“His leg bent backwards in the opposite direction that your knee is supposed to bend, so forcefully, that his leg, you can hear it on the video, it makes a horrible crunching popping sound, and it just splits the leg all the way off, except for just a little tissue in the front,” said Barrientos. “The deputies had to apply two tourniquets to save his life because quit literally, Mr. Barrientos was bleeding to death.”
Don’t ever forget that cops are animals.
Barrientos is seeking roughly half a million dollars for his medical expenses and his attorney is also asking to take this case to trial.
Only half a million? Hopefully that’s just for starters. The victim deserves millions
Even if the victim would not deserve millions, the responsible institution needs to be fined as much, just so it hurts them. It must be more expensive to fuck up than it is to prevent fuck-ups. So they should take whatever cost they project to properly train officers for de-escalation, double it and use that as a fine.