Black man dies, crying for help, after hotel guards pin him down, video shows: Milwaukee police are investigating the killing of Dvontaye Mitchell, whose death has drawn comparisons to George Floyd’s
Black man dies, crying for help, after hotel guards pin him down, video shows: Milwaukee police are investigating the killing of Dvontaye Mitchell, whose death has drawn comparisons to George Floyd’s
Sorry guys, rent-a-cops don't get the same murder privileges. Imagine going to prison for a hotel chain.
A lot of rent-a-cops are regular cops off-duty, so I wouldn't be so sure.
i wouldn't say a lot. you'd be amazed how massive the private security industry is. it's mostly shit jobs that pay pile 15/hr for you to watch cameras and occasionally scan little wall dots to prove you walked down a hall.
my old roommate did this kind of security for a different building in Milwaukee. none of his coworkers were cops, nor were they trained in any meaningful way.
I would say their qualified immunity shouldn't apply to their off-duty actions, but I wouldn't be so sure, and also I'm not American.
I wonder if the trying of investigating LEOs escapes them?
Check out how news orgs are covering this story.
Associated Press: "Milwaukee hotel employees fired after death of Black man who was pinned to the ground"
NBC: "Video shows Black man being pinned down by Milwaukee hotel security shortly before death"
CBS: "Milwaukee hotel workers fired after death of Black man pinned down outside"
ABC: "Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy for Black man who died after being held down by Milwaukee hotel guards"
CNN: "A Black man died after he was pinned to the ground by security guards at a Milwaukee hotel. Now his family wants answers"
Fox 6 Milwaukee: "Hyatt Regency Milwaukee death; man’s family gathers outside hotel"
Fox News: ""
These are the earliest stories posted by each outlet that I could find. The headlines speak volumes. The local Fox affiliate omits the fact that the man was black in the headline, and Fox News has yet to acknowledge it even happened, which was 12 days ago (June 30). I'm sure they'll get around to it, though.
Have you heard about the guy who police poked gently several times in the head with copper clad lead rods? He actually fell tragically to his death.
Then there was another instance where a guy fell asleep forever right after cops made big noises coming from their hands.
Why does it matter that the guy was black?
How about something like:
Hotel guards kill father of two, holding him down while he cries for help.
“White folks don’t get in disturbances in Milwaukee?” Sharpton said during the funeral. “Do y’all throw white folks to the ground and put your knee on their neck? The sentence for disturbance is death?”
This is the reason.
Because police encounters with black people has been an ongoing issue since they were brought over on boats to the united states.
Many studies have highlighted disparities in how black people are treated.
For instance: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/blacks-whites-police-deaths-disparity/
Black Americans are 3.23 times more likely than white Americans to be killed by police, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The researchers examined 5,494 police-related deaths in the U.S. between 2013 and 2017. Rates of deadly police encounters were higher in the West and South than in the Midwest and Northeast, according to the study. Racial disparities in killings by police varied widely across the country, with some metropolitan areas showing very high differences between treatment by race. Black Chicagoans, for example, were found to be over 650% more likely to be killed by police than white Chicagoans.
Because police has a long history of treating black folk aggressively.
So humans often study patterns in human behavior in order to gain insight into things like group dynamics, sometimes even as a profession. Crazy right?
And others try to use that data to try and correct historical injustices and atrocities we've made against marginalized people. That, I know for sure, is crazy to you.
I'm sure you think this is all just "virtue signalling," which says a lot about you.
Witness video shows Dvontaye Mitchell, 43, lying on the ground and crying for help outside the Hyatt Regency hotel as security guards pin him down with their hands and knees. Mitchell can be heard grunting and yelling apologies.
What makes people like this? What kind of disease infects their minds that makes them capable of doing this to a fellow human being? That's not just standard racism. It's inhuman.
A lot of time, the justification to dehumanize comes from the news media, a religious figure, or some close relationships. Treating someone like they’re subhuman is a cultural thing, and people who do it do so with the understanding that they can “get away” with it because they have safety in numbers
Psychopathy is shockingly common. Technically, only 5% of people are full-blown psychopaths, but like all brain disorders it’s a spectrum, and everyone falls somewhere on that spectrum. At least 30% of the population exhibits sub-diagnostic psychopathic traits, such as an indifference to lying or a lack of moral compunction.
What people don’t understand about psychopathy is that it presents as an indifference (or an unresponsiveness) to empirical and normative facts. That is why psychopaths just do whatever feels good (which might include tormenting others), why they might be obsessed with money or power other pleasure-oriented goals.
Unfortunately, it doesn't take very much to turn people into beasts.
Geee I wonder, maybe it’s the rampant disassociation with real tangible society and social norms, increasing calls for violence by political figures/service in the military, mental health crisis, I mean…
Really just take your pick. The reality is that society is not being treated and/or seeking treatment for mental disorders and are too busy stuffing their faces with addiction of a wide variety.
We are not okay.
That's standard racism. Look at history. It's standard.
hotel guards
What the actual fucking fuck is wrong with your society that you need fucking hotel guards?
but but but what if someone who only earns 5 figures needs to use a restroom without having booked a room 😨
Hotels/inns/taverns having dedicated security is pretty universal since like always? I’m not defending what happened here in any way, but balking at the idea security guards in general feels almost hilariously naive.
We don't take care of people with mental health problems, or the homeless, or make sure people can have a living wage so there's all kinds of reasons you might need security in a place like that. Especially if it's in a city where more people with those problems are in closer proximity. Security shouldn't be killing people though.
What fancy country are you from?
Hell, I was just down in Ecuador and the 7-11s had armed security guards.. usually more than one.
The hotels had armed soldiers, with rifles.
Like the case in Kent, WA a few weeks ago where a Ln off work security guard murdered a teen who was returning an airsoft pistol to a sporting goods store because he thought he was going to rob the place. He is being charged with murder. It should be no surprise that the victim had brown skin which likely played into why the guy thought he was going to rob the place. I'm sure the guy wanted to be the good guy and save the day but he had access to a gun and became a murderer instead.
We should never assume the best in cases of homicide. The cops have taught us that quite clearly. Maybe he wanted to be a hero, or maybe he wanted an excuse to shoot someone and took the first chance he got.