They got to play with their toys. Look at their facial expressions and body language, not a single one gives a damn about that man, I bet they’re living a wet dream right now.
I'm guessing this dude was near the crowd when the cops started shooting into it. I just can't believe anyone would actually target this guy and shoot him right in the face.
It riles up the people. I mostly think those cops are just extremists who abandoned reason and work on hate and anger. Basically a representation of the society.
Who thinks cops are brave anymore after being scared shitless to the point of drawing weapons on handcuffed black dudes, pregnant women and homeless people in wheelchairs?
I want to hear from some cops. What the fuck do you make of this? How does this make you feel about your profession? Does it weigh on your mind, at all?
Are the cops aiming those rubber bullets to everyone’s face? I’ve seen a lot of pics of people loosing eyes to being shit in face. WTF?! I feel bad for this man.
Sadly, cops kill and brutalize disabled people at hugely disproportionate rates. Especially, Black disabled people already know to fear police even in average encounters like that article you referenced to.
The cop punching the suicidal man laying in a hospital bed is quite possibly the most heartbreaking video I've seen when it comes to police brutality. You can tell he's in absolute agony before being assaulted. Then it turned out the same officer punched him in the lobby earlier right in front of hospital staff and other patients for no reason at all other than he was annoyed with him.
If you hate this, you're gonna hate that cops routinely harass, assault and demonize homeless people every single day and have done since time immemorial. ACAB.
LAPD actively targets and harasses homeless people every single day and has done so for decades. As someone who lived near downtown, I cant tell you how many times I saw LAPD just show up out of the blue to provoke homeless people that were minding their own business or the amount of times that they do sweeps and just confiscate all the possessions of homeless people on a street. The city even made it illegal to fucking sleep in your car in most places, so if you're homeless but have a car to live in, the city would rather have you out on the street. Fucking evil.
It's all blending together for me there's so much of it. Literally dozens of pictures and videos a day of this kind of brutality. What the fuck is it going to take to change this shit permanently? They pretend to be on our side one day and then shoot us the next.
There is a foto where one cop drives him away after that and at least seems to offer some help. I don't live in the US, so I don't know whether that's normal First shoot, than assist or what?
For an entire country full of guns, the police sure are pretty confident that people don’t hold grudges... can’t speak for anyone else, but I wouldn’t exactly be happy if my family member became disabled or died at the hands of someone who lives in my community.
That's seems to be the whole point, they're almost trying to provoke violence out of these protests. If someone brings a gun and open fires on them, that'll give them justification to be even more totalitarian in every city. Remember, they only broke out the riot gear as "response to rioting", yet days later without any riots taking place, they're STILL in full force and just as aggressive, at every single protest instead of just the cities that have a history of turning into a possible riot.
No one deserves that kind of indignity - the summary of their life circumstances to lead to that experience has got to be awful. Of course, a high priority target for any self-respecting fascist.
Aside from possibly not being fully in charge of his faculties or possibly being caught going to the bathroom/sleeping/whatever, if the police or other protestors touched him at all or he fell out of his chair when shot, that could cause it too. It's relatively common for victims of police brutality to lose pants and shoes along the way, you can see it in some videos, if you're being moved around and they don't fit right, they're gone. IIRC Daniel Shaver was famously shot while trying to pull up his pants when they started falling down after police officers made him play Simon Says on the floor.
Mentally ill people often lack self awareness and end up doing stuff like taking off their clothes in inappropriate places. I see it quite often in urban areas. Since he is homeless, it is fairly likely he is mentally ill.
This is the reason why police officers are putting tape over their badge numbers and lying about it being a memorial for fellow officers with covid. Why their unions are denying to give the names of officers accused of assault.
The response to police officers covering their badges and not giving their names should be to just ask the other police officers who work with them to identify them, and if they refuse, then to fire the whole department and arrest them all for the crimes that officer committed. They're a spoiled bunch at that point who can't be salvaged. See how many of them are willing to protect their own when they all get fired and put behind bars if they try to cover up their crimes.
