A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.
Someone needs to ship a ton of bananas to the police everyday until the body camera footage is released.
Isn’t Florida that state that releases everything?
Yes, though lately it’s been taking a lot longer. The state government under 25 years of GOP rule isn’t too fond of the Sunshine Law.
A police spokesperson said Monday that the body camera video would not be released until the cases are resolved.
That could take years! That’s unacceptable.
We need a national oversight agency where all this footage should be sent to so it is managed by a neutral 3rd party. Why the fuck would we allow criminals to manage the evidence against themselves?
Even if he was justly accused of stealing a banana, what in the actual fuck?
USSA VatniksMurica.Police in the US escalate situations instead of de-escalating them. In any country this would have been solved after a short conversation.
The cops’ report noted that she “struck him in the arm against his will”.
I am absolutely fucking disgusted by this weasely use of language
