been saying this for years. Neoliberal government and its quasi-fascist apparatus took over the role of the mafia in Western society by making it unprofitable. Now all the drugs and human trafficking are administered by a system focused purely on profit which cares nothing for the community.

@Jkjoannaki

Ай бұрын

Most mafia protectors are actual cops.

@whitewall2253

6 күн бұрын

The Mafia can also be arrested and most of the people they brutally murder are their rivals.

I'm a lifelong twin cities guy. Since childhood I was told by my parents and teachers to just stay way away from the police. MPD and SPD have been the scariest gang in the city since i could remember. When my Parents moved here in the early 80s they were told by their new neighbors not to call the police unless you absolutely had too. No one suggested they had been any better in the 60s, or the 50s. These thugs have been a blight on our city for generations. They are systematically corrupt and violent and I've always feared them more than any crime in my hometown.

@annapelch29

10 ай бұрын

It's crazy how far that sentiment travels, too. I grew up two hours away from M/SP in Wisconsin, and as teenagers, we were always told by our parents to watch for the cops when we'd head to the cities for shopping or whatever. They were what was scary to our small town parents, not "big city crime"

@marquisdelafayette1929

10 ай бұрын

I’m from Philly and it’s the same ol shit here. LE is the problem. I lived in some of the “worst” neighborhoods and was always more scared of the cops then I was of “criminals”. We don’t have gangs like other cities and each small block is like a small business. So they openly sell drugs, yelling out “crack, dope, hard” and “pull up” as you drive by. But they are all running a business. So people getting robbed or assaulted or threatened? They take that EXTREMELY seriously, and are respectful of you if you MYOB. My brother was buying $500 on drugs, dude waiting overhead and tried to pull some shit.. badgering him to throw him a “bag or two, you won’t miss it. Dudes on the block saw him hassling and went after him with 2X4s. The “bad guys” are the ones handing out water bottles and Little Cesar’s during heat waves to the addicts/homeless and doing more than 99% of the cops or anyone else does. Most are just trying to get by but have been painted as liars (“yeah SURE the police planted evidence, that’s exactly what a criminal would say “ which has been proven time and again w/videos).

@wcjerky

10 ай бұрын

"Hey, it looks like the Italian Mafia has abandoned Napoli and decided to come to Minneapolis." "Oh, thank God! Finally, some justice!"

@philzeo

10 ай бұрын

​@@marquisdelafayette1929as Philly fam, I couldn't agree with you more. Cops love force, but people got your back if something goes down like 90% of the time while the cops just drive by then PULL YOU OVER the moment you start driving. Jawns corrupt.

@RagingRugbyst

10 ай бұрын

​@@wcjerkyah you'd for sure stop HEARING about the injustices, you'd just stop hearing from chatty people from time to time.

I think its really important to know what "rubber bullets" are and it should be mentioned every time they come up. They are not soft rounds. They are rubber coated grenade sized rounds that *are* *not* *intended* *to* *be* *fired* *directly* *at* *targets* . They are meant to be fired at the ground, so they lose momentum and then bounce back up at a crowd. But officers often fire these directly at people, causing immense amounts of bodily harm.

@SoundFantasy

10 ай бұрын

Correct if you can’t handle yourself being shot by a rubber bullet you should double consider shooting at crowds. It’s disgusting.

@Pantsinabucket

10 ай бұрын

In the case of shotgun rubber bullets, it is literally just a lead slug coated in rubber. Then again, actually learning how to use their service weapons is a burden we cannot place on our precious baby policemen.

@tsrenis

10 ай бұрын

I think it's equally important to get this right so I'm just gonna correct you here, they're not meant to be fired at the ground at all, that makes them unpredictable. They are meant to be fired at the lower body. Despite their advertised use as supposedly non-penetrative relatively safe munitions, they're far less safe than is even being described here. They're capable of causing both blunt and penetrative trauma and if fired at close range they can hit people at the same impact as actual live ammunition. Basically if you already think they're unsafe, double that.

@Linkman95

10 ай бұрын

@@tsrenis I'll take your word for it. I think the key point is they aren't meant to be fired at peoples faces

@patiotaiza

10 ай бұрын

The police blinded several people during the 2019 protests in Chile by firing rubber bullets directly at their faces

Born and raised in Minneapolis, I went to high school a few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Left a little less than a decade ago. Took me a while to get the courage to watch this one. Some personal anecdotes: -My (black) aunt has lived in the south, Chicago, and NYC. I will always remember sometime in the 2000s she told me the MPD was far and away the most racist police force she has interacted with. -My friend, a photojournalist, had his finger broken with a rubber bullet while taking pictures of the George Floyd protests. - I was involved in a car crash over a decade ago. The police were leading an illegal chase through residential streets, with an officer telling me in the hospital that they were going 80-90 miles per hour. This chase lasted for several miles beyond the point it should have ended, and only ended when the driver they were chasing struck my car and sent it flying through the air. I should have died, but ended up with only two broken legs and several months of my college career in a wheelchair. The department that led the chase was the same department that would kill Floyd and was burned down in the uprising. I was watching from across the country, but never felt greater catharsis than when that station burned.

@Sahdirah

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your stories with us. ❤

@schemesthefox1255

9 ай бұрын

Now I know not to ever go to that place. I can't imagine living there for so long

@PhantamSam

9 ай бұрын

@@schemesthefox1255 it’s not like it is a hellish place all the time. I moved out to NYC afterwards, worked in the South Bronx for a few years, and work in the projects in Manhattan now. I’ve seen some awful shit in many places. In it’s favor, Minneapolis has lovely parks and lakes, the cost of living is low, and healthcare is world class. Like any city it has its problems, and MPD just happens to be the major one.

@skoop651

9 ай бұрын

less police means more crime, especially in america if you are so desensitized to crime that you think it's normal, that doesn't mean other people want the same to happen to their areas violence should be discouraged by any sane society

@skoop651

9 ай бұрын

@@PhantamSam guess what causes the problems in those cities?

Had MPD break into my house in 2015. I lived on Pleasant Avenue, but there were apparently conducting a raid at the same address on Pilsbury Avenue, one street over. Two belligerant cops showed up to the wrong house, forced their way in, made multiple threats and left. Nothing happened to the officer. No apologies were made.

@SumeriyaYaxlaka

3 ай бұрын

Criminal behaviour empowered by grossman

More accountability when a police officer wounds a dog then when they kill a black person. Insane.

@NGEvangeliman

10 ай бұрын

Turns my stomach.

@thejohnkaufman

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely fucking maddening

@norikofu509

10 ай бұрын

What do you mean? US cities were literal war zones from a outsider perspective because they killed a Black man

@user-fm8tt2fx3m

10 ай бұрын

Given the six foot fence mentioned, I'd put money on that household having decent means

@norikofu509

10 ай бұрын

@@leshtricity Floyd was a POS, who didnt deserve to live inn a normal, fuctionnal society. but he didnt deserve to die like that tbh

Just read today that a cop handcuffed someone inside a squad car that had been left on the railroad tracks. A train came by and -struck- demolished the car, severely hurting the arrestee. The court ruled that there was no evidence the cop intended any harm, so they were acquitted of all but a misdemeanour. No jury, judge ruled summarily. A cop has to DELIBERATELY TRY to kill someone, and admit to it, before they would ever be held accountable, barring one-offs like a multi-million-person national protest movement.

@legrandliseurtri7495

10 ай бұрын

That would be seen as attempted murder if anyone else had done this. What the fuck.

