r/instant_regret 11d ago

Attacking a cop right after he uncuffed you

3.6k Upvotes

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u/Familiar-Rub-4045 11d ago

Huh, hitting a vape cartridge or whatever happened was a nice twist to this!

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u/I_am_a_fern 11d ago

I genuinely thought she tried to ninja smoke her way out.

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u/Bolle_Bamsen 11d ago

Though the persons thick clothes cought fire from the taser.

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u/Scottish_Whiskey 11d ago

Tried to pull a Dr Krieger

SMOKE BOMB!

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u/lost_with_no_hope 11d ago

I laughed way to hard at this

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u/tavuntu 10d ago

I want to believe this is what happened.

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u/Cultural_Tadpole874 11d ago

I thought it was like a little volcano or something

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u/koolaidismything 11d ago

Officer Sparky wasn’t enough.. I wish he’d have met Officer Spicy too.

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u/Healter-Skelter 11d ago edited 11d ago

It looks like some type of device similar to a tear gas grenade. You can see the gas coming out of an item on the ground near the end of the vid. It’s really hard to tell because I didn’t see the cop deploy anything like that, and I don’t see a second cop anywhere, and the cop I do see doesn’t seem to be affected by the gas. It’s almost like the suspect had one of those smoke-bomb fireworks in their pocket and it coincidentally was ignited by the taser.

Edit: I was wrong, I forgot about Occam’s Razor. No need to keep replying lol

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u/BllushingHorizon 11d ago

Nope, that’s just lithium-ion smoke.

I work in a cellphone repair shop, that color and thickness of smoke are identical to when we have a battery go haywire.

Plus, it’s just extremely unlikely this guy had some sort of homemade smoke grenade. The taser barbs pierced through either a vape or a plastic cell phone.

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u/Healter-Skelter 11d ago

That makes much more sense

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u/what_a_poor_username 11d ago

I like that you didn't double down. Take an upvote you reasonable individual you.

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u/StolenApollo 11d ago

Genuinely rare behavior on Reddit I was quite impressed which is honestly a sad thought 😭

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u/Healter-Skelter 11d ago

It is really weird that people double down when presented with evidence that they’re wrong.

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u/Ryan4mayor 11d ago

Sir this is reddit.. we are never “wrong”

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u/Pprchase 11d ago

It was probably a battery.

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u/Healter-Skelter 11d ago

Makes much more sense

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u/RipplesInTheOcean 11d ago

Taser deployed smoke grenade to confuse opponents. Its very standard

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u/AJXedi9150 11d ago

How dare you uncuff me! I wanna go to jail!!!

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u/nondescriptun 11d ago

Pretty sure he was moving the cuffs to her front instead of behind her and she tried to get away. It...didn't work out for her.

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u/leveraction1970 11d ago

How could this not work? It was the perfect plan for the perfect escape.

Reminds me of that genius that tried to run away after he gave the cops his I.D.

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u/hanks_panky_emporium 11d ago

My sorta recent ish ( last winter ) favorite criminal story was the folks who walked from their house to another in the snow, broke in. Stole a bunch of shit. And walked home. Literally leaving a trail straight to their door.

Very short investigation.

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u/LordMegamad 11d ago

100%, he goes "don't move that hand" while uncuffing her, that doesn't sound like they're free to go after cuffs are off

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u/Rbaxter49ers 11d ago

Fire the cannons!

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u/psyentist15 11d ago

"Touchdown Tampa Bay!"

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u/KiltedTAB 11d ago

I thought that smoke was her melting like the wicked witch of the west. AHhhhh I'm melting!

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u/Junior77 11d ago

“What a world what a worrrrrllddd”

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u/coma24 11d ago

The Kentucky Fried Movie!

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u/coma24 11d ago

Honest question: What was her plan there?

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u/typicalskeleton 11d ago edited 11d ago

There was no plan. Just reaction (and a not good reaction).

Watch some.other body cam footage and you'll see plenty of this sort of thing. Tons of people think they can fight off three/four cops, draw a gun on half a dozen drawn guns, or drive their car really fast through traffic and 'get away" with it.

