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It seems like cops in riot gear become like drunk people about 2AM… All of a sudden they think they are ten feet tall and ten feet wide.

This video will help ensure a settlement with the police department because they were very wrong to just beat this guy up. BUT… That will ultimately let the offending cops off the hook with a “non-admission of guilt” type settlement.

At least the video was made and is getting some airtime. Great post, Carlos.
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Maybe he assaulted them with a really really mean look? Or he could be a terrorist or something. I’m sure they come up with some explanation for this.

That’s about the most outrageous video I’ve seen on the blog yet. The fate of these cops should be known….anything less than a full criminal trial would be scandalous.
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And of course….no wrong was done by the police. Wonder how many other arrests were bullshit.
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If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times, ie:

“And police wonder why they’re held in such low opinion!”

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Prince George’s County?

I absolutely cannot believe such a thing would happen there. I mean, they had that oversight thing that was going to fix everything and all.
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KA-CHING! Open your cash register, taxpayers. Time to pay for the sins of your unfireable public sector cmployees.

While the beating was horrific, even scarier is that the courts never would’ve believe him over the police without the video. It’s hard to trust a justice system that gives more credence to police officers, who have been shown time and time again to be just as reliable as any civilian, than to someone with competing testimony. Just goes to show how important it is to be able to record police officers freely.

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You’re not going to see incidents like this stop until cops are held accountable in both civil and criminal court. Suing the county does nothing but take money from taxpayers and there are too many levels of bureaucracy in the middle for that to have a positive affect.

I’m so glad you posted this. The kids were celebrating a win for the University of Maryland, just a few miles from me. The police, like so many other cities are simply out of control. This is only about 30 miles from the kid on the motorcycle who they arrested for videoing the cop who jumped out of an unmarked car with his gun and failed to identify himself right away.

It was on the news tonight and I was dumbfounded. The kid was simply dancing around and they jumped him. He wasn’t resisting and five of six cops began to relentlessly beat him. Those cops need to be fired. Administrative leave would be a joke because their actions was intentional and deliberate.

I still think the most outrageous video on this site was of the BART shooting, which showed a cop killing an unarmed man in cold blood.

http://carlosmiller.com/2009/01/09/new-video-of-bart-shooting-emerges-of...

Another truly disgusting example of the brutality of the state.

We do have this to be thankful for though: In many countries, the person who took the video would beaten, threatened and probably killed. The brutality in many other places is completely unchecked we generally have *SOME* recourse though not always much.

Not that any of it is even remotely excusable, I’m just saying there’s at least a chance that some justice will be done. Prison time for the felons in uniform would be good.
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The greatest problem with these kinds of incidents is that the cops will get away free or with a slap on their wrist. For some time the courst have held a double standard that favors cops heavily when they are caught breaking the law. If this were civillian mob beating another civillian they’d spend at least 5 years in jail each. If it were a civillians beating a cop like this they’d all be in for life.

Never ever Skip around Neo fascist storm troopers. The sociopathic mind much like any predatory animal will pick out the one limping or in this case skipping and attack it.

Need to be fired? They brutally beat an innocent person under color of law, and then they lied about it in a sworn statement. They committed multiple felonies and should spend the rest of their natural lives in jail.

I found the story on the web at two sites this one gives the best coverage. Internal affairs is looking into it, feds looking at possible civil rights infringement, charges possible, yacky yacky, and I’m betting nothing will come of it as they close their blue ranks around fellow officers. http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0410/724880.html

HEY!! Whattsamatta with you dingbats?!! Didn’t ya see they HAD to beat that guy? He made a “furtive movement”, didn’t ya see it? “Officer safety”, yeah that’s it, “Officer safety”!!

Is it just me, or has Johnny Law been suspiciously absent from the last few articles?

What society needs to do is ostrasize the police, whoops, I mean filth. If the filth come into your business don’t serve them, if you see the filth in need don’t help them, don’t talk to them, don’t sell them donuts, don’t teach their children, don’t do their wives hair, don’t sell them a car, don’t allow them to eat in your restaurant, etc. Ignore them, this is the only way to change them.

