Philly police to fire 4 over videotaped beating

[NoGOPZone]

Source: Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Philadelphia's police commissioner said Monday that four officers will be fired and four others disciplined for their roles in the beatings of three shooting suspects, an encounter that was captured on videotape and drew widespread outrage.

Another eight officers who had physical contact with the suspects will undergo additional training on the department's policies concerning the use of force, Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. He said the police department made the disciplinary decisions after reviewing frames from enhanced tape of a video shot by a television news helicopter on May 5.

The video, shot by WTXF-TV, shows the suspects being pulled from their car on the side of the road and groups of officers kicking, punching and beating the men. A total of 19 officers — 18 city police and one transit officer — were involved.

Two of the officers being fired are relatively new to the force and can be terminated immediately, Ramsey said. Two others are being suspended without pay for 30 days with intent to dismiss


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[Catherine Vincent]

1. Not enough, but I guess that's better than nothing

More than likely, the fired ones will get jobs in nearby police departments.

[movonne]

3. Or Blackwater...just what they are looking for...

[TooBigaTent]

2. What about criminal charges? Every one of the uniformed criminals should be in

jail, and let them get the justice they deserve from their fellow inmates.

But that will never happen. They will all walk.

[sasquatch]

4. Good, now they can go work with their intellectual equivilents at McDonalds