tagged w/ Police Brutality
-
***********************READ DESCRIPTION***********************
This video was created as an example of the importance of filming the police. Video provides transparency, accountability, and an accurate account of incidents that occur. It is no secret that the United States has a serious problem with police abuse, brutality, and corruption. It is essential for civilians to document their encounters with police officers to ensure transparency, accountability, and safety to all of those involved.
Police departments have, for too long, tried to bully, intimidate, threaten, arrest, or otherwise harass law abiding citizens from recording the activities of law enforcement in public. Enough is enough! It is time for all of us to take a stand and expose police brutality when we witness it. Even if the officers behavior is correct, and justifiable, we still encourage the recording of the police activities for the transparency and accountability that is desperately needed in many departments.
If you see something, film something, the freedom of press begins with you!
If you feel the need to upload this video to your Youtubes, please contact us and we will make sure you acquire a high quality version of the film with our info. And please, add our links in the description, thanks
More information about the clips in order of appearance:
ORIGINAL FOOTAGE Suspect with Crowbar Shot Outside Carls Jr Monterey Park
http://youtu.be/bY5ioBvrYIg
New Footage of Oscar Grant Shooting (with sound)
http://youtu.be/S0P8TSP2YJU
Cops on Camera (multiple segments)
http://youtu.be/tE8Xom38Rd8
Citizen attacks Baltimore Police -- caught on tape
http://youtu.be/mFFsWF3FoLI
Houston Police BEATING Teen Suspect Chad Holley
http://youtu.be/Lvy976QKuS4
Police Brutality: NYPD Beat Man's Legs w/ Baton For Not Getting Up!
http://youtu.be/j5I_lwQyxNI
FREEDOM WATCH WITH JUDGE NAPOLITANO
http://youtu.be/GUHgagrnfIc
MSNBC on NYPD Police Brutality during Occupy Wall Street Lawrence O'Donnell with "The Last Word"
http://youtu.be/Zgr3DiqWYCI
Raw Video: Police Beating Caught on Tape
http://youtu.be/uHjpOsGYxMo
Paris Texas Police Officer Throws Teen on Car
http://youtu.be/4LSrBDhjJ58
Raw Video: Deputy Shown Kicking Teen Girl
http://youtu.be/ipb_PeXOdT4
#OWSwest #J20 #SFPD Attacks Innocent Protesters; Officer M. Ali #619 Breaks My Cam
http://youtu.be/oGju4u7yVRA
Raw Video: Ala. Officers Fired After Beating Man
http://youtu.be/uN41h0GEmys
Cop Punching Handcuffed Man Video Now Has Sound
http://youtu.be/D1KJcnNShW0
Surveillance video: Iraq War veteran beaten
http://youtu.be/D2IWFaI-poM
Sante Fe cop caught beating handcuffed teen; fired, rehired!
http://youtu.be/Q6MKuKJ9Kws
officer beating 66-year-old man suffering from dementia
http://youtu.be/2FAbUZd3zoM
Female Cop Tirelessly Beats Man with her Baton
http://youtu.be/X3JiilljhOQ
Police Brutality: Dog Walker w/ Camera Beaten By Cops!
http://youtu.be/wBlvSMd_D7w
ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators
http://youtu.be/m7F49dUaZMw
http://youtu.be/_TPucQHtHZs***********************READ DESCRIPTION***********************
This video was... more
-
-
-
-
NATO Summit Chicago ,CPD Heavy Beating Of Protester On the Ground, Policeman injured
-
-
HOUSTON — A jury's acquittal Wednesday of a former Houston police officer in the alleged beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect during a videotaped arrest upset black community leaders who criticized the verdict as unjust and racist.
Andrew Blomberg, 29, was the first of four fired police officers to stand trial for their roles in the alleged beating of Chad Holley during a daylight arrest on March 2010. The incident involving the black teen, now 18, prompted fierce public criticism of the Police Department by community activists who called it another example of police
Full Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/andrew-blomberg-not-guilty-chad-holley-burglary-beating-houston_n_1521712.html?ref=mostpopular
http://youtu.be/7e_8ubNeh-0HOUSTON — A jury's acquittal Wednesday of a former Houston police officer... more
-
-
A Riverside County grand jury indicted officer Enoch Clark on charges of assault.
BEAUMONT, Calif. (KTLA) -- A woman who says she was blinded by a police officer using high powered pepper spray is speaking out.