Me and my boy had something similar happen to us when we had a party on campus at Maryland and it lead to me having a record after the police beat us up drew guns on us sprayed us with mace and because the police change the entire story around!!! FUCK THE POLICE!!!

Where did he assault them?! They just ran up to him and beat him senseless…he should file charges…the system is sooo messed up, their prob going to write up a fake report and it’s always their word against ours and of course they always win in most cases….if you don’t know how to beat their petty system!!

Well I see Rick’s producer is catching up on this one on Twitter.

Little doubt he’ll drag his “police adviser” (apologist) on to suck up to and do everything possible to justify the police’s action if they at all can.

It was entertaining to watch Rick squirm when he had the kid who was beaten for packing Mt. Dew on with his family. There just wasn’t a damn thing he could say to their faces to stand up for the cops and it looked like it was *killing* him.
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“Hylton says one officer who’s been identified so far will be suspended and stripped of his police powers.

“After an investigation, he says other officers involved will likely be fired. ”

Notice it doesn’t say if that suspension will be with or without pay, or for how long. Why not go straight to firing? Oh, union rules.

And the other officers will “likely” be fired, unless they resign and get a job at another department first.

And if they’re not smart enough or too arrogant to do that, they’ll appeal the firing and get hired back on later, possibly with back pay for all that time they were on “fired vacation.”
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Every officer in the vicinity of that incident is a felon. They failed to immediately arrest those that assaulted someone who was no threat to them and therefore are accessories and accomplices to the crime. All officers and other government employees who, until the video was made available, tried to cover up and hide this crime are likewise felons.

There should be dozens going to prison over this but the worst that is likely to happen to them is that one or two might actually lose their jobs.

btw … how can there ever be a “fair trial” in any criminal manner this country when the judge, who decides what laws will be applied, what evidence can be presented, what arguments can be made and much more, is directly employed by the plantiff?

The deeply disturbing part is that Chief Hylton suggests that the other two cops have “not yet been identified.”

How does that work, anyway? The Police Chief asks “which of you guys did this?” and gets nothing but silence in response?

This is how “Law Enforcement Officers” behave?

You, of course, are kidding.

Why kidding?

One need not serve anyone who they feel is a threat to them.

Well there’s two problems I see right off the bat. First, there are in fact PLENTY of decent cops out there who would never participate in such a thing. I’d not want them to be hurt, they make good allies. Sure, they can’t intervene or report the misbehavior due to the “Serpico Symdrome” (i.e., they’d end up with a bullet in the head). The second problem is that trying to organize such an effort would result in a huge chorus of laughter that would be heard from coast to coast. Surely you realize that only a small per centage of the population falls outside of that catagory we call the “sheeple”. I’d like to see the miscreants have their feet held to the fire just like you but a more realistic plan has to be devised. On suggestion is to encourage EVERY citizen to carry a small video camera and record every interaction between the police and the citizenry they witness. This would accomplish two things. The first is that it have a “chilling effect” on those officers who have trouble staying within the legal restrictions of their authority. Secondly, it would help to exonerate those good officers who are falsely accused of brutality by the large pool of low life scum that are a part of American society today. That’s my two cents worth.

Uh, let’s make that “Serpico Syndrome”.

You go ahead and kiss the ass of felons simply because they wear a government issued costume, I’m not going to.

ANY police officer who has ever witnessed such an action and failed to arrest a criminal… ANY police officer who has protected a fellow officer from prosecution after such an action … VIRTUALLY ALL cops are at least accessories and accomplices to such acts and are, therefore, themselves, FELONS.

The higher the rank the officer is, the more likely he is such a felon, many times over. The only ones that might not have ever witnessed such crimes will be the newest rookies or an occaisional small town cop that has little interaction with other police.

And, if people are keeping quiet because they fear violent action against themselves, they are doing an enormous disservice to the American people. If the danger of doing their job properly comes from other government agents, they are putting the rest of us at risk by remaining silent. That is extremely repulsive to me given that cops are always whining about how “dangerous” their jobs are, when their primary goal is to protect themselves and their bretheren from injury or taking responsibility for their actions.

The only way to wake others up is to stand on your principles and make a noise. Not by making excuses for criminals.

