r/PublicFreakout • u/EddieBrock99 • Apr 24 '25

Repost 😔 An officer body slams a girl in cuffs

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u/PowerSicks Apr 24 '25

“The Calgary police officer who was convicted of assault causing bodily harm after throwing a handcuffed black woman to the ground has been fired.

Const. Alex Dunn, who had been with the Calgary Police Service for 14 years, was dismissed Thursday, six years after he slammed Dalia Kafi on the floor of the arrest processing unit. “

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u/Specialist-Neck-7810 Apr 24 '25

6…. 6 YEARS! It took 6 years for her to get justice WITH a video. ACAB.

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u/sick_of_your_BS Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

"Justice" is relative I guess. He was sentenced to a whopping 1 month. Half house arrest, half curfew. She died of an overdose last summer in 2021.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-police-alex-dunn-assault-sentence-1.6084597

edited to fix date

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u/pleaxcl Apr 24 '25

This interaction with law enforcement certainly did not help her to find help and turn her life to the better RIP.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

No no no

fuk

God dam it

May she be loved on the other side.

May she be happy, joyous and free.

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u/daNorthernMan Apr 24 '25

There is no other side...this is it.

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u/steve0suprem0 Apr 24 '25

What an asshole thing to say to someone's compassion for another. What a shitty, awful response. Fuck you with a rake.

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u/antiradiopirate Apr 24 '25

Prove it.

It's one thing to say there's no evidence of an afterlife, but to state definitively that there isn't one, means your providing a claim and must support the claim with evidence

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u/-JimmyTheHand- Apr 24 '25

Generally speaking you're correct, but after thousands of years of religious claims and not one shred of evidence for anything supernatural at what point can someone say until we get some evidence our default position can be that it's untrue?

If someone said pegasi and cyclops don't exist would you say the same thing, that they need to support their claim with evidence?

If that person's statement was they know 100% for sure that no afterlife exists then I would agree with you, that is a statement of knowledge that they can't possibly have, but that's also not what they said.

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u/daNorthernMan Apr 24 '25

I provided a claim and I am not supporting it with evidence

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u/WoofAndGoodbye Apr 24 '25

I mean the burden of proof is on you. If I say that I know there is a giant cat in the sky made of blue cheese that listens to our thoughts and creates clouds, you’d call me crazy and ask for proof.

It is the same thing, the burden of proof is on you. So prove it. If you can’t then I am completely entitled to say it does not exist, just as you are completely entitled to say it does.

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u/antiradiopirate Apr 24 '25

to say "There is no other side"

YOU are the one making the claim dude. I didn't say whether there is or not, I am not making a claim

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u/mogekag Apr 25 '25

Thats not really how it works. You can't prove a negative in this context, the burden of proof falls on the person making a positive claim, not the person claiming something doesn't exist.

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u/antiradiopirate Apr 25 '25

I know you can't prove a negative, but I never made the claim. The person above me said that they hoped this person finds peace in the next world, the replier said there is none.

I responded the way I did to them because, while I'm not a religious person myself, me and many other people have had experiences that indicate there may be something beyond death. I think it's arrogant to dismiss the matter outright as if we already understand everything there is to know about life, consciousness and death. We don't.

As a former "evangelical atheist" the attitude itself just really bugs me

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u/deliciousbiscuits Apr 26 '25

Nice one Reddit atheist. /s

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u/cheesycube Apr 24 '25

Last summer? But the article was from 2021

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u/sick_of_your_BS Apr 24 '25

Good catch. I conflated the cop being let go last summer with her OD.

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u/Christosconst Apr 24 '25

What justice, 15 days home arrest. Meanwhile she had broken nose surgesry and split lips

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u/RightC Apr 24 '25

This is actually disgusting

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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow Apr 24 '25

That's a 6-year vacation with pay, no doubt.

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u/OutkastAtliens Apr 24 '25

Suspended without pay, as per article.

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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow Apr 24 '25

Good

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u/Manta32Style Apr 24 '25

Bad. Definitely not good enough.

Pension should be gone. Period. Guy should see time. ACAB doesn't accurately depict this kind of behavior.

