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Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter by fzeroracer on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:44PM (#23523306)
Can you explain to me why the driver needed to be arrested, and why it was considered 'resisting arrest'? Try again, because you seem to still be spinning the story in a way as to try to favor the police. Even though I can agree the person running shouldn't have jumped into cars, why do you think the person driving deserve to be beaten too? If that was you in that situation, do you think you would deserve to be beaten up and arrested too?

And try not putting 'arrest' in fear quotes, because they literally yanked him out of his car, threw him against his vehicle and arrested him.

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Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter by bufferoverflow on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:53AM (#23525616)
We don't know if he was arrested. And if he was, and he did nothing wrong, he gets to sue the state for a nice payout.

I would not sit in the car if the police ordered me out. So I wouldn't get beaten. I don't mess with the police.

> And try not putting 'arrest' in fear quotes, because they literally yanked him out of his car, threw him against his vehicle and arrested him.

As I told you. I got handcuffed and put in the back of a police car once. But it wasn't an arrest. They let me go. As a lawyer explained to me later, an arrest is a specific procedure, not just the fact of getting detained/handcuffed.

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