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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLAPD filmed punching man for skateboarding on wrong side of street
If you see the videotape, there are about three or four officers on top of my son, Weekleys father, Ronald Weekley Sr., said. Then an officer comes into view, gets down on the ground and hits him in his face, and thats something you can hear on the tape. The results are, is that he has a broken nose, he has a broken cheekbone and he has a concussion.
Weekley was cited with resisting arrest.
The footage aired by KTLA shows two officers holding the younger Weekley down and another punching him in the face. A fourth officer standing atop the fray can be seen speaking into his radio. Another officer enters the frame seemingly ordering the unidentified resident filming the incident to move away. It is reminiscent of the seminal video of the traffic stop that propelled Rodney King into the national consciousness.
I was like screaming because I thought they were going to kill him, one witness said of the polices treatment of Weekley.
Video & more:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/20/lapd-filmed-punching-man-for-skateboarding-on-wrong-side-of-street/
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LAPD filmed punching man for skateboarding on wrong side of street (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2012
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redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)1. Damn thugs.
frylock
(34,825 posts)2. fuck tha police
Swede
(33,208 posts)3. The only solution is to outlaw videoing these encounters.
Then they can back to filling the prisons with these criminals.