WATCH: Man Holds Up Hands and Lies Down — and Cops Still Kick Him in the Face and Taser Him

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/watch-man-holds-hands-and-lies-down-and-cops-still-kick-him-face-and-taser-him

A drug task force video of an arrest differs markedly from the police reports written by the plains clothes detectives involved in the incident, The Kansas City Star reports.

The video — available below — begins with the final moments of a car chase between Timothy Whittle and two plains clothes detectives, Michael Chinn and Kip Bartlett.

Chinn and Bartlett were members of the Mid-Missouri Drug Task Force, and they were approaching Whittle’s home in order to serve a warrant allowing them to search the premises for materials used to manufacture methamphetamine — but they never got the chance, as Whittle and another man left the home in an SUV and drove to a nearby property.

Once they arrived, Whittle exited the SUV and entered a black pickup truck. At that point, task force officers charged and Whittle took off. The officers gave chase — as did a Missouri National Guard helicopter, which was recording the events.