UPDATE: FBI probing videotaped beat by San Bernardino deputies

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Ten San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies were placed on paid administrative leave Friday after TV news video showed them beating and kicking a suspect. Meanwhile, the FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the incident.

Sheriff John McMahon announced the move to place the deputies -- including a sergeant and a detective -- on leave during a news conference Friday afternoon. He said some of the actions on the tape appeared "excessive."

“I am disturbed and troubled by what I see," he said. "It does not appear to be in line with our policies and procedures.”

Also on Friday, the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into the incident, the Times has learned.

During the news conference, McMahon asked the public to have patience as the use-of-force case is being investigated. Since the video was released, the sheriff’s department has received numerous threatening phone calls, emails and posts on social media, he said.

McMahon said that while he could not say the deputies in the incident knew Pusok, those involved in the initial pursuit were familiar with him.

On a prior domestic call, McMahon said, Pusok “made threats to kill a deputy sheriff and in fact shot a puppy in front of part of his family."

In the video, captured Thursday afternoon by a KNBC-TV news helicopter, deputies can be seen kicking and punching Francis Pusok, 30, at the end of a horseback pursuit. The video appears to show the deputies striking him after he was on the ground with his hands behind his back.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino-deputies-kick-man-pursuit-20150409-story.html

original link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026482985

original video

[Raine1967]

1. Suspect tasked, on the ground — handcuff the person.That should have been the end of it.

EVERYTHING after that is just inhumane. I don;t even care that he is/was a horse thief allegedly. There is absolutely no need for these police officers to descend upon this person and attack him like a pack of wild animals going after prey.

This is my first time seeing this video and these officers reminds of just that: A pack of wild animals going after weakened prey.

[shraby]

2. A big problem is that whatever the police department says about a suspect just can't be believed

anymore. Too many lies, too many coverups, too many false accusations.

[Trillo]

4. Has that lack of belief spread to the people that matter,

prosecutors and judges?

[Logical]

3. Fucking cops again. Why do they love beating helpless people? Assholes. This should be....

a bigger story here on the DU.

More cops abusing their power.