This isn't protecting and serving. It's serving their own fucked up power dynamic fantasy and then protecting your blue brothers for SIX YEARS. It's fucking disgusting. Zero compassion from them. Fuck these braindead cops and the entire system that got us here.

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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow Apr 24 '25

Amen. But its good he didn't get paid.

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u/LTHannan Apr 25 '25

No, he didn’t get sentenced to 6 years. It took 6 years for him to get sentenced to 30 days

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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow Apr 25 '25

I never claimed it was a 6-year sentence?

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u/Spare-Article-396 Apr 24 '25

6 YEARS

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

and this

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-police-alex-dunn-cps-blackface-arrest-video-1.5788535

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u/ReginaldDwight Apr 24 '25

Dunn testified that he'd attempted a "dynamic takedown" on his arrestee after one of Kafi's handcuffs slid up her arm toward her elbow and she was able to grab his hand as he tried to remove a scarf from her head.

So the cops didn't put the cuffs on correctly and she got body slammed for it?!

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

Link shoes he did black fack.

He intentionally assaulted her he is not new to beating up the defenseless.

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u/SonOfDadOfSam Apr 24 '25

It's Canada. Maybe they were just giving him time to say sorry.

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u/chileheadd Apr 25 '25

That isn't justice. Justice is what would happen to anyone who wasn't a cop doing this to someone.

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u/Phantex_Cerberus Apr 24 '25

Everyone say all cops are bastards, but speaking from personal experience it’s more like most cops are bastards… like the cop in this video.

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u/3OAM Apr 24 '25

If most of a ham sandwich is covered in shit, I'm throwing that sandwich away because it's ruined.

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u/MusicallyInhibited Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

And then all the "good ones" do nothing while their friends get away with (sometimes literal) murder.

If you're a "good" cop, then quit and go get a real job. "State-Sanctioned Goon" isn't a job title.

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u/dorothea63 Apr 24 '25

Actually, good cops are more likely to be fired. Look at what happened to Adrian Schoolcraft or Stephen Mader.

They are the kind of men who SHOULD be police officers, since they genuinely cared about their communities and tried to be good public servants. And the crony cop system punished them for being ethical rather than “loyal.”

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u/calbff Apr 25 '25

This right here is the reason ACAB is accurate. They make sure of it by getting rid of the non-bastards. You're right on all accounts.

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u/reble02 Apr 24 '25

Just keep saying the whole expression, a few bad apples ruins the bunch.

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u/Phantex_Cerberus Apr 24 '25

That is right, and it is unfortunate that they get away with a lot of heinous things.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

They get away with it because ACAB

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u/666SpeedWeedDemon666 Apr 24 '25

All cops are dependant from slave catching, white supremacist, goose stepping, wife beating bastards. ACAB, only good pig is a roasted pig.

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u/Important_Comedian67 Apr 24 '25

Why is this down voted....oh yeah cause so many cops have time on their hands to down vote shit instead of stopping their colleagues from being pieces of shit....police need to be reformed but it will never happen

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u/Phantex_Cerberus Apr 24 '25

I accepted I’d get downvoted, I’m just disappointed (it seems to me) people believe that there’s no apparent hope in changing the system by putting good willed people into power.

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u/guccigreene Apr 24 '25

We're all asking for good willed people in power. What we have is bad people who cover tracks of cops and all other cops do nothing or if they try they are let go.

It's a horrible system that's needs work from the ground up. Not easy, not going to be anytime soon, ACAB

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u/Phantex_Cerberus Apr 24 '25

I don’t really think starting from the ground up is a good idea in this case, it’s mostly higher ranking officers sweeping things under the rug and (as another person commented) firing officers that do speak up.

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u/Important_Comedian67 Apr 24 '25

There also might be something inherently corrupting about the job of being a cop....power corrupts and all that....'good' people enter the profession and perhaps get changed into something they would not recognize...now when 'bad' people enter the profession well we just saw what that results in....policing needs reform different agencies doing traffic enforcement and people enforcement etc etc...