A Riverside County grand jury last week indicted officer Enoch Clark on charges of assault likely to cause great bodily injury, assault with a less-lethal weapon, assault under the color of authority and use of force causing serious bodily injury.
On February 21, Clark sprayed pepper spray in the face of Monique Christina Hernandez, 32, while he tried to arrest her on suspicion of driving under the influence, the city of Beaumont said in a statement.
Full Story: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-clark-beaumont-pepper-spray,0,40793.storyA Riverside County grand jury indicted officer Enoch Clark on charges of assault.... more
-
-
A rogue Georgia cop is in the news for the third time in only seven months for kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach who was crying because her brother was just tasered.
RT – A rogue cop from the DeKalb County Police Department in the state of Georgia is in the news for the third time in only seven months. Officer Jerad Wheeler is now being investigated after kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach.
No charges have been filed against Officer Wheeler for kicking Raven Dozier in the abdomen after the cop responded to a call involving a child custody issue, reports local television station WSBTV News. Dozier says she was trying to calm her brother down during police questioning after a police officer used a Taser gun on her sibling. After her brother was shot, Ms. Dozier says she started crying and questioning the officer over his actions. That’s when Wheeler is reported to have gotten violent.
“I think he really just didn’t want me asking him any questions, questioning him, and when I did question him is when he kicked me,” Dozier tells the station.
Ms. Dozier was just shy of nine months pregnant during the incident. She underwent an emergency c-section procedure two weeks after and gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Levii. Now more than four months after being assaulted by the officer, Dozier is still demanding justice.
According to the Dekalb County Police Department, Officer Wheeler was in the right.
Despite being only days away from her due date, Officer Wheeler says he could not tell that Ms. Dozier was pregnant during the incident. Regardless, he explains in the official police report that accompanied the incident that he used “a front push kick to the abdomen, as he was taught to do at the academy” because she “approached him aggressively.”
Full Story: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/10/cop-boots-pregnant-woman-stomach-dept-fine-132251/A rogue Georgia cop is in the news for the third time in only seven months for kicking... more
-
-
The city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a homeless mentally ill man to death last year was finally released today, laying to rest any argument that Kelly Thomas was a threat to officers.
The shocking video, which was combined with an audio recorder worn by one of the police officers on the night of July 5, 2011, was shown in court today, then later released to the media.
“Now you see my fists?” Fullerton police officer Manny Ramos asked Thomas while slipping on a pair of latex gloves.
“Yeah, what about them?” Thomas responded.
“They are getting ready to fuck you up,” said Ramos, a burly cop who appears to outweigh Thomas by 100 pounds.
"Well, start punching," Thomas responds, never once displaying any physical aggression towards Ramos.
Moments later, as Thomas is standing while Ramos is ordering him to get on his "fucking knees," Fullerton cop Joseph Wolfe, who is not charged in the case, walks up and starts beating his legs with a baton.
Full Story: http://www.pixiq.com/article/shocking-video-of-kelly-thomas-released-watch-with-cautionThe city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a... more
-
-
The city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a homeless mentally ill man to death last year was finally released today, laying to rest any argument that Kelly Thomas was a threat to officers.
The shocking video, which was combined with an audio recorder worn by one of the police officers on the night of July 5, 2011, was shown in court today, then later released to the media.
“Now you see my fists?” Fullerton police officer Manny Ramos asked Thomas while slipping on a pair of latex gloves.
“Yeah, what about them?” Thomas responded.
“They are getting ready to fuck you up,” said Ramos, a burly cop who appears to outweigh Thomas by 100 pounds.
"Well, start punching," Thomas responds, never once displaying any physical aggression towards Ramos.
Moments later, as Thomas is standing while Ramos is ordering him to get on his "fucking knees," Fullerton cop Joseph Wolfe, who is not charged in the case, walks up and starts beating his legs with a baton.
Then Ramos gets into the act and Thomas takes off running, moving out of the frame of the camera.
The camera, operated by a dispatcher at the station, then moves toward the beating, showing Ramos and Fullerton cop Jay Cicinelli on top of Thomas as Thomas repeatedly apologizes and telling them he is unable to breathe.
The cops keep telling him to put his hands behind his back and lay on his stomach, but they are both laying on top of him, making it impossible to even breathe, much less move.
As the video continues, one of the cops can be seen kneeing him.
"Please, I can't breathe," Thomas pleads as the officers keep telling him to put his hands behind his "fucking back."
