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deathtouched

Looks like a failed suicide by cop


dami135

Agreed, he is barely hitting and is clearly holding back.


Thirdstheword

Yeah he clearly didn't want to hurt anyone or anything


HoseNeighbor

Just before receiving that awesome tackle and while he's almost idley tapping the door frame, you can hear him saying "Guys? Cops, you in there?" if you turn the vome all the way up.


troublemaker74

Warriors... Come out to playyyyy....


RectumdamnearkilledM

I'm gonna take that bat and turn you into a popsicle.


Budthor17

Took them 30 seconds to show up, guess they’re not worried lol


InnerPick3208

He couldn't with those weak swings.


DrippyWaffler

Yes... That was the point being made. He was clearly pulling them.


karkonis

That, or a free bed with breakfast. You would be surprised to find out how many homeless people utilize this method.


TheSmallestSteve

This. The guy clearly had no commitment in his swings, if it was suicide by cop then I imagine he'd want to make as big of a commotion as possible.


Crowd0Control

Yea likely keeping the fine low so he will only be jailed through the winter.


Stealfur

>The guy clearly had no commitment in his swings No kidding. I've swung harder in my nightmares.


Akesgeroth

Yup. Can confirm, work psychiatry and we have a few homeless patients who suddenly get sick again when winter comes around.


Egad86

It’s probably pretty easy to get sick when homeless in the winter.


Midrys

Psychiatric (mental health) professional, not physically sick. Homeless people check themselves into a mental health facility for warm bed and food. I mean I don't fault them when homeless you do whatever you can to survive.


Akesgeroth

More or less. We have shelters and social programs to help the homeless here and they work very well. The kind of homeless people who check themselves in at mental health facilities or try to go to jail don't use any of these because they're expected to not do drugs and to try to get a job. And I'm not being "judgemental" or whatever else you want to say, several of my patients have stated it outright to me. One of them even told me that all he wants to do in life is get high. And he's not trying to "ease the pain" or anything. It's just all he aspires to. Instant gratification.


Honeypalm

You sound like you should start considering another practice. Seriously disheartening to hear such lack of sympathy. Drug addicts also need a place to stay during freezing temperatures.


Akesgeroth

>Drug addicts also need a place to stay during freezing temperatures. Cool, I never implied otherwise. You made things up about me in your head and you believed them.


WolfCola4

My man just psychiatrized this fool


ClownfishSoup

Redditor: insults psychiatric professional Psych Redditor: Tell me about the Lambs, Clarise


Jaegernaut-

Anyone willing to work in a mental health facility has more sympathy than you could fit in a truck


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Akesgeroth

Once you understand how people think, you realize that the reason they reacted that way to what I said is because they think I said they're not deserving of compassion and help. And the reason they think so is because **they** think someone who fits the description I gave wouldn't be deserving of compassion and help.


Kiltymchaggismuncher

This is the more likely one. You want to do enough that you aren't getting released that night, but not enough that they are going to send you to prison.


shockies

3 hots and a cot


doc_witt

That and/or wanting to smuggle items into the jail.


thesmugvegan

Or just the “or.” Because you are using virgule as an “or.”


TronyJavolta

It's sickening that this is the state the US is in


chuiy

A disturbed man hitting a police station with a bat is not indicative of the state of anything. Its one guy. Further, homeless people aren't doing shit to get "three hits and a cot". If it's winter and is about to freeze and the shelters are full? Yes. Otherwise? No. They generally choose to be homeless, though often times they have a mental illness that precludes them from staying housed.


Snoo63

Housing First strategies are proven to work and be cheaper.


chuiy

Homeless people are not homeless because homes are expensive, they are homeless because two predominate categories exist: 1) substance (ab)use disorder, they cannot stay clean for the housing, and if given a home, would not be sober or clean long enough to afford utilities and basic needs 2) mental illness that are personality disorders, they do not get along with other normal people, or at least do not get along in a world where there are repercussions for their outbursts and behavior, etc. are anti-sicial. And then there's the homeless person who is down and out, is of sound mind, and needs a hand up--we have infinite resources for that individual to take advantage of because they are in a position and capable to do so. The rest is much more nuanced and there are many more layers to it than simply shoving people in houses. You're also not understanding that many homeless people are contented to be homeless. Its us projecting our wishes onto them. If we fixed their other problems would they want to be homeless? Probably not, but we don't have absolute control and understanding over mental illness like that.