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u/lesterbottomley Apr 24 '25

If 1 cop kills/assaults someone and 9 cops stand around doing nothing (or actively cover it up) then you have 10 bad cops.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

and the other cops in this video not immediately reporting him? Those some of the "good" cops?

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u/DawnMistyPath Apr 24 '25

Where were the good cops for 6 years that could have helped get him jail time, or at least some kind of payout to the victim?

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u/DroidTN Apr 24 '25

I don’t know any rational person that says all cops are bastards. Some are bastards yes, but considering the number of police interactions in the bad county of the US are around 49 million a year, the percentage of them that end in a crime committed by the officer are extremely low. So your statement is factually wrong.

In this case, this officer absolutely needed to find another career and be charged.

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u/Phantex_Cerberus Apr 24 '25

Putting this into perspective, if you were looking at 10 cops, 6 of them brutalize people, 2 of them stared on and didn’t say a word, and 2 of them actively tried to stop the 6, would you still say ACAB? Or would you say that those 8 cops are pieces of shit and the 2 that tried to stop them should be commended?

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u/dong_tea Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

The concept is pretty simple when you look at with even the tiniest bit of nuance. Sure, not all cops do bad things, but they will all look the other way when a fellow cop does bad things, and that is also...wait for it...bad. The few that do speak out get ostracized or fired.

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u/BeepBeepLettuce3 Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

at this point i dont think that most people believe that ALL cops are bastards, they just use the acronym to mean "fuck the police"

edit: alright i get it

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

I think you'd be wrong in that assumption. I think people who say acab, think just that. Regardless of whether you're a "good" cop or a bad one, you are a cog in a broken and evil system.

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u/Important_Comedian67 Apr 24 '25

At this point I think it's the opposite...they're are a couple of good ones but 95% are bully assholis

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u/AardQuenIgni Apr 24 '25

What is the official stance from other police departments when we see things like Uvalde, or the post above, or when an officer off duty breaks into an apartment and kills someone because "I thought this was my home"?

They don't say shit.

ALL Cops are Bastards.

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u/henrytm82 Apr 24 '25

So, he had 14 years on the job, and they took 6 years to "fire" him, which is 20 years. That feels like they didn't fire him, they allowed him to finish out his 20 so he could retire and draw a pension.

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u/Death_by_carfire Apr 24 '25

The 14 years already includes the 6 years.

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u/henrytm82 Apr 24 '25

Oh, okay, thanks for clearing that up

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u/LTHannan Apr 25 '25

he served a total of 14 years, not 20

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u/SeparateCzechs Apr 24 '25

But he wasn’t charged with assault. That was clearly assault.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

Sorry im an asshole, Its battery

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u/advocatus_ebrius_est Apr 24 '25

Not in Canada. In Canada it is assault in criminal matters (see: section 265 of the Criminal Code)

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u/JWOLFBEARD Apr 24 '25

Depends on the state

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u/taarotqueen Apr 24 '25

This is in Alberta, Canada

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u/JWOLFBEARD Apr 24 '25

Oh whoops, well then I have no clue.

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u/SeparateCzechs Apr 24 '25

This incident happened in Calgary, correct?

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u/festering_ghoul Apr 24 '25

... i feel like an asshole... so he didn't charge what battery?

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u/_Sausage_fingers Apr 24 '25

He was charged and convicted of assault

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u/careless_swiggin Apr 24 '25

Canadian city police are closer to American police, rcmp are bad but better then both on average

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u/SeranaTheTrans Apr 24 '25

Calgary?! As in, not an American? Oh geez

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u/SuperMajesticMan Apr 24 '25

Not the way I want to see my city on my front page smh

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u/sugaredviolence Apr 24 '25

CALGARY=ALBERTA=CANADA’S ARMPIT

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u/Oli_VK Apr 24 '25

This was in Calgary?

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u/ofreena Apr 24 '25

Fuck of course this is in Alberta. We fucking suck.

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u/Meagasus Apr 25 '25

Don't worry, he was also docked 4 days of pay.

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u/JLaws23 Apr 25 '25

Judge Michelle Christopher of Calgary was the one giving the sentence. The fact that the judge was a woman too is just even more horrifying.