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Police incessantly and unmercifully beating a man with batons and shocking him with tasers as he lays supine on a street pavement in Long Beach, Calif., is shocking and repulsive. Sundry video versions of this incident, posted on YouTube -- have gone viral. It's the most infamous and nefarious example of police brutality so far this year in the United States - when this violent act was captured in early September of 2013 by digital dice and snake-eyed focus.
In the video, a man wearing only a tan pair of short pants is repeatedly bludgeoned by batons and tased by three policemen. Another cop joins in this torture session, wielding a very long, nasty-looking nightstick. Two other officers jump in while their mates slip on blue plastic gloves, not wanting to get any blood on their hands (nobody wants a blood-borne disease these days, after all). And after a bit, others in blue (including at least one woman police officer), join the circle of terror. Towards the end of the video, all the police are on their knees, doing something to this poor victim, and I hardly think it's trying to help the writhing guy."
It's disturbing and vile. I like to think that police officers are employed to protect and serve, but after viewing this video, I really am wondering about this -- is it just a myth and a lie? Have the police become our oppressors? Are they helpful and handy or are they horrible henchmen?"
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Police-brutality-Watch-th-by-Samuel-Vargo-Brutality_Fear_Force_Police-140623-582.html
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(7,051 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)G_j
(40,366 posts)We've seen it before, but from the description, every one of those cops should be doing hard time in prison. There is no other suitable consequence for these psychopaths.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)It's hard not to see this as anything but abject police brutality and abuse of power - a shocking and repulsive display of violence inflicted by authority. And to call it anything less would be phony and absurd. It's an atrocious, startling and evil scene. One of the bystanders exclaims that Porfirio Santos-Lopez's teeth were knocked out by a strike of a nightstick. Another witness cries out that she's shaking with fear and can't believe what she's seeing. "
gopiscrap
(23,733 posts)this is getting worse all over the country. Something seriously needs to be done to rein in these storm troopers, otherwise you're going to have a civil war on your hands in certain areas. The people vs the cops.