iPhone video catches San Bernardino cops beating man (updated)

Update: Brandon Piddington, the man who shot and uploaded the video of the San Bernardino police officers beating a man in a 7-11 parking lot, has removed the video from Youtube. And this after he initially made it so you couldn’t embed the video.

So obviously he doesn’t want people to see it. It’s not like it hasn’t already been reported in the local newspaper.

Meanwhile, the other video I mentioned in this piece about overly aggressive security guards that had been made private, forbidding anyone who is not friends with the person who uploaded to see it, has been uploaded to another account.

So I am able to bring that one to you, which is above.

That incident took place on Monday at Florida Memorial University in north Miami-Dade County.

Private security guards from the university caught a 19-year-old student with a bag of weed. They chased him into a bathroom. Other students outside could hear that he was being beaten, so they attempted to pile into the bathroom to witness the incident.

The guards try to hold back the door and at one point, one of them steps out and pulls out a gun. He has not been placed on administrative leave.

Read more here.


So I come across two Youtube videos that show the typical authoritarian abuse.

The first video comes from my former stomping grounds in San Bernardino – where I used to work as a cop reporter for The Sun – that shows a couple of cops beating a suspect. They wrote the article here.

Then as more cops pull up, a cop tries to intimidate the guy with the video camera by demanding his name, then blowing him off when the guy wouldn’t give up his name. Luckily that cop didn’t say anything about the video camera.

It was an iPhone so maybe he didn’t notice.

At first, videographer Brandon Piddington disabled embedding on the video, which is a sure way to reduce viewership. But then he allowed it after I commented on it.

Meanwhile, another Youtube viewer who is supporting the cops in this video sends me a private message saying that Piddington deleted two of his comments and blocked him from leaving anymore comments.

This is what 1blumpkin told Piddington in the comment, according to a private message from him.

1- i only counted 9 strikes, 2-the guy must have been on something for him NOT to feel the hits and NOT comply, 3-thats what batons are for, 4-couldn’t use mace cuz his partner was too close. and the fact that we didn’t see what happened before the video was turned on. who the guy was, what he did, and my favorite….the camera guy said, “the cop is bleeding for some reason….” then he said the cop tried to intimidate him into saying something about what he DIDN’T see. camera guy saw it cuz he video taped it and the cop was calm and respectful. when camera guy caught amnesia, the cop just walked away and camera guy started talking shit. all the camera guy had to do was tell the cop exactly what he saw…simple right? we’re just supposed to let criminals run willy nilly and do whatever they want?

I SAID SOMETHING TO THAT NATURE. ISN’T THAT SOMETHING GOOD TO DEBATE ABOUT? LOL. SEEMS HE ONLY WANTS ANIT-COP COMMENTS.

Perhaps 1blumpkin is a cop. And it appears he joined Youtube just to comment on this video.

But his comments should not have been deleted, which is why I’m reposting it here.

He is welcome to comment here and debate the issue.

Then there is another video that was posted on the Miami New Times except we can’t see it unless we become friends with the idiot who posted it on Youtube because he marked it private.

Whatever. I’m not even going to describe that incident except that it involves overly aggressive security guards at a South Florida university. If you want to read about it, check out the New Times.

Comments

Anonymous
Anonymous

I love my iphone, THAT IS UNTIL MY ONE WEEK OLD 3GS TOOK A SHIT TODAY!

Anonymous
Anonymous

What happen with your iPhone?

Anonymous
Anonymous

The youtube vid is gone already (says the user removed it.)

Did anyone grab a copy of the FLV?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Brandon Piddington removed the video.

Blumpkin’s analysis seems plausible. Cop wants to write report, Brandon didn’t want to to talk, so cop goes looking for more talkative witnesses.

It’s stamping not stomping.

The San Berdu Sun wrote an article linked to in your Mamou LA piece? I am surprised the inland empire extends that far east.

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Anonymous

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Anonymous
Anonymous

doughnuts, doughnuts, doughnuts

Anonymous
Anonymous

Thinking seriously about always carrying a video camera.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Under Florida’s Concealed Carry laws displaying a firearm in a threatening manner without legal justification for firing the weapon is an Aggravated Assault and carries a mandatory sentence of three years. It will be interesting to see if the security officer that brandished his weapon will be prosecuted.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s up to the DA, whether the video will convince him. With the video, he’d probably never consider it.

I’ve never understood why DAs and prosecutors crow that “justice has been served” when they accept plea bargains from cops and other authority figures, that knock felonies back to misdemeanors, or remove most of the charges in exchange for a guilty plea.

There was a cop recently indicted on 24 counts of felony molestation of minors – he took a plea deal for two counts and I think five years, when a guilty verdict on all the charges would have gotten him 60 years.

Back on the streets in five years to molest some more…

Anonymous
Anonymous

Funny how you see what you want to see in this. I see an out of control mob that wants to get in the middle of some officers trying to do their jobs. Do you blame the guy for pulling his gun when dealing with those numbers? Most people would have shit their pants.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yes Johhny Law, I do blame that wanna be for pulling his pistol. It was obviously for show as anyone trained properly and not from some Ice Cube movie knows, there is no accuracy with a pistol rotated 90 degrees. He also was not looking where the pistol was pointed. He didn’t draw the pistol for security reasons, he did it for intimidation. He’s an untrained fool.

Anonymous
Anonymous

This is Brandon Piddington himself; anything and everything that’s been said on this website, or anywhere else, about me, is hearsay and speculation. Nobody talked to me personally, therefore, my reasons for removing the video and deleting comments is not understood. Do not say things about me without picking up the telephone and ASKING ME. Anything else is just plain irresponsible.

Anonymous
Anonymous

In addition, I was quoted as saying the following about the incident – “To me it was about documentation and not passing judgment,” he said. “I know nothing about the guy’s history. He could’ve been a two-strike felon, he could’ve had something on him – drugs, a weapon.”

Anonymous
Anonymous

Brandon,

I sent you a message asking why you deleted the video. You never responded.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s interesting that Johnny sees “an out of control mob” in a group of loud, but peaceful, citizens. No weapons are drawn, save by the uniforms, nothing is getting broken, no one is getting beaten by the so-called “out of control mob”.

It’s not surprising that Johnny sees it as a “shit your pants” situation, though. He’d probably draw a gun, too, with that mindset.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Loud but peaceful citizens? Really? Did you watch the video? They were trying to kick the door open and yelling curses. You make it sound like it was a prayer group out in the hallway. I love the way you try to spin this but any rational person would feel extremely threatened with surrounded and outnumbered by a hostile crowd like that.

Your comments just show that you are unwilling to look at it from outside your preconceived bias.

Anonymous
Anonymous

thats crazy..u give ppl authority n they use it for power that aint even all that necassary.

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