The cops keep telling him to "relax" to which he responds, "I can't, dude."
More cops eventually arrive and a little more than four minutes into the video, they start tasing him.
And a little after five minutes into the video, as three cops are piled on top of him, beating him, tasing him, one cop looks up at another cop who just arrived on the scene and says, "help us."
At one point he yells out, "Dad, they are killing me."
Even after seven minutes into the video, when six cops are on top of him and all Thomas is doing is crying for his father, they keep telling him to "relax."
Last year, Ron Thomas, a retired Orange County Sheriff's deputy, said the City of Fullerton offered him $900,000 to just go away, which would have allowed the two cops to remain on the force unpunished for killing his son.
Thomas was pronounced dead on July 10, five days after the beating that left him in a coma.
The cops weren't placed on administrative leave as is customary in a death of a suspect until August 2. And only because the community was outraged.
But it's no doubt city and police officials watched the above video that same night. They even acknowledged allowing the officers to watch the video to complete their incident reports.
I guess we should be relieved they never destroyed the video as cops are so used to doing.
During today's hearing, a crime scene investigator named Dawn Scruggs testifed that Ramos and Cicinelli were out of breath and in disbelief after killing him, apparently trying to sway the court into believing Thomas deserved to die.
But anybody who sees the video can see he did nothing to deserve the beating.
Ramos is being charged with second degree murder and faces up to 15 years in prison. Cicinelli is being charged with involuntary manslaughter and faces up to four years in prison.
It is extremely rare for any cop to receive prison time for their crimes.
In the photo below, Ramos demanded treatment for his injured elbow as Thomas lay dying a few feet from himThe city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a... more
-
-
“Epic” is a much overused and abused word these days, but in this case it’s appropriate. UC-Davis isn’t the first campus to be confronted with students unhappy about the state of things. In fact, university administrators and law enforcement personnel have fifty years of history to draw on, at least. By now, there is zero excuse for not having productive philosophies and procedures in place that stress the unique role of the higher education institution in American society. These are students, not escaped convicts. They are, if I might borrow a cliché that we toss around way too casually, the leaders of tomorrow. There are no barbarians at the gate. Visigoths are not storming the walls. The only danger to anyone’s safety and well-being is posed by the authorities.“Epic” is a much overused and abused word these days, but in this case... more
-
-
Whenever I read a news report about police assaulting a homeless guy or unleashing a stream of pepper spray on peaceful protesters, I always wonder where the good cops are. I mean, we're constantly assured that most police officers are good cops, and that their reputation is being besmirched by a few bad apples. So why aren't those good cops busy tasering their off-base colleagues? Or at least giving them a good thumping?
The answer, it appears is "Regina Tasca." She's a Bogota, New Jersey, police officer who responded to a medical call to transport an emotionally disturbed young man to the hospital. As per protocol, she called for backup. Two officers from Ridgefield arrived on the scene, and proceeded to whomp on Kyle, the guy they were supposedly helping. According to WPIX:
Tasca described what we see on the videotape: "The Ridgefield Park officer automatically charges and takes him down to the ground. I was quite shocked. As he's doing that, another Ridgefield Park officer flies to the scene in his car, jumps out and starts punching him in the head."
On the tape you can hear Tara, the mother, and Kyle, her son, screaming, "Why are you punching him?" and "Stop punching me!"
The two Ridgefield Park Sergeants are never heard refuting the claims that they punched the 22 year-old man as he was waiting for an ambulance.
Even worse, Kyle was never charged, nor arrested, for any offense. Tasca says it's because he never threatened, did not have a weapon, and indeed never resisted and was not violent. Eventually Tasca was able to pry the punching Ridgefield Park officer off Kyle, as seen in a picture taken by the Kyle's mother, who also later commended Tasca in a phone call.
You know what comes next, right? Yeah. After physically intervening against two violent colleagues-in-blue, Tasca'a job is at stake. She faces a departmental trial on charges that she's "psychologically unfit" to be a police officer.
I suppose that could be true. It all depends on what you're looking for in your police officers — and what kind of cops you're trying to screen out.
http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/18/no-good-cops-go-unpunished-when-they-sto
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
As a mental health professional, this REALLY REALLY pisses me off! If I were at the scene of this 302/201 I would be going to jail for assaulting a police officer.Whenever I read a news report about police assaulting a homeless guy or unleashing a... more
-
-
The police union has blasted the release of the officer’s name, saying he deserves the right to a fair and impartial inquiry.The police union has blasted the release of the officer’s name, saying he... more
-
-
satra
-
added this
-
1 month ago
- |
-
Women dies after being dragged from Hospital... - Democratic ...
