News @lemmy.world Wilshire @lemmy.world 6mo ago

A teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000.

apnews.com A teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000.

A teenager who video-recorded his mother’s forceful arrest by Louisiana sheriff’s deputies in 2020 has been awarded $185,000 by a federal jury in a lawsuit filed over one deputy’s attempt to interfere with the recording.

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...which gets paid to the teen by the taxpayers rather than the police union, which should be paying.
- Should be the cop's personal liability insurance since they were breaking the law.
  
  I would rather make the police union responsible. It's the only union Republicans care about and the only union that exists in part to oppress union organizers.
- Why should the police union be held responsible?
  
  if a steel-worker breaks a machine, do you also wanna hold the union responsible?
  
  no, this was this single specific person. He should be held reliable, noone else. Collective punishment is not a good thing, you know?
  
  Because the unions shield the cops and fund their legal defenses and because that single person is almost never held responsible.
  
  Also, I don't know what you think corporal punishment is, but it isn't that.
- Yeah, the taxpayers should be completely off the hook!
  
  Now, how do we best ignore the overwhelming support taxpayers have for police, police brutality, and for supporting corrupt sheriffs that regularly get reelected?
  
  Overwhelming support for police does not mean that taxpayers should be on the hook when they fuck up.
  
  There's also overwhelming support for doctors, who carry personal liability insurance and don't get bailed out by the taxpayers when they screw up.
  
  Can you blame people for being brainwashed?
- Beau had a good take, that incentivizes cover-ups.
  
  They don't need to incentivize coverups. They happen all the time regardless. And body cams make it a lot more difficult. Body cams conveniently not working at a specific time doesn't look great either. Of course, cops generally get off anyway.
  
  We can't punish cops or they will just get better at lying!
  
  Is that actually the extent of your take, or all that made it through the keyboard?
Holy shit, this was because someone reported her mom for not wearing a freaking helmet!?!?!
- To be fair, she is black. /s
"A teen said"

"filmed" interaction.

Seems like there's more than "a teen's" word to go on. There's video evidence.
So this is how our money is spent, wiping the butt of some power-trip cops. No wonder why we cannot get free education.
Where's my fucking money?

I got physically restrained and jailed after filming the police who searched my house without authorisation or a warrant.

But I live in Finland where everyone is a bootlicker and no-one cares about the cops being authoritarian as fuck.

"Personal freedom" is probably considered some kind of an exotic dessert by most Finns.

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