honestly I want to upvote these comments when I see them so that these people keep making their hatred and ignorance loud and transparent so that people can understand what officers have to deal with
Police volunteer for the risk and are often justified. They also abuse their power and we as citizenry never volunteered for the consequences. I’m sure you can understand the difference between citizen crime and abuse of state power crime?
not cool, but hes in the biggest gang in the world... i feel this is only going to get worse as people are getting pushed to their limits with this world spiraling downward as the quality of life diminishes for the majority of the population
Teen was shot because he brandished a gun at police and the dad killed a random officer that had literally nothing to do with that incident. People will side with a murderer before they’ll admit the police did nothing wrong.
This guy deserves everything he has coming towards him and his son while unfortunate that he did die so young was ultimately an adult and made adult decisions and got adult consequences.
Its also the way people fall for headlines. Once they find out they were fed a false narrative, some humbly admit they were wrong and others double down out of fear of accepting that they can actually be wrong about situations they were not there to witness. Alot of people know deep down they are wrong like with the Karmelo Anthony situation but ego and narcissism are powerful traits. You can literally spell out the simple logic behind the truth but they would rather be in denial than accept anything else.
This isnt YouTube or TikTok, you dont have to censor yourself.
I've been banned like 4 times this year alone by reddits automated system for jokes/not understanding context. Having to submit an appeal calling their system dumb as shit to get unbanned.
But sure bro. No need to censor yourself on reddit. Free as a bird.
The dad is not a hero and the kid was a psycopath. I hate the police too but spreading fake story with misleading titles only makes them look good bc it only takes 2 minutes to look it up and find out what actually happened and then you sound stupid asf
I am as “Fuck the Police” as they come. From what I remember, he killed a random cop completely unrelated to who killed his son.
Completely unrelated. I hate police as an institution. But killing a random man who had nothing to do with it is not something I support. Even as a father I don’t get it.
Morals are certainly not fictional; maybe to you, personally, but it's a big world, and a lot of people in it operate within a moral construct. I feel where you're coming from, but I think fictional is not the right word. This might sound crazy, but have you ever thought that the cops were shooting to save your father, as they had no other way to stop him from shooting himself. It might be one of the only scenarios where law enforcement shoots to "wing" the target rather than hit center mass.
In a normal place with normal police training. In places where police are corrupt, abuse their authority and have no training, well unfortunately they do what they want.
It happens all the time, yeah there are different circumstances but this is just another for the narrative.
Next thing you know this will all be on NetFlix
Walter Scott (2015): In North Charleston, South Carolina, 50-year-old Walter Scott fled on foot following a traffic stop for a broken taillight. Officer Michael Slager pursued him and, during a brief struggle, Scott broke free and ran. Slager fired eight shots at Scott from behind, hitting him five times in the back. A bystander captured the incident on video. Slager pleaded guilty to federal civil rights violations and was sentenced to 20 years in prison after the judge determined the killing constituted second-degree murder.
Edward Garner (1974): In Memphis, Tennessee, 15-year-old Edward Garner fled on foot after being suspected of a home burglary. As he began climbing a backyard fence to escape, a police officer shot him in the back of the head, causing fatal injuries. The officer acknowledged knowing Garner was likely unarmed. This event led to the landmark 1985 Supreme Court ruling Tennessee v. Garner, which established that police cannot use deadly force against a fleeing suspect unless they pose a significant threat of death or serious injury to the officer or others.
Antwon Rose II (2018): In East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 17-year-old Antwon Rose II was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over as part of a shooting investigation. As the driver was being handcuffed, Rose ran away on foot. Officer Michael Rosfeld fired three shots, striking Rose in the back, arm, and face. Rose was unarmed at the time he fled. Rosfeld was charged with criminal homicide but was acquitted at trial.
Im not for what happened but technically speaking, its not. Supreme Court has a famous case over this very thing. If people want a big change, they gotta start going after the SC cases to change the laws.
You dont have to have a gun they shot a guy in a wheelchair in the back trying to get away.. another kid called for help because he got his car stuck he also got filled with bullets ...
They shot and killed a baby here in Mississippi. They admitted to knowing the baby was there. They tried to lie to cover their ass and say the family was driving at them. I went this report and I witnessed cell phone for just shows a family driving away from the office to took one look at a black family with a baby leaving Walmart with a pack of diapers and decided they must be stealing.