Don't give up too soon man. There is still hope as long as the people are actively out there fighting for their rights. I really hope Americans can make a better America than right now .
I think Americans should really consider open source documenting the names of all police officers in every single state. It really seems like taxpayers are financing the employment of thousands of serial killers across the nation. I don't think it's appropriate for Americans to not be aware they're near someone who's a danger to themselves.
What about all those other cops that just watched it? Imagine continuing to work alongside a coworker who just shot a disabled homeless man in the face. It isn't just the one cop pulling the trigger in every one of these pictures. They aren't the bad apples. Look at this photo. It isn't that one cop. It's
Supposed to be the best country in the world? Proper horse shit. That's only what Americans are told, I don't know a single person who thinks this, it's practically a 3rd world country in a 1st world costume, while the latter is rapidly fading at the moment.
Well Im glad to live in America where at least I know Im free; to get shot by rubber bullets and stomped out by police and watch them kill minorities and Ill proudly stand up next to you while we're looting our own country; cause there aint no doubt we've fucked this land. In pepperonis rest the USA!
Not sure why people are downvoting you without answering your question, but I believe it was a rubber bullet. It's likely that a real bullet to the head would be lethal, though you'd be surprised how much brain matter you can lose and survive.
Rubber bullet. But people need to stop thinking of rubber bullets like it’s some quick moving wad of chewed gum. Rubber bullets are like if you shaped a hockey puck into a large bullet, then added a steel core. Shooting them at someone’s head can give a concussion, subdermal hemotoma, hemorrhage, or it can kill.
There's not a shred of humanity left in these cops. The only way they can do this to someone in a wheelchair like that is if they really, really, deep down in their hearts, don't see them as human at all and would just as likely have shot him with live rounds if it was allowed for him to do so.
The context here is that the LAPD was rounding up and arresting curfew violators. Curfew in LA was 6pm on June 2, which is when this video frame was taken.
Careful, countering an exaggerated narrative gets you banned these days. Although, I would argue that any form of 'curfew' is just begging for more civil disobedience and fatal clashes.
Ok since we’re talking truth now, OP is being fishy by posting the photo cropped, when u see the line of officers in full, u see the dumbass that shot him and over half of them are pointing at said dumbass. Idk if they will report him but they were clearly not happy with the guy that did it.
Thanks for the context. Figured as much. No way some policeman shot some lone man in a wheelchair in the face but of course Reddit loves to believe otherwise. Reddit is cancer.
LA is structured strangely. For most cities, "downtown" is super gentrified and clean and heavily populated.. and while it's slowly moving in that direction, downtown LA is reaaly gritty whereas other neighborhoods are more associated with.. not being "a dump"
This photo is propaganda. It is a carefully chosen frame from a video designed to make you think that this homeless guy with his pants down was all alone, minding his own business, gunned down by the cops at close range.
Slow down. I understand the sentiment but sometimes it can feel like we are generalizing. Of course you see these pictures and it breaks your heart, and we need to be clear about holding the officers who are responsible accountable. But many of us know police officers, they are family, friends, neighbors. I think it's important that we not overlook those people we love who believe they are doing the right thing, and got into this job to help people. So to be clear they are 100% a bastard piece of shit no matter how much you think they aren't. Your uncle Jimmy is a bastard. There are no good cops. You give up being a good person to become a cop.
Police have been arguing violently for the last week or two that they are above the law. Shooting a helpless, crippled, old, homeless veteran in the face is a good way for them to underline that fact for the slow people who don’t get it.
I woulda shot him too. I mean look how ferocious and intimidating he is. Good thing none of those cops got hurt. Phew ..coulda gotten ugly. /s fuckin shit bags
He still might be homeless after, since most homeless people suffer from mental problems. There have been stories where homeless struck big and in no time ended up homeless.
Now this I can get behind, police brutality. This is what people need to be protesting! This is the problem, This should be in giant letters around the White House
I support cops because not every cop is bad. Sure the one who shot that man is, as is the ones who were involved with George Floyd’s death are but assuming this is just as bad as making assumptions about race for the actions of one.
