Brickbat: Philadelphia Beatdown

Former Philadelphia Police Officer Darren Kardos has been charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment of another person, and other charges in the beating of Rickia Young. In October 2020, Young had gone to pick up her nephew from a friend's house. Hours earlier, police had shot and killed Walter Wallace, and what began as peaceful protests had become violent. As she approached one intersection, officers ordered her to turn around. But as she tried to make a U-turn, several officers began hitting and rocking her SUV. Kardos broke the windows of the SUV and pulled Young out by the hair. Officers hit her with fists and batons and sprayed her with mace. Neither Young nor her nephew were charged with any crime. The city has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit Young brought.

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[Commenter_XY]

City of Brotherly Love my ass.

Even the cops do car-jacking.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...several officers began hitting and rocking her SUV.

So it was the cops who were protesting the shooting?

[cgr2727]

Sounds “mostly peaceful” to me.

[mad.casual]

Yeah, I don't doubt the officers' guilt, but the story leaves much to be desired.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Turns out there's video and damn if it doesn't look like that. Mindless idiots swarming just like a group of protest rioters.

[Dan_In_Philly]

That woman should have held out for $2 million per involved officer.

[Yatusabes]

For Philadelphia, we found that the violent crime rate is one of the highest in the nation, across communities of all sizes (both large and small). Violent offenses tracked included rape, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, armed robbery, and aggravated assault, including assault with a deadly weapon.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/pa/philadelphia/crime#description

Walk away. Let evolution run its course. Return when peaceful protests parents make family rearing their priority and measured against a baseline. Cops acting badly is a sign that they are fed up with people acting badly. Laws, Police, incarceration can do nothing to prevent what people are intent on doing. Same applies elsewhere

[Dan_In_Philly]

The source cited is almost useless because it does not have time context for its crime statistics.

The DA has stated that while homicide has significantly increased over the last couple of years, other violent crime overall has been on the downswing.

This sort of ties into your statement of "let evolution run its course." If the increase in homicide translates to the criminals killing themselves, then that sort of explains why other violent crime is down---the criminals are killing themselves so there are fewer of them to commit the other types of violent crime upon the general citizenry. If so, I'd say that was a good thing.

[Yatusabes]

Violent crime has increased across the country including Philly. People have lost a mandate for self-regulation in all arenas of life. Health, obesity, addiction, interactions with others be it in person or online, etc. Those who are charged to care for society at large, like cops and physicians, are just as capable in losing their composure. They break integrity with themselves. I cant speak for cops but I do know that the burnout amongst physicians exceeds 50%, and climbing. Physicians, and presumably cops, are overwhelmed due to people not practicing self-regulation. They can not walk away from their careers because that is the career for which they have developed skill sets. Changing careers isnt viable for most. So until people start adopting the hard, painful work of self-regulation, as evolution describes, our world is traveling towards destruction, aka entropy

If you look at the cellular processes and molecular mechanisms at play within our body, all of them comport themselves to regulation and barriers. Once these are violated, pathology (e.g. cancer) ensues. That is evolution. Cooperate with your environment or expect extinction. Americans have chosen the path of extinction. Their choice.

[Dan_In_Philly]

"Cops acting badly is a sign that they are fed up with people acting badly."

I do have to take issue with the above statement.

Cops acting badly is a sign of bad cops.

[jimc5499]

This is the same City that made stores take down shields that protected their employees in the name of racism.

[R Mac]

Don’t want to be beaten like a thug, don’t pick up your nephew like a thug.

[Longtobefree]

Once again, the story leaves out the part where the officers were fired, arrested, tried, convicted, and imprisoned.

[Minadin]

In this case we have some satisfaction:

"Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced the arrest of a fired city police officer for allegedly assaulting a woman in front of her toddler in October 2020.

Darren Kardos, 42, has been arrested and charged, Krasner said Thursday. Kardos was suspended soon after the incident and later fired. He served seven years on the Philadelphia police force and was assigned to the 19th District. Another officer was also fired in relation to the incident."

[Minadin]

Here's another fun detail of the story: While she was arrested (being held illegally) the police union kidnapped her son and used him in a propaganda video -

"The National Fraternal Order of Police created a viral Facebook post that later spread to other police social media pages. The post, since removed, showed a female officer holding Young's son, who was characterized as a child officers found abandoned and barefoot during "complete lawlessness" on the street. District Attorney Krasner was critical of the FOP, saying the post mischaracterized the incident."

[Yatusabes]

They likely learned from BLM activists grifters who can now be found hiding in their multimillion dollar mansions.. because we are all rayyyycccisssts!

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[Don't look at me!]

What color was everyone’s skin?

[rbike]

I was going to ask this, also. Isn't that important o know here?

[Don't look at me!]

It’s the most important thing.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Also, this is par for the course for Filthacrapia.

[creech]

According to friends who grew up in Philly, this was a routine experience for anyone (teens, especially) who lipped off to cops.
Before the age of ubiquitous cameras, the cops got away with such brutality. Then, you had your six pack stolen and suffered a sore head for a week. Now, you get $2 million.

[Dillinger]

Dave The Hammer Schultz approves.

[creech]

Did Ranger Dale Rolf ever sue Schultzy?

[Dillinger]

lol your Honor, on May 5, 1974 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ACLpVQtQg

[Hank Phillips]

Sooooo... driving while black is suddenly no longer reasonable cause to gang up, poison and club the daylights out of some inoffensive citizen. It only took 50 years of libertarian spoiler votes to make that a fact.