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Originally Posted by Locke
What I find wild is how many of these incidents happen at routine traffic stops.
How lethal are these traffic violations?
"License, Registration and....OMIGOD HE'S COMIN' RIGHT FER US!!!!!!"
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That's the big question. In routine stops, presumably, the police have run the plates so they have a good idea who the driver is... in the Nichols case, they had his car. They would have know where he lived and worked. He wasn't a wanted felon from the reports I've seen; just a guy driving to his mom's house on his lunch break.
There was zero reason for escalation, even when he ran away.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It's so brazen that it makes one wonder how often they actually get away with it. I bet this wasn't the first time they terrorized someone.
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This was a 'special' division in Memphis meant to be proactively stopping crime, so they were predisposed to treating everyone as a criminal imo. It's likely that they probably did get away with some incidents of police brutality, but because the victim didn't get put in the hospital no one cared.