This is why 150 million out of a 3 billion dollar budget isnt enough of a budget cut. They need to lose a ton of money and the money that they have needs to go mostly to proper training and less to military gear
"Stop resisting!"
“Put your hands behind your head and walk backwards towards the sound of my voice. He is resisting arrest shoot him!”
"I'm paralyzed" "Just stop resisting!"
What did shooting this guy accomplish exactly
With the right lawyer, he'll never be homeless again.
what does any of this accomplish besides fear...
They might have thought that the wheelchair was a pretty clear threat against their militarized weapons and gear
They got to play with their toys. Look at their facial expressions and body language, not a single one gives a damn about that man, I bet they’re living a wet dream right now.
They're cops. This is how they get off. And then they get off.
Makes people more afraid of the police, thus giving the government more power.
It gave them a power high. That's basically why they became cops.
Made their dicks real, real hard.
It shows how people who are paid +150k to 'serve and protect' care for the homeless and mentally ill.
Owning the libs
I'm guessing this dude was near the crowd when the cops started shooting into it. I just can't believe anyone would actually target this guy and shoot him right in the face.
It riles up the people. I mostly think those cops are just extremists who abandoned reason and work on hate and anger. Basically a representation of the society.
Who thinks cops are brave anymore after being scared shitless to the point of drawing weapons on handcuffed black dudes, pregnant women and homeless people in wheelchairs?
I don't think they are tough or brave after they made it known they don't have to help you.
I want to hear from some cops. What the fuck do you make of this? How does this make you feel about your profession? Does it weigh on your mind, at all?
...and the elderly. Don’t forget the terribly threatening elderly.
I can't find any news articles on this, can someone link one?
Read from the 2nd paragraph
Are the cops aiming those rubber bullets to everyone’s face? I’ve seen a lot of pics of people loosing eyes to being shit in face. WTF?! I feel bad for this man.
There are three possibilities.
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Sadly, cops kill and brutalize disabled people at hugely disproportionate rates. Especially, Black disabled people already know to fear police even in average encounters like that article you referenced to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kelly_Thomas
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/03/police-officer-pushes-over-man-wheelchair-video
The cop punching the suicidal man laying in a hospital bed is quite possibly the most heartbreaking video I've seen when it comes to police brutality. You can tell he's in absolute agony before being assaulted. Then it turned out the same officer punched him in the lobby earlier right in front of hospital staff and other patients for no reason at all other than he was annoyed with him.
If you hate this, you're gonna hate that cops routinely harass, assault and demonize homeless people every single day and have done since time immemorial. ACAB.
LAPD actively targets and harasses homeless people every single day and has done so for decades. As someone who lived near downtown, I cant tell you how many times I saw LAPD just show up out of the blue to provoke homeless people that were minding their own business or the amount of times that they do sweeps and just confiscate all the possessions of homeless people on a street. The city even made it illegal to fucking sleep in your car in most places, so if you're homeless but have a car to live in, the city would rather have you out on the street. Fucking evil.
They look like they playing call of duty and trying to get the next shot as quick as possible.
It's all blending together for me there's so much of it. Literally dozens of pictures and videos a day of this kind of brutality. What the fuck is it going to take to change this shit permanently? They pretend to be on our side one day and then shoot us the next.
Lock every one of those cops up. They’re all thugs.
That happened in 2015 and the page says it’s under investigation...... please tell me someone just forgot to update it
Yeap extremely disturbing and heart breaking to see
Every other cop nearby is also an irredeemable piece of shit
There is a foto where one cop drives him away after that and at least seems to offer some help. I don't live in the US, so I don't know whether that's normal First shoot, than assist or what?
2015, still under investigation, this country is fucked
One of these days they are going to push someone or a group of someone’s a little too far.
For an entire country full of guns, the police sure are pretty confident that people don’t hold grudges... can’t speak for anyone else, but I wouldn’t exactly be happy if my family member became disabled or died at the hands of someone who lives in my community.
