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Discussion: Report: Ferguson Police Beat Up Black Man Then Charged Him For Getting Blood On Uniforms
Racist, crazy-ass Ferguson cops have history of acting like racist, crazy-ass cops.
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If a pattern emerges of years of this kind of criminal behavior by Ferguson cops, the less anyone will believe the police account of the Michael Brown killing.
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The cops in Ferguson beat up this man in 2009, a CAT scan later confirmed he suffered a concussion, and they charged him with âproperty damageâ because he bled on their uniforms. No personal editorializing necessary.
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The judges are there to protect the pigs just in case things get out of hand and the DA is forced to prosecute against their will, by public pressure usually⌠Even when a cop gets caught murdering someone on camera, they still only get a slap on the wrist.
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So, um, there is a RIGHT guy for the cops to beat up?
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How could a judge rule for the police department? thatâs just asinine.
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I wouldnât be surprised if people start taking the law into their own hands and judges and cops like the ones described in this article start to have to watch their backs.
Anyone that cops âbeat upâ is the wrong person. It isnât their job to âbeat upâ people.
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Read the Daily Beast article. He took a wrong exit in the pouring rain, pulled to the side of the road because he was in a strange place and couldnât see where he was going. Cop sees a black guy in a car, runs the plate, gets a name, takes him in on an outstanding warrant. They held him and beat him AFTER they knew he was not the guy with the warrant.
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I read it this morning and was horrified. The fact that a judge would dismiss the case is just the cherry on top of a massive shit sandwich.
Still, this is but one incident involving multiple officers and occurred five years ago. Itâs highly unlikely this was the first such incident. No, the officers were so brazen, abusive, and reckless because theyâve been getting away with this behavior for years prior. It was clearly part of the departmentâs culture and there was no need to fear consequences. There are probably 100s of similar stories involving the Ferguson PD where the victim either didnât know he could seek redress, feared retribution from the PD if he did, or knew damn well nothing would come of it. I sincerely hope more victims will come forward and sue the pants off these people.
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Members of goodstanding in the KKK have promises to keep.
What they did is non-defnesible in my view, but that claim that they knew at the time they had the wrong man at the time he was put in lock-up and beaten is not supported by the evidence. It might well turn out to be the case, but donât get ahead of the facts.
Bingo. That is a core problem/issue in all of this. It may not be âtheâ lynchpin, but it is almost assuredly one of them.
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Read it again. According to Davis, they knew he wasnât the guy when they put him in a cell.
âI said, âI told you guys it wasnât me,ââ Davis later testified.
He recalled the booking officer saying, âWe have a problem.â
The booking officer had no other reason to hold Davis, who ended up in Ferguson only because he missed the exit for St. Charles and then pulled off the highway because the rain was so heavy he could not see to drive. The cop who had pulled up behind him must have run his license plate and assumed he was that other Henry Davis. Davis said the cop approached his vehicle, grabbed his cellphone from his hand, cuffed him and placed him in the back seat of the patrol car, without a word of explanation.
But the booking officer was not ready just to let Davis go, and proceeded to escort him to a one-man cell that already had a man in it asleep on the lone bunk. Davis says that he asked the officer if he could at least have one of the sleeping mats that were stacked nearby.
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