Inkster police fire officer in motorists' videotaped beating
Source: Associated Press
Inkster police fire officer in motorists' videotaped beating
| April 15, 2015 | Updated: April 15, 2015 8:04pm
INKSTER, Mich. (AP) Police in suburban Detroit have fired a white police officer who was videotaped beating a black motorist during a traffic stop.
Teamsters Local 214 representative Al Lewis tells MLive.com that Inkster police fired Officer William Melendez on Wednesday.
The January arrest of 57-year-old Floyd Dent has drawn widespread protests.
Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner said Wednesday that Dent's lawyers could receive 12 more minutes of dash cam video. Defense lawyer Nick Bennett says he saw only highly edited video.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Judge-orders-police-to-release-video-in-beating-6202005.php
Larry Engels
(387 posts)Fire the cops and rename the town.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)are being filmed. Like Slager...adrenaline. Now have to control it. Imagine that.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)- Which is why I say FUCK ALL COPS!
K&R
christx30
(6,241 posts)"Why would an innocent person run from the police?"
The answer is because an innocent doesn't want to be killed or beaten by some out of control asshole with a badge
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)What a shame there are others around who want these monsters to harm others, too, who live vicariously through their viciousness.
A whole lot of parents haven't been raising their children right, teaching them instead to follow their impulses, emotions, at everyone's expense. Ugly, ugly mistakes of nature.
Hard not to advocate for "Punishment-in kind" justice for criminal cops' behaviors.
On TV.
A spin-off of, "Cops?"
Bad cops, bad cops. Whatcha gonna do? ...
No, that would be wrong.
rpannier
(24,339 posts)And as the theme plays, drag that cop out of HIS car, and have some roid-raging freak punch the crap outta HIS face as he helplessly tries to defend himself against psychopathic abuse and trauma.
Mmm, no. That would not be coming from a loving place.