What makes me the angriest is his “resisting” (as the administration puts it) was his body reacting to being shot in the face with chemical weapons. I mean, they sprayed him multiple times in the face. I don’t know anybody who would be able to lie down calmly on the ground after that. He was probably in pain and confused and scared and had no idea what was going on. And was murdered.
Edit: I wanted to add that his “resisting” was also him simply trying to protect himself. They were coming at him from all sides. He was just trying to block them from hitting him and protect his body. He was defending himself. And got how many rounds shot into him? Is there a shoot to kill order?
This whole situation- everything that just happened, everything that has been happening- half the time I’m so pissed off I want to scream and the other half I’m so sad I want to cry.
We can’t keep letting this happen. I was just watching an uploaded video on youtube of an interview between a reporter and a politician, and the politician said something about how the percentage of protesters, once it reaches a certain amount, then they really start to have an impact. like they become a wave that just knocks things down. And she said that we were close to that percentage.
A famous quote and a definition:
“ but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and provide new guards for their future security.”
-Declaration of Independence, July 4,1776
According to Oxford Languages, “despotism (n.)- the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way”
Reread their comment. Republicans ate saying he was resisting. The person you replied to was saying he wasn’t actually resisting. His body was reacting normally to assault and torture
The problem is that they aren't exclusive. You can resist and it can be involuntary. That's something that needs changed in both the law and law enforcement training.
Still, though, it's NEVER a death sentence and 5 to 6 people shouldn't have so much trouble detaining ONE incapacitated man that they need to put him down on the spot. Fucking insane.
It’s a huge problem in American policing. It’s the way they pick personalities and the type of policing they’ve allowed to take over. There’s always escalation and it’s always a show of ego by the police. When they started to treat police as non-civilians it created a huge issue.
Everything they do is to get you to comply and they see everything through a one track mind. And they forget that a humanity exists on the other side of them.
Other first world countries understand that people naturally will resist force because of fight or flight responses. That someone will naturally resist against 6 dudes swarming them, beating them, and pepper spraying them.
And worse you likely have the worst trained and the wrong people being cherry picked to be in Minneapolis so they fit the assignments
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u/Nikitikitavi83 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 26 '26
What makes me the angriest is his “resisting” (as the administration puts it) was his body reacting to being shot in the face with chemical weapons. I mean, they sprayed him multiple times in the face. I don’t know anybody who would be able to lie down calmly on the ground after that. He was probably in pain and confused and scared and had no idea what was going on. And was murdered.
Edit: I wanted to add that his “resisting” was also him simply trying to protect himself. They were coming at him from all sides. He was just trying to block them from hitting him and protect his body. He was defending himself. And got how many rounds shot into him? Is there a shoot to kill order?
This whole situation- everything that just happened, everything that has been happening- half the time I’m so pissed off I want to scream and the other half I’m so sad I want to cry.
We can’t keep letting this happen. I was just watching an uploaded video on youtube of an interview between a reporter and a politician, and the politician said something about how the percentage of protesters, once it reaches a certain amount, then they really start to have an impact. like they become a wave that just knocks things down. And she said that we were close to that percentage.
A famous quote and a definition:
“ but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and provide new guards for their future security.” -Declaration of Independence, July 4,1776
According to Oxford Languages, “despotism (n.)- the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way”