Every single cop in this picture deserves to be punished. Either for pulling the trigger or for not arresting the cop who did.
Like.... Americans?
Christopher Dorner. Was one of their own. Went on rampage for revenge, and in process looking for him. The LAPD shot up some Grandma's.
That's seems to be the whole point, they're almost trying to provoke violence out of these protests. If someone brings a gun and open fires on them, that'll give them justification to be even more totalitarian in every city. Remember, they only broke out the riot gear as "response to rioting", yet days later without any riots taking place, they're STILL in full force and just as aggressive, at every single protest instead of just the cities that have a history of turning into a possible riot.
i can see someone sitting on their porch and randomly getting shot for no reason, actually firing back
Is that a wheelchair pun?
I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
The entire institution of the police is unfit for purpose and should be scrapped. Do away with the bourgeois state while we're at it.
So sick of this shit. This is infuriating and heart-breaking! I hope that man is ok!
No one deserves that kind of indignity - the summary of their life circumstances to lead to that experience has got to be awful. Of course, a high priority target for any self-respecting fascist.
You used the perfect words: infuriating and heart breaking. this is just that.
this is exactly why we are protesting. personally, this isnt a black/white issue. its a police issue.
I'd be delighted but surprised if he didn't lose the eye.
Considering he's homeless, in a wheelchair and recently shot in the face, I kinda doubt he's okay.
Why are his pants down?
Aside from possibly not being fully in charge of his faculties or possibly being caught going to the bathroom/sleeping/whatever, if the police or other protestors touched him at all or he fell out of his chair when shot, that could cause it too. It's relatively common for victims of police brutality to lose pants and shoes along the way, you can see it in some videos, if you're being moved around and they don't fit right, they're gone. IIRC Daniel Shaver was famously shot while trying to pull up his pants when they started falling down after police officers made him play Simon Says on the floor.
Mentally ill people often lack self awareness and end up doing stuff like taking off their clothes in inappropriate places. I see it quite often in urban areas. Since he is homeless, it is fairly likely he is mentally ill.
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Lots of wheelchair users wear loose or elastic pants to make it easier when they need to use the restroom.
They probably tried pulling him from his chair by his legs.
A lot of homeless people wear donated clothes. My guess is that they're too big for him and have slipped down.
This is the reason why police officers are putting tape over their badge numbers and lying about it being a memorial for fellow officers with covid. Why their unions are denying to give the names of officers accused of assault.
The response to police officers covering their badges and not giving their names should be to just ask the other police officers who work with them to identify them, and if they refuse, then to fire the whole department and arrest them all for the crimes that officer committed. They're a spoiled bunch at that point who can't be salvaged. See how many of them are willing to protect their own when they all get fired and put behind bars if they try to cover up their crimes.
My family is very patriotic and loves America, but right now I see it as a shithole
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Patriotism is fighting to make your country better man, even though it's hard and you could just move somewhere else.
Don't give up too soon man. There is still hope as long as the people are actively out there fighting for their rights. I really hope Americans can make a better America than right now .
unless you're protesting literally nothing has changed day-to-day, err well besides the pandemic
What is the cop’s name? I’d like to follow this story to see if he’s brought to justice.
Oh my sweet summer child
I think Americans should really consider open source documenting the names of all police officers in every single state. It really seems like taxpayers are financing the employment of thousands of serial killers across the nation. I don't think it's appropriate for Americans to not be aware they're near someone who's a danger to themselves.
Hijacking this top comment comment to say our priority should be finding the VICTIM 's name.
What about all those other cops that just watched it? Imagine continuing to work alongside a coworker who just shot a disabled homeless man in the face. It isn't just the one cop pulling the trigger in every one of these pictures. They aren't the bad apples. Look at this photo. It isn't that one cop. It's
Life threatening homeless man in a wheelchair.
Largest gang in existence
Must be celebrating lifting the curfew
In the eye too, what the fuck is wrong with you americans police your supposed to be the best countrie in the world
Supposed to be the best country in the world? Proper horse shit. That's only what Americans are told, I don't know a single person who thinks this, it's practically a 3rd world country in a 1st world costume, while the latter is rapidly fading at the moment.
