Guys, i am from Greece and have never visited the U.S. but i have a quick question about a fact in the movie that shocked me. Is this police behaviour usual? Would they ever behave to people like that even after a fight has broken? Apart from the shot, the fact that they punched and held them there without even having witnessed what happened is absolutely beyond me.
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Yes. I live in the US, and police brutality is common here. In my experience, even police officers who are not physically abusive/violent still treat you condescendingly and have a rude attitude.
shareI have traveled in about 15 states within the US, and I can say without a shadow of a doubt, the cops from California are the worst. The incident in this movie is kind of beyond the things I am talking about of course, but there is something about the training and perhaps psyche of a Californian cop that is just so high strung and over-reactive. They are constantly getting out of line unless you treat them like kings, and they just refuse to let you off even in the most obvious situations when they should let you go with a warning. It really is true the old cliche movie scene here too, where only hot chicks get any sort of leeway. I have seen it all many many times, because I work late nights and the cops here seem to think simply driving after 2am is a crime. A guy even wrote a book about how bad ca cops are.
shareThe police in the movie were modeled off of the witness videos taken by people recording on there phones. In America, it depends on where you live. Police can range from friendly and lenient to total brutality like in Fruitvale Station.
shareSome are good, some are bad.
BART PD isn't a normal city police department, it's just the department for the transit system.
Apparently they aren't that well-trained in guns. Recently a cop was killed by a fellow cop who accidentally shot him.
I live in Miami Dade and the cops here are very much like that. There was actually a problem a few yrs back with how many shootings by police officers happened within a short period of time. If the cops stop you here you better not play around because they will shoot you and most likely they will get away with it. http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/miami-dade-aims-to-investigate-police -shootings/2162822
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OP are you *beep*ing serious? You're from Greece and you are shocked by the police brutality in this film? Remember Alexandros Grigoropoulos? Remember Michalis Kaltezas? Both 15 years old, both shot by police officers without any reason whatsoever! Just because they were hanging out in the "wrong" neighborhood. Remember the torture that the 15 antifascists suffered in a police station after their arrest? Remember all the gruesome beatings of the immigrants by the police?
Remember the uncountable beatings of people (some of them very old) in demonstrations the last 5 years? We must live in a different country or you're as ignorant and blind as hell.
In Greece at least 50% of the police officers according to public polls vote for the neonazi party Golden Dawn! Most of them are rednecks, racists, sexists, misogynists, homophobic and fascists. Police isn't much different in any country. It's the institution that sucks everywhere, not the people who join it.
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Ofcourse every human born on this planet deserve a chance not only of surviving but prosperity, education, health, etc. Fyi those ARE human rights, you *beep*ing animal. Money doesn't grow on trees, it's consentrated by the 1% of the people, as power does as well. And that 1% uses the police as guarding dogs against the rest of the people. You moron, who think of beggars as pests. You are a pest to society. You are so ignorant and *beep*ing slave to think as one of them, against the poor and the oppressed. I pity you. You are their b*tch too.
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In some places, yes. And the reason why is because there are no punishments for their actions. They can do some of the most horrific things and get nothing but a hand slap. The true cop in this story for example got only 11 months in jail. 11 months for shooting someone in the head while they were laying face down and spread eagle. The bad part is that if it wasn't video taped by so many bystanders he wouldn't have served any time because they would've made up a story to justify it.
If you want to know if it's real just google American police brutality and see how many horrific incidents come up in story and in video.
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The cops to avoid are the LAPD, NYPD, Chicago PD, the cops in Massachusettes, Florida, Ohio and Texas.
Ha! The rotten pigs are everywhere. I have lived as a law abiding citizen in six states and have only rarely had an experience involving the police which didn't involve bad behavior, excessive force and/or blatant stupidity on their part. The cops keep shooting people to death without justification in the current rathole city I live in and the taxpayers have to foot a heavy bill indeed thanks to these lowlife self-serving parasites.
http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/03/hundreds-protest-albuquerques- trigger-happy-police-department/359879/
For those uncommon police officers out there who are actually in it to help to protect and serve their fellow human beings - I pity you. You will always be considered an enemy to a great many people who should have nothing to fear from you, thanks to the large number of turds with which you maintain your professional associations. I wish there was some way to trust you - there just isn't. It's too late.