Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burns
On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city’s police department stopped him.
They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived.
Surveillance footage from across the parking lot, which was viewed by the Guardian, shows the 30-year-old on the pavement soon after, with several officers on top of him and holding him down. Once they lift Kenyon off the ground after roughly four minutes, he appears limp.
It really should be legal to fire upon police actively engaging in torture/attempted murder.
That’s a pipe dream. The first few people to try saving some innocent victim of police brutality will be dragged through the mud in the media and the whole ordeal would likely result in more legal protections for police and less rights for police the rest of us.
I didn’t say it would happen. Just that’s what it should be. These fucking pigs are out of control.
Get them under control then. I’m sick of the fucking “thoughts and prayers” generation.
There are people who fired on police breaking into their home and won on sale defense.
Isn’t that like the reason you have such lax fun gun laws over there?
Damn autocorrect
Sucks that “firing” is what we’re trying to get, when it should be “life changing legal consequences”.