@bmutante7597

10 ай бұрын

I remember this on another video, cant remember which though

@bmutante7597

10 ай бұрын

m.kzread.info?sp=mAEA&search_query=police+leave+suspect+on+train+tracks+ here's the footage, its not from the analysis in which i saw it but the footage is... surrral, one of the most blatantly fucked up things i have actually seen police do

@beanieguitarguy4070

10 ай бұрын

I know you said you read about it, but that’s not just an article. There’s full body cam footage of the incident. From the time the officers had spotted the train to the time the train made contact with the car, they had MORE than enough time to move either that car or the victim out of the vehicle. They parked the vehicle on the tracks, however it doesn’t take that long to hop in the seat, release the e-brake get into gear and slam the gas to get off of those tracks. Now let’s assume that they were panicking, which would be fair. Trains are pretty scary when they’re heading towards you. They could have quickly opened the door (as far as I remember, no attempt was made), grabbed the victim out of the car, made sure they were on their feet and run together to a safe distance. They could and SHOULD have done either of things, and had plenty of time to do so. Trains are not sneaky, the train was blaring it’s horn, and they are on tracks. You can stand pretty close to them very safely.

@Alexander_Grant

10 ай бұрын

Oh don't worry, the cop got slapped with a couple of misdemeanors. She got acquitted of manslaughter. Justice is served!

Telling someone to sit down and saying “I’m gonna mace ya” is Buck fucking wild, like what are you even supposed to do atp? Sit down and get maced? I’d run

@miecha4445

5 ай бұрын

Scary thing is if you run they'll do worse than mace ya

“you can’t say fuck the police unless you’re in a display of protest” … what do you think saying “fuck the police” is ???

@user-burner

7 ай бұрын

Presumably a display of protest Edit: I may be stupid

@randominternettoaster7859

Ай бұрын

​@user-burner i relate to that edit. i may be stupid too

Minneapolis resident here, the mentality around here is just don't call the police. They will escalate the situation and that's when things get dangerous

@sexymonkeyman5850

10 ай бұрын

Same, I am white yet have had many bad experiences with the police I can’t imagine how bad it is for people who aren’t white

@terrellturner162

10 ай бұрын

If they even show up to begin with...

@beccak8166

10 ай бұрын

I get scared to call 911 here. When I was psychotic, I called 911 for an ambulance and requested an officer not come. I wasn't lucid, but I did remember how many distressed mentally ill people are killed by cops. I was assured an officer wouldn't come. Within like 15 minutes, first person to show up was a cop, hand on his hip (where his gun was) He kept trying to get me to come down and talk to him, despite my growing distress and insistence I would not. I'm an EMT now, and horrified by this. These people don't have the training, let alone the humanity, to deal with distressed people.

@spyral00

10 ай бұрын

Just remember that you are paying for that service you cannot use... (and so am I)

@thebagofsalt

10 ай бұрын

​@@spyral00if it's anywhere like where I am that's more than half your municipal tax dollars

I work at a mental health hospital where Im one of the very few males. I can't tell you how many times a patient codes and is extremely violent towards other patients and workers. Every time this happens, we are able to safely subdue the coding patient with me and a couple of other female workers with no problem without anyone getting injured. If we can do this multiple times a week, I think a highly funded police force should be able to handle people having a crisis without any kind of weapons.

@skeetsmcgrew3282

10 ай бұрын

To me it's like working in a kitchen and then being like, pft I'm not reaching in that oven, there's a 1% chance I might get burned. Instead I'm gonna use a pair of tongs even though more often than not it's gonna fall on the floor and be ruined. If you don't wanna get hurt, don't be a cop. There are thousands, millions of jobs that come with inherent risks, but only cops get to completely negate all the risk through totalitarian violence

@Detroittruckdoctor55

10 ай бұрын

You hit them tranquilizers bruh lmao

@coolguyjki

10 ай бұрын

@@Detroittruckdoctor55 Even if they did, which they don't, are you suggesting that being tranquilized is worse than being shot? Are you 12?

@_derpderp

10 ай бұрын

God bless mental health workers especially in-patient. My life was saved by someone like yourself (as well as the other patient assaulting me), if it’s happened on the streets one if not both of us would be dead. Cops need to do observation in psych wards regularly to see the good and the bad and see what happens to some people who they make life harsher for on the outside.

@_derpderp

10 ай бұрын

@@skeetsmcgrew3282Unfortunately many are there for the higher wages and more indemnity than they would find in other professions in their area :/ or are ex-military but didn’t gain any useful enough skills to transfer to civ life. law enforcement ends up matching the most closely to their aptitudes and expectations of what civ life ought to be- hierarchical and dangerous.

Without cops, who will shoot your neighbors dog?

@Founder6087

9 ай бұрын

The criminals will, because no police will be there to stop them

@bdarecords_

7 ай бұрын

@@Founder6087 That has been debunked. There are so many articles, essays and even studies about this if one is willing to inform themselves. Police as a system should not exist anymore. Let's assume a Super AI has the power to change society completely, abolish capitalism and whatnot. In a perfect world, police would ALWAYS be abolished and if you are optimistic and believe that eventually every injustice will be abolished and be it in hundreds of years, police as a system has no future and will not exist in it.

@nocturnelux3391

3 ай бұрын

Do the ATF count as cops in this case, or are they different?

@yungtago9161

2 ай бұрын

@@Founder6087 the police wouldn't stop them anyway, they're too busy harassing minorities

@Jkjoannaki

Ай бұрын

​@@Founder6087how often do cops prevent crime? Most times they search for accused criminals, not future ones. It's a matter of luck if they ever prevent actual crimes. Most detectives admit anyway that majority of crimes happen within houses or buildings in ways that are legally protected by being viewed by the cops without evidence of criminal activity. When did the cops ever prevent a rape? Most crimes that are perpetuated again and again are crimes made by those who the cops protect. That's why there's not police violence in fascist or Christian or zionist protests.

Traumatic brain injuries are no joke. They can very difficult to recover from. The brain is a very delicate organ that we still don't fully understand. So even the people who come out the other side physically okay can still have a whole host of mental issues to deal with. Just remember that every time Big Joel says someone suffered from a Traumatic brain injury in this video.

It should be illegal to call the use of "rubber" bullets anything but lethal force

@Jokoko2828

10 ай бұрын

Nah man, this projectile that can break bones is totes non-lethal cause it's made of rubbery plastic.

@bestaround3323

10 ай бұрын

​@@Jokoko2828lead coated with rubber.

@jacobjankowski

10 ай бұрын

They are called less lethal munitions not less than lethal

@ZovcDrafts

10 ай бұрын

They'll find a way to shoot people one way or another.

@milesyalzin2018

10 ай бұрын

True, even then you gotta aim to the right spots to make sure you're not causing serious injuries with them, and surprise surprise, they almost never are.

when my family used to live in downtown minneapolis, my dad was beat up during a routine traffic stop. apparently the cops thought he had stolen his car, even after they discovered he hadn’t. he never received an apology from the police department. my dad is a fairly conservative guy, but he absolutely hates the police because of that incident.

@3_pancakes767

10 ай бұрын

He only needs to be personally effected in every conservative way for him to become any better of a human?

@gibra-elwalker8022

10 ай бұрын

@@3_pancakes767 a long anime style arc of this guy purposefully getting his father victimized by public institutions in order to create awareness.

@elvingearmasterirma7241

10 ай бұрын

​@@3_pancakes767 Yes that tends to be a trend in conservative people. They don't ever learn to flex their empathy skills

@M-Soares

10 ай бұрын

@@3_pancakes767 Some people will still defend the cops even if personally wronged. My best friend's stepdad is a black conservative. He has been assaulted by cops while doing nothing at all but he still says "i was at the wrong place at the wrong time (he was a block away from a protest) so the officer had a reasonable excuse to act that way"

@VCV95

10 ай бұрын

Make sure to remind him his conservativism is what caused the cops to beat his ass that day. He voted for his own ass to get kicked. Remind him every time he tries to say dumb shit, and bring him the actual laws, funding, judges, etc his votes caused for that to happen. Bring him the evidence of his own folly. Unless y'all aren't on bad terms, then i would still gather the evidence, sit him down, let him read through it, and have an honest, hard conversation about how he is supporting more people being attacked like him. It's an in to change hearts and minds, but only if y'all are fairly close.

