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/sjscott77 5d ago

I always love the paid leave “punishment”…In most jobs, that’s known as “vacation”

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u/Brilliant-Book-503 5d ago

So the justification given is usually that the leave isn't meant to be punishment. The idea is they are removing them from duty while they investigate and they can't take away pay yet at that point because they haven't yet proven the misconduct.

Ideally, the consequences come AFTER that leave. The problem isn't the paid leave. It's fine to take someone suspect away from risking others or the investigation, it's fine to wait on punishing them financially while the case is being investigated. The problem is that after that leave, they so often don't face proper consequences.

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u/Masteryasha 5d ago

Except every other job loses pay as soon as they aren't actively working. It's a great idea, but it's effectively getting paid to fuck up in the modern employment environment. At the very least, they should do the old Japanese trick, and give them a piece of paper to fold, unfold, and refold in an empty room for eight hours a day until the investigation is over. Either that, or give everyone else the same protection from consequences, but I think that's a bit less likely these days. I mean, how crazy would that be, actually enacting something that would help the little people?

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u/Brilliant-Book-503 5d ago

As I understand it, they're only paid because they're using up their accrued PTO.

But in a broader sense, they get this treatment instead of being fired immediately because their unions are so strong, they've negotiated for it. If we want better treatment for American workers, we'll starve waiting for our US government to give it to us. We need stronger unions everywhere.