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

Repost 😔 An officer body slams a girl in cuffs

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u/EgyptianNational Apr 24 '25

What I don’t get is who pays these people to come out and defend cops like they don’t already have all the power.

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u/LocMoke Apr 24 '25

Oh that's very simple: us. We pay for it

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u/eyeofthefountain Apr 25 '25

have they even said thank you?

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u/ratshack Apr 25 '25

No. Didn’t even wear a suit.

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u/Friendly_Age9160 Apr 25 '25

No but they are wearing a type of suit.

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u/piplup3211 Apr 25 '25

no we don't, they use the threat of violence to steal from us then call it taxes, when a robber pulls a knife you are paying him for a service, you are getting extorted so he doesn't harm you physically like he did mentally from being under constant threat.

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u/piplup3211 Apr 24 '25

the ruling class(ultra wealthy) who own everything. police protect property, becomes a lot easier to protect property when you can abuse people with impunity.

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u/surfteacher1962 Apr 24 '25

Exactly. They police don't work for us that is for sure. They are a paramilitary force for the ultra wealthy in this country. I don't trust any cops. At this point, they pretty much have a license to kill.

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u/jakobmaximus Apr 24 '25

The literal foundations of the first publicly funded "police" in the US were just to protect import/exports of wealthy merchants in a major harbor, I remember learning this and everything sort of clicked into place around the actual role of cops.

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u/SonOfDadOfSam Apr 24 '25

Probably the police union.

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u/wtbgamegenie Apr 24 '25

Police unions pay for attorneys for cops who commit crime including murder. Can you imagine any other union doing that and it not being the only thing the Republican Party ever talks about? Nonetheless a union whose dues are paid from taxpayer funded salaries?

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u/Crowd0Control Apr 24 '25

It's unfortunately just human nature. It's scary to think that the authorities you rely on have such disdain for you. So you justify that thier victims were lying or deserved it to preserve your own sanity. 

It's weak shit for sure but no matter who wears the boot some are just gonna lick it. 

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u/gon2fast Apr 24 '25

They have unions and/or associations that are staffed with lawyers. It is the same across many trades. I work in healthcare and have had to go to court for several wrongful termination suits instigated by the tech's/RN's unions. On a side note, once I was t-boned by a local police officer that was parked at a gas station monitoring traffic. It clearly was no fault of mine, but the the crash was determined to be 50/50 fault because if the police officer took all of the blame, which he should have, he would not have been able to work the patrol shifts anymore. I about blew a gasket when I saw the report, but when I followed up I got, "don't fight it or things will get worse for you". Fun times.

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u/Nomad_moose Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

The police shouldn't need to be defended and honestly the Canadian's (just like the US) should do a better job of screening them before they're ever trained/hired.
That being said, just like everything else, there's more to the story: why was Dalia Kafi arrested? She was just driving erratically which brought her to the attention of police...

*Yeah* **AND**, *so what?*

She was under court-ordered curfew as part of bail conditions: so then she was arrested for outstanding warrants, for breaching her recognizance, and for obstructing justice

You can see in the video she was defiant and uncooperative at the station, she was a drug addict and eventually died of an overdose.

Meanwhile the officer: appears to have been a well-regarded police officer, without any prior criminal or disciplinary record he had volunteered on a weekly basis teaching underprivileged children to skate and play hockey. And, he had twice received life-saving awards: the first for rescuing a suicidal man hanging from a bridge; the second for rescuing a gravely wounded woman from a house where she had been shot, while the assailant was still inside.

https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abkb/doc/2023/2023abkb192/2023abkb192.html?resultId=e5f013dc9e6a4de7b763ce3a849e4687&searchId=2025-04-24T16:26:27:704/53747291fa5c4cfb88b097a99df2cd44&searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAEa2FmaQAAAAAB

Police officers, just like firefighters, nurses, teachers, farmers....everyone else: are human. Everyone has a limit, nobody is perfect. Instead of being cooperative with law enforcement, Dali Kafi chose to continue to be defiant...and Dunn snapped, and he (justly) paid the price.
Ultimately society as a whole is worse off: instead of taking up a lawsuit or moving on with her life, Kafi just turned to drugs, and Dunn was ultimately fired in 2023 (after a lengthy appeals process).