This video is absolutely nuts. I remember during the riots thinking that the burning of the police precinct was a step too far. I am now open to the idea that it was completely justified.

@zenraloc

9 ай бұрын

Yeah FR, i had no idea

@zenraloc

9 ай бұрын

This sounds like something straight out of a movie

@just_a_turtle_chad

8 ай бұрын

This still doesn't justify riots

@talsen6495

7 ай бұрын

​@@just_a_turtle_chadidk. Riots were over the failure of law. Causing monetary damage seems like a pretty mild consequence compared to the city funding and protecting what is effectively a terrorist organization.

@tarrellkurtz502

6 ай бұрын

​@just_a_turtle_chad Disgusting! Do you even live in MN? If not, don't speak as if you know what's justified. You don't know what it's like to be arrested for nothing! Put in jail against your will because the police felt they could alter my parents statements. I won that case after 2 years, but they deliberately attempted to pin my family against me. If that's not a corrupt gang to you, idk what is. Stop being blind to the injustice

The thing is, you could make this video about virtually every major police department in the US. Milwaukee puts Minneapolis to shame. Chicago is so insanely cartoonishly corrupt, the things I could write here would just sound insane. You could literally create a whole channel discussing the various criminal PDs in the Midwest.

@jjthekhanman2876

9 ай бұрын

Ironically enough the picture in the thumbnail is actually of Milwaukee and not Minneapolis

@MidnightSimmer

9 ай бұрын

​@@jjthekhanman2876 was thinking about this the whole time. Why use a milwaukee picture?!!?!? Ppl born and raised in the twin cities are gonna know😭 esp ppl from Milwaukee

@lucastraman706

9 ай бұрын

I grew up in Baton Rouge A young black man named Alton Sterling was selling cds outside of a gas station. The police tried to arrest him for loitering. Then Sterling ended up on the ground while resisting arrest He was shot 5 times in the back.

@arandomcommenter412

9 ай бұрын

@@MidnightSimmergotta make Minneapolis look at least a bit better

They literally said “I’m racist” and shot dogs for no reason. Wow. How much more villainous can someone be?

@chompythebeast

10 ай бұрын

Manifest Destiny is ongoing. They literally _always_ get away with it. And euromericans will always find a reason to defend it, be cause that's what settler-colonial, genocidal empire is

@Resetium

10 ай бұрын

People love to claim that they'd fight the villain themselves, And then ignore said villains when they make themselves known.

@taranullius9221

10 ай бұрын

Mmmmm they're missing the hood. Put that on and they've completed the villainy.

@CBRN-115

10 ай бұрын

Shooting dogs is the lowest of the low

@Tomartyr

10 ай бұрын

Maybe throw in some moustache twirling?

Calling them a criminal organization is an insult to criminals. I’m not even exaggerating. Many people we call “criminals” are incarcerated for petty and often harmless “crimes,” and those who are incarcerated for harming others are simply made worse by our injustice system.

@btarczy5067

10 ай бұрын

I think state-sponsored terrorists would be an apt description. Don’t know if one could get away with a title like that but yeah, „criminal“ doesn’t quite hit the severity of what is happening. With criminals it is usually assumed that they would be held accountable if caught.

@CBRN-115

10 ай бұрын

Licensed thugs is what they are

@fellinuxvi3541

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, but that's not the definition of criminal

@Dubmaster3

10 ай бұрын

Actual violent criminals and gang members I have met were not nearly as bad as these cops.

I grew up in a part of Minneapolis known as “Near North”, close to the outskirts of the city and the neighboring town of Crystal. MPD once stopped to talk to me and my friends. We were all girls, all between ages of 10 and 12, hanging outside of a Hy-vee where we just purchased snacks and sodas. Yes, we were loitering. I don’t believe loitering should be a crime, but I digress. A squad car pulls up in the handicap parking spot in front of us. A man over six foot came out, and IMMEDIATELY started alleging that we were s*x solicitors, prost*tutes. Some of the girls were scared and ran off. Me and my best friend and I girl I didn’t really know remained. He asked to see our IDs. Being that we were tweens, not even teens, we did not have identification. I offered to show my student ID in my wallet, showing that I was in fact a middle school student. The officer backed down and was walking back towards his vehicle, but not without saying something along the lines of “girls your ages should be playing with dolls not grown men”. After that incident I never hung out with people if it wasn’t a public park or someone’s parents house. It traumatised me from having the “city kid” experience of having freedom to explore unsupervised.

@12monkey57

9 ай бұрын

You should come to Crystal. It’s a great city

@magicalgrim3471

Ай бұрын

That’s insanely fucked girl Hope things are better for you these days

@apricot8301

22 күн бұрын

That's absolutely disgusting. Wish you knew who the officer was.

@ViperPain141

10 күн бұрын

@@apricot8301So that he can be put on list.

Weird that they would literally waste hundreds of thousands of dollars paying out to settle lawsuits than just discipline their awful police officers. This is so revolting.

@tinfoilslacks3750

Ай бұрын

The money they pay out in the form of settlements comes from the tax payer to begin with, meaning that the victims essentially pay for their own settlement.

Was almost killed in a collision when I was 19 and an old woman spun out of a McDonald's drive thru going 65 miles per hour into the intersection. I was lucky to be alive, but being a young person with "peace and love" and "Vote Bernie Sanders" on my car I was treated like the criminal. The cops assigned us some of the blame because they asked, while we were in the hospital, how fast we were going and when we responded "55? 60? Maybe?" They responded "Well then you were speeding in a 50 MPH zone." They then proceeded to laugh, while I was in a neck brace, and ask us if Bernie Sanders was going to buy us a new car. Wasn't even the worst brush I've had with police.

@eowynbaughman8369

10 ай бұрын

And you may never sit on another jury because of this. I always get excluded because of an awful experience with a cop (in another state ffs).

@UltimateKyuubiFox

10 ай бұрын

@@eowynbaughman8369At least there’s one benefit.

@lavellelee5734

10 ай бұрын

Fuck that's bad😂

@wildfire9280

10 ай бұрын

@@eowynbaughman8369 The real “deep state” is how deep police corruption is across the country with how many governments cozy up to these criminal organizations and the propagandists who promote them as the exact opposite image (even when they are _expressly_ mask off) no matter the jurisdiction (at least one of them has to be clean, right?).

@tonywords6713

9 ай бұрын

This is why it's pointless to talk to cops. Best case scenario: there's a good chance they'll make shit up or you'll hurt your case.. However it's a near inevitability they'll dick you around like asshole jocks if you refuse to lick the boot clean. I literally cannot recall a single prolonged interaction with these dense pinheads where they didn't talk down to me and bully me just because they could.

As a Minnesotan, I'm glad you're covering this, the amount of people that defend these pigs is very disheartening.

@bestaround3323

10 ай бұрын

A lot of these officers deserve the death penalty. The main issue with the death penalty is that it can't be taken back, so evidence needs to be air-tight. There is zero argument that they did these things.

@KILLSQUAD__

10 ай бұрын

@@bestaround3323 See comments like this I hope the FBI watches, these are the mass shooters. Just like the one in Dallas on their PD.

@yeahno555

10 ай бұрын

As a former Minnesotan - leave the Minneapolis area if you're in it.

@ciromoriello7054

10 ай бұрын

​@@bestaround3323what about the body cam footage?

@glovesflared

10 ай бұрын

@@bestaround3323 they don't deserve death penalty in civil court, they deserve revolutionary justice, to be judged by the people they have oppressed (same outcome tho lol)

It's hard to imagine a more frighteningly Orwellian phrase than "STOP RESISTING".

