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Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by rootusrootus on Saturday June 06, 2020 @10:48PM (#23444374)
This came up on a law enforcement subreddit. Riot police training is that the front line always keeps moving in order to provide a security barrier, the medics behind them will attend to anybody injured. In this case the medic was national guard. Supposedly it took 18 seconds between the time the man fell and the time the medic reached him.

So the initial shove was pretty horrific, but the line movement at least has a plausible explanation.

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Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by NotSammyHagar on Sunday June 07, 2020 @07:25PM (#23451987)
It wasn't a riot situation, it was a human situation, he was just standing there. Don't forget that also the initial police report (they put it on their twitter even) that someone "had tripped". It was the usual denial of the situation with lies that we see so much now, that actual video can expose. If that video of the old guy going down wasn't taken, we'd never have known.
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