Taylor Rogers said her 2021 arrest "underscores ... the absence of empathy and human compassion" among some law enforcement officers.
  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    48·
    6 months ago

    Ruben Espinoza, the police chief for the Santa Fe Independent School District, told NBC affiliate KPRC of Houston that the video does not tell the full story of what happened.

    The video where she’s shown hog-tied face down in a pile of fire ants? Yeah, there’s nothing she could have done that justifies what we see in the video. No criminal or suspect ever deserves police brutality, regardless of the crime.

    • El Barto@lemmy.world
      132·
      6 months ago

      Regardless on any crime whatsoever? Even murdering 1,000 families?

      Edit: point taken.

      • swiftcasty@kbin.social
        40·
        6 months ago

        Correct, not even for serial killers. Police are not judge, jury, and executioner. They apprehend suspects, and the courts first prove that the suspect did the crime beyond a shadow of a doubt, and then if found guilty the courts decide the punishment which cannot be cruel and unusual and the punishment must fit the crime. For murdering 1k families it would be life in prison or the death sentence.

        When the justice system was founded it was established with a number one priority of protecting the innocent, with a priority of avoiding false convictions. Otherwise, a king with absolute authority could order you to be executed by pouring molten metal down your mouth and on your face for the crime of flipping him the bird. your neighbor accusing you of talking ill of the king even though you never said anything of the sort.

      • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        6 months ago

        Its not supposed to be the police that metes out the punishment. They have a historically bad track record on the matter