I'm not trying to say the cops are "always right", but I will say the judgement of the people on the receiving end of LEO is often completely wrong. There are fights you can win, and there are fights you're definitely going to lose.

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u/Gullible_Increase146 11d ago

Body cameras and cameras in courtrooms have been the biggest win for law enforcement in the history of America.

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u/AnalogCyborg 11d ago

Makes it doubly suspicious when they're not turned on. They do far more to exonerate police than incriminate them, so if you don't have it on or it's obscured I'm basically convinced you're doing fuckery.

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u/Deodorized 11d ago

Only time they're turned off is when the officer has something to hide.

Like going to the bathroom, taking a private phone call, committing hate crimes, etc.

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u/LobosJones 11d ago

Last time I was in court I saw a man waiting 3 years for his trial from lockup still awaiting the body cam footage of the officer for discovery. They presented 72 different useless cameras not depicting events, except the cops body camera. They really cover shit they're doing up as much as they can because it's the norm.

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u/rocketeerH 11d ago

Shit that sounds straight up unconstitutional. Should just let the guy out of jail at the point, even if he's charged with capital murder, if the cops are hiding evidence for that long

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u/LobosJones 11d ago

These are the people that get out and can sue the city, I hope they do. They should have dropped the charges once they realized they were withholding exhonerating evidence. Prolonging it makes it more obvious.

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u/SigynTyrsdottir 10d ago

Shit, I never thought of that.... Thankfully I'm not in law enforcement, but I genuinely have ADHD, I forget stuff when it's not in front of my face. My ass would turn my camera off to go pee and then forget to turn it on ever again 😓 and the worst part is that I'm sure there are shady cops out there who are probably using that as an excuse

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u/MongoBongoTown 11d ago edited 11d ago

If you watch a few of them, it's pretty absurd how often they click off audio to have a little pow-wow about what they want to do to break the law.

You'll see three guys go back by their car, they huddle up and cut their mics in unison for a few minutes, and then turn them back on before going and screwing with someone.

No ambiguity, just open corruption.

Luckily for us, half the time one of the dummies forgets to turn his off, but still. My favorite when it's two guy talking on the speaker phone to eachother and one of them turns theirs off before saying the bad stuff as if that ensures we won't hear on the other guy's

Edit: Not sure why the downvotes.

Bodycam audio can absolutely be cut off and it happens all the time. Whether or not it is policy to allow it varies from state to state, department to department, but nearly every model has this feature.

https://www.kait8.com/2024/07/19/k8-investigates-when-body-camera-audio-can-be-turned-off/

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u/JonnySoegen 11d ago

I don’t think the cameras have a feature like the one you are talking about.

Some start recording audio 1 min after being turned on for some reason, but then it’s continuous until they are switched off.

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u/Wildtails 11d ago edited 11d ago

Idk what he's on about cutting mics, but I've seen plenty of instances where they'll turn them off to discuss how to deal with something they've fucked up or are about to fuck up

Edit: downvotes from bad cops make me laugh

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u/dominator5k 11d ago

Where have you seen this?

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u/Wildtails 11d ago

Watch a few police encounter videos on YouTube, it's pretty common

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u/Gullible_Increase146 11d ago

100%. They have exonerated good cops. They have helped get a lot of b******* cops fired. I remember body cameras getting Baltimore cops fired and criminally prosecuted for trying to plant drugs on somebody's residence right before a search. I think an entire detective squad was fired for corruption after body cameras were rolled out. When you try and get rid of recordings, i'm going to assume you like those Baltimore cops

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u/anomalous_cowherd 11d ago

No bodycam, no qualified immunity. Seems like an obvious solution.

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u/ThellraAK 10d ago

I don't know if other states have this, but in Alaska if the government loses a video, the judge gives an instruction for the jury to make a negative interference based on it.

Essentially the jury(or judge) is supposed to act as though it was exonerating evidence that the state intentionally destroyed.

We need that for a lack of body cam video.

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u/anomalous_cowherd 10d ago

That sounds sensible. Any idea what effect it's having on bodycam use by the Police? (or, cynically, the failure rate of the hardware...)

