"Watch the show, folks": They don't even care about getting caught brutalizing us

[StarfishSaver]

‘Watch the show, folks’: Va. trooper no longer employed after playing to camera in violent stop of Black driver

A Virginia State Police trooper who is seen in a viral video telling a Black driver “you are going to get your a-- whooped” before violently removing the man from his car in 2019 is no longer with the agency, a spokeswoman said.
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The video, which Erlich first posted on Twitter last summer, has been retweeted thousands of times and was featured widely in news reports, begins after Thompson, 29, of Woodbridge was pulled over on the Beltway in Fairfax County in April 2019 for an expired inspection decal. A trooper who initiated the stop said she could smell marijuana wafting from Thompson’s car, but Erlich said no drugs were found in the vehicle.

Hewitt was one of three troopers at the scene and did all of the talking in the video

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/watch-the-show-folks-va-trooper-no-longer-employed-after-playing-to-camera-in-violent-stop-of-black-driver/2021/04/23/21dd1b36-a3a6-11eb-85fc-06664ff4489d_story.html

The article doesn't mention what happened to the two other officers who watched and said or did nothing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. I am glad that this asshole was fired

[AllaN01Bear]

2. stop him on suspician and find nothing and beat the stuffing out of the gentleman pulled over for no

reason.bah humbug.good riddance.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Oh he had a reason all right. Driving while black...

[StarfishSaver]

6. And Capital Uppitiness

[harumph]

4. my feeling has always been that the majority of cops

aren't that intelligent. Couple that will self esteem problems, racism and power - and you've got a recipe
for exactly the kind of behavior seen so often.

[Ace Rothstein]

5. I grew up around a lot of Chicago Police and many of their kids ended up being cops too.

The majority aren't very bright. They get paid well too but it isn't a glamorous job.

[LakeArenal]

7. My feeling is cops are just legal bullies.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. An armed gang with a literal license to steal and kill

The fact that it took till February of this year to fire that asshole just goes to show you how utterly out of control the police in this country are.

No one can tell me this thugs boss wasn’t aware of this for the last 18 months, yet kept that fucking monster on the job.

ACAB

We need a U4 style system for cops NOW!

BTW, I couldn’t hear what the victim was saying at the end, over the shouts of the other two cops telling the asshole to stop.