Since when did anyone on reddit ever think america was a good place to live
Clearly the cop was “in fear of his life”, despite the fact he had two dozen other cops standing right beside him. / s
And he was in a wheelchair
"look he is coming right for us".
link to news story? source of picture?
The comment right above this one I think (at least on my screen)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/gx9pwu/the_lapd_shot_a_homeless_man_in_a_wheelchair_in/ft0b02e?context=3
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/03/police-officer-pushes-over-man-wheelchair-video
I'm moving to singapore
Good idea. But the cops there might kill you for chewing gum.
They do cane people there though, but fortunately that’s my kink
May I come with you?
It's not the heaven most people claim it is. It's a great country, sure.
Big brain move hope you don't smoke weed or litter
Come to India
I’m going to assume this is a joke
Oh where you can go to jail for chewing gum or littering? Have fun!
Yeah, better go to a way way more authoritarian country if you dislike police
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Well Im glad to live in America where at least I know Im free; to get shot by rubber bullets and stomped out by police and watch them kill minorities and Ill proudly stand up next to you while we're looting our own country; cause there aint no doubt we've fucked this land. In pepperonis rest the USA!
So glad to live in Australia
Is this with a bullet or rubber gun?
Not sure why people are downvoting you without answering your question, but I believe it was a rubber bullet. It's likely that a real bullet to the head would be lethal, though you'd be surprised how much brain matter you can lose and survive.
Rubber bullet. But people need to stop thinking of rubber bullets like it’s some quick moving wad of chewed gum. Rubber bullets are like if you shaped a hockey puck into a large bullet, then added a steel core. Shooting them at someone’s head can give a concussion, subdermal hemotoma, hemorrhage, or it can kill.
Rubber bullet
Instead of looting we need to arrange a fucking crusade
He was clearly a danger to us all, which is why the police shot him in the face. Isn’t it obvious?
Yeah, maybe he looked pretty dangerous to the police too. He could bump an officer with his wheelchair and it would hurt them really bad.
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Yeah all bad cops can die I’d go to sleep that night and have a beautiful dream
I'm cool with it
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There's not a shred of humanity left in these cops. The only way they can do this to someone in a wheelchair like that is if they really, really, deep down in their hearts, don't see them as human at all and would just as likely have shot him with live rounds if it was allowed for him to do so.
I never really believed in the whole "orders" thing. Thats just a cover to do things you really want to do anyway.
Wait, lemme guess. This was by accident, right?
An accident he wasn't killed probably.
Looking at pic closer he may have lost that left eye.
Seriously USA,wtf?
I live in the USA and i agree with your statement
The National Guard just needs to relieve the police force entirely at this point
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Why are they continually aiming for the face? Pieces of shit
Because they can. And most of them want to.
Because they are assholes and they want to kill people
The context here is that the LAPD was rounding up and arresting curfew violators. Curfew in LA was 6pm on June 2, which is when this video frame was taken.
Careful, countering an exaggerated narrative gets you banned these days. Although, I would argue that any form of 'curfew' is just begging for more civil disobedience and fatal clashes.
Ok since we’re talking truth now, OP is being fishy by posting the photo cropped, when u see the line of officers in full, u see the dumbass that shot him and over half of them are pointing at said dumbass. Idk if they will report him but they were clearly not happy with the guy that did it.
Thanks for the context. Figured as much. No way some policeman shot some lone man in a wheelchair in the face but of course Reddit loves to believe otherwise. Reddit is cancer.
Shame the people here would rather be outraged than actually understand context.
He shouldn’t have been rolling up on them so hard. He clearly had a leg up on those officers. We can’t let them push him around like that!
Pieces of shit
Why is LA such a dump?