A cop I knew personally once told me he basically permanently crippled someone for pissing him off.

@bdarecords_

7 ай бұрын

Was he proud of that? I bet he was.

@philipajfry

7 ай бұрын

@@bdarecords_ why else would he tell a 13 year old kid? He was proud, and I was terrified.

@bdarecords_

7 ай бұрын

@@philipajfry So sick

I love how the Justice department uncovers all this evidence of violent crimes committed by police officers and the most they do is issue a public finger wagging and threaten to withhold funding if things don't shape up. These are violent criminals tasked with enforcing the law, its completely ridiculous that they go unpunished

@Yoshi278

10 ай бұрын

two tiered justice system.

@tankiller9638

10 ай бұрын

Trust me, if all this crime affected the wealthy it would be solved within a week lets be brutally honest, government just wants to kill poor people and actively look for a reason to do so that's the stark reality we live in

@JonasWhitt

10 ай бұрын

I mean, its not really that simple, a lot of these guys tend to get off for a reason that the left doesnt really like to talk about that much, which is really strong police unions. Even if somebody does want to prosecute, the level of protection the union can throw up can make it a pretty uphill battle (or at the very least a expensive one) in a lot of states. That being said, unions dont craft policy and funding, city officials and politicians do, and a lot of places like chicago have seen the executive authority of officers diminish rapidly, to the point where its really hard for cops to do their jobs anymore as they are almost always operating in fear of punishment or reprisal, whether they are doing their jobs correctly or not.

@spaceghostmiid

10 ай бұрын

it's almost like when the only job requirements are being able to walk and do legal violence it tends to attract violent criminals.

@ronin.psycore

10 ай бұрын

@@JonasWhittGood. They should have fear of punishment, just like every other normal fucking human being.

the cops are legitimately the scariest part of going into minneapolis for me, and just cops in general. im disabled but when im sitting in my car and not in my walker or wheelchair i look perfectly healthy. i wouldnt be able to comply with most physical orders police give without risking my health. im constantly paranoid that if i get pulled over and dont comply correctly because of my disabilities that ill be at the hand of a cop who now has a great excuse to abuse me. disabled people make up half of the people that are killed by cops, black disabled people are particularly at risk.

@Tehstampede

9 ай бұрын

I live in MN and the scariest part of going into Minneapolis for me are all the people running around screaming at the top of their lungs about random bullshit and generally acting like they're on some good ass drugs

@criznash

9 ай бұрын

@@Tehstampede stop making shit up

@unknown30895

9 ай бұрын

They are not people just have a one off incident

@RandomPerson-ob1hk

8 ай бұрын

​@@unknown30895who is not people?

@Poppy-333

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for openly sharing this concern. It’s sad that we live in a world where anyone has to fear these things. Wishing you well. ❤

I have a criminal justice degree because I wanted to be a cop but learning about how the system actually works radicalized me and made me realize I never want to do that. The police are not your friend and they aren't there for your safety.

14:21 😮 The way my face was in shock when Joel revealed the officer was Chauvin. That is chilling knowing he did the same thing to the kid as he did George Floyd (I do know about the multiple complaints about him before the Floyd murder). The police are more dangerous than any of the “traditional” gangs in America.

@crispy7499

7 ай бұрын

At least most gang violence is between gangs. Cops don't have those standards apparently

A few months ago a friend of mine got jumped in my work parking lot by a group of men who did not like that he was in an interracial relationship with one of their sisters. Thankfully a few of my friends from work were there to defend him and despite being outnumbered they fought them off. I arrived on the scene right as the fight was ending. Everything cooled down and we talked for a while before the police showed up. One of my coworkers called them. Mind you the situation was resolved at this point. The officers questioned us, and afterwards got back into their cars and sat watching us. About 10 minutes later two of the guys who started the fight came back to the parking lot and started shouting at us, heckling us and trying to egg us on back into a fight. We let the police know and they sat in their car doing nothing. My friend, a black man, and one of the people who was jumped originally yelled back at them to go away saying "you already lost, take the L and get out of here." He stepped a bit closer while doing this, and at this moment, not a moment sooner, the police jumped out of the car. A white police officer ran my coworker down and tased him to the ground before laying his knee on his back for minutes on end. The people who jumped him ran away, and no one chased them. My friend complied, and we on the sidelines yelled at the cop saying they had the wrong person, and yelling at him to let our friend go. The other cop on duty an older white man stepped up to us and put his hand on his gun. He shouted that if we got one step closer that he would shoot us. These people are criminals through and through. The only thing calling them will ever do is make things worse or do nothing at all.

@bobjones2959

10 ай бұрын

Honestly this is shocking. I could never have imagined that officers of the law would behave like that. Of course I was always sympathetic with protestors but I think I had still not realized the full extent of how bad it was. These are no longer rightfully officers, they behave like a mafia and ought to be treated like one. After these revelations every. Single. Member of the MPD should be given criminal charges. This kind of erosion of public trust and utter lack of accountability is disgusting.

@welshlout3400

10 ай бұрын

That’s a chilling story. I can visualise the focussed, predatory stare of the cops like the T-1000. Might as well be done with it and just employ outright automatons with hard-coded biases if this is the quality of law enforcement typical of a human police officer.

man minneapolis might actually be safer without any police force at all. this is insane.

@ahdog8

10 ай бұрын

not even a "might." they would absolutely be safer!

@kawaiimunism

10 ай бұрын

_everywhere_ would be safer without any police force at all

@SlaughterHouseEducation

10 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s almost like what we’ve been saying makes perfect sense in context

@stopsperging6064

10 ай бұрын

@@SlaughterHouseEducation I mean if you want someone to take your views you have to give them the context in which it works not just a bold statement of defund all police its like asking to send an alarm bell off in someone who might not inherently disagree with you but believe in some form of police

@bencheevers6693

10 ай бұрын

Nah Minneapolis is like Baltimore, Chicago and LA, the cops are nasty but the criminals and gangs are quite savage

I worked as a security guard in Downtown Minneapolis for about a year and a half in 2021 and 2022 and one of the first things I tell every guard I’ve trained is ‘Do not ever rely on the police they don’t care’ which is true. The two buildings I worked at we both completely unarmed and so you tend to get very good at de-escalation very quickly. If the cops were called (9 times out of 10 the because the building owner wanted them there) they’d show up and the air was always ‘well we aren’t allowed to be violent so we can’t do anything’ like every coo had thrown a goddamn tantrum that if they couldn’t beat innocent people they wouldn’t (not couldn’t) wouldn’t do their jobs. Not to mention the stark difference they always treated my boss (a black man) verse me a white dude. The amount of fucking condescend shit I’ve heard is frankly fucking amazing. Not to mention that if you want them for something that isn’t a priority for them they just won’t fucking show up. A woman came into my building in shock because she was side swiped so hard that it kick her over a lane. When she called the police about it they said she wasn’t physically hurt and so it wasn’t necessary. So basically fuck MPD

@CharlesM2

9 ай бұрын

The condescension is just the cherry on top of the shit pie. It’s purposefully egging people on to “try something” when they say snide remarks. Isn’t it just amazing that an agency meant to “serve and protect” will play mind games, and emotionally manipulate you into seeming aggressive so they can beat you to a pulp and throw you in a jail cell?

@adriannek8704

9 ай бұрын

And it's our taxes that not only pay their salaries but also the settlements when they get sued for their abuse

@Jkjoannaki

Ай бұрын

In greece a couple of days ago a woman went to the police station saying her ex who she had restraining order due to rape and abuse, told them he stalked her and to help her go to her house safely, the cops told her to go outside and call a cop car, she did it. Went to the door of the police station, next to the "guard" of it, who is now proven to be a criminal, actual one, casually working for the cops while being proven to be a criminal while he was a cop. She called and the other cop told her cops aren't taxi drivers. During the recorded call you can easily find but it's in greek, she was heard to scream while her ex, in the police department, was murdering her. The cop was like "can you hear me??". Just chill. They protect us from murder? Not even when it happens in pds. They protect the elite and beat protesters. That's their job.

