Cop Punches Special Needs Woman In The Face, Threatens Iraq Veteran For Recording It (VIDEO)
source: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/11/cop-punches-special-needs-girl-in-the-face-threatens...
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In this most recent case of unnecessary force, the police boarded a Los Angeles bus and confronted a mentally challenged woman by name. After she shouted obscenities and refused to leave the bus, one of the officers punched the belligerent, but non-violent, woman across the face.
Afterwards, the man recording the scene, Jermaine Green, claims he was approached by the officer who then threatened to arrest him if he didn’t hand over the phone. Green, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran with a clean record, refused and the officer was unable to confiscate the evidence. This time.
Here’s the video: (VIDEO)
Last time I checked, the police aren’t allowed to punch in you in the face for being verbally abusive. Even in LA.
Even as the police step up their surveillance of the public, they are becoming increasingly combative when the tables are turned. Several states have creatively interpreted eavesdropping laws to arrest bystanders that record their activities. In other states, the police simply look for any excuse to arrest the “offender” or intimidate them into keeping quiet. This is why, if Mr. Green is correct (and he probably is), the officer that threw the unwarranted punch wanted to know if Green had any warrants against him. If Green had had one, he would have been arrested, the phone taken and “accidents happen.” There goes the evidence.
We’ll see, in the next few days as the officer is identified, whether or not he’ll be disciplined in any meaningful way. My feeling is that they’ll make a public show but nothing will come of it.
Welcome to America the Police State. You have no rights except the ones the police feel like giving you.
Afterwards, the man recording the scene, Jermaine Green, claims he was approached by the officer who then threatened to arrest him if he didn’t hand over the phone. Green, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran with a clean record, refused and the officer was unable to confiscate the evidence. This time.
Here’s the video: (VIDEO)
Last time I checked, the police aren’t allowed to punch in you in the face for being verbally abusive. Even in LA.
Even as the police step up their surveillance of the public, they are becoming increasingly combative when the tables are turned. Several states have creatively interpreted eavesdropping laws to arrest bystanders that record their activities. In other states, the police simply look for any excuse to arrest the “offender” or intimidate them into keeping quiet. This is why, if Mr. Green is correct (and he probably is), the officer that threw the unwarranted punch wanted to know if Green had any warrants against him. If Green had had one, he would have been arrested, the phone taken and “accidents happen.” There goes the evidence.
We’ll see, in the next few days as the officer is identified, whether or not he’ll be disciplined in any meaningful way. My feeling is that they’ll make a public show but nothing will come of it.
Welcome to America the Police State. You have no rights except the ones the police feel like giving you.
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