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Hes blind, dumb*ss: Cops ditch disabled man in vacant lot to protest videotaping of pot bust
Travis Gettys
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/hes-blind-dumbss-cops-ditch-disabled-man-in-vacant-lot-to-protest-videotaping-of-pot-bust/
14 Nov 2014 at 07:20 ET
A visually impaired Florida man said police took him to an unfamiliar area and left him there in retaliation after his stepfather recorded cell phone video of a pot bust.
Four plainclothes officers from the Miami-Dade Police department pulled into a dead end street the evening of Aug. 27 and arrested three men they believed had been smoking marijuana, reported WFOR-TV.
The arrest report shows officers found a marijuana cigarette on the ground they approached the men.
Officers arrested all three of them as a fourth man recorded the incident on his cell phone.
They released two of the men after they signed tickets promising to appear in court, but the third man Tannie T-Man Burke was handcuffed and led to the back of an unmarked car, where he had trouble finding the door.
Hes blind, dumb*ass, says the man videotaping the arrest. If you dont tell him hes walking to the car, how the hell is he going to know?
The 21-year-old Burke has been legally blind since birth, the station reported, with no vision at all in his right eye and just a general sense of shapes and lights in his left eye.
He said hes comfortable getting around his block in the daytime but does not venture far at night.
Burke said officers drove him around the neighborhood for about 20 minutes before dropping him off after dark in a vacant lot in South Dade about a mile from his home.
Burke told the station that police complained throughout the drive about his stepfather.
They said, Your stepfather got a lot of mouth you know we dont like that, he said.
He said he told officers he was blind, but they didnt seem to care and dropped him off in an area without streetlights or houses after making him sign an arrest form he couldnt read.
Police had taken his cell phone, so Burke said he started walking home with one foot in the road and the other on the weed-choked curb strip to keep him from straying into traffic.
Eventually, he found a street that was lit and a stranger agreed to help him get home.
Forty-five minutes to an hour later he comes walking through the door all sweaty up, said his stepfather, Marvin Armstrong. I was like, Howd you get out?
Burke and his family filed a complaint with the police department, which handed the case over to its internal affairs unit.
Burke told the station hes never been convicted of a crime, but he has been arrested twice and detained at least a dozen other times.
I feel they stop me because they see a black man walking down the street, he said. I dont know what to say about it. I just feel bad about it, thats it.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)They wonder why we don't trust them.
procon
(15,805 posts)Welcome to the police state! Who will protect us from the armed thugs who snatch citizens off the street with impunity under the cover of authority for no other reason than intimidation and vengeance?
loveandlight
(207 posts)Scary part is that this has been happening for years in the black community. But now at least it is getting reported. Public exposure is the first step towards fixing this.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)This is such a gross misuse of authority only the brain-dead fascists would agree with what they did...you know, those who work at Fox Noise.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Phone: 305-627-7100
Fax: 305-627-7127
Email: pcbinfo@mdpd.com
Major : Richard Amion
Our votes may not matter, but we can make phone calls and let corrupt cops and others know exactly how we feel.
It's better than crying, anyway.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)When i see corruption, I give the corrupt a call.
No one should feel safe from public scrutiny when they are paid by the public.
Just don't cuss, and ask really leading questions, and let them know how disgusted you are.
... phone numbers and e-mail addresses are a good. LTE's are good too. Tweets might even be better. COMMUNICATE, people!
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)for about a month.
A month later, they came out with their ads toting their wonderfulness. I wasn't the only one calling, obviously.....
It's very empowering to tell evil off.
Thanks for caring, ReRe
ReRe
(10,597 posts)No matter how depressed we get, we must remember that there IS power in communication.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)That's so sadistic and sick. Once again - America is becoming a place of pure inflictment of pain on each other.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)this has ALWAYS been america.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)long ago that people including most police forces cared about others. Of course he taped them doing something they did not want to reveal so I assume these are dirty policemen anyhow. There has always been that but they were also subject to the law.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)in my experience, I'm 66, it's ALWAYS been about caring for SOME others and NOT all others.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)small community was as much into the civil rights movement as they could get. I think you are probably right about many places in the USA. However I think that the hate preachers have increased it from then.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)on the "hate preachers".
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)This is outrageous..beyond outrageous...I'm nauseous.
Thanks to Tsiyu for posting contact info.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)i mean, what a relief!
IDemo
(16,926 posts)We need more satiric comedy on the tube.
7962
(11,841 posts)Its ridiculous that cities end up having to pay for the actions of these thugs. I bet they'd think twice if they thought they might lose their home in a lawsuit.
SICK OF IT!!!!!
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)There are simply too many of these reports to attribute these problems to a few bad apples
marble falls
(57,106 posts)Unavoidable conclusion. You said it right.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)The only people that can afford to drop a joint on the ground are the cops. Bet it never got turned into the evidence room.
Scumbags all.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)yeah, it was cop bullshit. They just like to fuck with people.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)They lie to citizens to give themselves a reason to write tickets and arrest people and they lie in court. The only ones who don't do that shit lie to cover up for the liars.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)a doobie. Cops have drop guns but no drop doobies? Scumbags all.
democrank
(11,096 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)We need a whole new model.
I understand some people watch The Purge, and thank The Lord for police to protect us from naughty folks, but the police are the naughty folks.
I understand some non impoverished white people want the police to protect them from nonwhite people or impoverished white people, and the police may actually do that to some degree, but the police will kick the shit out of everyone else.
I understand people are afraid of anarchy and chaos, but years ago the police went on strike in my area, and nothing bad happened. I wish they were still on strike.
We can come up with a new model if we really wanted to, but we need people to overcome their fear of the other. Maybe we could set up the new system first and then phase out the old (current) system.