Alexa Traffic Rank for http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002481930: 4,726www.democraticunderground.com/1002481930
http://youthrevolutionarycouncil.org/?p=1073
New video has surfaced which shows Richmond Fields police arresting a 29-year-old woman at a hospital for trespassing and later dragging her into a jail cell, where she would eventually die. The woman, Anna Brown, had pleaded with officials at the hospital, telling them she was in extreme pain and was unable to stand. The video, which was obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, shows Brown in a wheelchair, refusing to leave the hospital, St. Mary's Health Center.
A doctor told officers that Brown was "healthy enough to be locked up." The officers then put Brown in police car and, when she told them she was unable to stand, they dragged her into a jail cell.
It was later revealed that Brown died from blood clots that originated in her legs but traveled to her lungs. Officers had suspected Brown was using drugs, though autopsy results later showed this wasn't true.
Video of the incident, which occurred last September, is just being brought to light this week. Another attempted cover up.Women dies after being dragged from Hospital... - Democratic ...
Alexa Traffic Rank... more
-
-
WATCH: Roughly 30 people had to be treated for their injuries and two people had to be hospitalized.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=33173WATCH: Roughly 30 people had to be treated for their injuries and two people had to be... more
-
-
Why aren't we hearing more about this, talking about this? This speaks to the racism that still is prevalent in the U.S.
"As the Trayvon Martin case draws national attention, we look at another fatal shooting of an African-American male that has received far less scrutiny. Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old African-American Marine veteran, was fatally shot in November by White Plains, NY, police who responded to a false alarm from his medical alert pendant. The officers broke down Chamberlain’s door, tasered him, and then shot him dead. Audio of the entire incident was recorded by the medical alert device in Chamberlain’s apartment. We’re joined by family attorneys and Chamberlain’s son, Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., who struggles through tears to recount his father’s final moments, including the way police officers mocked his father’s past as a marine. "For them to look at my father that way, (with) no regard for his life, every morning I think about it," he says."
http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2012/3/29/killed_at_home_white_plains_nyWhy aren't we hearing more about this, talking about this? This speaks to the... more
-
-
Saria
-
added this
-
1 month ago
- |
-
The arrest of a man at an Oklahoma Airport is under investigation. Officials released surveillance video of officers dragging the man face down across the floor. Officers say he became combative, after he attempted to enter a restricted area. (March 25)The arrest of a man at an Oklahoma Airport is under investigation. Officials released... more
-
-
The NYCLU responded today to March 17th's New York Police attacks on citizens and their Constitution in a scathing press release denouncing an out of control police department. That sounds eerily familar.
'March 19, 2012
In response to a weekend of arrests and the closure of Zuccotti Park by the NYPD, New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman issued the following statement:
"The NYPD has once again responded to political protest with the closure of a public forum, arrests and, according to press and eye-witness accounts, violence against journalists and political dissidents.
If one didn't know better, it would seem that Oakland's Police Department had decided to move to, if not greener, then certainly larger, pastures. Let's review the evidence....
http://tinyurl.com/7s3ram9The NYCLU responded today to March 17th's New York Police attacks on citizens and... more
-
-
LOrion
-
added this
-
2 months ago
- |
-
Since 2001, the Department of Homeland Security has spent $635.9 billion. In 2001, they spent a mere $16 billion compared to the $69.1 in 2011. That money has been used to pay for closed-circuit camera systems in Nebraska, a weapons-capable drone in Texas, an armored personnel carrier in Florida, bomb-detecting robots in North Dakota, and 15,000 surveillance cameras in Chicago.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31749Since 2001, the Department of Homeland Security has spent $635.9 billion. In 2001,... more
-
-
WATCH -- This footage is so visceral and it shows us all that the police state is alive and well and growing in power. From this footage, one could make the argument that the militaristic police forces in our country are no longer here to protect and serve the community, they are here to use force against it.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31679WATCH -- This footage is so visceral and it shows us all that the police state is... more
-
-
No more tyranny, no more oppression, no more corporate slavery or police brutality. We are preparing to destroy this corrupt system and bring the world of the elite and unjust down on its knees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqU8Mxc4-bcNo more tyranny, no more oppression, no more corporate slavery or police brutality. We... more
-