LA is structured strangely. For most cities, "downtown" is super gentrified and clean and heavily populated.. and while it's slowly moving in that direction, downtown LA is reaaly gritty whereas other neighborhoods are more associated with.. not being "a dump"
Fuck these assholes police I bet they won't fight a citizen hand to hand without back up or any gear. Little ass bitches
To be fair they will bodyslam a woman or push a 75 year old man. That takes guts.
hand to hand? ROFLMAO
Is he dead?
Was the guy in the group being fired at and take a stray round? Then when everyone moved back he was left? This just seems too prefect.
I'll bet with that wheelchair he was going over the speed limit.
Anyone else notice his pants down?
Why are his pants half off?
Any info on how this guy is doing? All I see here is people talking about lawyers and money bullshit.
But it was a white man. So checkmate libtards. /s
I used to want to visit the USA.
I have two questions
What must go on in your head when you react to a situation doing this! Unspeakable ! I am ashamed as a human being.
The US is getting fucking nuts
This photo is propaganda. It is a carefully chosen frame from a video designed to make you think that this homeless guy with his pants down was all alone, minding his own business, gunned down by the cops at close range.
Look, more bad apples. Shucks, there sure are a lot of bad apples in this batch, maybe we should throw them all out.
this breaks my heart. ACAB
Slow down. I understand the sentiment but sometimes it can feel like we are generalizing. Of course you see these pictures and it breaks your heart, and we need to be clear about holding the officers who are responsible accountable. But many of us know police officers, they are family, friends, neighbors. I think it's important that we not overlook those people we love who believe they are doing the right thing, and got into this job to help people. So to be clear they are 100% a bastard piece of shit no matter how much you think they aren't. Your uncle Jimmy is a bastard. There are no good cops. You give up being a good person to become a cop.
FUCK THE FUCKING COPS DEFUND THEM ALL
Can't understand why Donald trump hasn't got anything to say on this, he is normally so vocal on twitter but nothing regarding this!
Today he said George Floyd is probably proud of what happened today and it’s a “great day”.
Police have been arguing violently for the last week or two that they are above the law. Shooting a helpless, crippled, old, homeless veteran in the face is a good way for them to underline that fact for the slow people who don’t get it.
Because his supporters are on the side of the police. They’re the group that says “just comply, what’s the big deal?”
P.I.G.S.
Honestly, I’m not surprised by anything that happens in America anymore. They’re complete animals!
God help this man get the justice he deserves. Scum bags
I woulda shot him too. I mean look how ferocious and intimidating he is. Good thing none of those cops got hurt. Phew ..coulda gotten ugly. /s fuckin shit bags
Dude can't get a break
Makes em feel tough
This one made me sick to stomach. Bastards.
Pants down, dont shoot.
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Proof other than just aftermath?
Fuck them
No way? The LAPD? Really?
Pretty sure this is fake after googling it
Imagine your pants being down and it goes viral
that's my fantasy
Good for him, now he gets to sue and won't be homeless anymore.
He still might be homeless after, since most homeless people suffer from mental problems. There have been stories where homeless struck big and in no time ended up homeless.
ACAB
All Criminals Are Black? racist
I thought police brutality was a myth
This post makes me feel damn awful things, it's so powerful
The only source I can find for this is reddit. Anyone got a news source?
Now this I can get behind, police brutality. This is what people need to be protesting! This is the problem, This should be in giant letters around the White House
I know I'm missing the point, but why are his pants down?
Well I mean they have to use someone for target practice amiright?
TF BRO! WTH...
Anybody have an article or source for this?
This sub is almost always for awesome things that are good, and I was super confused when I first saw this
I think he’s dead.
Cop supporters gonna be like
I support cops because not every cop is bad. Sure the one who shot that man is, as is the ones who were involved with George Floyd’s death are but assuming this is just as bad as making assumptions about race for the actions of one.
Wait is he alright, like did he survive I need to know
Anyone have an article? I wanna know if this mans okay and what sort of state hes in. I hope to god he got medical attention and a decent lawyer
This is why 150 million out of a 3 billion dollar budget isnt enough of a budget cut. They need to lose a ton of money and the money that they have needs to go mostly to proper training and less to military gear