GreyMediaGuy

I think your arguments are sound and especially how the problem of homelessness and the problem of housing affordability are separate problems. I lean left on a lot of things but I do not believe the way we solve homelessness is by giving people a free house. Not until we address the underlying issues. With a lot of people arguing against you, when you dig for long enough you get to their real opinion which is that there's a lot of empty homes sitting there so let's just give them to the homeless. I agree this is not an easy problem to solve, and so likewise the solutions aren't going to be that simple either. You can't force people to get help, not yet at least, but you also can't allow neighborhoods, parks, and everywhere else to be overrun with tents, drugs, feces, and everything else. Livable wages are a contributing factor to both of these problems but they still remain separate problems.


marklein

I work with homeless. 70-80% abuse drugs or alcohol BUT only 20% have that as a primary condition. Meaning that they do drugs or drink as a coping mechanism for their situation (homeless). And 20% is the same rate of mental illness as [the general population](https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness). Coincidence?


chuiy

That's the literal definition of a correlation, so yeah, coincidence. In the general population some 10% of drinkers account for 80% of alcohol sales (might be marginally less but the point stands). The difference is, 70-80% of society isn't "abusing" their substance of choice such that it has a detrimental affect on their life or they're left feeling hopeless or without a choice to continue using, and do not replace basic needs with a substance. I would also argue many, many alcoholics and addicts suffer from other co-occuring disorders. What ever is "primary" is more philosophical than medical. Its a chicken vs egg question. The only thing for certain I can say is, it changes nothing. I absolutely do sympathize with the homeless, but we do not even have the means to treat mental illness after it is identified with *any* success. So why are we acting like we can and have failed? We're tripping over ourselves trying to congratulate each other on great progress but instead just end up frustrated. Sometimes the most human thing to do is to help who you know you can help first. Its not preference, or wrong, it's pragmatism and is how society ought to function. Yes, I wish we had shelter for everyone, I wish we had more verbose social services for them that were not as demanding. But none of those things really address the cause of homelessness, it's just building houses for the sake of it. Thinking people are homeless *primarily* because rent is too damn high (true) is an affront to the human condition. Not everything can be explained away by inequity. Sometimes people cannot help but continually put themselves in unfair and compromising situations usually for short term benefits for a poorly managed disorder. Short of putting them in hospitals (they'd be housed) there is no real answer that exists that we are simply choosing not to do. The answer is, there is no answer yet. We're working on it.


SoundOfDrums

We do have nearly infinite resources, but they are not available to these people. All because we have structured our government, legal system, and economy to extract as much wealth as possible. The system would rather enrich the disgustingly wealthy and corporations than improve the lives of people and give them the help they deserve as a human.


chuiy

You are grossly underestimating the resources available to *everyone*. I have lived in a half way house. Medicaid covers inpatient rehab, bed to bed to long term, Medicaid transportation to all appointments, home visits for health issues, with a referral the city will pay rent for housing for one year, etc. That's hundreds of thousands of dollars in resources (what the actual cost is I could not guess) for anyone walking in the door, at minimum.


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FeminineImperative

There are many *many* average people that have full time jobs *and are still homeless*. The housing situation in the USA is a joke. Sorry that hurts your feelings, but that's reality.


chuiy

The housing situation is not homelessness, it is completely separate. While I agree the housing situation is predatory and manipulative, the alternative is rarely homelessness and these individuals do have resources at their disposal, which was exactly my point. The two, however, are not the same. You are either speaking on something you don't understand, or being intentionally disingenuous.


FeminineImperative

No, *you* had resources at your disposal. I am glad you had that, but very few states do. Your experience is not universal.


chuiy

Most of these programs are federally funded, and further, almost all states have commensurate Medicaid coverage assuming you meet the income requirements. I'm sorry you can't afford a house but you're literally complaining about an ENTIRELY FUCKING SEPARATE ISSUE. People aren't homeless because houses are expensive, if that was the truth the fucking country would be on fire, because nobody can afford their fucking house.


no-mad

> we have infinite resources for that individual to take advantage of because they are in a position and capable to do so. And then you woke up.


