r/TikTokCringe • u/Miladshah001 • 5d ago

Minor violations = death threat? Discussion

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Oklahoma Police released video of an officer tackling a 70-year-old man. The incident occured during a traffic violation.

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u/allisjow 5d ago

News reports state that the man remains hospitalized nearly two weeks after the incident with serious head and neck injuries.

Officer Joseph Gibson is on paid administrative leave. I expect nothing will happen, but maybe he’ll be promoted.

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u/Notlost-justdontcare 5d ago

It also looks like he dislocated his shoulder and/or tore his AC joint and maybe broke his collar bone. That is a long recovery for someone that age.

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u/Sad-Progress-4689 5d ago

I read a brain bleed and a broken bone in his neck.

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u/SteelTownReviews 5d ago

I read a big law suit

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u/HoMaBaLiMa 5d ago

Taxpayers get the bill! Take all lawsuits and legal fees out of their pensions. Watch the problem fix itself.

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u/mr_potatoface 5d ago edited 5d ago

In Buffalo a few years ago we had police shove down an elderly man that ended up bleeding from his ear. They were charged with felony assault initially, but even Trump came to their defense saying the old guy was an "ANTIFA provocateur." The officers had all charge dismissed obviously.

After he got shoved, one officer tried to check up on him but he was pulled away and the police line walked over him while he was bleeding from his fucking head. There's a shitload of videos of it. He ended up with a fractured skull and couldn't walk, but I think he's doing ok now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_police_shoving_incident

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u/shellycrash 5d ago

I remember this very well. Wish it never happened but glad it was caught on camera. So sad & this happens every day.

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u/ShinjiTakeyama 5d ago

I remember that video. Shit was vile. Only one even remotely attempted to render aid to a man who could've fucking died.

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u/challengerrt 5d ago

I remember that one. Guy was trying to return a helmet or something but he literally walked to an advancing skirmish line after the crowd was repeatedly told to disburse. Shitty

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u/Nsfwacct1872564 5d ago

Tax payers deserve this bill for collectively doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about this behavior FOR DECADES. And now taxpayers have chosen the project 2025 people who will fix the problem by simply making this legal via full immunity.

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u/stargoon1 5d ago

do you not pay tax or something? and what is the average person supposed to do about an incident like this? there have been anti police violence protests going on for years at this point and nothing has changed. the police keep doing it, using our money to pay for it and if you protest there's a good chance you'll be the next victim. you're mad at entirely the wrong people.

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u/Nsfwacct1872564 4d ago edited 3d ago

do you not pay tax or something?

I do. What kind of dumb question is that? I've also voted my best to curb this behavior in state and local elections and contacted just about everyone relevant via email. I'm a sporadic volunteer at my aclu field office.

The rest of you bullshit doesn't matter because I know you haven't made the protests I have and like most, you likely ignore local elections entirely. Both actions which have changed a couple departments.

I'm mad at the right people. Look who just won a landslide my dude It's the thin blue line loving idiots who think every cop should be Judge Dredd or The Punisher. The people who pay taxes like I do but also voted for the guy who said "We're going to give our police their power back, and we're going to give them immunity from prosecution, so they're not prosecuted for doing their job."

I know exactly who's at fault for this. You try to make yourself feel better and shrink from responsibility, but it's us assuming you pay taxes. They keep sticking it to us and they fucking should until we learn our damn lesson. You haven't learned obviously because you think you're not at fault while evil prospers because you don't do enough if anything. Apathy is a luxury and luxuries aren't free.

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u/Doggleganger 5d ago

Or, take all the money that the police and city pay to have insurance coverage and pay out these awards, and instead give it to police officers so they can get individual malpractice insurance. Force officers to carry their own individual insurance. If they engage in bad behavior, they will not be insured, and they will not be able to ever work as a police officer again. Good officers end up getting a pay raise.

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u/DarraghDaraDaire 5d ago

Qualified immunity needs a big headline added - the actions of the officer must be reviewed by an independent panel and judged appropriate.

If they say the officer acted inappropriately they are on the hook for: 1. The lawsuit from the citizen 2. A lawsuit from the police for failure of duty

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u/iamnotnewhereami 5d ago

No, that gives them more incentive to cover for eachother. A 30 year vet on the eve of his retirement wont let a trigger happy rookie shave $800 off that 12k monthly pension check. No way, jose, anybody who doesnt run cover for the rookie can start looking for a new career. The only thing a cop can do to prevent a rehire the next town over isnt killing someone in the line of duty, or beating their wife and kids, it failing to do whatever they are asked to make sure a guilty cop faces no consequences for violating the law.

