Videos show police striking man with batons
Source: Associated Press
Videos show police striking man with batons
By The Associated Press 1:47 p.m. Sept. 5, 2013
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Civil rights groups called Thursday for a federal investigation of an arrest during which Long Beach police officers were recorded by a cellphone smacking a man with batons as he lay on his back. Meanwhile a separate surveillance video of the arrest appeared to show police hitting him at least 15 times.
The cellphone video posted on YouTube of Monday's arrest "was brutal and disturbing and again tossed an ugly glare on police officers overuse of excessive force against unarmed suspects," said a statement from Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable.
Other civil rights groups also called the video disturbing, as did Long Beach Police Chief James McDonnell, but he warned against a rush to judgment.
"It is too early to make any judgments," McDonnell told the Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/15AMFo3 ) in an interview Wednesday. "The YouTube video is certainly disturbing. Any time you see someone hit with the baton, there is level of discomfort."
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