• Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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    It’s really hard to have sympathy for someone begging to see their kids when they drove recklessly with them in the car.

    Also, you know, the whole ripping other families apart, for the law or whatever. I guess he’s cool with enacting destruction, but not so much on the receiving end.

    It’s not like I’d expect much self awareness, but come on, dude… “I’m federal.” “Why you fucking me?” “Are you Haitian?” and you can’t walk a straight line? Who is really fucking who? Hint: look in the mirror. Personal responsibility, homie…

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    Of course some people of any group will do shitty things like DWI. That’s not news. It doesn’t tell us anything about the group. This is anecdotal.

    But it’s shocking that being held accountable is newsworthy. These people operate above the law. Even when not related to their job, they often are. That’s fucked

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    I’m not defending this guy in the least, but as a recovering alcoholic, this was hard to watch. You never know when you’re going to hit your rock bottom, but if this wasn’t it for him, I don’t know what it would be. Getting pulled over with your kids is awful.

    I’ve been sober for years, but you always have to keep your guard up for triggers, and have an emotional support group that is willing to support you. I know his occupation, as well as that of the cops that pulled him over, is controversial, but I just hope he is able to pull through this. His kids deserve better.

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      Hot recovering alcoholic take but dude endangered his kids and then showed them how to be an ass, not for the first time I’m sure. This is the “rules don’t apply to me” mindset that comes with being in a paramilitary. I sure do hope this was his rock bottom because his next one might involve those kids dead.

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        Thanks for shitting on an admitted alcoholic, for feeling empathy with another alcoholic. I’m glad his kids didn’t get physically harmed, but I am very aware that something like this emotionally harmed them.

        Thanks for being part of the problem and not the solution.

        Everyone can down vote me into oblivion, but addiction in all its forms should not have a stigma attached. I lived most of my life not realizing that I had a problem. I’m very thankful that I did eventually realize I did.

        But again, feel free to cast judgement from your ivory tower. Talk shit on addicts, make yourself feel better.

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    the officers informed him that his sons’ mother—with whom Deiseroth had said earlier he was going through a divorce—would pick up the two children at the police station.

    This story is gonna go over so well in the divorce proceedings

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    Dude would have been dragged out of his car and tased and ziptied if he was brown. Broski was given time to leisurely talk to his kids through the back window before discussion behind the vehicle.

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      How is this not the highest comment here. Regardless of who he works for, this guy absolutely got little kid gloves even after being aggressive during the test and most importantly HE ACTUALLY RESISTED ARREST!

      I know I shouldn’t be hoping for someone to get police brutality treatment but I’m just fucking fed up with this shit

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        I’d rather most stops were more like his, if I’m to be honest. Meaning, treating the person as if they are a human (even if the guy does come off like an entitled douche). I have a feeling if it was him pulling over someone brown, it might look like some of the clips I’ve seen Meidas posting, where ICE is ripping open a car door and pulling people out of a car, getting them on the ground, etc. I have a feeling these guys were being more than deferential because of what his job was.

        This guy was actually doing something dangerous in his case - driving under the influence. Granted, I don’t know the full context of those ICE videos I’ve seen short clips of, but it sure seems they are escalating things rather quickly and only because they are brown. Do these people really need to be hauled out of their car, wrestled to the ground, etc.?

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      Yea the most notable part of the story is that the cops actually did their job and arrested him instead of letting him go as soon as they heard he was a fellow cop. If the guy played it a bit cooler and wasn’t so belligerent and racist to them they probably would have.

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        Not so sure; he was very obviously very drunk. He was just trying to delay the inevitable - revealing exactly what types of scumbag he is in the process.

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      100% but somehow we’re uncivilized and need to be policed more. Meanwhile, the most dangerous places in America isn’t the inner cities. We still have sun down towns in America.

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    Schadenfreude timestamp is about 30 minutes in.

    Highlight from cop to ICE agent:

    I got a DUI two years ago, just go jail and cry about like a man

    And without the slightest hint of irony:

    I’m just doing my job, it pays the bills, I can’t say no.

    Like, he seemed to be sincere, but using the stereotypical “just following orders” to a modern Nazi is peak irony. It pretty much broke the ICE guys brain

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    Man, Do i respect this guy. Kids in the back crying, you drunk as fuck, and about to go to jail. Does that stop him from being racist? Fuck No! What a winner. Can’t see why his wife left him?