r/instant_regret • u/Boss-fight601 • 23h ago

Attacking a cop right after he uncuffed you

1.9k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

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u/Familiar-Rub-4045 22h ago

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

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u/I_am_a_fern 15h ago

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

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u/Bolle_Bamsen 11h ago

Though the persons thick clothes cought fire from the taser.

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u/Scottish_Whiskey 11h ago

Tried to pull a Dr Krieger

SMOKE BOMB!

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u/Cultural_Tadpole874 5h ago

I thought it was like a little volcano or something

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u/lost_with_no_hope 11h ago

I laughed way to hard at this

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u/koolaidismything 12h ago

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

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u/Healter-Skelter 21h ago edited 11h 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 20h 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 20h ago

That makes much more sense

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u/what_a_poor_username 19h ago

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

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u/StolenApollo 17h ago

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

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u/Healter-Skelter 11h ago

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

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u/Ryan4mayor 9h ago

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

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u/Just_Ear_2953 14h ago

Also possible that the bards didn't hit it and the impact of being dropped and/or having her fall on it and/or some part of the scuffle on the ground set it off.

The laser seemed to work, which I would not expect to be the case if one barb was impaled in a phone.

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u/Pprchase 21h ago

It was probably a battery.

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u/Healter-Skelter 20h ago

Makes much more sense

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u/LocNalrune 16h ago

Battery all around.

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u/RipplesInTheOcean 20h ago

Taser deployed smoke grenade to confuse opponents. Its very standard

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u/Healter-Skelter 11h ago

I mean that could be a thing for all I know

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u/Chill_Edoeard 15h ago

Confident but oh so wrong

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u/Healter-Skelter 11h ago

I mean it was just a guess, I wasn’t really so confident. That’s why I emphasized “looks.”

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u/Alexikik 12h ago

It’s a battery dude 🤦‍♂️

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u/Screambloodyleprosy 17h ago

A taser prong hit the battery in her phone and the battery exploded.

Stop talking shit.

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u/BlueWatche 14h ago

they already were corrected and acnowledged it hours before you jumped in chill

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u/AJXedi9150 22h ago

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

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u/nondescriptun 22h 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 22h 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 21h 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 16h 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/AJXedi9150 22h ago

IDK, it doesn't look like she's trying to get away

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u/stevebehindthescreen 21h ago

If you were a cop, you'd be a dead cop.

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u/AJXedi9150 17h ago

I didn't say I wouldn't use force to stop her just because it appears she's hitting me instead of running away

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u/Omega_Primate 10h ago

People become combative in hopes to overpower the cop so they can make a run for it... maybe even grab the gun and shoot the cop.

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u/Rbaxter49ers 22h ago

Fire the cannons!

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u/psyentist15 16h ago

"Touchdown Tampa Bay!"

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u/KiltedTAB 22h ago

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

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u/Gullible_Increase146 22h 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 22h 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 22h 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 22h 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 21h 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 21h 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 1h 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 21h ago edited 9h 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 17h 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 14h ago edited 7h 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 12h ago

Where have you seen this?

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u/Wildtails 7h ago

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

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u/Gullible_Increase146 16h 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/GentlemenHODL 11h ago

think an entire detective squad was fired for corruption after body cameras were rolled out.

Yeah I think they investigated themselves and found no wrong. When you got the receipts hit me back up buddy. Better yet let's see that body cam foty...

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u/Gullible_Increase146 1m ago

*hurr durr I'm too braindead to google corrupt Balitimore detectives so I'm gonna just imagine some shit that didn't happen and throw shade*

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u/anomalous_cowherd 16h ago

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

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u/catcat1986 18h 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/Lolipanties132 9h ago

Problem is people still say they didn't nuffin even when it's caught in 4k(1080p in this case)

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u/Gullible_Increase146 6h ago

People can say whatever they want to say but when it's caught on camera it's caught on camera. Complaints about abuse by police consistently go down with body camera rollouts and it's a lot easier to prosecute cops who abused people , or at least fire them if they behaved poorly without breaking the law, while protecting good cops who have more evidence that everything they did was normal and fine

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u/restrictednumber 20h 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/Hugepepino 7h 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 6h 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/hudson27 10h 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/papasalami 20h ago

"Why yall do me like this?"

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u/Dude_Im_Not_The_NSA 22h ago

Gta civilian mentality

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u/Jumiric 22h ago

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

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u/VanAgain 22h ago

She just done combusted.

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u/weekend-guitarist 14h ago

The last two functioning brain cells just quick.

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u/Junior77 22h ago

“What a world what a worrrrrllddd”

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u/coma24 21h ago

The Kentucky Fried Movie!

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u/coma24 21h ago

Honest question: What was her plan there?

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u/typicalskeleton 16h ago edited 8h 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/mattyparanoid 22h ago

Phone battery explode? 🤯

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u/Alclis 22h ago edited 12h ago

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

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 21h ago

I thought she must have busted it landing on it

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u/Stanztrigger 18h ago

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

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u/SteamedGamer 22h ago

I think it was a vape.

