Video shows San Francisco officer striking homeless man with baton

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-officer-striking-6103644.php

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi released a video Thursday of a city police officer using a baton to strike a homeless man who had been sleeping on a bus — footage that Adachi said showed an unnecessary escalation and use of force.

The encounter, caught by Muni cameras, happened Feb. 11 at about 11 p.m. Officer Raymond Chu was responding to reports of a person sleeping on a bus that had reached the end of the line at Cabrillo and La Playa streets, according to the public defender’s office.

Chu is seen on the video trying to wake the man, identified by the public defender as 36-year-old Bernard Warren. After a disoriented Warren got to his feet, Chu put his hands on him as he stumbled from the back of the bus to the back doors....

In his police report, Chu wrote that he hit Warren in the legs five times before deploying pepper spray, according to the public defender’s office.

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Douchebadge.

[newfie11]

1. So much for helping those in need.

Thank God for Cell Phone cameras.

[KamaAina]

2. This was actually the surveillance camera on the bus.

[randys1]

3. The one tenth of the one percent are sitting in their mansions while these two

men are struggling to survive.

The cop, as usual, is scared and reacts with force when it is not necessary.

The homeless man is drug addicted and unable to get the kind of help he needs, maybe a veteran, who knows.

They are both out in the street in the middle of the night, risking their lives, while the fat cat rich prick assholes sit in their mansions and buy politicians and destroy democracy.

I dont know when everybody is going to figure it out.

[dilby]

4. Listen, I dislike the police as much as the next guy, but don't be combative and don't threaten

to beat their asses.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. How about the pigs acting professionally?

[dilby]

6. How many times do you have to ask a person to please leave a bus, I watched the video.

The cop was totally fine till the guy decided to be combative and said, I can kick your ass.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. hitting an unarmed man with a baton is hardly professional. ..