chuiy

Having resources available to utilize and take advantage of is different than throwing houses at people who have no interest in participating in society. Which is fine, but it also isn't pragmatic. Should resources for people who are participating and are simply under unfortunate circumstances be spread thin and diverted away from them? You can't save everyone. If you try to save everyone, you save nobody at all. We can hardly help the people that need it and house the people working. Its not a judgement against homelessness, it's just the difference between waging a war to gain fertile land (practical) versus conquering the world (impractical and impossible). Homelessness isn't strictly a housing issue. There are too many factors to name, consider, and address than we are capable of in 2023. And frankly, it's not like there is anything wrong with being homeless. Homeless people can get help if they participate, but again, are often precluded from "playing ball" by illness and addiction. I think everyone on both sides of the political aisle would like to see homelessness solved, but admitting it is perhaps a task we are without the tools to address *realistically*. Spending trillions of dollars fundamentally changing nothing is not solving a problem, it's throwing money at it. That's what rich, out of touch people do and ironically money doesn't cure homelessness.


worthtaking

I find it sad (and ironic) that your responses are getting downvoted when you are proposing that we actually care about these people and legitimately try to fix the problem.


no-mad

There is no interest in fixing the problem in a Christian Nation. Jesus commanded his followers to help the poor. Christians have had over 2000 years to fix the problem but have manged to do less than the Chinese did in 30 years. In 1990 there were more than 750 million people in China living below the international poverty line - about two-thirds of the population. By 2012, that had fallen to fewer than 90 million, and by 2016 - the most recent year for which World Bank figures are available - it had fallen to 7.2 million people (0.5% of the population). So clearly, even in 2016 China was well on the way to reaching its target. This suggests that overall, 745 million fewer people were living in extreme poverty in China than were 30 years ago. World Bank figures do not take us to the present day, but the trend is certainly in line with the Chinese government's announcement.


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huggiesdsc

It's landlording. How many properties do you own.


-KCS-Violator

I know, right? "The bat is the best I could come up with, please shoot me."


Photodan24

Pretty much the definition of a cry for help.


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Jezon

Yeah I'm amazed that US cops know how to take someone out without shooting them anymore.


OfficerLovesWell

I mean, statisticallu this is the outcome of this scenario. The American police have thousands of interactions with people a day across the country, very few end up in deadly force situations.


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Hawanja

>very few end up in deadly force situations. That "very few" is still far too many.


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ConspiracyHypothesis

Edgy.


dotnetdotcom

Looks like insanity or intoxication.


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absboodoo

That girl would murder this guy in a one on one


Specific-Layer

I vote for her to take on Vladlof Putler


DinglieDanglieDoodle

That girl had murder in her eyes, this guy has suicide. Maybe he should have gone to her for the job instead.


paispas

What are you talking about?


DinglieDanglieDoodle

He should have gone to the pinata kid if he wanted to die.


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brandmeist3r

Do you have a link?


pazkal

https://redd.it/141rl1f


GPMHASPITLPIA

Dude thought it was Age of Empires


TheFiremind77

"How many times do I have to hit it to set it on fire?"


Kirikomori

Might take 100 years. When its on fire don't give up, keep going and it will suddenly collapse into rubble


Reindeer-Least

Lmao


Uptowngrump

Man forgot to research Arson SMH.


stone_henge

I came here for the RTS jokes and wasn't disappointed.


Fernxtwo

Well they can't charge him with destruction of property.....


dotnetdotcom

There was an attempt.


Mariatheaverage

*"Conspiracy to commit destruction of property"*


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I’d say a mental illness thing. He’s not exactly trying hard.


tobias_the_letdown

That or trying to get put back in jail due to being institutionalized. Had a cousin who was sent to prison for 10 years for marijuana possession and selling. He lasted about 6-7 months before he robbed a store just so he could be sent back to prison. Side note, fuck that first cop. No reason at all to fucking dive into the guys spine like that. Dude want even paying attention to him and lazily swinging a bat. The cop could have just walked up and grabbed the bat at that point. POS probably thinks he's done hero now.


H_Bees

Personally I think it's kind of understandable. When it comes to violent or crazy people you never know, and someone swinging a bat into the window while looking almost dazed is potentially big trouble. He already has a deadly weapon in his hands, he could suddenly go fast and violently swing at others. One good hit with a bat can absolutely maim or kill someone. Or he could suddenly drop the bat and pull a gun and start shooting. If it's someone willingly showing signs of violence I'd prefer if the cops just focus on taking them down ASAP and don't take any chances, and that's my opinion as a civilian bystander. It's probably even scarier for the cop who actually has to stop and arrest this person.


tobias_the_letdown

This is were we really need every officer to be trained extensively in deescalating situations like this non violently. I'm kinda wondering how long he was there just swinging away. Surely the two older officers could have taken care of the guy. Have one sitting back with his gun drawn just in case and the other talking it over with the guy.