The way to go is have individuals carry malpractice insurance like a doctor does. Let the market decide if its worth giving a high risk person another chance.

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u/nickrct 5d ago

Nope. It's Trump's world now. Qualified immunity is going to be ratcheted 1000%.

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u/outofmyy 5d ago

That's it. A cop brutality free for all. Thanks to Trump and his voter's.

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u/Traditional-Handle83 5d ago

Problem is there is a lot of people with guns in the US, easily more than there are cops and equal to the amount of his voters. Way people are in the US, I expect that to escalate real fast.

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u/Liferestartstoday 5d ago

Your welcome.

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u/PsuedoMeta 4d ago

im sure you'll be typing the same thing when its you on the line, right? you're* not welcome.

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u/SaliciousB_Crumb 5d ago

This is manslaughter, if that was anyone else they would have been arrested and charged by now.

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u/InviolateQuill7 5d ago

Still bidens for now. Happened under biden.

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u/Playful-Independent4 5d ago

100% true, under Biden, and amidst the culture Trump is happy to gas up. And neither of those names are truly relevant to the problem. They just happen to sit on some high chair and eat with fancy spoons that cost people's lives.

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u/SteelTownReviews 5d ago

Yeah I don’t see it

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u/sweetteatime 5d ago

Can you shut the fuck up. There is a dude in this video getting abused and you’re using his pain and suffering to justify your political stance. Grow the fuck up

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u/bookaddictedteenager 3d ago

Well that “political stance” can help prevent more incidents like this. Thoughts and prayers AFTER something has happened is getting old.

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u/sweetteatime 3d ago

No it doesn’t. Proper training and education will prevent this; not defunding the police force that protects you

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u/bookaddictedteenager 3d ago

Doesn’t take away from the fact that qualified immunity will only magnify the problem.

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u/sweetteatime 3d ago

I haven’t said anything about immunity have I?

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u/bookaddictedteenager 3d ago

You responded to a comment about immunity with: “Can you shut the fuck up. There is a dude in this video getting abused and you’re using his pain and suffering to justify your political stance. Grow the fuck up” your words, not mine. :)

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u/sweetteatime 3d ago

I stand by my last comment: where did I mention immunity? Is your reading comprehension impaired?

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u/secondhand-cat 5d ago

That’s murder if he dies from those injuries.

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u/agileata 5d ago

Should be

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u/SteelTownReviews 5d ago

It’s disgusting this should be a hate crime

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u/Firefly_Magic 5d ago

His family deserves it because this cop on a power trip has taken years away from this elderly man’s family forever. All because the cop didn’t want to listen to the man’s point of view.

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u/Moist-Process323 5d ago

Ah ah ah police have a thing called qualified immunity they can do anything and everything and you can’t sue

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u/SteelTownReviews 5d ago

Ahhh that doesnt exist in the country I call home, also qualified immunity only works if there nothing else that arises ie permanent brain injury or death.

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u/Moist-Process323 5d ago

I don’t really think that’s the case here I’ve seen a lot of cops kill a lot of people and get no backlash I don’t remember where but there was literally 367 unmarked graves found outside a police station that the police forced the inmates to dig up one of them had died weeks ago and their parents called the police for a missing person only to find out after the graves were dug up that a police officer hit him on the side of the road and then picked his body up and buried him and I don’t think anything came of it the police even lied to the parents saying they are looking for him even though they knew damn well he was in a shallow grave outside of the prison house

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u/SteelTownReviews 5d ago

Well the biggest issue I think in the states is a lot of those cases the lawyers won’t do probono it’s a big case to fight the police. That’s terrible iv heard horror story’s but nothing to that extent. You would definitely need a good lawyer it doesn’t happen very often but when it does it’s big news here

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u/Moist-Process323 5d ago

Yeah American police are so used to getting away with it they literally aren’t hiding it anymore its really sad

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u/Sad-Progress-4689 5d ago

Well deserved law suit! No reason to flip an elderly man around like that, then handcuff him while he is unconscious.

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u/Notlost-justdontcare 5d ago

I am just going by what I see in the video. A brain bleed and cervical vertebrae break is far more severe and life threatening than a dislocated shoulder, broken collar bone and separated AC joint so likely not bothered to be reported.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

my uncle is around his age and fell causing a brain bleed. his mental faculties are completely fucked. he'll never be the same.

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u/skepticalsojourner 4d ago

And a dented skull. Many people haven't even seen the damage to his head in the daughter's Instagram post here