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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
i noticed this a lot but too many people out there are incapable of picturing themselves in the shoes of others. 

i would like to think that if a cop(s) ripped me out of my car for a traffic violation they would put me on the ground and cuff me and then get it all sorted, but like its pretty clear in the video they did not even do that. Like at some point your flight or fight response is gonna kick in. Cops are yelling incoherent directions for him, he is surrounded. Its pretty clear to anyone with a level head that this man would want to flee.  then the cops have his car and likely info. they didnt need to pursue him for a traffic violation. 

If the cops dont rip him out of car none of this escalates. For some reason people do not want to discuss the behaviour of the police, we have seen time and time again of people complying and either being assaulted or killed. TO me at least people want to keep it in their heads that the police are the good guys as if they are not it would shatter their safe world view. The "it would never happen to me" people.
gpt
A lot of the responses that I’ve seen here are devoid of any empathy. It makes me sad. And if people want to harp on him for fleeing, what’s the message they’re trying to send then? “Don’t flee from police because they might beat you to death when they catch you”? I can’t wrap my head around it. And then they hand wave away what the cops did. “Obviously what they did was bad and they should go to jail, BUT it ONLY happened because he fled”. Like they ignore all other context surrounding the traffic stop, like how the cops escalated it for no reason. Or how Nichols wasn’t fighting back, he was only tensed up on the ground and spoke calmly the whole time. And then they say almost nothing about the part where he was fucking beaten to death while his hands were restrained. One cop did a run up kick to his face while he was restrained, he was beaten with a baton so bad his kidneys ruptured and it killed him, and people want to talk about how he resisted arrest and ran away at the first traffic stop.

I’m glad there’s at least some people here that have basic human decency.