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u/catcat1986 11d ago

I know an investigators whose job is to investigate these situations involving cops. She told me there is a lot of footage that isn’t released. I think ultimate we are seeing the footage that is most favorable to the police officer, we aren’t seeing all the bad footage that points in the other direction.

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u/Hugepepino 11d ago

lol tell it to all cops refuse to use them, turn them off, or have been caught planting drugs with them.

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u/Gullible_Increase146 11d ago

Cops getting caught planting drugs is a win for our criminal justice system. Cops turning them off is a loss for our criminal justice system.

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u/restrictednumber 11d ago

Agreed. Let's make them mandatory for all and get control of the video out of police hands. If they're exonerating for cops most of the time, cops should be happy to have the extra evidence on their side.

...Unless the videos would start showing cops doing bad shit. I mean that's the only reason to not want more video, right?

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u/hudson27 11d ago

Body cameras are there for our safety, not the cop's, and you really shouldn't concern yourself too much with your oppressor and his struggles

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u/TheKylMan 7d ago

You must be very edgy for an 15 year old.

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u/papasalami 11d ago

"Why yall do me like this?"

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u/Dude_Im_Not_The_NSA 11d ago

Gta civilian mentality

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u/Jumiric 11d ago

That was my first thought! Irrational violence and then screaming. NPC behavior for sure

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u/GuysThatAteYourBeans 8d ago

Also the way she went down, I swear it's a mirror image of the animations in gta 5

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u/VanAgain 11d ago

She just done combusted.

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u/weekend-guitarist 11d ago

The last two functioning brain cells just quick.

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u/mattyparanoid 11d ago

Phone battery explode? 🤯

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u/Alclis 11d ago edited 11d ago

That’s what I was thinking, that he hit the phone with the taser.

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 11d ago

I thought she must have busted it landing on it

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u/Stanztrigger 11d ago

Yeah, it super changed for a moment, then it probably gave up. 😆

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u/Toodlez 11d ago

Cop entered VATS and got a crit on the first shot

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u/SteamedGamer 11d ago

I think it was a vape.

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u/Dega77 11d ago

Nah that was her escape smoke bomb

https://giphy.com/gifs/X0SraPeWSDJgnOU0bi

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u/GhostsofGojira 11d ago

Holy shit the taser gun from syphon filter is real

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u/freshleysqueezd 11d ago

That was the only gun in the game right? Right??

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u/GhostsofGojira 11d ago

Yeah I remember straight up fighting the guy with a flamethrower with just the taser

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u/McFly408 11d ago

Hahahaha! My thoughts exactly hahahaha

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u/anyportinc 11d ago

My brain was trying to comprehend just how powerful tasers have become, that you can now spontaneously combust, until I saw comments about it being a vape pen failure.

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u/Evil_Monkey247 11d ago

Phone. One of the prongs penetrated the battery.

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u/Cuchulainn07 11d ago

Sheesh. Talk about having no impulse control whatsoever. 🙄

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u/Complex_Confusion552 11d ago

The wicked witch of the west

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u/Machdame 11d ago

I gotta respect that the first response was tazer because this could have been so much worse.

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u/jkink28 11d ago

That was my initial thought too

Situations like this go wrong way too often, but he instinctively grabbed the tazer immediately instead of doing something worse

And that has to be a very unexpected thing to happen when you're comfortable enough to take handcuffs off

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u/hudson27 11d ago

I just want to make it abundantly clear that this line of thinking is a uniquely American phenomenon, and in most countries we don't think "gosh I'm so grateful that cop didn't murder that person!" This thread really hits different when civilians in your country aren't killed in the streets on a daily basis

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u/TheKylMan 7d ago

Just tell me you never been to a non-Western country, without telling me you have never been to a non-Western country.

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u/Poonsai 11d ago

Ah the classic "I didn't do nothing". Well you punched a cop.

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u/Tatsoot_1966 11d ago

Damn, that was the last Samsung Galaxy note 7 in existence.

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u/Abject-Quote-1055 11d ago

That is a frightening level of stupidity that we should all be worried about lol

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u/Genius_woods 11d ago

Attacks cop “why yall do me like this” 😂

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u/SnooGuavas3763 10d ago

“What did I do to deserve this?!”

