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Florida Police Officers Filmed Taunting Bloodied Man, Drinking His Gatorade
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Footage has emerged of a bloodied and handcuffed suspect being openly taunted by police officers in Florida who drank from the man's soda while he pleaded to be taken to hospital.
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According to the news outlet, Vaughn was taken down and handcuffed by police while trying to film the arrest of another man, Dalonta Crudup, 24, on his cellphone inside the Royal Palm Hotel on South Beach on July 26.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/florida-police-officers-filmed-taunting-bloodied-man-drinking-his-gatorade/ar-AAP4kWk?ocid=msedgntp
In the video, a visibly distressed Vaughn can be heard telling officers "You all beat me for no reason." An unnamed officer can be heard responding "We beat you for a reason" on the clip, which comes from a police body camera.
The handcuffed Vaughn continues to plead his innocence on the footage. "I didn't resist. I wasn't arrested," he says. "I backed up. You all said back up. Somebody said 20 feet and I backed up. And what happened? All of you charged me and beat me."
At this point, an officer can be heard interjecting to tell Vaughn to "stop crying."
"Stop crying? Look at my face," he replies. "You all did that [expletive] for no reason," Vaughn said." An officer responds: "You chose your destiny."
Vaughn is heard rejecting this claim and expressing disbelief at the officer's remarks. "I did not. I backed up," he says. "That's kind of crazy. What do you mean I chose my destiny? I backed up."
Later in the video, an officer can be seen taking Vaughn's Gatorade and loudly gulping it while Vaughn asks: "Can you take me to the hospital? I can feel myself bleeding."
Responding to the officer's deliberately audible drinking, Vaughn says: "I don't know what you are getting out of that" to which the officer replies "I'm getting hydrated." Towards the end of the footage, another voice can be heard telling Vaughn to go back to New York where he is from.
pandr32
(11,637 posts)These cops should lose their jobs and all their benefits as well as being sent to prison.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)For filming them.
Miami Beach cops are no better.
I hope they all get exactly what they have coming to them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_Is_Not_a_Crime
ms liberty
(8,620 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,927 posts)I love PNAC! I didn't know it was started by a DUer.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)I do not recall what his user name was, however
Red Mountain
(1,739 posts)oh well.
Aristus
(66,503 posts)What a hellhole. And the cops are about what I would expect in such a squalid shitnest...
obamanut2012
(26,180 posts)Unless we have to for some reason. I literally drive three hours to Orlando for something instead of driving 45 minutes to an hour to Miami.
Everyone I know in PBC and Broward feel the same way.
A friend of my niece's went to FAU instead of FIU because of Miami, and she had a better financial deal at FIU.
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)onethatcares
(16,204 posts)WTF?