Summary
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond dismissed a felony assault charge against Sgt. Joseph Gibson, a police officer who slammed 71-year-old Lich Vu to the ground during a traffic ticket dispute, breaking his neck.
Drummond stated the officer acted within his training and lacked criminal intent, adding that Vu should not have touched Gibson.
The dismissal sparked criticism from Oklahoma County DA Vicki Behenna and outrage in Oklahoma City’s Vietnamese community, citing Vu’s language barriers during the incident.
Gibson’s actions were initially deemed an unreasonable use of force by prosecutors.
Seems kinda fucked up if you ask me
“Oklahoma AG Condones Elder Abuse, Police Brutality”
Fixed the headline
“However, our members often have to make split-second decisions, and they cannot control the outcome of every situation,” Nelson said in a statement. “Unfortunately, when someone resists law enforcement, they increase the risk of harm to themselves or others.”
He had to make a split-second decision?!! About what? Cannot control the outcome? You mean the outcome of you deciding, with all the time in the world, to throw an old man to the ground on his face so hard it broke his neck and smashed his eye socket? What outcome was not totally under your control here? You had total control over a fragile old man. Resists law enforcement? total bullshit. god I hate these stories, I really need to stop myself from reading them. It’s not like I can do a damn thing about it but get upset. Fuck them all.
It’s not like I can do a damn thing
Luigi says otherwise.
Yesss encourage people to ruin their lives for probably no change, awesome take
Luigi is one person. It takes many people to enact change. I don’t believe anyone needs to be murdered.
“I take care of mine and muh own. Good ol bwah!”
I’ve never wished a broken neck on a person more. I hope this scum is either Abbotted or Luigi’d. Or Abbotted while Luigi’d.
Wait what happened with Abbott? I missed something.
He’s a paraplegic but I’m sure the republican would assure you he’s one of the “good ones”.
He was paralyzed by a tree that broke his back. Not neck, I grant you, but still - a hero of a tree whose only mistake was in not being fatal.
Rip fallen trees
So is the play to move the argument away from an individual committing a heinous act, which is easy to grok and be mad about, to the realm of policy and red tape, where the halflife is longer and our attention spans non existent?
If it works, it works.
That’s always been the play.
Do heinous thing.
Say heinous thing is policy
Make sure policy never changes.
In the video on NBC, I can’t even see Vu make any physical motion. One second they’re talking, the next Sgt. Joseph Gibson just loses his temper and throws the man on the pavement. Looks absolutely like he just can’t handle not getting his way.
Right about the :42 mark, the old man pretty much taps the cop in the chest with the back of his fingers. You can also see it in the body cam footage. It was a very slight tap and I very much doubt the cop even felt it through his body armor. This was a massive over reaction from the cop. He should have been charged and the AG is dead wrong here. Frankly, old people do not heal well from falls and breaks. I won’t be surprised if he ends up dying as a result of these injuries.
Never talk to the cops unless you absolutely have to, but if you do, keep your hands completely to yourself, particularly if you are a minority. Use lots of pleases and thank yous and yes, sirs. Otherwise, the cop may just decide to kick your ass and they will get away with it.
In no sane world would a civilian get off claiming self-defense for doing the same thing. AG is a depraved licker of boots and has given the green light for law enforcement to commit acts of violence like this against civilians in the future.
Huh wonder if he minds personally being slammed to the ground causing bodily harm? Maybe some 2a people can do something about that?
I love how the “well regulated militia” just gets ignored. The intent of the second amendment is clear, but we’ve decided any old moron can keep and bear arms anyway.
Why would they? I’m sure they are happy with the result. A minority got fucked up and a cop was protected. They’re practically creaming.
There are a lot of us on the left, more every day, that are quite big fans of the 2nd amendment.
Fair enough. I am one of those honestly and enjoy the range when I go. When someone talks about 2A people I generally take that as far right 2A at all costs crazy types
TBF I mainly say it because I know left wing 2a folks probably wouldn’t, highlighting Trump’s violent rhetoric to his supporters. Though I should make that obvious in my posts lol
Just to be clear over 1 million Americans have died from gun violence in the last twenty years. We lose on average over a thousand children a year as well. In Japan they lost 0 children to gun violence this year and the year before it and so on and so forth.
So be a big fan of widespread death under the guise of 2a rights. Just don’t pretend to be leftist once you have been shown the truth.
Perhaps I should phrase it differently. In a country with more guns than people, where the majority of people have easy access to guns, I am glad to be able to arm myself in order that I may protect my loved ones or even, should it come to it, to fight against a full descent into fascism.
To keep on believing they make anyone safe is beyond logic at this point. I get your feels but they are dead wrong on this topic.
I wish it wasn’t the way it is. But we have to work with the world we live in. Nobody will ever have access to our guns to hurt anyone, and with our country falling into whatever this mess could become… I’d rather go down fighting than get hauled off to a camp.
All I can say is keep them locked and secured which apparently you do.
Scum always floats to the top of the swamp.
But, but, I thought we drained it?!!
They all say they want to drain it until they are floating on top.
I hope the victim gets millions in the civil suit and that oklahoma votes out that gross as fuck AG
It’s a likely outcome and taxpayers will bear the brunt. If we increased the civil payout to billions, I suspect there would be greater pressure to get this slimy fuck out ASAP because the cost is too high and actually stings enough to cause action.
I expect this kind of shit from one of the lowest ranking states in the USA.
What about all the resisting arrest charges where people didn’t have criminal intent either?
ACAB
I can understand how frustrating language barriers can be. But handling frustration appropriately is a job requirement.
For most jobs, sure. I think the only requirements to become a cop are average physical fitness and below average intelligence.
Yeah, the bar really has gotten so low. I mean I know it is a shitty job, so why would lots of people line up for it. But we gotta find a way to improve the candidate pool.
I’m pretty sure the bar is intentionally low, like, some police departments set a maximum IQ for new officers because they don’t want them to be too intelligent to not blindly follow orders.
You don’t even need average physical fitness these days. Just the inability to think for yourself
I haven’t seen a video if there is a video… but is this like the 1 in a billion times the word SLAMMED in a headline is actually right!?
Just click the link, it’s the first thing on the page. Yes, the cop body slammed him face first into the asphalt for absolutely no reason.
I don’t really want to see that. I’ll take everyone’s word it happened.
As attorney general, I will not permit Oklahoma police officers to face criminal prosecution for conduct adhering to their training,” Drummond said in a statement.
Gotta protect that elder abuse training.
The officer was just following orders, after all.