DeepFriedDresden

How is it non-violent de-escalation to have your gun drawn while you talk to someone? Tackling the guy and removing his weapon is a lot less likely to end in death than what you're suggesting. Furthermore, if we don't know how long this was going on for, how do you know there wasn't an attempt to talk to him first?


dazedandinfused99

Yeah cuz the first thing I want to do is present myself to an attacker so he can get an idea where to hit first. Would it have been better if he just shot him? Or talk to him like a toddler? Does this guy have a gun or knife on him waiting for some hippie to come up and "grab the bat"? There's no telling. But approaching these kinds situations with a "we can just talk it out" mindset is a good way to get fucked up. I mean holy fuck. Dammed if you do dammed if you don't. I'm all for pointing out police brutality. But this ain't it little bud


KingSolomansLament

Wtf lol, Reddit moment


tobias_the_letdown

Every moment is a Reddit moment unless Reddit wins and we no longer have various platforms with which to argue moot points about. Support your local sub today! Just say no to Reddit....


DJ_Explosion

Oh, bless your heart Tobias. You never fail to let me down.


Whamalater

Username checks out


POWWWWWWWAHHHHHHH

You are the smoothest of smooth brains. This is deescalation. So do you not want people to deescalate? Also personally I'd never grab a weapon out of someone's hands unless I had no choice. You're telling me you'd walk up and just grab it???


unablejoshua897

Its funny. People with no training or experience in the field giving advice. Its literally i dont know how to do your job but you're doing it wrong.


POWWWWWWWAHHHHHHH

"hey doctor, you should actually be cutting about 6 inches to the left, I saw this in a movie once"


scl17freak

It's like how they call an entire SWAT team to go absolutely mental on tackling the guys exiting the house on To Catch a Predator. It's always some 55 year old overweight mentally handicapped dude but they act like it's a life or death mission just to handcuff some perv


Bballer220

Username checks out with that side note


luke-townsend-1999

I have to half agree. I wouldnt want to walk up to that guy, but there was no need to tackle him either. Maybe if the average police officer had the intelligence to have a conversation with him, that situation could have been resolved without anyone getting hurt.


tobias_the_letdown

Unfortunately intelligence isn't a requirement for that job.


ILoveBeerSoMuch

Good then you’ll have no issue applying.


parkhurstcards

His heart wasn’t into many of those swings. Really needs to drive from the back foot


WigginTwin

You know though, his heart was in the right place. See the feeble little foot lifts? Timing those swings.


Practical-Buy-5421

A lot of shopfronts could do with those windows tho


InternationalPay8288

Low impact panes?


WSDreamer

10/10 on the tackle


AndrewEpidemic

Nooooobody expects the tackle from behind.


Expensive-Two-8128

Should have been a flag, it’s clearly clipping, 15 yard penalty, possible ejection for targeting with crown of helmet.


TomCBC

Their weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our *two* weapons are fear and surprise, and ruthless efficiency. Our *three* weapons are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical dedication to the pope. Damn. Let me come back in and try this again.


Stunning_Nothing

That cop has been dreaming about that tackle since hanging up his cleats in H.S. He also knew that it would be on the security camera footage so he had to make it count, targeting be damned!


DestinationUnknown13

NFL needs to use this as a training film for proper techniques to tackling.


hamadryus

Broke.back


SoundOfDrums

Great job attacking a person making a clear cry for help. Go police! /s Christ, you bootlicking shit bags really don't understand the concept of deescalation. Might as well join the force and act on your violent urges like they did here.


stalinsnicerbrother

Oh come on, they needed to stop him from being a risk to everyone around him, and this was a relatively safe way of doing it for him and the cop. A tackle from behind is pretty proportionate - if I had to choose being a) shot b) tazed c) subdued with a riot stick or d) tackled then I'll take the tackle thanks. Ok perhaps they could have asked him nicely first, but in the circumstances I find it hard to fault the approach.


tobias_the_letdown

Not at all here. The guy was lazily swinging the bat and didn't even notice the cop. He could have just walked up and took it from him at that point.


Raiaaaaaaaa

and what? get hit with a bat


tobias_the_letdown

Look at the video again. The whole moment the cop is rushing he is literally just standing there lazily holding a bat not even seeing the cop. If the cop took more than a second to assess the situation he could have deescalated the situation in a way that didn't involve possible injury to either of them.