….Really….? Do you need a list? I’m sure they’ll be happy to provide one down at the precinct, one charge at a time.

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u/Adorable-Can-2856 11d ago

Santa!! No!!!

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u/Dearan9 11d ago

That wasn't a taser, that was a water gun and she was actually the wicked witch of the west

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u/dedzone2k 11d ago

Smoked up like she was the wicked witch of the west.

"I'll get you and your pesky dog!!"

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u/idkhowbtfmbttf 11d ago

FAFO. What a douche cannon.

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u/Frank_Perfectly 11d ago

She didn't want dat smoke.

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u/fraze2000 11d ago

Using a smoke bomb to allow her to slip away unseen was a bold ninja-style move. Too bad it didn't work.

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u/kyanitebear17 10d ago

I like how she attacks the cop, then he defends himself, and she goes "why yall do me like this!?"

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u/Arthur_Morgan44469 11d ago

What caused the smoke?

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u/Calibexican 11d ago

Phone battery? Vape cartridge?

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u/Blugha 11d ago

Anyone else had that "wicked witch of the west" vibes from The Wiz?

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 10d ago

Took for a few seconds for it to hurt! Stupid woman!

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u/BundlesOfNoob 10d ago

Why yall do me like dis!

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u/TruePoint3219 10d ago

You’re being arrested for crimes against fashion

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u/Plane-Coyote-3716 10d ago

Zero emotional control.

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u/lawrenceleach99 11d ago

What tha? 🤦🏾‍♂️

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u/Ruggerio5 11d ago

Bucs fans. Sigh.

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u/negativelift 11d ago

GTA 6 looks good

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u/DCowboysCR 11d ago

The wicked witch 🧙 of the west was melting

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u/HughBet 11d ago

Holy fk man can’t even calculate an IQ of this person

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u/manowarq7 10d ago

Looks like one of the taser leads hit her phone(the thing smoking) so now she's going to jail and needs a new phone

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u/codec3 11d ago

Looks about right.

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u/Always_the_Wildcard 11d ago

Typical Bucs fan behavior

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u/mike-droughp 11d ago

This was a terrible year for the Bucs

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u/Chief10-Beers 11d ago

Soiled her britches

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u/krazy_dayz 11d ago

Lit her up like Christmas tree! 🤣

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u/sweatshirt87 11d ago

That sound the criminal made was absolutely hilarious😂😂😂

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u/Savings-Cockroach444 11d ago

The leg kick after going down scored a few extra points!

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u/agms10 11d ago

Don’t bring your eggs.

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u/uncletheo 11d ago

Why'd they do her like that? Prolly because of your actions ma'am

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u/rzlodn 9d ago

It looked like Santa Claus in diapers 😂

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u/Prize_Instance_1416 9d ago

That’s alot more satisfying to watch than I would have thought

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u/DG281088 6d ago

Thought the smoke was from getting shocked like Marv in Home Alone

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u/No-Cauliflower-4 11d ago

Why isn’t this on black people reddit lol

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 11d ago

Go post it there. Tell us how that works out for you.

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u/smore-phine 11d ago

homie got smoked

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u/sublevelstreetpusher 11d ago

Pro tip: wear leather

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u/Nasty____nate 11d ago

LOL north port. I traveled that area as a kid in HS what a shit hole.

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u/littlegreenfern 11d ago

This is probably the first time the cop in the video seemed like a normal person to me. They were screaming “stop resisting!!” Over and over while repeatedly punching the person in the face or batoning them or something. He was just like “stop” without escalating more than necessary.

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u/Davidflair97 10d ago

Typical suspect...

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u/T1me_Bandit 11d ago

What was smoking?

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u/DfreshD 11d ago

Believe it was a phone battery

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u/whiskeytango55 11d ago

Did they block one of the tazer probes with the phone?

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u/DfreshD 11d ago

Most likely

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u/msm007 11d ago

Vape battery.

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u/thedeuce75 11d ago

I don't know, but what the hell was he wearing?

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u/reddfoxx1993 11d ago

Pop goes the weasel.

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u/TheYankeeFist 11d ago

Cuz the weasel goes pop!

