Body cam video catches Barstow cops slamming black pregnant woman to ground, letting white woman go

[diabeticman]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/body-cam-video-catches-barstow-cops-slamming-black-pregnant-woman-to-ground-letting-white-woman-go-free/


Officials with the city of Barstow, California insisted this week that officers had acted properly when they used force to arrest a pregnant woman who refused to show them her identification, even though the charges were later dismissed.

In police body camera video obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal), an officer is responding to an apparent traffic dispute between Charlena Michelle Cooks, who is 8-months-pregnant and black, and an unidentified white woman.



The officer first talks to the white woman, who accuse Cooks of acting “all crazy.”

“I don’t see a crime that has been committed,” the officer admits after examining the woman’s car. After promising the woman a police report, the officer heads over to talk to Cooks.

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To Serve and protect my ass... More like Thugs legally allowed to abuse and kill

[MohRokTah]

1. Even more busting of the myth of the "good cop". eom

[marym625]

2. lying, racist, mother fucking piece of shit cop!

That poor woman. Oh my god!

[ladjf]

3. The raging police brutality may well become the "sink hole" that brings America down.

It already is way beyond any civilized norms of law enforcement behavior.

[Diclotican]

4. diabeticman

diabeticman

What is needed here is accountability for the police officers - who go totally nuts - and this goes all the way up to the top of the chain of command....

Second - I think police in the US need far better training - and also more than 6 mounts education for being a police officer - in most of Europe - you need at least the level of a bachelor to get into police - and you are also often screened before you start your education to be a police officer... In fact in Norway you have a higher level of education being a controller on trains, trams, and buses, you know, checking if anyone have their tickers and so one in order (mostly because of the different rules and regulations, and laws who you need to know ) - than police officers in the US have to enforce the LAW..

Diclotican

[Alkene]

5. Disgusting. n/t