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mahatmakanejeeves

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2. Video showing man beating 75-year-old until he bleeds leads to arrest
Fri May 22, 2020, 06:23 AM
May 2020
Video showing man beating 75-year-old until he bleeds leads to arrest

Meredith Spelbring, Detroit Free Press Published 8:49 p.m. ET May 21, 2020

Police arrested a man in connection with the attack of a 75-year-old at a Detroit nursing home Thursday.

Detroit Police arrested a 20-year-old male suspect after a video circulated social media showing several minutes of the suspect repeatedly punching the man at Westwood Rehabilitation Nursing Center on Detroit's west side.

DPD believe both the suspect and the 75-year-old are patients in the nursing home. The victim was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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The suspect was taken to the Detroit Detention Center. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, according to police.

Meredith Spelbring is a news intern with the Detroit Free Press. Reach her at mspelbring@freepress.com or on Twitter @mere0415.
That's very disturbing. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #1
Video showing man beating 75-year-old until he bleeds leads to arrest mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #2
Who taped this? marble falls May 2020 #3
I don't know. It looks as if the camera were carefully hidden behind the paper towels. mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #4
Family members are not allowed into nursing homes right now. LisaL May 2020 #6
I hope there was good intent, but if this was a 'trophy' footage or taken because this ... marble falls May 2020 #11
Oh, it was absolutely trophy footage obamanut2012 May 2020 #17
That's my thought. Totally premeditated. marble falls May 2020 #23
Looks like the trophe footage. 3Hotdogs May 2020 #19
The abuser seems to be handling the camera at the end, as though he wants to be seen tblue37 May 2020 #21
Statement from the nursing home: dalton99a May 2020 #5
Seems bizarre that apparently physically able 20 year old LisaL May 2020 #7
Perhaps a step down care placement following a hospital stay Devil Child May 2020 #9
Well it clearly was a wrong place for a 20 year old to be placed among LisaL May 2020 #10
One of our local nursing homes has a very bad reputation because it takes DURHAM D May 2020 #13
Yeah, my first thought was that this si what it was obamanut2012 May 2020 #16
Those who beat the elderly are no better than rabid animals and deserve the same fate Devil Child May 2020 #8
Please edit to show statistics of recent increase in assaults on seniors. Maggiemayhem May 2020 #12
hope he is on charges and will never work in a nursing home again. i wont watch vid. AllaN01Bear May 2020 #14
Understandably. I couldn't take more than a few seconds. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #15
He was not an employee, but a patient n/t obamanut2012 May 2020 #18
he doesn't work there. barbtries May 2020 #20
What the actual fuck!? n/t SpankMe May 2020 #22
I hope he gets the most severe sentence possible. EllieBC May 2020 #24
Cowardly shitstain should be charged w/hate crime. radius777 May 2020 #25
WTF? jcmaine72 May 2020 #26
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