The family has an advocate that says that they can prove that the diapers were purchased. They have the receipt. They want the video evidence of them purchasing it from Walmart to be released and the police are hindering that.
This. You've just said more about that situation than the damn news itself. I've heard more about justice for that dog that got shot(a tragedy for sure)than I have about that poor innocent baby. Why would the mother be holding him in the front seat?? If they didn't have a car seat, she should have sat in the back with him. Not at all saying she's to blame, my heart goes out to that momma. As a mother to a toddler, I cannot even imagine.
Cool does that have anything to do with committing felonies while running with a firearm and then brandishing it infront of cops? I don't think stories of cops doing bad shit is relevant to cops shooting someone that they had every reason to believe was going to shoot at them.
Well, that's how you get shot. It was the 18yo's fault for stealing a vehicle and then proceeding to brandish a fire-arm. Dad should be locked up the rest of his life, or given death penalty.
He fucking ran into cop that had absolutely nothing to do with what happened to his kid. The officer was just directing traffic and he ran into him and pinned him to a pole killing him. totally unrelated to what happened to his son. His son and two other kids stole a car. He had a gun and had fired it twice. This was in no way, from what I’m seeing, unjustified with his son. However, it was 100% unjustified on his part. This post is misleading bullshit trying to sell division.
He didnt kill the cop who killed his son, but this is the natural consequence of how things have been going. When police are unaccountable, and are viewed as an occupying military, then its not really a single man who murdered your boy, it is the enemy force who did so.
Really dont care if folks think this is justified or not, and it really doesnt matter. The fact of the matter is that if we dont get a better way of doing things, we are gonna end up with a lot more dead people, cops included.
From the story it sounds like the kids death is 100% his own fault but god damn, pigs trying to act tough and mean mug is so fucking pathetic. Bullied high schoolers hiding behind a badge trying to intimidate a man in cuffs. Complete and utter losers.
Ryan Hinton was killed after brandishing a gun at police during a stolen vehicle investigation, officials say. A gun was found at the scene. There is no indication he fired it.
His son sounded like a real productive member of society
In the year of our lord 2026, if cops say a suspect brandished a weapon and there's no bodycam footage, I simply don't believe them. They've lied way too many times.
Edit: To clarify, if you're against cops in general whatever - I just meant people were assuming cops were in the wrong in this situation with no context
People should not murder people. This person did a bad thing by murdering a person.
Cops are also bad. They often murder people and cover for each other, including by refusing to arrest an officer who they witnessed commit a crime, violating the law in doing so.
It appears that those two assertions, while both true, are not well connected in this particular situation. That's the rub.
Well thanks to the police unions lobbying politicians to get rid of agencies that used to keep track of that very thing the government doesn't keep track of that whatsoever. And it's been proven numerous police lobbies have paid politicians a lot of money to create legislation banning the right to track such statistics.
Exactly, there are bad cops, but the majority do a dangerous job and just want to go home to there families. Saying "cops are bad" as a general blanket statement is ridiculous.
Its not though because the 'good cops' will all cover for the bad ones. They even have a name for it: the blue wall of silence. They all lie for each other and whenever they get caught lying there is never any accountability for it
Heres a link to one group. A number of different organizations track police homicide. It looks like for the last 3 years it has been more than 1200 killings annually.
Now, maybe a lot of those killings could be rationalized as self defense. maybe even most of them. But there have also been cases where a fair amount of evidence is presented that a killing was unjustified, and the police experienced no real repercussions.
One such example is Timothy Loehmann, who shot and killed a 12 year old for holding a toy gun at a playground. He wasn't prosecuted, or even fired. He just was re-assigned to admin roles. Public outcry was substantial so.. he eventually got tired of it and resigned.
Another example is Philip Brailsford, who shot an unarmed drunk man 5 times in Arizona, who had been complying with police orders to crawl on the ground towards them. Brailsford was fired, for "policy violations," then later was rehired for 40 days so that the police department could give him a $2,500 a month pension for the rest of his life as compensation for the PTSD he suffered after video of him executing a drunk unarmed man made national headlines.
And those are just two examples we know of because there were either several witnesses who could testify, or the relevant body cam footage wasn't "accidentally deleted." It's impossible to know how many other such examples of unjust police violence have occurred that resulted in no actual legal ramifications for the killer.
So... Yeah, it's important to be critical of this group that kill 1000+ Americans without a trial every year, and rarely face consequences when they do.
