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Originally posted by sister_hood02
I suppose what everyone is failing to recognize is the minute and 37 seconds that the tape wasn't rolling. According to news reports, the dash camera only works while the cops blue lights are flashing. Supposedly, one of the cops used a remote control to activate the camera from outside of the vehicle. Interestingly, the tape begins with the black man attacking the cops. No one really knows what happened during that minute and 37 seconds leading up to that attack. I honestly feel that those cops used excessive force, clearly. There comes a time when it's just human nature to fight back. Clearly, he was on something(drugs) so clearly he's going to fight back not recognizing that he's fighting cops perhaps. Regardless, those cops were out of line.
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I agree with you. The constant jabbing of nightsticks in that man's stomach, sides, and ribs was unnecessary. In response to what a lot of people have already written: Yes, we as black people pull the race card a lot but with good reason. Now, true, this man did have traces of drugs in his system but they were minute amounts. Secondly, the police were trying to arrest this man...for what? Passing out?
I would have tried to resist arrest too! The man was probably incoherent and the police should have been smart enough to figure that out. The fire department and police was called because it was thought that the man needed medical attention. According to what I found out today in one of my classes, the "sick" individual needs to stick around for an ambulance or something like that but it's the duty of the police to make sure he doesn't leave the scene. BUT the individual does have a right to refuse medical treatment. So they tried to arrest this man, I guess to make sure he didn't leave before he was offered medical attention?? And even when they KNEW he was sick (b/c he was passed out), they continued to give him orders and try to arrest him and then beat him knowing that he might not be comprehending what they were telling him.
Bottom line, the police were in the wrong! There are a certain "type" of police out there who have these preconceived view of the black man. This same type of policeman gets easily "threatened" and scared when confronted with a belligerent African American citizen. Consequently, incidents like this occur because, again, they felt "threatened". These type of police officers have absolutely NO BUSINESS trying to restore order in a society where 80% of citizens are minorities.