brianvan t1_jbxoo8b wrote on March 12, 2023 at 3:05 PM

Reply to comment by ThreeLittlePuigs in Videos show crowd cheering while cuffed ex-lacrosse player topples NYC cops, runs by someone_whoisthat

A cop slammed my head on the concrete once and gave me a TBI. Because someone told them I was drunk. I remember the whole thing clearly because I was at a work event & talking with my boss online & had merely stood in front of the door to a bar area in an entertainment venue, pissing off a manager who screamed at me & then lied to the cops. All charges dropped after I was processed. Still get headaches on that side of my head. Wrote an article about it for the publication I was working at during that time.

Sorry about your angel police officers. I don’t wish for them to get hurt. But “could have been hurt” is not “gotten very badly hurt”. Pushing someone over is not attempted murder. If it was, surely modern policing would be impossible as I keep seeing arrest videos where the suspect’s head is repeatedly slammed into the pavement. I don’t wish for suspects to get unnecessarily hurt either. I’ll take the downvotes for that.

ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxpi11 wrote on March 12, 2023 at 3:11 PM

I’m sorry that happened to you. Nowhere did I say the criminal justice system is fair, you’re one of many people who doesn’t get justice or accountability in it.

That doesn’t change the fact that slamming someone’s head against the concrete to the point of knocking them out is a serious potential injury. It’s wrong when a private citizen or a cop does it and there should be repercussions for either if done with malice.

I think in using terms like “Angel police officers” you’re speaking to a strawman and not me anymore.

brianvan t1_jbxvp4u wrote on March 12, 2023 at 3:56 PM

I love how you go from “sorry that happened” about my TBI to “you’re talking to a straw man” talking directly to facts about being a person with a cop-induced TBI. Any level of sarcasm is disrespectful and disqualifying.

That’s not a problem with police, that’s a problem with Reddit commenters.

ThreeLittlePuigs t1_jbxwzoz wrote on March 12, 2023 at 4:05 PM

I mean you’re right I could have worded the last line better, but can you forgive me for being peeved that you’d put words in my mouth that we’re way out of left field and mischaracterizing of anything I was saying? Especially considering my point boils down to we should treat tbi seriously.