Houston Police Department Assaults Man, Pulls and Cocks Shotgun on Crowd

[Ian David]

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This video was taken at the Houston Free Thinkers Free Show.

The police showed up at 10:15 with the stated purpose of addressing a noise complaint. Derrick Broze spoke to the police about the noise and agreed to shut down one of the three stages.

While Derrick spoke to the officer another officer began poking around The Compound (which is not a public venue). Derrick asked these police if they had a warrant. They asked for his ID. He told them he was not in public and that he was not driving a car and was not therefore required to have one but was happy to identify himself as Derrick Broze and provided his birth date as well.

The officer then grabbed Derrick and took him out into the street and put him against the car and searched him. All without charging him or telling him anything.

As more friends came around and asked what was going on. Some were unwilling to remain silent and exercised their first amendment rights and spoke their mind. One of these individuals was forcibly grabbed from behind and threatened, "your freedom ends tonight" (can be heard in the video).

This individual breaks loose from his unknown assailant and is grabbed by multiple officers and slammed into the car.

When the crowd of unarmed civilians demonstrates their shock and outrage at this a shotgun is pulled and cocked.

Unfortunately, this went this way. We must learn to somehow reach out effectively to militarized police so that we may win their hearts and minds over to peace, liberty, and the Bill of Rights.

Houston Free Thinker's Statement and other videos at: http://houstonfreethinkers.com/all-news/79-local-news/2192-for-immediate-release-hpd-assaults-members-of-the-houston-free-thinkers-video

[Th1onein]

1. Someone needs to sue these assholes for civil rights violations

Unbelievable. I get pissed off everytime I see something like this.

[KansDem]

2. When is this going to stop?

Assaulting non-armed demonstrators then pulling and cocking a shotgun on the crowd?

When will this stop?

When will the citizenry fight back? Are we supposed to remain docile while police thugs assault us? Can't we fight back? Do we simply lie there and hope they don't kill us?

[Th1onein]

5. I just called the Internal Affairs complaint line.

Even though the message on this phone says to come in, in person, so that they can have your complaint notarized, you can still leave a message. If enough people do that, they will do something about it.

[bakpakr]

7. We all know,

That IA investigations are done by the department. Thus there is a chance that the investigation will biased.

A better option that I have used in the past and will do so if needed in the future is to not file a IA complaint with the department. I filed a complaint against with POST certification authority for the officer in question. I found that the certifying authority did a much more thorough job investigation my complaint. It was found that the officer was indeed wrong and the authority terminated their post certification, thus the officer in question was no-longer certified to perform the duties of an officer of the law.

POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training) refers to a law enforcement officer's certification. Most, if not all, states require that law enforcement officers receive standardized training and pass a state certification exam before they are allowed to perform law enforcement duties. POST, or CJSTC (Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission) in some states, is the agency charged with establishing and enforcing minimum hiring and training requirements.

Just do a Google search for POST certification authority for you locality.

Police officers don't fear IA complaints but they DO fear POST certification complaints.

[Th1onein]

10. OMG! Thank you for this information!

This is something that we should all know.

[Th1onein]

11. Here is a link to the complaint form -- I don't know the officer's name, though

http://www.tcleose.state.tx.us/forms/complaint_request.cfm

[Scuba]

3. Sounds like the police were escalating the situation. Poor training or performance if so.

[Th1onein]

4. Call Internal Affairs Division - make your voice heard!

Here is the number; :

Internal Affairs Division
713-308-8900

Complaints:
308-0040

Each one of these lines, you can leave a message at. I urge you to do so.

[suzanner]

6. Painful to watch. Just throwing this out there: how 'bout some music at these?

Some acoustic/vocal music might charm the savage beasts.

[Gman]

8. This is the same police department

that killed Joe Campos Torres and threw him into Buffalo Bayou and left him there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Campos_Torres

[LiberalArkie]

9. The Houston PD have always been rough, only got worse after a freaks vs pigs ball game in the 70's

the freaks won.

[BiggJawn]

12. "We must learn to somehow reach out effectively to militarized police ..."

S'Yeah, right... You go first.

[provis99]

13. they`re just a criminal gang wearing uniforms, that`s all.

criminal cops will do this until they are treated like the criminals they are: charged with crimes and sent to prison.