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ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 07:11 PM Jun 2015

White CA Cops Caught On Video Brutally Beating Restrained Black Man (VIDEO)

A California Lyft driver posted a horrific video that seems to show two Stockton, California police brutally beating a restrained African-American suspect.

“This is what Stockton police department its becoming to fuck that shit,” writes Benjamin Reyes in his Facebook post. “Just seen this in front of my house…”

The incident appears to occur at a traffic stop. At the beginning of Reyes’ clip, one of the officers punches the restrained man in the face.

The other whips out his baton and delivers a devastating blow to the man’s knee — followed by another, and another, and another, and another, and, after taking careful aim for the back of the man’s knee…another.

The woman in the driver’s seat of the car screams, “Stop resisting!” but the man is clearly doing anything but that.

As the man seems to involuntarily convulse from the pain, an officer repeatedly tells him to “stop resisting” before he begins delivering baton blows to what appears to be the man’s head — 1-2-3.

The officers roll the man over and, panicked, the woman in the driver’s seat of the car once again yells for him to “stop resisting.” However, at this point it is obvious that the man is not actively resisting the police.
“Help the other officer put your hands behind your back,” one of the Caucasian cops tells him.

Watch the video, below:

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White CA Cops Caught On Video Brutally Beating Restrained Black Man (VIDEO) (Original Post) ghostsinthemachine Jun 2015 OP
How much longer before the most patient community in human history responds randys1 Jun 2015 #1
The cops are heaven05 Jun 2015 #3
When did this take place? virgogal Jun 2015 #2
easy heaven05 Jun 2015 #4
If this ever happens in front of sorefeet Jun 2015 #5
They will kill you. It is better to record them. roody Jun 2015 #8
"Stop Resisting" Roy Rolling Jun 2015 #6
Yeah, I keep hearing that brush Jun 2015 #10
reminiscent of higherarkies Jun 2015 #7
Try this. Eko Jun 2015 #9
And the cop apologist shows up on cue. brush Jun 2015 #11
+1 Enthusiast Jun 2015 #12
I guess in the first 15 seconds Eko Jun 2015 #16
If you're succeeding in convincing yourself.... daleanime Jun 2015 #13
THIS WAS A FUCKING TRAFFIC STOP markpkessinger Jun 2015 #14
I friggin hate this shit more than ANYONE ... & I REALLY dislike cops in general ... brett_jv Jun 2015 #15

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. How much longer before the most patient community in human history responds
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 07:13 PM
Jun 2015

appropriately.

And while it will be appropriate, it will shock the hell out of the community doing this to them.

The rule is if you resist at all, even if just vocally, then you deserve to be beaten to death

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
3. The cops are
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 08:13 PM
Jun 2015

just out of control on some kind of power trip, especially against POC. It's getting pretty fucking old. And it is getting worse, especially for POC. Just have to be black, male, female, child to get this kind of treatment or death. Don't know Randys1, what the outcome this long hot summer will have except more dead and abused black people at the hands of the authorities of the PTB.

sorefeet

(1,241 posts)
5. If this ever happens in front of
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 10:41 PM
Jun 2015

me, well I guess I'm going to jail too. Because I refuse to just stand by and watch any person be beat. I will holler and scream and threaten and call them cowards and where is your fucking honor until they stop or start beating this old man. This is why they are called pigs and get no respect.

brush

(53,918 posts)
10. Yeah, I keep hearing that
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 07:20 AM
Jun 2015

And another one is "stop reaching for my gun".

There are so many of these videos now you start to see the patterns. These must be the phrases rogue cops have shared on their web sites/get togethers as their tickets to cover their asses when they beat and klil black people because these same "words" keep being repeated all over the country.

And I've said this before in other posts that these rogue cops must be 'slow' or something because video cameras are everywhere now but they still keep beating and killing as if it's still the pre-cell phone video era.

Eko

(7,369 posts)
9. Try this.
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 04:47 AM
Jun 2015

Get two of your friends, go out back so people cant see you, wouldn't want anyone to get into trouble. You and another try to take down the other person, put them on their stomach with their hands behind their back. Have the "offender" fight as hard as they can. Do this and then imagine the "offender" trying to actually get away and maybe hurt you and others. If you don't get this then you have never had to restrain someone. This is not the movie world, sorry. There are actually times the police abuse their authority, and it happens too much too often. But to call every instance police abuse just helps reinforce the stereotype progressives have. So go ahead try it, videotape it and share it on this thread, please. Show me just how easy it is for 2 people to restrain one person. Call a local police officer and see if you can do it to them, two against one. Your kids wresting coach, baseball coach, anyone even remotely fit. Our police officers are not jackie chan and bruce lee.

brush

(53,918 posts)
11. And the cop apologist shows up on cue.
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 07:25 AM
Jun 2015

They're yelling for him to put his hands behind his back while one has his knee and all his weight on his back — a physical impossibility would'd you say?

Nice try though in making excuses for the abusive cops.

Eko

(7,369 posts)
16. I guess in the first 15 seconds
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 06:10 PM
Jun 2015

it is possible the cops are holding the guys arms so he cant put them behind his back, that they are holding him up so he cant get on the ground. Anythings possible.

brett_jv

(1,245 posts)
15. I friggin hate this shit more than ANYONE ... & I REALLY dislike cops in general ...
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 05:06 PM
Jun 2015

But the guy WAS resisting, and if you don't understand that, then the definition of a simple word clearly eludes you.

You really don't have to be throwing blows to be 'resisting', you just have to 'not cooperate'. In the beginning you can clearly see that the cops are trying to get the dude to put his hands behind his back, and he's clearly not doing so, rather, he's using all his muscle to strain against their efforts to put his arms behind him.

Also, anyone who can withstand four baton blows to the thigh/knee region like that and not collapse to the ground is high or drunk out of their tree, and is CLEARLY 'resisting'. NOT that this alone is just cause for the p*gs doing what they did, I'm just sayin'.

Personally I think that, outside very extenuating circumstances, the law should say that if someone is resisting, if there's only 1 or 2 officers on the scene, then these officers job should simply be to act to hold the person until an overwhelming force can arrive on the scene, rather than putting it on 1 or 2 guys to affect the arrest.

If that takes the officer(s) drawing their guns and saying "I/we will shoot you if you flee", fine. That's better than beating the f**k out of someone because the officers numbers are insufficient to actually arrest someone without beating them.

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