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supermechace t1_itmr4st wrote

To be honest the article doesn't clarify if he made false arrests or other than the protesters(not states if it was the throw stuff or charge at copy's type) beat people that weren't resisting. Not that excessive force is justified but if he's able to prove it's mainly in the heat of the moment where the suspect is violently fighting back in dangerous neighborhoods I can see how they can't find justification for harsher charges.

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NotAnnieBot t1_itn70cu wrote

Isn’t “Excessive force” is relative to the situation in the first place?

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supermechace t1_itn912w wrote

That's correct thats why they had trouble pinning anyything on him, if the accused(according to his testimony) just shrugged off a taser and knocked down a cop, adrenaline will kick in and you'll use enough force to make sure the accused stay down. Though with body cams he implied they'll just ignore possible criminals as they'll be judged unfairly for protecting themselves from harm.

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Rottimer t1_itndeda wrote

It's not that they can't find justification for harsher charges - he's got a fuck ton of cases pending against him. The $1.5 Million is what the city has paid out so far.

>One of the two cases in the trial stemmed from an incident where, in order to strip-search a man in a holding cell after police had found him carrying a dime-bag of marijuana, Dym allegedly punched the man repeatedly, pushed his knees into the man’s body as the man lay in a fetal position and performed the cavity search, according to the CCRB.

Fuck that guy.

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