Rubber bullets being "nonlethal" is so messed up cause 15.4 grams of rubber hitting you at 200 ft/s can be pretty darn lethal or blind/permanently disfigure you

The problem with the police is not that they often use excessive violence against innocent people, it's that they can, and there is nothing you can do to stop them. If a cop wants to touch you, hurt you, kidnap you, kill you, there is simply nothing that you can do to stop them that won't make it worse. If a criminal assaults you on the street, you can defend yourself. If a cop walks up to you and immediately tazes you, defending yourself is a crime. And more than a crime, it's an excuse for the officer to escalate the violence. We could replace or "train" every single cop working today and it wouldn't change this fact: the only thing that can prevent a cop from hurting you, is the cop themself. It's the Police as an institution, not just the police as a group of people, that needs to go.

@MrGoldfish8

10 ай бұрын

Exactly. Organised violence by the state is labelled "justice" but when we defend ourselves it's a "riot", it's "terrorism", it's "crime".

@OlleLindestad

10 ай бұрын

What would an improved alternative look like?

@beccak8166

10 ай бұрын

@@OlleLindestad Highly recommend the CNN article "What the US would look like without police, as imagined in 3 scenarios"👍 for more reading about an ideal world, mother Jones "What a World Without Cops Would Look Like"

@falsum2701

10 ай бұрын

@@OlleLindestad Volunteer neighbourhood security forces

@somebloke2238

10 ай бұрын

"Defending yourself is a crime" you hit the nail on the head with that

They sound cartoonish evil, like a writer trying to make the enforcer as unlikable as possible. I'm honestly surprised that they don't straight up kill the people interfering. These scumbags are right at home in The Boys.

@ztl2505

10 ай бұрын

The cop stating he’s a proud racist is the sort of thing I’d probably call lazy, on the nose writing if it were a TV show and not real life

@kylesmith5633

10 ай бұрын

Blue hawk, do you have any comment on the recent killings (that you just happened to commit)?

@Are_you_eyeballing_me

10 ай бұрын

“The Shield” TV-show seems more and more like a documentary

@mileskile9520

10 ай бұрын

They’re literally worse than the storm troopers, whos name were based on German soldiers in world war 1.

@leonodonoghueburke4276

10 ай бұрын

@@ztl2505 "The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense" - Some author

I remember hearing a story of some kid who got arrested for making fun of the police after the police failed to stop a school shooter

I work with the extremely poor/homeless and mentally ill in my community. I've been assaulted. Had guns drawn. If myself or any one of my coworkers interacted with our clients the way MPD does, not only would they go to jail. They'd be out of a job. It just isn't even imaginable to treat human beings this way, regardless of the circumstances.

Minnesota was born and raised. Unfortunately, because I'm Ojibwe (Native American) I have a family whose been targeted several times over several generations. My late grandfather even won a case of police brutality several decades ago. They broke his back because he refused to leave and stop witnessing another case of police brutality. My grandfather's brother was drunk and being beaten by several officers. So when he wanted to de-escalate the situation and bring his brother home they decided to beat him as well. This is one of those stories that looking back changed our whole family's trajectory and in many ways, my family is still dealing with the repercussions of those events. There's much more anecdotal evidence from inside and outside my family. (apparently, the MPD used to get into brawls with groups of Native American families and lose. It would go unreported because a bunch of white 6ft tall cops with batons getting beat up by unarmed 5' 5 brown guys was pretty humiliating.)

@SleepyMatt-zzz

10 ай бұрын

That is wild, but not surprising. The origins of the American police force stemmed from a time when they were tasked with capturing escaped slaves and persecute indigenous people who had their homes stolen.

@MrMayhem-yo2wh

10 ай бұрын

And then everyone clapped right?

@annoyedbipolar7424

10 ай бұрын

@@MrMayhem-yo2wh I don't know. Does this sound like a story where 2/3s of both sides end up without alcohol or substance dependency?

@worldoffood123

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story. Best wishes

@kostajovanovic3711

10 ай бұрын

​@@MrMayhem-yo2whWerner Herzog fan?

Only call the police if you think that an ignorant, armed sociopath will help the situation.

@airplanes_aren.t_real

9 ай бұрын

I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to kill someone, just look up recent complaints sent to the station, look for what triggers them the most and lie about it on an anonymous call

@Username-2

9 ай бұрын

@@airplanes_aren.t_realYup that’s basically what swatting is. And it’s gotten many people killed.

This is an excellent summation of how much the Minneapolis Police Department sucks. After they killed George Floyd there was an attempt to defund them, but that didn't happen. However, they're so awful that they ended up defunding themselves. Today, they're desperately scrambling to try to recruit people because few people want to work for them. Decent, well-adjusted people who have other options are not interested. And, since the spotlight is on them, they can't hire from their usual pool of sociopaths. As a result, the Minneapolis Police Department is about 1/3 smaller than it was in 2018. That's good news because dirty cops only create more problems.

You can ALWAYS count on cops to make a bad situation worse

@kaylaisnothere4397

9 ай бұрын

Yep, especially concerning disabled people. There are so many cases of police intervening and severely injuring autistic or intellectually disabled people who are experiencing a meltdown. Any person who specializes in social work or mental health would know how to de-escalate and calm someone down when they're experiencing this, but instead the goddamn police are called and they just hurt them. It breaks my heart

I implore everyone not to judge Minneapolis by our god-awful police system, and to not fall into the mental trap of “good thing _our_ police department isn’t that bad”. If it seems that way, it is only because they have done a better job of covering up their abuses.

@bewawolf19

10 ай бұрын

I judge Minneapolis by the people living there not realizing things such as murder, rape and robbery are bad. That and the fact Minneapolis constantly votes to fuck over the rural parts of the state. I do find it funny though that Minneapolis views their police as systematically corrupt and abusive, and then keep the very same people in charge for a century.

@beccak8166

10 ай бұрын

Your friendly reminder that around 90% of police officers in Minneapolis do not live here. This is an occupying force

@CheddarDrip

10 ай бұрын

@@beccak8166so? I’m pretty sure they would still suck if they commuted from Woodbury instead of Seward. This is the same dodgy excuse we used when we burned down the police station on lake. No, it wasn’t “bad actors from out of town” it was us, because they suck. Just own it. We don’t need to pretend everybody within the imaginary bounds of our city lines are just automatically “better”

@beccak8166

10 ай бұрын

​​@@CheddarDripthey do commute from woodbury, that's my point. These aren't community members. These are outsiders occupying our city. Lol at the thing about the station, I live right near there. I know what you're talking about. Yah an out of towner was charged for the act but that thing was going down either way 💀 To be clear, I don't think that our problem with police would be solved if they were from our city and not the suburbs. I'm an abolitionist, not a reformist. But I think it's good to point out that, like I said, this is an occupying force who has an extremely powerful union and no other ties to the city other than a track record of brutalizing it. I think that's something to keep in mind when educating people about the police in our town.

@Dreigonix

10 ай бұрын

@@beccak8166 TRUE!

Teacher here- one time a student started having a full-blown panic attack in my classroom, and when I kneeled down in front of her to coach her through breathing exercises, she said, "Don't touch me!" You know what I did? Not touch her and continued helping her with breathing exercises until the nurse showed up. How is this hard?

@ethanb4017

10 ай бұрын

There is a reported statistic that 40% of police officers domestically abuse their spouse. It is hard for these people to not immediately use force because they have been allowed the ability through every avenue in their life. Every time a TBI in this video was mentioned, I teared up because I have worked with so many individuals with TBI and they have so much trouble existing without help.