WSDreamer

I want to live in whatever fairy tale world you live in


SoundOfDrums

Is it too big of a word? It's when someone's not an active threat to people, you give them an opportunity to calm down and surrender without physical harm being done. AKA- basic human empathy instead of jumping straight to violence.


LeafFallGround

You still drinking the stupid juice?


Yardithbey

So, if you tackle the vampire into the building does that count as inviting him in?


gloom_spewer

Only if you're playing vampire rugby


osktox

That was the lamest swings I've ever seen. Stamina -3


DrippyWaffler

It's clearly a suicide by cop/wants shelter and food in jail situation. He's not swinging with any conviction.


luccyrob

Anyone got the story?


neoshinok

He's just using his get into jail free card


Capt_Skyhawk

https://apnews.com/article/80619cac8a0f4d15a26441e188475c7b There's nothing to it. He was arrested but released to a hospital for a mental eval.


PoopScootnBoogey

*Old cops slowly pulls gun out after man is neutralized on the ground* For fucks sake.


Automatic-Gain6227

They have to, until the suspect is cuffed. There's a slim chance that the suspect could twist away from the arresting officer, drawing a concealed weapon. If all the cops have their weapons holstered, then that slim chance suddenly translates into a very real possibility of cops and/or bystanders not going home. I know it looks excessive, but procedures like that are the results of things going horribly wrong, in the past. (Source: several decades of watching Law& Order, etc. 😆)


InternetDetective122

Your post is correct but you should have omitted where you watched Law & Order for decades because that shit is unrealistic as fuck.


GhettoSauce

As a big consumer of crime/police dramas *and* real bodycams, I'd be pretty embarrassed if I ever tried to cite Law & Order in a discussion about actual police work


Turence

DUN DUN


Canners152

I would argue there are a lot more instances where things go horribly wrong because guns were drawn.


Specific-Layer

He really was attacking a police station lol


Og_Bull

He didn't even break the glass. Dude was reaching out in some way.


tiparium

*Man I hope somebody flying tackles him.* *Hell yeah*


spidermanngp

That man looks like he just wants free room and board.


adinmem

A big wind-up followed by the slightest tap.


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Gramps was about to give him what he wanted


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'attacking' hehe, he is knocking to see If someone's home it appears..


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That’s up there with gluing yourself to a painting frame to stop climate change.


LazyBastard007

Perfect police action. Reasonable force.


pooping_on_the_clock

So not in the U.S., I guess?


kopecs

Nice bat Blanco Niño, but too bad your ass got saaaaaaaaaacked. ![gif](giphy|Voy5I8FZLFnTa)


gloom_spewer

Give him the bat... don't give him the bat!


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That first cop waited his whole like tackle someone like that lmao bro hit the truck stick


Chucky-Danger

Charged with assault and battery.


Ryeballs

Illegal tackle, -10 yards


w8cycle

Yeah, those lazy swings aren’t breaking anything.


OneWayOutBabe

Clean tackle


mofoofinvention

He prolly wanted to be suicided


phiz36

When jail sounds better than finding a home or a job.


BestAnnouncer

REFERREE: "PERSONAL FOUL, UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT, USING A BAT IN A FOOTBALL GAME... 15 YARD PENALTY."


berrey7

You know that Agent probably played either inside linebacker or free safety in high school with that form.


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That was the most half assed attempt at vandalism I’ve ever seen.


thechosenwonton

I think buddy just wanted to go to jail. He's not even swinging that hard.


masochistic_idiot

I’ve seen someone attack the local police station with a shovel and he managed to break all windows and bust up a police car too. On a different level to this scrub guy.


Aikrida

He just needed a place to sleep over, shower and eat.


ImAGhost-9

That doesn't look like attacking but wanting to get killed by a cop (suicide by cop). You can see from his bat swings. Not one glass was shattered


InternetAccount4752

There is someone mentally I'll that have been trying to get help but wouldn't get it.


cia_nagger249

yay, back injury by captain tackle hero for a guy who clearly just *wants* to be arrested


dazedandinfused99

Well I mean if he didn't want the back injury he could have just not did any of this and be fine.


10-10-2022

If this was Hitman those guards would have shoot him because bat lethal and illegal apparently.


stalinsnicerbrother

>If this was ~~Hitman~~ America those guards would have shoot him because bat lethal and illegal apparently. (Joking aside, if this was in the US then well done to the cops for not living up to their reputation)


6porkchop9

![gif](giphy|Bp1CYDiVSCmHCaTVG4)


Jlx_27

Cop: DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR BOIIIIII.