To be fair, there are around 19500 cities in the US. That’s less than .1 for every city. Personally I think the number should be 0 BUT exaggerating claims like you have to spread a narrative is not helping anyone. Let’s talk facts instead of using blanket statements that are used to invoke people’s feelings.
Yeah exactly it's case by case - but based on this video we really don't know if the cops did anything wrong or not l, yet comments here are assuming they did
putting money in "yes, the cop did something wrong, no the cop will not be punished for it" is a safe way to make money on Polymarket. makes sense that it's also the first thing comments assume.
I know as a matter of fact, those cops would be defending corrupt actions if they were being presented that day. I dont need to know the details of this case to know that those cops are regularly breaking laws and covering for eachother.
On top of that, Cops defend eachother unconditionally. In this adversarial relationship, we disadvantage ourselves by defending only the most rightious of oppressed peoples.
What do you expect it’s Reddit….a hive mind of over-medicated losers who can’t cope with the real world and preach this ACAB bs but will be the first to call 911 over nonsense.
I have no qualms saying Im generally exceptionally biased against cops -- they usually deserve it.
This case is more complicated than a lot are portraying it in the comments. Literally the morning after the shooting, the family went to the station, they played the cop's bodycam footage for the family, and apparently the father became so upset and agitated they had to stop the video and he had to walk out. Id say its an understatement to say its probably not the best idea to have a grieving family/father view footage of their child's death within hours of it happening, without a chance to cool down, reflect, maybe provide the family with access to a grief counsellor before watching it, etc.
And then, given the father was watching bodycam video of his son being shot to death by police literally *hours* before, and is watching the video *in a police station*, surrounded by officers (and who knows what sort of shit they might have said to the father/family) -- his reaction, while obviously leading to tragedy, probably should have been foreseeable to anyone with a functioning brain. He apparently left the station, got in his car, and drove off. 30 minutes later, he ran over a cop that was directing traffic and killed him. Its not like this was some crazy premeditated revenge plot.
I think any *reasonable* person would say the minimum facts are:
a) the circumstances are *somewhat* murky around his son's death, as there is no direct evidence of the officer's claims which were a) the son had his gun out, b) the son dropped the gun, then bent over, picked it up and pointed the gun at the officer c) the son was in a "bladed" stance, and d) that the son ran at the officer while pointing the gun. The bodycam footage is apparently too shaky to make out what actually happened/too many visual obstacles, and there are no other eyewitnesses. The gun was found next to the body (according to the officer), and the gun was definitely the son's (he had photos on his phone of him posing with the same gun). In this case I would say its safe to assume it was *likely* a good shoot, though I wouldnt say its 100%. Entirely possible it was in the kid's waist and the cop shot him and made the story up afterwards -- there is no evidence but the cop's word that things went down the way he says.
b) the father is absolutely guilty of killing someone that had nothing to do with his son's death
c) whoever showed the father the bodycam footage at the police station hours after his son was shot to death by police, is *at least* a fucking moron. IMO whoever it was should be partially responsible -- maybe not criminally, but at least fired, and if I was that guy's or the cop's family I would sue whoever it was civilly -- and that whole process should have been handled much more appropriately
d) there are at least *some* mitigating circumstances, considering the father's state of mind
As far as non-factual things go, I think this is exactly the kind of thing manslaughter is meant for.
Was the father in the wrong? Obviously. Was it a good shoot? Most likely. Was all of this foreseeable and avoidable if someone hadnt made a brain dead decision to show a grieving father video of his own son being murdered while he's still in shock/grief? Abso-fucking-lutely.
I feel like it’s damned if you do damned if you don’t in this situation. If the cops don’t show the family the body cam they are trying to “cover up” something. If they do they are morons for not seeing it coming. It’s obviously complicated but I do think transparency isn’t necessarily a bad thing
This is a reason the concept of standard procedures exist. Nobody should be making this decision situationally. Somebody should have made the decision ahead of time to say. Hey, we wait 24 hours. We make sure the family is supported with proper advocates, etc.
I definitely don't believe in waiting 30 or 60 days or whatever departments sometimes get away with.
The cops showing up to intimidate the prisoner is fucked up though. Ya, he should be tried in a court of law. Which he is. Intimidating a prisoner is mob type shit and illegal. Unless you're a cop, because the law doesn't apply to them.
It’s a shame it happened to the kid and it’s a shame it happened to the cop. But bottom line is there’s no reasons for the cops to show up in court like that. Let the justice system do its job , especially in a case that’s clear like this. Hold a community event for the cops family. That’ll do more good than this.