Well now!

Rick actually got a new former cop to talk to who actually predicted the officers would be prosecuted and no one made any excuses. I’m impressed for once.
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Hey Keith Hamburger, if you’re going to accuse me of being an ass kisser in public then you can suck my dick!

I’ve always wondered why the supposed “Good Cops”, don’t do anything to expose the “bad cops”!
If the Bad Cops are only a small number, why do they get things their way?

How do you know when the cop is not telling the truth? Are his or her lips moving?
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“there are in fact PLENTY of decent cops out there ”

You, of course, are kidding?

Plenty of decent cops out there, sure there is, just like there are plenty of decent politicians, bankers, child touchers etc. out there, get real, what kind of lala land do you live in?

No, I was not kidding about ostrasizing, try it with kids sometime. You want to get rid of bullying or at least make a big dent in it? Teach kids how to ostrasize a bully, nothing stops a bully from bullying others than them not being asked to parties, to play games, to chat etc. The vast majority of the filth are bullies, usually former high school jocks or ex-military types who could not find a real job so decided to get a badge out of a cracker jack box called the state. Then they go take roids and beat people up. They used to be called peace officers, now they are called law enforcement officers, those two terms are very different and mean vastly different things, its a very bad change. They are becoming increasingly military like, and that is not for your protection, what, you think if they carry around an assault rifle that they will be able to stop a terrorist attack, really? What are they going to do, shoot a flying bomb fragment? They look like military goons to condition you, it’s been done for ages the world over. Ask any russian or eastern europeon about how they see things turning out in the good ol USA, you will not like what they have to say. Go ahead, apologise for the state, just let me know if you still feel the same way when the boot is on your neck.

Yes Jody, there are in fact PLENTY of decent cops out there and for you to suggest otherwise reveals either your ignorance or your immaturity. I’m the first guy to critisize the cops when they do wrong but I don’t wear blinders that keep me from seeing the work of good cops. If it were not for good, hard working cops (here in CA at least), we’d all be directly under the thumb of the surenos or the nortenos criminal gangs. I know that in cities like Chicago, New York and New Orleans the cops are corrupt to the core but that’s not the situation in every city in the country by a long shot and I’ve lived in a bunch of them. Having lived 67 years on this planet I’ve learned there are two sided to every story and that’s certainly true with the problem of police brutality. We need to fight the misuse of police authority every time it raises its ugly head but let’s not throw out the baby with the bath water.

If all drugs were legal and we stopped the stupid war on drugs then we would not have criminal drug gangs Rusty. Throwing out your age, all that shows is your flawed excuses for being a statist. The government and by default, cops, do one thing: problem, reaction, solution. The state breaks your leg, then gives you a crutch, then says, “see, without us, you would not be able to walk.” Cops did not exist in frontier towns and if they did they were mighty light with their touch, why we need a bunch of armed thugs/mafia called the filth running around our cities is beyond me. Arm the citizens and most of the shit that happens now would not, ban guns, like they did in DC and crime rates skyrocket, one does not have to be a genius to figure that one out. I never asked for the filth to “protect,” me and frankly I don’t want them to, they can all go take a flying fucking leap.
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Well, the only thing our “discussion” has accomplished so far is to show just how much you love to argue! We’ve drifted so far from the original subject that it’s fruitless to continue this crippled attempt at communication. I’ll give you the last word.

You mean the cops in California that http://capistranoinsider.typepad.com/the_sheriffs_blogger/2010/04/two-de...

Or the one that http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-westminster-officer-rape,0,5443438...
Kidnapped and raped someone, and then tried to cover it up? and his stupid corrections officer buddy who helped him get away from the crime scene?

these are just two stories from the past couple of weeks. Get a grip, the cops in CA are as bad as anywhere else.

You’re talking about two cops in a state that has hundreds of thousands of people in law enforcement at various levels. A few of them are scallywags that should’ve never been given a badge but the huge overwhelming number of them are just people doing a job and making a living. Try to remember, we need cops! If you think roque cops are tough to deal with (and they are) then try dealing with organised criminals.

You mean organised criminals like the government?
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