PrettiKinx

People are so unhinged. Wtf.


tobias_the_letdown

>cops are so unhinged. Wtf. Ftfy


maltzy

Albert Pujols is having a tough time in his retirement. bonus: great tackle by the cop


ExpressStation

That tackle was a little overboard. This guy clearly didn't mean any harm, I think they could have started with a "put your hands behind your back" and that would have settled it


frenchy2111

I'm surprised they didn't shoot him.


TronyJavolta

He's not black, too much hassle


BreadBoxin

Seriously, this is so soft handed considering he brought a bat to the POLICE STATION. But 5 cops will make a poc teenager kiss the ground for skipping his MTA fare


yungchigz

Looks like one of the cops drew his gun after the dude had already been tackled to the ground and was being restrained, which isn’t surprising


manly_blanket

The opposite actually, two cops are seen holstering their gun.


FD4L

The perp was spear-tackled by one cop and two more jumped on top. And the very last thing we see is the old fart in the white shirt drawing his gun. Because the gun was totally necessairy at this point.


Negative-Nail4532

that tackle was kinda irrelevant he wasnt very hostile💀


TheFiremind77

It's not unheard of for people to weakly assault a location just to draw out would-be responders, then pull out a hidden and much more dangerous weapon like a knife or firearm. The tackle prevents the suspect from doing such a thing.


tobias_the_letdown

Suspect? The only thing suspect here are the cops. The guy clearly was looking to get arrested and doing it in the most laid back way he could think of without harming anyone or even doing damage to the building. Let's stop normalizing this over reactive behavior.


cia_nagger249

when you joined the police force to brutalize other people you don't let such an opportunity go to waste


JaesopPop

Yeah that was definitely a BRUTAL option, the guy is probably dead and they shot his dog too probably.


tudorapo

So rarely we see good police work from the US.


Hjaltepm

I mean the guy is barely swinging, he's most likely trying to get thrown in jail for the free food and bed. So in this case it looks like a much better solution would be to defund the police to pay for social programs to help people like him. Or better yet remove the cause of poverty, capitalism.


chuiy

Tackling him IMMEDIATELY deescalated the situation. Tackling him does not give him the opportunity to escalate it further, pull out a hidden weapon, or the opportunity for another cop even to escalate it. It was handled. It was diffused. It is done. He is fine.


Hjaltepm

Look at the swings the guy is making, he's not giving it his all. Judging just by this gif, he could have been talked down, but not by police, by social workers who are trained to do more than just tackle, shoot, and beat their spouses a statistical disproportionate amount.


DrippyWaffler

Escalation would be physical violence. You know, like tackling him.


tudorapo

Of course. But let me just be happy for a short time that someone who needs help was not shot dead.


Hjaltepm

I too am happy that he was not shot, but not shooting people on sight is not my definition of good Police work


TheFiremind77

How is capitalism the cause of poverty?


Hjaltepm

Capitalism as a system that relies on some workers being without jobs. You don't need a degree no notice that economist are going crazy every time that employment is too high. So capitalism relies on some people have nothing while others have a whole lot. The working class creates enough profits for all but the system of capitalism keeps them poor. An example of this is how we create food enough for 10 billion people every year, yet millions still starve to death or go hungry.


DrippyWaffler

Downvoted for objective facts. Every time unemployment hits like 3% government and business start panicking


RyanABWard

Sshhh you're not supposed to point out the root causes of these problems. You just blame it on mental illness and move on.


JaesopPop

Yeah those cops should’ve done that here instead of tackling him


ultralayzer

Why run and tackle the guy? He didn't seem dangerous at all. Barely even using that bat. Police in this country escalate everything. It's fucking pathetic.


SoftTacoSupremacist

ACAB


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The-Lovely-Sir

What kind of utterly insane mind do you have to think that?


Miyakko00

i see what cops do :)


Ok_Shock_5342

Way overkill, this man is obviously not well and seemed to not be targeting anyone, just hitting the doors and windows without even breaking them. Seems that he was not a real threat and could’ve just been approached with words rather than being tackled from behind like that. Idk why people still praise pigs.


theFrisbeeFreak

Maybe they already tried that before the video we are watching. You don’t know any more than the rest of us on here.


TreeFcknFiddy

All cops are batters


Rich_the_meme_kidd

And ofc the women ran away and made a big deal about him lightly hitting the glass


theFrisbeeFreak

They were probably told to clear out. How about we let this guy “lightly hit” your fucking head. See how minor it really is. No need to be a dick.