Pixiq

Hi Carlos,

I think you definitely have some great posts, however, this is not one of them. You can clearly see where the Police Officer's are wrestling with him (how else would you explain them flopping up and down?) Personally, I didn't see any "cheap shots" like some of your other videos contain. I do see the Officer's strecthing out his arms I guess in order to put the cuffs on him. Yes, there are many Officer's that are arrogant, power hungry and abusive but this post does not deserve to be labeled "New Jersey Cops Beat Student in Incident Caught on Camera" ... I think these Officer's did one hell of a job restraining him and I commend them and all the GOOD Police Officer's out there and YES they are out there.

- Jenny

I think that "Stop resisting" is secret code for "Stop being so passive, so it doesn't make me look bad on video when I kick your ass".

Jenny, you might want to watch it again, the officer starts punching him around :32 seconds of the video. There are too many officers trying to pull, push on the guy that the guy probably has no control over the direction he is going. I would explain them flopping up and down as the officers not being trained properly as to handle 1 person. There's too many of them and they are all trying to do something different to the guy and they are just flopping over each other trying to do their own little power hungry thing.

It's a clear case of abuse.

Carlos, you have to understand that the police definition of "resisting" includes "Not doing what I want you to do, even if you don't know what I want because I'm too busy using force to explain it."

*sigh*

People have become so conditioned...

Let me ask: if you found yourself on the bottom of dogpile, with five officers on you yelling conflicting instructions, and each of them striking retalliatory blows because you followed the conflicting orders of one of the other four, and you covered up your head, is that "resisting"?

Excessive use of force is so commonplace these days that it's unremarkable unless it happens to someone unusual, or someone you know.

There's also the possibility they're not issuing commands at all, but uttering their favored CYA words. Any witnesses will remember the officers screaming things like "Stop resisting" or "Drop the weapon", and when the officer follows up with force (punches, baton, TASER, pepper spray, gunfire, whatever) the witness comes away believing the suspect disobeyed and "deserved it".

The trouble is, if one officer is screaming at the suspect not to move, another screams to put hands on head, another screams to disarm, and another screams an order to get down on the ground, it's impossible to obey one of them without disobeying at least two others. If the suspect is "lucky", they get zapped by four different TASERs at once. If not, then at least one of those officers will be firing their service weapon.

Even if all the officers involved are sincerely trying to control the suspect, Bad Things™ usually happen at this point. But all too often, the officers aren't actually issuing commands, they've already decided to shoot, and are following the advice of a more experienced officer, who advised them to yell their CYA words before shooting, so any ear witnesses or audio recordings will report that the shooting was justified, since obviously the suspect disobeyed and the officer had to shoot.

The problem with police abuse of power is a very serious one. I have often commented here when it was clear that the officer deserved to be the one in jail.
This video however shows clearly a officer using the force he is required to use to subdue a suspect.
IF anyone cares to look at the map of excessive force at the website Injustice everywhere NJ has a pretty good record considering it is the most densely populated state in the nation. In fact one of the most densely populated places on the planet.
You will also find reports of abuse from the Rutgers police pretty low. This is not a example of excessive force, I believe it just happens to be the only one available lately.
It should be noted too that NJ has in its constitution one of nations strongest state protections of the fourth amendment. While at the same time one of the lowest levels of excessive force cases according to the Injustice everywhere statistical map. Police in NJ are given a decent living wage, Not the case in your typically non Union RED states that in fact seem to be the Red areas on the excessive force map.

So according to the mentality excused here you are not to fight for life, even if five guys pile on your back
suffocating you and proceed to take out the wolf pack let me get my licks in too on this piece of trash.
The street justice mentality of these ex-jock,veteran, steriod hyped thugs is sickening.
(with lip quivering) "I felt afraid." a quick pat on the wrist and it all forgiven,even if you get fired just move one county over and it's back to work, your license to kill covers it.

I think I saw where a guy because he covered his head to keep from being beat to death was charge with resisting without violence, so when a cop wants to kill you be it beating,electrocution or bullet to say no gets you either more of the above or a bull**it charge.

Isn't that about the size of it ?

You see by telling us about how the police beat you up for no reason and then showing a video where you accuse the police of doing it to somebody else even though the video shows that police did absolutely nothing wrong really hurts your credibility.

Hal it's not that I don't trust but why would you be the one to judge the police? What are your credentials?