Morgan Freeman tweets - A biker gang brutally beat these protesters in Philly today.

[Swede]

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[The Wizard]

1. Punks with authority.

[Blue Owl]

2. K&R for exposure

[NBachers]

3. Geez, it just looks like a small group of young people - What the hell did they do to deserve this?

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. You really need to ask?

They had the temerity to question the authority of people who don't like it in the least when that happens.

THAT'S what they did.

THE FUCKING COPS ARE OUT OF CONTROL IN THIS COUNTRY.

[MLAA]

4. Sickening

Sure looked like a peaceful protest until the bikers arrived.

[cayugafalls]

5. There is only one group escalating violence.

That's the problem. They want to turn peaceful protest violent.

The violence is started by police...

[Cha]

6. Retweeted.. :(

[Bev54]

7. Two fat phucks that could not take down the man

so the two of them decided to bully on a woman. I do not understand how the police in the US can even expect anyone to have respect for them. Until they get rid of assholes like this, I would never trust them.

[Squidly]

11. Yeah...

Notice it was the fat toad (im fat so I can say that...lol) who was the main aggressor? Obvious loser who has the "I have a badge so I'm a tough guy" syndrome...reminds me of Cartman from South Park "you will respect my authoritaaaa" fkn puke.

[rockfordfile]

8. Some people need to be fired. It's clear that some of those people don't ride

[oasis]

9. Law's lawlessness is going to have an over abundance of court dates. nt

[Alex4Martinez]

10. What the HELL did I just watch???

fucking chubby bike cops pummeling any kid within reach for WHAT?

[kas125]

24. For protesting. They don't like it, ever, not just now. They always do this.

They did it to Occupy. They do it at the RNC. They did it at the pipeline protests. It's SOP with them. Screaming, shoving, batons, flash bangs, rubber bullets, bicycle ramming, kettling people so they have nowhere to go then using tear gas on them. Using tear gas is a war crime, but they don't care. It's just what they do at protests, only most people don't attend protests and don't witness it and when they happen to see a video they somehow think it's a one time thing. It isn't. Now everybody's seeing what we've seen.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Do any of these morons understand Optics?

Apparently not. They are their own worst enemy.

[dalton99a]

13. Sadistic sociopaths

[crickets]

14. He really went after the smallest target he could find. His first target was too much for him.

She still managed to disarm the asshole, and it took more than one of them to hold her down. She took one for the team by drawing them away from others.

I hope they get fired. There's no excuse.

[barbtries]

16. there have been so many incidents

of police brutality in the past few days. countless, it seems, from sea to shining sea. WTF my head hurts, or is that my heart

[SamKnause]

17. I am sick of hearing how brave cops are.

They are cowards.

[List left]

18. Most of them look confused and lost. Less training than a cosmetologist.

What are they learning on the job? How to lose their soul.

tRump

[TeamPooka]

19. All the Droogies from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE at work.

[orleans]

20. "city of brotherly love" my ass!

remember when they used to call cops "pigs?"

gee, i wonder why that was

(no offense to actual pigs)

anyway, i haven't thought of that throughout all of these protests. until i watched this video.

[Upthevibe]

21. That was HORRIBLE! n/t

[Buckeye_Democrat]

22. And if I broke the fat boy's face...

... for his unjustifiable attacks, I'd be guaranteed a long stay in a prison (if I wasn't shot and killed).

[KY_EnviroGuy]

23. Here's a follow-up article on this event (Philly Inquirer).

‘Police just went nuts’: Charges dropped after video surfaces of police beating student, other protesters with batons
by William Bender, Updated: June 4, 2020- 8:15 PM

Link: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-beating-temple-student-evan-gorski-protest-20200604.html

(snips)

A Temple University student arrested during protests Monday was released from custody Wednesday after video surfaced of one police officer striking him in the head with a baton and another using his knee to pin the student’s face to the street.

Prosecutors dismissed the charges against Evan Gorski, 21, an engineering student, after viewing the YouTube and Twitter videos, according to his attorney, R. Emmett Madden.
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Inspector Sekou Kinebrew, a Philadelphia police spokesperson, declined to comment Thursday on the circumstances of Gorski’s arrest, but said the incident is being investigated by the department’s Internal Affairs Division. “The propriety of the tactics employed will be included in that investigation,” Kinebrew said.

So the injured protester was a guy, not a gal. Regardless, there's no excuse for using brutal responses on unarmed citizens that have no malicious intent.

By the way, that tweet was not from Morgan Freeman the actor. Bio from his twitter page:

Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree
Father, filmmaker and fierce opposer of Trump. Not the actor!
Brooklyn

KY...........

[DFW]

25. I went to college in Philadelphia. This is all too familiar.

The brutish Frank Rizzo was police commissioner then. He was so proud of the way his cops used to beat protesters (Vietnam back then), that he used to wear a nightstick in the cummerbund of his tuxedo on formal occasions. Apparently nothing has changed in the last 50 years.

When Rizzo ran for mayor in 1971, he ran as a Democrat. It was the first time I was able to vote, and it was the only time I ever cast my vote for a Republican. It was a sobering lesson in civics for me: the bad guys sometimes win.

[BrightKnight]

26. Who gave that order and why?

[kentuck]

27. They looked like policemen.

I would have bet they were cops.