Tue May 19, 2020, 12:00 PM

Exclusive: police fail in attempt to tase Ahmaud Arbery in 2017 incident - video (Guardian UK)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/18/police-fail-in-attempt-to-tase-ahmaud-arbery-during-2017-incident-video

Police attempted to use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery, the slain Georgia jogger, after questioning why he was sitting alone in his car in a park one morning in November 2017, according to records and a police video first obtained by the Guardian.

The video comes to light as law enforcement in the area faces scrutiny after Arbery was shot dead by two white men while out for a run in February. Police did not initially arrest Gregory and Travis McMichael, who chased down and killed the unarmed Arbery, and a prosecutor assigned to the case wrote a lengthy memo explaining why the killing was legally justified.

In a joint statement to the Guardian, lawyers working for the Arbery family described the video as a clear depiction of 'a situation where Ahmaud was harassed by Glynn county police officers'

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Exclusive: police fail in attempt to tase Ahmaud Arbery in 2017 incident - video (Guardian UK) (Original post)	Dial H For Hero	May 2020	OP
What next he stole some kid's lunch in the first grade? nt	doc03	May 2020	#1
Why not make the headline police bothered him for sitting in his car	Historic NY	May 2020	#2
Sitting in a car while black	SoonerPride	May 2020	#3
Disgusting. Makes me sick.	Jarqui	May 2020	#4
Well that made the police look scared and jumpy.	Caliman73	May 2020	#5
The vilification continues.	BannonsLiver	May 2020	#6
Why in hell are they trying to tase him with his hands	Tipperary	May 2020	#7
Let me fix a couple of sentences for the lazy reporters	MagickMuffin	May 2020	#8
This shit makes me so fucking angry I could break something.	Solomon	May 2020	#9
Kick	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	May 2020	#10

Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 12:05 PM

doc03 (33,909 posts)

1. What next he stole some kid's lunch in the first grade? nt

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 12:23 PM

Historic NY (37,064 posts)

2. Why not make the headline police bothered him for sitting in his car

somebody is working overtime

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 12:25 PM

SoonerPride (12,286 posts)

3. Sitting in a car while black

Should be the headline

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 12:28 PM

Jarqui (9,731 posts)

4. Disgusting. Makes me sick.

Way over the top.
Disgraceful conduct by those cops.

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 12:31 PM

Caliman73 (11,264 posts)

5. Well that made the police look scared and jumpy.

The guy has one day to relax in a week and the police come up and harass him? They get jumpy and the one police tries to use a taser on him but luckily it malfunctions.

I agree the headline is inflammatory. It should be something like, "Police confront Ahmaud Arbery in park in 2017" for a relatively neutral headline. Or, "Police appear to harass Ahmaud Arbery in a park in 2017"

He had no warrants and no complaints on his record. The cop said as much, but kept harassing him.

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 12:31 PM

BannonsLiver (15,292 posts)

6. The vilification continues.

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 12:36 PM

Tipperary (6,930 posts)

7. Why in hell are they trying to tase him with his hands

in the air?

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 12:36 PM

MagickMuffin (15,394 posts)

8. Let me fix a couple of sentences for the lazy reporters

law enforcement in the area faces scrutiny after Arbery was shot dead by two white men (ex-law-enforcers) while out for a run in February. Police did not initially arrest Gregory and Travis McMichael (who were ex law-enforcers), who chased down and killed the unarmed Arbery, and a prosecutor assigned to the case wrote a lengthy memo explaining why the killing was legally justified.

That was missing that these murderers were ex law-enforcers and the killing was racially motivated.

And the prosecutor made it all go away until the video surfaced. Again the Enforcers proof beyond a reasonable doubt they are racists.

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 12:38 PM

Solomon (12,229 posts)

9. This shit makes me so fucking angry I could break something.

So sick of this shit.

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 02:48 PM

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (102,381 posts)

10. Kick

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