ABC: Fired officer claims woman's 'fall' gave her black eyes, broken teeth

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ABC: Fired officer claims woman's 'fall' gave her black eyes, broken teeth
David Edwards and Muriel Kane

After Angela Garbarino was arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana last November on suspicion of drunk driving, she wound up lying on the police station floor in a pool of her own blood with two black eyes, a broken nose, two broken teeth, and other cuts and bruises.

Garbarino says that Officer Wiley Willis beat her up after turning off the police video camera. Willis's attorney insists that Garbarino slipped and fell when Willis tried to prevent her from leaving the room. However, Garbarino says that the extent of her injuries are proof that she was beaten.

The police video obtained by ABC News shows Garbarino demanding the right to make a phone call. "I have the right to call somebody right now and I know that," she yells. Officer Willis instead begins handcuffing her. She wiggles away, he pulls her back sharply by her wrists, and she hits the wall and falls on the floor.

Willis pushes her down into a chair three successive times as she repeatedly stands up again, increasingly distraught and screaming, "Get away from me!" Willis is finally shown leaning over her and asking, "Do you understand me?" to which she replies, "Yeah, I understand." Willis then walks over and turns off the camera.

When the video resumes, Garbarino is lying in the floor in a pool of her own blood. There is an apparent cut in what ABC aired, but according to KTBS in Shreveport, Willis turns Garbarino on her back, telling her, "Lay down, don’t move," and she replies, "I can't believe you just did what you just did. I really can't."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ABC_Was_woman_victim_of_police_0219.html

[Snarkturian Clone]

1. So she fell on some fist-shaped rocks that were on the floor? NT

[0007]

2. Isn't the U.S. a lovely place to live? No wonder the world hates us,

Most of our law officers are, judge, jury, and God.

I hope they hang these mother fucking cops and make them homeless like animals
to fend for themselves for every bite of food they can scrounge.

[Trailrider1951]

3. Phone numbers for the Shreveport police dept

including the chief of police:

http://www.ci.shreveport.la.us/dept/police/polcontacts.htm


Give them an earfull!

[KG]

4. law enforcement is out of control in this country.

[bdamomma]

6. they are treating everyone like criminals

when they should be going after the criminal that is sitting in the WH.

[LostinVA]

5. OMG

[pleah]

7. This officer should be fired immediately!

The police in this country are completely out of control.

[KG]

8. well, the title of the article states the officer was fired.

once in awhile justice is done, but mostly these kinds of incident are covered up or blamed on the victim.