Situation is unfolding but the cops are in full damage control mode. Local organizations are rallying. Picture is frames before the crime. You can see the perpetrator pointing their gun at the victim who is restrained and on the ground.

Full video of the execution was captured by @mudlord on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbGyT50BB1b

Obviously content warning and I’m hoping the little NSFW checkbox blurs the image.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netM
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    I’m so tired. I’m so, so tired. When does it stop. How does it stop. How many more will be murdered in cold blood before we as a society decide it has to stop, at any and all costs.

    I’m so tired

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          It’s from the Punisher MAX story, “Up is Down, Black is White”

          So a mobster decided (with help from a CIA goon btw) to draw the Punisher into an ambush by getting him so angry he doesn’t do the usual Frank thing of playing it smart

          Mobster knows one thing about the Punisher, so he goes to the cemetery, digs up his dead family and pisses on the remains

          He of course records this and sends it to every newspaper, tv station and gossip rag he can

          Frank starts going apoplectic, starts killing goons every single night, leaving one alive every time so they can relay his single demand

          Bury his family again or he will never, ever stop

          This image is from a dream he has (keep in mind, he’s stopped sleeping) where he kills every single person in New York City

          It’s heavy stuff

          If you want some suggestions, I say start with the Garth Ennis runs of Punisher MAX

          They’re self-contained, so they don’t require going through dozens of other stories to understand

          Most of the collections online include Punisher: Born, Punisher: Tyger, Tyger and Punisher: The End, which all really help to flesh out Ennis’ personal vision of the character

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      Holy shit, they tackle him off his bike at speed, then he’s already got 3 pigs on top of him restraining him, before another cop-car pulls up a pig exits, he tased then shot like 2/3 seconds later

      They’re probably going to go all in on the ‘he was armed and about to shoot we feared for out lives’ even though his hands/arms are clearly restrained. Or they’ll barely bother with a cover up an no justice will be served to the pigs just like Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Alec Pretti and so many more

      This is an isolated incident and the US is not an authoritrian police state btw


      Trying to work out if this is another angle https://www.channel3000.com/news/full-video-police-involved-fatal-shooting-in-madison/article_2b47a3cd-49dc-46b5-bb20-8448f784378f.html but it’s geolocked and https://archive.is/Rm2cJ doesn’t copy the video it seems

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        This is another angle. The guy has a knife, but that wouldn’t matter if the cops hadn’t tackled him off his bike. And he is fully restrained before they shoot him right in the face. Once he is dead, they start kneeling on him and cuffing his corpse.

        For context, this man was executed in broad daylight for “checking vehicles.”

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          They claim two officers were “injured” but the entire interaction seems to be: cops were called cause a guy was looking at cars. They show up, he takes off. They knock him off his bike, grab him, pin him, and shoot him. He does not threaten them. He does not stab them or hit them. They’re absolutely lying about injuries.

          Honestly I can’t even see the knife in his hand in the video. They just yell he has a knife, but his arms are being held and his hands look empty. They seem to pull the knife off him and toss it aside after they kill him. So if it was even his knife (which, let’s be real, cops plant weapons all the time), he wasn’t using it. Looks like it was in a pocket or waistband or on his belt or something from the angle they pull it off him

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            The only injury they possibly suffered is the blow from taking the bike at that speed, which was not the riders fault, although I’m surprised there wasn’t friendly fire with how close and sloppy the shooting seemed

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              Looks like one of the cops shot the other cop to me. He has his hand behind the victim’s head at the time he gets shot in the face and he flinches his hand away very sharply, even shakes his hand in pain afterwards. Bullet probably went all the way through and he took some shrapnel either from the bullet or bones.

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        I can’t bring myself to watch the more detailed video but people are saying the channel3000 video is extremely graphic, more close up of his face afterwards, just a warning. I’m mistaken, that’s a different video I think, but any of them are distressing to watch to say the least.

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          This video is not up close, you do not see his face, just cops piled around him. It’s not “graphic” but it is awful because it is someone’s death. I still do not recommend watching the video; in the end, it’s exactly what you expect. A bunch of pigs murder a man in broad daylight and then pretend to be helping.

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            Clearly shot while on the ground fully restrained. Shortly after, the cop with his back towards the camera tosses a knife off to the side, followed by a second item (ziploc bag?) also tossed to the side. Because of the camera angle you can’t tell if they were found on the victim (pockets?) or produced from somewhere else & dropped, but I assume that’s the justification they’ll go with. No sign that the victim was actually holding the knife at any time.

  • Cops shouldn’t be allowed to carry guns. The UK is a hell somehow worse than the U.S. in many ways but the one thing they did right was having a separate squad of gun cops unless they’re no longer doing that idk i don’t keep up with the uk

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      Yeah, I grew up in Milwaukee and the couple of times I went to Madison were eerie

      Big college city, always seemed a little too good to be true

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      From https://www.wpr.org/news/shooting-police-madison-east-side-protest-concerts-on-the-square

      Wednesday’s shooting took place in the same neighborhood where a Madison police officer fatally shot Tony Robinson, a 19-year-old Black man, inside an apartment building in 2015.

      Robinson was unarmed. The Dane County District Attorney did not issue charges against that police officer, after determining the officer had reason to fear for his life after concluding that Robinson had physically assaulted the officer at the top of the stairs within the building.

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        The story on that one is he was having an acid trip safely in his home when the police interrupted him and shot up the stairs at him.

        There’s a mural on of Tony Robinson just over a block away.

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      Bodycams change very little beside offering an up close view of the inhumane cruelty police dispatch against citizens. Bodycams were never a solution. Vanishingly few instances of police being punished for their behavior while wearing a bodycam.

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    Death death to AmeriKKKa

    The video is bad.

    short description of how the kkkops murdered this poor man

    They straight up tazed him, stomped on him, had him down and restrained, and then shot him.

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    reminds me of Sammy Yatim, murdered in 2013 at age 18 by piggy James Forcillo, because he had a small knife. Yatim was alone in one of the old Toronto streetcars, which were built like tanks, with nobody else at all around the vehicle. He could not have run anywhere, and there was nobody to hurt. They tasered him after fatally shooting him 8 times.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sammy-yatim-video-trial-1.3283066