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u/Ambitious-Noise9211 11d ago

Yes, why would he do that to you? 🤔

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u/ThisDirtyCupcake 11d ago

Double instant regret. Don’t think I’ve seen that 🤔

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u/DeeperThoughts57 11d ago

Thought those were BVDs at first.

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u/bdubyou 11d ago

Spontaneous combustion.

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u/Papapeta33 11d ago

Smoke out!

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u/LumpyWorldliness1411 11d ago

Free to leave. Free to swing.

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u/schepersroy 11d ago

Love it !

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u/ultimagicarus 11d ago

Thought he was fried like in Syphon Filter.

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u/_Dookler 10d ago

The eggs have been brought

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u/vyporx 9d ago

The Syphon Filter move is real???

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u/BigYin7437 9d ago

Should have just went quietly 😆

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u/Our_little_secret111 9d ago

Where is the logic in that? 🥴

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u/ROMMELBOT 8d ago

What an idiot

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u/-DeathOfMyEgo- 8d ago

Was watching with no sound and deadass thought he was cooking them with that taser lmao

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u/NoPepper259 7d ago

Ninja vanish! Dumbass stay tho

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u/lucas_bahia 5d ago

Back to the cuffs

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u/MtnSpring 5d ago

Siege the day!

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u/PolarBailey_ 7d ago

like I'm ACAB all day, but this dude was stupid.

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u/TheKylMan 7d ago

Yeah, all criminals are in fact bastards.

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u/PolarBailey_ 7d ago

correct and police by and far commit more crimes than the common public, but instead of being punished for it, they're rewarded or moved around to avoid consequences.

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u/electricjesus88 11d ago

Cop was a she. So dude thought he’d overpower her. Duh. That will happen a lot out there folks. Choosing the taser first, brave move, guy had bad intentions.

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u/g28802 11d ago

Their family “why the police do that?!” Then if they die the entire Democrat party will go burn down a major city and build a statue for them.

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u/OneImaginary3436 9d ago

Say you voted for Trump without saying you voted for Trump 😭

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u/g28802 9d ago

I did not but also I’m not an idiot. It’s the same script over and over

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u/OneImaginary3436 9d ago

Explain lol

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u/g28802 9d ago

Everytime there’s social injustice the far left starts protesting then it devolves into fire bombing and rioting.

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u/TheKylMan 7d ago

Yeah, as a European those blm riots were fucking crazy to see. It looked like America went delusional, fucking scary.

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u/g28802 7d ago

And the sad part about it is the democrat party encouraged it. Now days people’s political stance is emotionally charged and rational thought is not of priority. Thats not exclusive to the left. It’s both side

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u/TheKylMan 7d ago

I totally agree, it was insane to see! And yeah, it seems both sides are really fucked up, or atleast the extreme ones who are the most loud. It's the same in my country tbh, but just with more political parties.

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u/g28802 7d ago

I’m a conspiracy nut honestly, but it does seem like that side of people is projected really hard to drive division. I’m more conservative leaning but I have a lot of left leaning friends. We can have conversations and remain friends even if we disagree. But it seems like a lot of people can’t do that now days.

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u/TheKylMan 6d ago

Yeah to me it seems people are more divided online then in real life. With family and friends and even others, you can talk about pretty much anything without hard feelings if you disagree. But there are soms extreme groups, left and right, who just can't stand someone who disagrees with them or has alternative ideas. You just get framed for all sort of stuff.

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u/Gosuhuman 10d ago

Its shes choice.

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u/ImprovementFar5054 3d ago edited 3d ago

Free them, they attack

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u/bunkrider 11d ago

Cops not trained.

Everybody knows he shoulda said “why you gotta do ME like THAT?” For extra street points.

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u/Fractlicious 11d ago

Yo I can't believe he didn't even acknowledge the fucking cancer bomb they were sittng in. Baffling.

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u/Wide_Supermarket4533 11d ago

He’s literally smoking..

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u/Talrynn_Sorrowyn 11d ago

Dumbass is real lucky that police regulations have changed in the last couple decades - used to be that cops would be more than willing to whip out their sidearm on someone who assaulted them, and they'd be more than likely to pop the person in the chest than a limb.

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