The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

[Duque de Bragança]

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill were big in France as well. It's not like the Italian versions were direct sound so even the Italian versions were post-synced. Bud Spencer was dubbed by somebody due to his alleged thick Neapolitan accent.

[FunkMonk]

Replace all Confederate statues with statues of Callista Flockhart.

[Eddie Teach]

Replace all Confederate statues with statues of Callista Flockhart.

And people say I'm random.

[Solmyr]

A compromise has been suggested for the statue of Leopold II in Belgium:

[derspiess]

[Sheilbh]

Thai paper story on the US protests in the "Western foreign correspondent" voice:

Foreign Affairs: Unrest continues for a seventh day in former British colony
Cod Satrusayang
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Cod Satrusayang
June 2, 2020
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Unrest and protests continued for a seventh straight day in the former British colony of the United States as the government vowed to use its military to end the demonstrations, US media reported on Tuesday.

The protests began in the small province of Minnesota, located in the agrarian 'Middle West,' over the killing of an ethnic minority by state security forces.

Protests led by the minority 'black' community have erupted throughout the country with the minority group calling for equal rights and better treatment from the government. Protesters have set fire to government installations and looted buildings throughout the country as clashes with security forces continue. The security forces have tried to disperse the protesters with tear gas, rubber bullets and batons but to no avail.

US President Donald Trump, who was 'elected' in 2016 despite the majority of votes going to his rival candidate, vowed in a speech to bring in the military to end the protests.

"I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them," Trump said in a national address.

Trump used the opportunity to walk to a religious temple in the national capital Washington DC to proclaim his religious affiliation. Holding a Christian bible in his hand, Trump declared the US "a great nation."

Religious fundamentalism and minority suppression has long been a problem in the former British colony.

The United States has had a long history of suppressing and persecuting its various ethnic minorities since the country gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1776.

The treatment of its indigenous 'Native Americans,' its imported Asian and Black communities, and its Hispanic community has long been a source of friction.

American black minority groups were under a program similar to South Africa's Apartheid policy until as recently as 1964. Today, the ethnic black community is still detained and killed with impunity by the state security forces and black Americans make up the majority of those incarcerated under the country's archaic judicial system.

Religion also plays a major role in governance with religious beliefs separating key state organs including the country's highest court where many social laws are passed based on the justices personally held religious convictions.

[Disclaimer: Native Americans is in quotations because it is a blanket term used by the ruling class of the US to call the country's original inhabitants before the Anglo-European invasion. The 'Native Americans' are comprised of thousands of tribes, all with their own culture, language and traditions.]

[Admiral Yi]

 

[Tamas]

  That it awesome.

[garbon]

[Maladict]

 

[Syt]

It's an older case (from 2016, though bodycam footage was only released last year), but it really gets to me. Imagine calling 911 for help with a mental health crisis and they cops end up killing you.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tony-timpa-disturbing-video-shows-dallas-officers-joking-as-they-restrain-man-who-died/

Disturbing video shows Dallas officers joking as they restrain man who died

Disturbing police body camera footage released Wednesday shows a man being restrained by Dallas officers before his death and yelling, "You're gonna kill me!"

The footage showing the August 2016 death of Tony Timpa in Dallas shows an officer pinning him to the ground with his hands cuffed behind him for nearly 14 minutes as the 32-year-old eventually becomes unresponsive. Officers are heard joking that Timpa had fallen asleep, with one yelling "five more minutes, mom!"

Timpa's death in the parking lot of an adult video store came after he called 911, saying he was off his medication for schizophrenia and depression and needed help. Questions about what happened in the moments leading to his death have swirled as city officials argued against the release of the body camera footage, according to the Dallas Morning News, but a judge on Monday sided with news outlets who had sought to make the video public.

In a federal lawsuit alleging excessive force, Timpa's family claims the officers "recklessly" and "knowingly" killed the man.

"He was expecting someone to help him, that's why he called," Timpa's mother Vicki Timpa told CBS Dallas / Fort Worth in 2018, after the family had viewed the body camera footage but before it was made public. "He wasn't expecting several police to kill him."

A medical examiner ruled Timpa's death a homicide, and listed the cause as "sudden cardiac death" caused by "the toxic effects of cocaine and physiological stress associated with physical restraint," reports CBS DFW. Sgt. Kevin Mansell, Officer Danny Vasquez and Officer Dustin Dillard were indicted on misdemeanor deadly conduct charges in December. But the Dallas County District Attorney's office dismissed the charges in March, saying three medical examiners had concluded the officers' conduct was not reckless.

The three officers were placed on administrative leave but returned to full duty in April, according to Dallas police. Dallas police said Vasquez and another officer, Raymond Dominguez, were disciplined for "being discourteous and unprofessionalism."

The department wouldn't comment on the video because of the pending litigation.

Police incident reports cited by the Morning News say Timpa's behavior was aggressive and combative, but the video shows Timpa writhing as he apparently struggles to breathe, repeatedly asking the officers to stop restraining him. He's heard yelling, "Help me!"

Timpa was unarmed and had already been handcuffed by a private security guard before officers arrived, the paper reports.

As Timpa becomes unresponsive, an officer says he appears to be "out cold," and they laugh and joke about him being asleep, saying, "It's time for school, wake up!"

Another says, "I don't want to go to school! Five more minutes, Mom!"

Paramedics are seen administering a sedative and transferring him onto a gurney and into an ambulance. Timpa is apparently unresponsive. One of the officers asks: "He didn't just die down there, did he?" and "Hope I didn't kill him."

Paramedics later inform the officers that Timpa has died.

Speaking last year to CBS DFW,  Dallas Police Association president Michael Mata said the officers followed department policy and their actions had nothing to do with Timpa's death.

"My heart goes out to his mother," Mata said. "I would hate to lose a child but what killed that man was 20 years of drug abuse."

Vicki Timpa told CBS DFW that her son struggled with alcohol and drugs, but called Mata's statement an "absurd falsehood." 

An attorney for Timpa's family, Geoff Henley, told CBS DFW on Wednesday that officers had no reason to use that kind of restraint for that long.

"Tony Timpa shouldn't have died that night," Henley said.

[HVC]

What the cops did is brutal, and they should go away for it, but why did the paramedics sedate an unconscious man?

[Syt]

Ohio's finest!

[Syt]

What the cops did is brutal, and they should go away for it, but why did the paramedics sedate an unconscious man?

Beats me.

[The Brain]

How else would they be able to claim that drugs killed him?