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In reply to the discussion: Ex-cop says Sandra Bland died because she was ‘arrogant from the beginning’ [View all]Violet_Crumble
(35,954 posts)It's in the news over here, and what I saw was her answering his question politely, him getting stroppy because he didn't like her answer, and him escalating it out of control. I don't blame her at all for losing it when she did. She would have been scared, and it's cops who are the ones who are supposed to be trained in de-escalating situations, not yr average citizen. He went out of his way to escalate things and turn them physical, and it was appalling to watch. And WTF? Not only was she arrested, but she spent three days in jail before her very suspicious death. That's just so fucked up...
It's very clear that there needs to be a massive overhaul of the police in the US. I've never understood that thing I've seen on episodes of Cops where people bow and scrape to cops and call them 'sir' and stuff. That expectation from cops that they deserve to be sucked up to needs to stop, along with the racism and their habit of arresting people and throwing them in jail for the most minor things. Cops are supposed to be protecting society from the bad guys, not killing innocent people like Sandra Bland.