Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement and give him third-degree burns in July footage

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.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        31·
        17 days ago

        Maybe we should have a guaranteed right to bear arms.

        Incidentally, the police police are the FBI.

      • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
        216·
        17 days ago

        There’s a long history of protest against police brutality, all over the world. How many have you been involved with? I’m tired of social media being full of lazy fucks who see shit like this and just say “damn that sucks” and go back to doing fucking nothing or pro-gun fuckstains claiming “Somebody should shoot them. Not me of course, somebody more expendable”.

        • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          13·
          17 days ago

          Dude, you don’t know any of these people or what they do IRL. To go off like this for no reason is just some insane people stuff. Get some help, and get off social media if it makes you so upset that you create little stories in your mind of what people do or don’t do with their lives.

          • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
            213·
            17 days ago

            Sure I do, because he has the solution of a fucking idiot: “We should be able to shoot at cops with our cool guns”.

            Maybe you should try getting more upset? If you’re going to do nothing of consequence, you could at least do it with some passion. Even on an anonymous platform with no consequences, all you’re bringing to the table is “touch grass” tone policing.

        • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          17 days ago

          You’re on social media, of course your feed is going to be flooded with chronic social media users. This is like going to the beach and complaining that there’s sand.

            • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              17 days ago

              Actually you’re mostly ranting about an imagined enemy, not giving practical advice about making meaningful change.

              • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
                19·
                17 days ago

                Then I should have the support of the people in this thread then since they’ve made it clear that their preferred solution is tutting and suggesting dumb shit that helps abusive cops.

                But oh no! I haven’t been polite enough! I should have just advocated firing guns at people instead.

                  • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
                    13·
                    16 days ago

                    It doesn’t matter either way because if they’ve got their knee on the neck of an innocent person, it’s not safe to shoot at them. Hopefully that doesn’t spoil anyone’s virtue signalling, macho fantasy because that’s a tragedy far deeper than the torture, abuse and summary execution of innocent people.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      2·
      16 days ago

      Your solution is

      “Just fix it”

      Which puts a lot of just making it someone else’s problem with no plan of your own.

      No situation has been fixed without making so much noise or issues that it becomes another person’s problem with power. If the solution was just people going out and fixing it then the world would be very different than it is now.

      But it sure is easy to just be stepped back and making a claim for other people to figure out.

      • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
        1·
        16 days ago

        I’ve been an active part of two movements that saw police prosecuted and systemic changes implemented which also included being assaulted by police and requiring medical attention. I’m 100% comfortable with the contributions I’ve made. Every piece of progress and justice I’ve been a part of has involved (as you say), “making it a problem for people with power”, not spouting pseudo-macho bullshit about other people shooting police.

        I’ve fought for causes like this for almost 40 years and I’ve never seen people so fucking toothless. Forget actually acting on anything, they don’t even make art art about it. They just regurgitate corporate talking points about guns and sulk on the internet if someone disagrees. They promote other people dying in a hail of bullets or spending the rest of their life in prison and they won’t even send an email.

        But it sure is easy to just be stepped back and making a claim for other people to figure out.

        A criticism you’re clearly not interested in applying evenly to the people in this thread.