PD’s are the only organizations where a single member could cost the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars and still keep their job

@Jkjoannaki

Ай бұрын

Lol so true. If it wasn't state funded violence it wouldn't be able to continue as a criminal/mafia/corporate organization

Oh boy, a career where I can beat someone to the brink of death and NOT get charged for it? Sign me up - Every prespective cop ever

Remember, when the black panthers would stand out with their rifles, and shotguns and what not when a black person was being arrested, not to stop them from doing so but to make sure the police don’t go overboard? Can we bring that back for anyone who’s getting arrested because they obviously can’t be trusted to not go overboard.

@alicesenz6374

10 ай бұрын

When the BPP did that it was legal, California implemented gun control to prevent them from doing that.

@wildfire9280

10 ай бұрын

At this point it’s enough of a “compelling state interest” to establish official copwatching patrols under whatever oversight board they have (if any at all, wish I could say they were mandatory by state and/or federal law but no, no progress there). It seems we have more control over the military than we do over police. If anyone were to form a military junta, it’d probably be police too.

@ryanmackenzie6109

9 ай бұрын

I'd agree, but I know damn well those cops would be all too happy to call in backup to gun them all down. Makes my spine cold. 😞

@lepannean4231

9 ай бұрын

​@@ryanmackenzie6109but we know from Uvald that the only people they won't attack is someone who can actually fight back. Bullies to the core.

@erocktherockjohnson5169

9 ай бұрын

Gun control is racist

It's important to note this isn't only limited to the USA. I live in Australia and the police are brutal towards Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander peoples. I have personally witnessed a small 12 year old indigenous girl get violently pinned to the wall by an over 6 foot police officer as she allegedly assaulted someone. When I filed a complaint, I got a call by a srgt who told me that she reviewed the footage and saw nothing wrong with the policeman's actions. She completely brushed off my allegations of excessive force and maintained he acted appropriately.

@unconventionalideas5683

10 ай бұрын

You should have sent it to the media and posted it to KZread. That would’ve made it into a national incident.

@nabstablook22

9 ай бұрын

That’s so horrible. I can’t believe the police are the same over here.

@calc2323

9 ай бұрын

In Perth they chuck indigenous people in the back of paddy wagons (no seatbelts are there at all) and speed over speedbumps for sport. One officer had a photo he took of a dead indigenous man he had discovered as his office desktop photo as a joke in the station. Lots of excessive force. Lots of discrimination.

@kaileymo

9 ай бұрын

True. Even though this is about the MPD, I don’t think it would be that much of a stretch to make some assumptions about every other police department. That may sound like a huge generalization, but I honestly don’t think it is. They love to throw around the line about “a few bad apples”, but seem to be purposely leaving out the last part of the anecdote.

@recursiveslacker7730

9 ай бұрын

@@unconventionalideas5683if you shed light on government corruption in Australia you just get your house set on fire, just ask friendlyjordies.

This is a problem that shouldn’t be viewed through the myopic lease of party politics. It concerns everyone

The saddest part of all of this is that this is a pattern mirrored by almost every police force in the United States.

@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327

9 ай бұрын

Not nearly as bad in other areas but yes its a big issue, its eerily similar in other countries like the uk to where the issue has been getting worse and worse

@RileyWritey

9 ай бұрын

​@@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327 British police are terrible but luckily unarmed most the time. They're also just pathetic and non-threatening in general.

@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327

9 ай бұрын

@@RileyWritey eh no british police regularly rape people and have committed unlawful violence many times. also there is an extreme lack of police focused on everyday crimes especially harder ones

Had property stolen by this group around 2016. Various valuables taken "as evidence" after a break-in. They claimed they never existed when I demanded them back after no case was brought against the suspect. These items were never returned. These people were (or are) extreme scum and can burn in hell.

The Jaywalking story really hit me as a British person especially because there are no such laws and pedestrians almost always have priority. It's just so fucking obvious these "people" are just looking for a legal outlet for their own violence and hatred.

@MTmerm

10 ай бұрын

these cops would have an anyeurism driving through any road thats decently busy with pedestrians

@AceRasputin

9 ай бұрын

So you think you can just walk down the middle of the M25 and nothing can be done to stop you? There’s no such laws?

@LeftPhilip

9 ай бұрын

​@AceRasputin what are you talking about jesse

@voigto

9 ай бұрын

@@AceRasputin Just in case you weren't being an obtuse fuckhead, no that would not be jaywalking. It would be against the RTRA, unless it is necessary for them to do so as a result of an accident or emergency or of a vehicle being at rest on a motorway.

@trutwhut6550

9 ай бұрын

​@@AceRasputinnot really, they could get in trouble for endangering the public with their actions if it was a particularly busy day.

I know it probably doesn’t interest you to make another police department video. But please check out the Anchorage PD in Alaska. They are notoriously inept, one of the most statistically violent police forces in the country both domestically speaking and towards civilians, and for the past 3 police chiefs have been successfully fighting back against body cams being issued. They finally got sued and forced to, and then a few weeks later release a statement delaying it by a year for no reason. Plz spread the word and help us make them accountable

America is such a terrifying place

@ViperPain141

10 күн бұрын

Don’t come here. Warn everyone one of this 3rd 1st world country.

You know your society is messed up when you have to supply the police with cameras to monitor their behaviour like a baby moniter. Due to how much they l ie.

@joearnold6881

10 ай бұрын

You know it’s messed up when them wearing cameras doesn’t even slow them down for a second. It’s terrifying

@justicemann4895

10 ай бұрын

The worst part is that they can just lie about the footage or it'll just be ignored if it doesn't fit the narrative they're trying to tell

@baskey3723

10 ай бұрын

AND THEY STILL TURN THEM OFF 00

@thebigmeme7534

10 ай бұрын

Even a healthy society should probably still have body cams. Ideally it keeps all cops in check. But they can just turn the things off with no consequences whatsoever so there isnt even a point to them now

@JonasWhitt

10 ай бұрын

I mean literally thats just 90% of people with power however large or minute, from discord mods to politicians, when your given a good deal of authority, oversight is basically required, as otherwise it will be abused. Even without all the controversy police have been in for the past 30 years, I honestly think body cams would be a good idea regardless, and such monitoring really should be extended to other professions as well.

One of my cousins called the Mpls police because her boyfriend assaulted her, they bullied her, yelled at her and acted like everything was her fault. She felt like they were mad at her for calling them and it added to an already traumatic experience. They treat everyone like garbage, black or white, men or women

@josephmocol1702

10 ай бұрын

MPD are made up of garbage people. Other departments in the metro look at MPD like they are fucking monsters. It says a lot when fellow cops from other departments don’t want to associate with you.

@vlad5042

10 ай бұрын

i love how annoyed cops get when they feel like you've wasted their time. like don't you know the time i've spent here talking down to you could've been spent doing something useful, like beating up someone's mother for not slowing down at a yellow light.

@hobocode

10 ай бұрын

Same thing happened to me in small town american. It's all cops everywhere.

@no_peace

10 ай бұрын

They treat everyone like garbage but they treat Black people worst. Any other identity only makes it worse.

@Demiglitch

10 ай бұрын

@@vlad5042 Hey, that's out of line! They don't need an excuse to beat up someone's mother.

As a teacher, I’m wondering what would happen to me if my de-escalation techniques mirrored the MPD’s.

@kaden-sd6vb

9 ай бұрын

As someone who has actually experienced that situation as a young child, both from father and school staff... not much would happen to you probably. You'd fuck up the kid mentally, but you'd get off Scott free.