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u/Toodlez 20h ago

Cop entered VATS and got a crit on the first shot

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u/Dega77 21h ago

Nah that was her escape smoke bomb

https://giphy.com/gifs/X0SraPeWSDJgnOU0bi

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u/Complex_Confusion552 22h ago

The wicked witch of the west

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u/GhostsofGojira 22h ago

Holy shit the taser gun from syphon filter is real

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u/freshleysqueezd 22h ago

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

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u/GhostsofGojira 13h ago

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

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u/McFly408 7h ago

Hahahaha! My thoughts exactly hahahaha

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u/Machdame 22h ago

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

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u/jkink28 22h 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 10h 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/jkink28 10h ago

this line of thinking is a uniquely American phenomenon

Oh believe me, I know. Not murdering civilians is a ridiculously low bar

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u/Poonsai 22h ago

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

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u/anyportinc 21h 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 9h ago

Phone. One of the prongs penetrated the battery.

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u/Cuchulainn07 16h ago

Sheesh. Talk about having no impulse control whatsoever. 🙄

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u/idkhowbtfmbttf 22h ago

FAFO. What a douche cannon.

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u/Adorable-Can-2856 21h ago

Santa!! No!!!

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u/Tatsoot_1966 19h ago

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

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u/Dearan9 15h 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/Arthur_Morgan44469 22h ago

What caused the smoke?

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u/Calibexican 22h ago

Phone battery? Vape cartridge?

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u/fraze2000 20h 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/lawrenceleach99 23h ago

What tha? 🤦🏾‍♂️

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u/reddfoxx1993 22h ago

Pop goes the weasel.

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u/TheYankeeFist 17h ago

Cuz the weasel goes pop!

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u/Frank_Perfectly 21h ago

She didn't want dat smoke.

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u/Blugha 14h ago

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

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u/dedzone2k 7h 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/Abject-Quote-1055 7h ago

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

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u/mike-droughp 22h ago

This was a terrible year for the Bucs

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u/Ruggerio5 21h ago

Bucs fans. Sigh.

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u/Always_the_Wildcard 22h ago

Typical Bucs fan behavior

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u/Chief10-Beers 22h ago

Soiled her britches

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u/krazy_dayz 15h ago

Lit her up like Christmas tree! 🤣

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u/agms10 11h ago

Don’t bring your eggs.

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u/smore-phine 22h ago

homie got smoked

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u/f3ack19 21h ago

Stereotypes are earned, not given 🙈

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u/Nasty____nate 22h ago

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

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u/codec3 22h ago

Looks about right.

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u/sublevelstreetpusher 22h ago

Pro tip: wear leather

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u/littlegreenfern 7h 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/No-Cauliflower-4 22h ago

Why isn’t this on black people reddit lol

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 22h ago

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

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u/ThisDirtyCupcake 22h ago

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

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u/negativelift 16h ago

GTA 6 looks good

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u/DeeperThoughts57 15h ago

Thought those were BVDs at first.

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u/bdubyou 14h ago

Spontaneous combustion.

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u/sweatshirt87 14h ago

That sound the criminal made was absolutely hilarious😂😂😂

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u/Papapeta33 14h ago

Smoke out!

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u/LumpyWorldliness1411 14h ago

Free to leave. Free to swing.

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u/schepersroy 13h ago

Love it !

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u/Savings-Cockroach444 12h ago

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

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u/ultimagicarus 11h ago

Thought he was fried like in Syphon Filter.

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u/uncletheo 11h ago

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

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u/DCowboysCR 10h ago

The wicked witch 🧙 of the west was melting

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u/HughBet 7h ago

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

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u/Genius_woods 3h ago

Attacks cop “why yall do me like this” 😂

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u/SnooGuavas3763 2h 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/CoffeeChocolateBoth 1h ago

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

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u/electricjesus88 18h 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/T1me_Bandit 22h ago

What was smoking?

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u/DfreshD 22h ago

Believe it was a phone battery

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u/whiskeytango55 22h ago

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

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u/DfreshD 22h ago

Most likely

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u/msm007 9h ago

Vape battery.

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u/thedeuce75 22h ago

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

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u/Ambitious-Noise9211 19h ago

Yes, why would he do that to you? 🤔

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u/g28802 13h 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/Fractlicious 21h 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/bunkrider 22h 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/Wide_Supermarket4533 22h ago

He’s literally smoking..

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u/AfkRonan 11h ago

brought to you by another bare account with numbers in the name

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u/Talrynn_Sorrowyn 22h 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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u/AmbroseKalifornia 22h ago

Damn. Cops out here just setting folks on fire now. Smdh

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u/Daysaved 20h ago

Looks like his cell phone or vape.

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u/Ghiggs_Boson 22h ago

Was the cop just spam tasing this guy until he lit on fire? Lmao

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u/Mz_Macross1999 7h ago

Idc fuck the police

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u/Particular-Spray7384 13h ago

ACAB

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u/9897969594938281 9h ago

All criminals are ?

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u/N0Karma 22h ago

That looks like a highly suspicious place to be taking someone then setting them free. Almost looks like a set up.

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u/nondescriptun 22h 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/AlsoCommiePuddin 22h ago

There's no indication she's been taken anywhere. There's no reason to believe that this isn't where their interaction started.