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Video shows Phoenix police burning man during arrest: ‘Like acid on my skin’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burns

On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city’s police department stopped him.

They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived.

Surveillance footage from across the parking lot, which was viewed by the Guardian, shows the 30-year-old on the pavement soon after, with several officers on top of him and holding him down. Once they lift Kenyon off the ground after roughly four minutes, he appears limp.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've been an active part of two movements that saw police prosecuted and systemic changes implemented which also included being assaulted by police and requiring medical attention. I'm 100% comfortable with the contributions I've made. Every piece of progress and justice I've been a part of has involved (as you say), "making it a problem for people with power", not spouting pseudo-macho bullshit about other people shooting police.

I've fought for causes like this for almost 40 years and I've never seen people so fucking toothless. Forget actually acting on anything, they don't even make art art about it. They just regurgitate corporate talking points about guns and sulk on the internet if someone disagrees. They promote other people dying in a hail of bullets or spending the rest of their life in prison and they won't even send an email.

But it sure is easy to just be stepped back and making a claim for other people to figure out.

A criticism you're clearly not interested in applying evenly to the people in this thread.