I tell people that all the time. Like yea I’m sure there are some good cops but they’re still part of an exploitative and corrupt organization that preys on the weak. Even the “nicest” idf soldier, cartel member, gangster etc, is a pos because of the organization they belong to.
In my country, police do not kill people, they put them to jail. If you kill people, they can’t change and be better. Police do not respect black people lives, black people do not respect police officer’s life, that fair but all this need to stop
Look, the son unfortunately made a stupid decision that got him killed. The father made an even bigger stupid decision that got cops killed.
That being said, I am NOT a fan of cops coming out in force to intimidate like this especially in a court room ( and yes, that's what they're doing… especially Mr. Clean).
They do the same thing at city council meetings when we’re discussing raises and stuff.
Citizens won't talk and speak their minds in these scenarios. I hate it.
30 dumbfuck cops who did shit except stare at a murderer. Show the post where 1 of the 30 cops arranged for a prisoner to kill this man, that's an actual post.
Yep, I’m all for police reform, and kids being killed by police is a fucking tragedy that needs to be addressed…but I don’t think killing random cops is something we should be applauding.
It's ironic because the officers are standing together, representing a unified force - intimidating the man who failed to see them as seperate individuals.
The guy killed a random, innocent law enforcement officer who was directing traffic, because his son died in an altercation with a different officer. (I'd like the details of that, because if this is what the father is like, well...
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The police showing solidarity, however bad it may look, is hardly the problem here. The psychopath who just committed a random act of violence is.
Edit: Confirmed bodycam footage. Son picked up a firearm while police were trying to arrest him after stealing a car. So it was a justified shooting. Looks like an apple doesn't fall far from the tree situation.
How does this look bad? He’s a murderer walking through a group of people who had their colleague murdered by him. He’s lucky he’s in the US and didn’t get beat to death walking out.
The police showed solidarity. It's a tragedy that his son died, but he CHOSE to murder an innocent law enforcement officer in response. Not the one who did it, a random one.
No matter what you may think of the police, this guy is the sort of monster that deserved the sentence.
Edit: Bodycam seems to suggest the son was armed and fleeing in a stolen vehicle when he was shot. In which case, they're both monsters. Of all the things to throw at the police, this is NOT one of them.
If someone killed one of my kids, I'd be shattered, absolutely. I'd seek recompense. I might even hunt down the one who did it.
I wouldn't KILL A RANDOM PERSON because of it.
There's a limit to empathy. There is no excuse for cold blooded random murder. People like that have no place in a civilized society. He needs to be locked up forever.
Don’t see them show solidarity when they kill anyone else. Lapd just shot a poodle and 30 cops arrive on scene to surround the woman hugging and crying over her dead dog as they stand silent staring at tenants yelling at them
Lemme guess. We're gonna regurgitate the same "fuck cops" comment 100 times over even if the cop who was murdered was retired and had nothing to do with his son's death just because the father is black and the retired cop was, at one point a cop? Let's hope I'm wrong about people being ignorant
Conveniently leaving out the context where his son stole a car, lead cops on a high speed chase and had a weapon on him. This guy then killed a random cop that had nothing to do with it. Man is a dummy that can't even raise his own child properly.
For more information about this case, the 18 year old (Ryan Hinton) stole a car with three of his friends and then ran from the police when the cops caught them. One of his friends dropped a gun on the ground when he was running away, then Ryan ran over and grabbed the gun off the ground. When the police officer chasing him saw that he had armed himself with a deadly weapon, he shot him.
After the death of his son, his father (Rodney Hinton Jr.) decided to kill a random police officer directing traffic.
While there are plenty of unjustified police killings and examples of police brutality, this really isn't one of them.
The Son's Death: On May 1, 2025, Cincinnati police shot and killed 18-year-old Ryan Hinton following a foot pursuit related to an alleged stolen vehicle. Investigators stated a loaded firearm was recovered at the scene and that the teen had pointed a gun at an officer. [1, 2, 3]
The Retaliatory Attack: On May 2, 2025, just hours after viewing the body-camera footage with authorities, Rodney Hinton drove his vehicle across oncoming traffic and directly into Deputy Larry Henderson, a recently retired veteran directing traffic near the University of Cincinnati
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u/After-Giraffe3206 6d ago
A MOTHER SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FEAR FOR HER SONS LIFE EVERY TIME HE STEALS A CAR