There's this episode of Cops from the 90s that takes place in Minneapolis. An elder man barricades himself in his suburban home with a firearm, makes demands and has no hostages. The boys in blue deck themselves out in green fatigues, paint their faces, and pray to go completely Rambo on this guy. They wait behind cars, itching to pull the trigger. I found it a little disturbing. This video proves nothing has changed since.

@youtubeuniversity3638

7 ай бұрын

No hostages. The man is alone. In his home. And the cops plan to Rambo a man whose only real threat is that he'll shoot himself of all people...

I’ve always been shocked by videos of police tackling people, crying “stop resisting” while digging their knees into the back of their victims, making it out as if writhing in pain was the same as resisting arrest. My body would resist being piled on by some fat brute too. Absolute thugs.

@joemomma3648

10 ай бұрын

They aren't using excessive force because they believe the person is resisting, they're using excessive force to give the impression that they believe the person is resisting. It's a tactic of plausible deniability. If the body cam video is accidentally lost but the audio remains, then you can clearly tell they were resisting. And even if they weren't, the officer felt that they were so it's all justified.

@vlad5042

10 ай бұрын

yep you're just meant to lie there limp and let them throttle you even though that goes against all of your natural instincts. its like some bdsm sh/ except i didnt consent and using my safeword gets me punched in the teeth.

@galactic85

10 ай бұрын

It's to establish plausible deniability. It's been reported that in some trainings cops are told to shout "stop or ill shoot" AFTER they fire their gun because human memory is so flawed that by sanders will automatically reorder the events in their brain so that they remember the cop yelling a warning BEFORE shooting. Yelling "stop resisting" does something similar.

Dont call the police about mental health issues. Try to keep them as far away from the situation as possible

@Schemilix

10 ай бұрын

That goes for the UK too. Best case scenario someone gets put in the clink overnight possibly with no toilet.

@redblue9478

10 ай бұрын

Police are automatically injected into any mental health situation that involves a professional, whether or not you demand one not appear. It's why I haven't been to therapy in 20 years and would rather go out mauling people who would take my freedom in any form.

@mamizoumain

10 ай бұрын

I remember in college one girl on our floor was having a panic attack and she called 911 for help. The two cops that showed up broke into her room and arrested her. She was fine and back the next day, but it makes me angry that we don't have the services in place to properly treat mental health issues. Edit: she called the police herself

@karlperra586

10 ай бұрын

Yep! My dad is a cop and he thinks anyone mentally ill has a demon in them and needs a beating or an exorcism. Not the South... California.

@Lucasp110

10 ай бұрын

Here in Brazil we have 190, 192 and 193 190 calls the police, 192 calls SAMU (emts and ambulances), 193 calls the firefighters Cant see the point of calling a police officer for health matters

jesus it starts with "sit right there i'm gonna mace ya" this is gonna be a rough one huh

"If you can't choke them, you have to punch them" Interesting, I think Jocko Willink said the same thing on the Joe Rogan podcast. He said chokes were harmless if done right, and preferable to punches, because punches can cause brain damage. But I highly doubt most if any cops have the restraint not to take it too far.

As someone who lives in the city this report doesn't even feel vindicating. You see this and sometimes more as part of daily life. Even the campus, which has its own police force, has pigs driving across the bridge on the pedestrian level. I have been harassed by cops in cars driving behind me on the sidewalk. THE SIDEWALK.

@drinklewinkle

10 ай бұрын

Those U cops are absolute garbage, I was stuck working at the Walgreens on University by the East Bank stop and they were literally within sightline of us and every business on that block. To the point that if anyone called 9/11 it would go to them first, but they did fuckall to help if we ever had medical emergencies, threats, students in danger. The fuck are they there for then? To go around and harass kids at the U, because I sure as hell didn't see them doing anything ever.

@TheTransitmtl

10 ай бұрын

I am so sorry you have to live this. As a Canadian living in Montreal this is shocking. By no means is our police department blameless but I would never hesitate to call them. I have seen them de-escalate more often than not.

@makeitthrough_

10 ай бұрын

​​@@TheTransitmtl​ "As a Canadian living in Montreal" Jesus Christ, I'm so sorry to hear that. Like, Canada in general is fine but Montreal sounds like a full on corrupt shitshow

@Ayanislucky

10 ай бұрын

The U of M cops are evil

@chrismanuel9768

10 ай бұрын

​@@TheTransitmtlAs an American, I've literally had a cop that thought he was my friend brag that he liked to pretend his flashlight was a bodycam so he could get people to fall in line, but that he didn't have to worry about doing whatever he wanted because none of them actually wear bodycams

Generous to say 'failed to de-escalate' when all the examples so far the police have escalated a normal situation into something violent. Refusing unwanted untrained treatment for a broken nose, jaywalking, and not wearing a seat-belt all escalated to armed assault.

@juniperrodley9843

10 ай бұрын

"Failed" implies they were trying in the first place.

Cops and Klan go Hand in Hand. Same now as ever.

I still remember that haunting horrible footage of the elderly man just walking during the 2020 protests and the cops pushed him on the ground. He had a serious brain injury and couldn’t walk for weeks. But their charges were dismissed ultimately. How can we possibly be okay with a system that does this?

@mechanomics2649

10 ай бұрын

Lots and lots of propaganda. Generation after generation is told, from a young age: "Police are good, police are your friends." They're taught that police are heroes and paragons of good.

@michaelfiori6700

10 ай бұрын

Then trump made of him and said he was faking it. No joke look it up. The president at the time said that old Mas antifa and was faking it.

@falcon_arkaig

10 ай бұрын

I just BET if a civilian pushed that elderly man and caused brain damage they'd be in jail. But for some reason Cops don't get punished? What kind of justice system is that?

@hairymcnipples

10 ай бұрын

Because it's literally what they're there for. Unfortunately peaceful protest is unlikely to fix this. The role of the police in the USA is to terrorize the citizenry until they cannot challenge capital. Police in other liberal nations have similar aims but more palatable - or at least less obviously abhorrent - methods.

@intensebug

3 ай бұрын

Worst part is he had an officer's helmet in his hand and was trying to return it. A simple act of kindness and this guy ends up on the concrete, blood pooling around his head while the police step around and over him. One pauses out of basic functioning empathy and his buddy notices and pulls him along. Like a half hour drive from my old place. No accountability. It's so transparently evil.

As a 60+ allocishet white guy, I'm probably the least likely to suffer abuse at the hands of MPD, but I still get nervous when I see a cruiser, especially in my rear view mirror. I live about a mile from where George Floyd was murdered, and I was in multiple protests that summer. Little, if anything has changed, except Derek Chauvin is no longer on the force. Thanks for keeping this subject fresh in people's minds.

@mindlander

10 ай бұрын

Black people must terrify you.

@UberNerdMaster

10 ай бұрын

​@mindlander get a life

@mindlander

10 ай бұрын

@@UberNerdMaster okay nerd.

@breakingboardrooms1778

10 ай бұрын

Sounds like you're one of the people in the best position to do something about the MPD.

@needsmetal

10 ай бұрын

what has changed is the increase in carjackings and the dumb crashing into innocent people on 94

This genuinely fucking terrifies me. I live in the county and am very vulnerable to this shit. Knowing i could be a victim of this behavior for simply walking down the street forces me inside my house in utter fear.

this is exactly what we mean when we say acab. maybe not all 517 officers did something like this, but they were all complicit. A cop who so much as lets this happen unreported is a terrible cop.

