VIDEO SHOWS HOW DANCING IN PUBLIC IN THE POLICE STATE IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH
Brendan Carter was on his way to see his sick uncle last week when he was detained by multiple security officers in the public RTS bus station in Rochester, subsequently assaulted by police and arrested — all over his dancing.
According to Carter, he was waiting for the bus to visit his uncle who is in the hospital. Apparently overcome by emotion, Carter said he put his headphones in and started dancing to avoid crying. This dancing got the attention of DHS employees and security officers at the station.
Carter had a bus pass and was breaking no law when the officers approached him. As he explained, when he was told to leave for no reason and the officers put hands on him, Carter became angry. However, as seen on the video, he never once became violent.
He was immediately accused of being drunk (which is not a crime, even if he was) and he was told to leave. A scene ensued after the initial confrontation as Carter refused to leave because all he wanted to do was get on the bus to visit his uncle.
Rochester police were quickly dispatched and the already tense situation would only explode from this point.
After he agreed to leave, Carter began walking out of the station. However, the officer was on an apparent mission to intensify the already-delicate situation.
When the officer arrives, instead of talking to the young man to get his side of the story, or letting him leave like he was doing, he immediately escalates to violence by grabbing Carter and then presenting his taser.
Within seconds, Carter is tasered, physically assaulted, slammed to the ground and arrested.
The entire scene was captured on video by NY Black Panther chapter member Daryl Appleberry. Had Appleberry not been there, this scene could have gotten far worse. Perhaps that is why we hear the RTS security officer’s radio go off, “Annie, get this guy out of there with the camera behind you. Get him out of there!”
Carter was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and trespassing. He was in a public space.
The father stopped the vehicle and raised his arms to show he was unarmed
ONE OF THE ARRESTED OFFICERS WAS ACTIVELY STALKING THE FATHER’S FIANCE
They are trying to claim self defense AND claim they didn’t know there was a child in the truck
They fired “no less than 18 rounds” into the truck
The father was hit but still alive. The boy ended up being shot in the head multiple times.
There is bodycam footage of the incident and every official/lawyer that has seen and spoken on it has called it horrific.
50% of all police violence victims are autistic or mentally ill. If an autistic person starts screaming or can’t look a cop in the eyes, they use that as an excuse to shoot. I hope Black Lives Matter starts talking about that, too.
Police violence hurts the mentally ill a lot and of course that also means black autistic / mentally ill kids are getting hurt and killed. Ableism is deadly.
This is fucking vile it gives cops an excuse to act like everyone with a cell phone has a gun, this is going to lead to soooooo many more murders that cops get to walk away from and they fucking know that… and not only that but it’s going to make recording the police on a phone that much harder too… again, they aren’t stupid, they know these things, they also know that creating the idea that anyone’s cellphone could be a gun is a good way to stoke the paranoia that they use to sell people guns in the name of self defense, it’s a sickeningly calculated move
friendly reminder that native americans actually suffer more police brutality & police murders than any other ethnicity
friendly reminder that we got our right to vote after black ppl did
friendly reminder that up until the 19-fucking-90’s our women would have their tubes forcibly tied by doctors after they gave birth, as a way to get rid of us
Friendly reminder that most of our sacred sites have been polluted by mining, illegal dumping, or radiation. AND EVEN MORE OF THEM HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM US
friendly reminder that there is less than one percent of us left here.
Friendly reminder that even up here in Canada, there are mass amounts of First Nations women vanishing. Racism against natives is still alive and well. Residential schools were in operation until 1996.
aaaaannnnddddd this is why we hate cops 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
If they left it at sex offenders, I would’ve been fine, but naw.
They did claim this is about sex offenders but I’m not buying it. We all know law enforcement doesn’t give a shit about sexual assault bc if they did those sex offenders would already be in jail and they wouldn’t have to worry about “IDing” people at shelters. It sounds very fishy. They just wanna deny non-violent criminals into shelters just bc they can.
More that they’re going to capture anyone with a warrant out for their arrest by IDing everyone at the shelters. Warrants for anything, even so small, inconsequential and non-violent as unpaid parking tickets. It’d get even worse if you consider parolees and people on probation for non-violent crimes (like drug possession, which is the big thing they go after non-white people for) being unable to check-in with their parole/probation officer BECAUSE of the hurricane and getting arrested for that
But as a reminder, ICE was also checking people’s ID during the Texas Hurricane and you know how ICE responds to any Latin person who doesn’t carry their visa or birth certificate on them at all times
Gotta fund those prisons, even when nature itself is raging against us
Water Witches 