@Yoraeryu

5 ай бұрын

there are two types of good cops: former cops and Former cops

It's somewhat surreal to see a Big Joel video about my hometown, and depressing that it's to rightfully highlight our city's brutal and despicable police force. Two bits of added context: 1) The city voted on and failed to pass a resolution to dissolve the MPD and establish a new Department of Public Safety, an umbrella department which would distribute funds between police and social services (i.e. defund the police). It was a bitter disappointment when the vote failed. 2) The story about the racist cop ranting about Black Hawk Down is even more bone-chilling when you know that Minneapolis has one of the largest Somali immigrant populations in America, and the Cedar-Riverside area, often called "Little Mogadishu" by locals, has become a hotbed for rightwing misinformation and stochastic terrorism. A few years back, a bunch of extremist "journalists" made a series of videos stomping around town in bulletproof vests, claiming that the city was unsafe and that Little Mogadishu in particular is a "warzone." There are people who've never been to our city that believe whole neighborhoods were burned to the ground and the streets are a crime-filled hellhole, and the centerpiece of their fear is that Somali neighborhood. (To be clear: The city is fine and that neighborhood is as safe as any other. The area is near the University of Minnesota's main campus and features several concert venues, theaters, and restaurants. It's a low-income neighborhood in the heart of the city. Is there crime? Sure. Crime exists everywhere. But I've walked around that neighborhood many times and will do so many more, and never felt unsafe.) So when he references Black Hawk Down, he's speaking very specifically about the slaughter of Somalis by the US military and invoking it to threaten migrants who escaped that country's civil war to come live here where they were supposed to be safe. It's extremely dark

@justsomeredspy

10 ай бұрын

Oh shit, I completely forgot about those larpers roaming around in bullet proof vests. Didn't they also claim that they had elite special forces body guards with them for their own protection? I have my fair share of opinions about crime in Minneapolis, but that whole incident was so completely idiotic that I genuinely believed it was supposed to be a parody the first time I saw it. Then, I found out it wasn't a parody and that made me very sad.

@bornstar481

10 ай бұрын

Wow

@lavellelee5734

10 ай бұрын

Goddamn 😢

@lavellelee5734

10 ай бұрын

​@@justsomeredspythat actually happened?

@AK-bf2ho

9 ай бұрын

Surreal is damn right. Seeing the place I live in, in the news all over the country and even in some other countries, for this kind of reason....I don't even know where I'm going with this. It just left me feeling so hopeless. And Minnesota is supposed to be a democratic state. This is just depressing.

Lived in Minneapolis, grew up there actually. Got robbed at least 50 times, maybe more. Still got more love for anyone walking the street than any cop in that city. I remember getting jumped by some oldheads about one block off nicolette mall (a busy downtown parkway). It was probably about 1 am, and they had me pushed up against a wall and were kicking my friend repeatedly in the ribs and stomach. Cops drove by us, window open, looked right at us and did nothing. Nothing. Just kept driving. What purpose do they serve I wonder. One of the oldheads caught up with me and we ended up being cool with each other because we stayed in the same building. He made it up to me. Criminal gang members who beat up my friend and stole my money and already broken iphone are nicer and more apologetic than cops in that city.

@shinballzilla9048

9 ай бұрын

That is a very scary thought holy shit

@user-md3wm7vu1f

9 ай бұрын

how do you get robbed 50 times? do you spend lots of time outside late at night or are you extremely short or something?

@0r0chimaruG0ku

9 ай бұрын

@user-md3wm7vu1f people look at me and say "now there's a guy that won't shoot us if we run his pockets"

@0r0chimaruG0ku

9 ай бұрын

@@user-md3wm7vu1f have you ever been robbed?

@03eeon

9 ай бұрын

This is interesting to me. I live in a very safe city and have never been victimized despite being relatively frail and passive. I think it’s because I’m black in a majority white town, but it’s actually crazy to me that someone can have been robbed/jumped 50 times. Did you not think to get a gun for protection?

These actions border on terrorism.

@cool-wf9cr

4 ай бұрын

they are

Minneapolis police is the reason I didn't call the cops on a drunk guy that opened my door. I handled the situation fine, realized he was no threat and kicked him out. But I wasn't going to have blood on my hands.

As a Minnesotan, let me recommend you look into the police using Ketamine on people. It happened to my buddy as he was peeing in an alley. They accused him of a sex crime, drugged him, then tried to get him to sign papers while under the influence. Behind the Bastards Podcast, did a great deep dive into MPD

@benjamincox4211

9 ай бұрын

Yeah they overdosed an autistic black man in Colorado with ketamine injections

@emmanuelle2977

9 ай бұрын

that is so fucked up

Anyone who thinks that running away with stolen sneakers is a valid reason to get choked, is 100% on their bullshit lol

@drewpeacock9087

10 ай бұрын

Unless they literally turned around and tried to attack the officer ig, and even then there are surely better ways to manage the situation. As established though the police don't need a reason other than deciding to punish you

"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" is one of the Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro's tag lines. This is exactly the type of behavior i have encountered with the pigs in my comparatively small coty in the south. If this was the DOJ's finding of just Minneapolis, think about our entire nation.

Jaywalking should not be a crime

@moistenedwall1003

5 сағат бұрын

for REAL. stuff like strict anti-jaywalking or loitering laws seem like they're in place explicitly so police can confront ordinary people and escalate innocuous, harmless, or even necessary behavior into criminalization and arrests.

“The dogs lived, by the way. They’re living dogs.” A tiny island of relief in this awful sea of sadness and anger.

@sentientnatalie

10 ай бұрын

Definitely, most dogs are just mag-dumped to death by this scum.

As someone who has dealt with and heard stories about the MPD, I am so glad you made this video. I am a white woman and all of my interactions with them have been horrible. I am sickened by the way they treat people of color. I have a girlfriend who was in an abusive relationship with an MPD cop. They ended up promoting him to sergeant. Anyone who is proud of these cops has not spent any time with them.

@fluxonite4254

9 ай бұрын

Police officers have the highest rates of domestic violence of any occupation. This is a documented fact. 👍

@gigachad6885

9 ай бұрын

Then go spend more time with black people (who are 13% of the population, yet do 52% of the crimes, and 60% of the murders), I'm sure you will be sooo much safer... Afterall, the few tickets, harsh words and rough handlings you had are much worse that high amounts of rapes and murders, right ? Yes those cops suck and are corrupt, but the people they deal with on a daily basis are even worse. Avoiding both will help you live a safer life

@Stuck_in_the_US

9 ай бұрын

If you think mpd is bad the entire Arkansas government is/ was pure hell(look up the boys on the track)

i’m barely through the excessive force section and i feel sick to my stomach. holy fuck

@Hinipe

23 күн бұрын

Me too, had to take breaks from watching.

a really well made video, thanks for making it, people should definitely know about this report

minneapolis resident here! loved this video, you did an excellent job showing how fucked our police are. one thing you also could have mentioned, our police are notorious for failing to investigate sexual assault cases. in 2019, it came out that minneapolis police failed to test 1700 rape kits in the past 30 years

I was born and raised in Minneapolis and I can say first hand that this is one of the most calculated and evil gangs in the history of America. I have not only been the victim of this but have first hand seen the effects of this. One of my first exposures to this was coming home and at the end of my street was a dealers house and me and my friends saw the cops violently raiding the house. This culminated with the cops releasing an attack dog on a man who was on the ground face down begging for his life I will never forget the sounds he made I really hope he’s okay today

@shaunbarrie2263

10 ай бұрын

This sounds like the kind of situation one would think to call the police for, and yet...

@oldgreenknees1205

10 ай бұрын

Cops only treat you the way you let them. #2ndAmendmentIsForCorruptGovernmwnt

@lavellelee5734

10 ай бұрын

​@@shaunbarrie2263they're already there 😅

Thank you for clarifying that the dogs lived.

I live in North Minneapolis. Can confirm. MPD is absolute garbage. I live in a majority POC neighborhood and it’s appalling how the police treat the community, and how underserved we are in terms of actual safety and law enforcement in an appropriate helpful way. I’ve had to call the police many many times and they have never helped.

@arfinjalal4563

20 сағат бұрын

Hey baron its terrible you live in a city that has a gang that pretends to be cops