Arrested for sagging pants, Ervin Edwards tasered to death in custody; police lie in report

[eridani]

Happened in 2013, but video just came out now.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/24/1379943/-Arrested-for-sagging-pants-Ervin-Edwards-tasered-to-death-in-custody-Police-lie-in-report

On November 26, 2013, 38-year-old Ervin Edwards, partially deaf and mentally ill, was arrested by police for sagging his pants and taken to the West Baton Rouge Parish jail in Louisiana. He only lived for a few more minutes inside of the cell.

For 18 months, police have lied over and over again about what happened the night Ervin Edwards died in their custody. Now that a video of their despicable actions has been released, it's clear they murdered this man and left him to die all alone in his jail cell. The Advocate has provided an annotated video. See the video and my breakdown of their lies below the fold.

[Jesus Malverde]

1. I watched the video this afternoon

It was sick, the casual nature of the correctional officers to a human really shows how sick and depraved we've become. It could be anyone of us.

[msanthrope]

2. No--let's be clear. The cops do not treat white suburbanites like that. Because they do not

treat the privileged like that, they are allowed to treat the non-privileged like that with impunity.

Because THAT is how sick and depraved we are.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. ^ n/t

[Shrike47]

3. I don't have the heart, or the stomach, to watch another police officer murder a mentally ill man.

Enough, already. We hire police offers to perform a service. This is not the service I am willing to pay for. Killing people is wrong and warrants prosecution.

[Octafish]

4. FBI should record police killings, brutality...

It would make stopping them easier. Seeing as they don't...

[Enthusiast]

5. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

6. When are we going to realize that most cops are fucking sociopaths?

And people who tend towards that profession tend to be sociopaths?

Cold-hearted fucking shits.

[MidschoolLiberal17]

7. Did you just say Most?!

I dunno what to say with you. I know, there's a minority of cops who are just basically assholes, and they give other cops a bad name. But why blame the others that are clean?

[CANDO]

9. I may be wrong on this....

But it seems to me the profession draws type A personalities who hunger to "be in charge" and have the force of law backing them up. That is a recipe for some bad mojo, IMO.

[stillwaiting]

11. The problem is the system forces the "good" cops to support and cover up for the

"bad" cops. So, the "good" cops are part of and party to the bad behavior ultimately. The "good" cops certainly aren't protecting and serving the people when they fall in line, stay quiet, and support the "bad" cops.

The system isn't clean. It's far from clean.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

13. Yes, Most, with a capital "M".

The police as an institution is fucked. They have one purpose only, and that's to protect the rich.

They don't even care if you're filming it. They don't even try to hide it. They are laughing at you for apologizing for them.

Get with the fucking program and learn who are your friends and who are your enemies.

[TransitJohn]

14. No, it's most.

They ones who aren't murderous sociopaths close ranks around the supposed minority that are, and are complicit.

[rock]

8. Correct. In the vunacular they are bullies

Assholes, cowards, and bullies. There are even more descriptions of them but I'd get kicked off of DU if I went too far.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

12. Yeah, don't get me started, either.

Sometimes I watch Cops and they bark all these contradictory orders, and assault the victim (because that is what they are), and even start shoving each other to get to the victim, and then have the fucking nerve to scream, " Stop resisting!"

Hell that one asshole barked at a dead guy he just shot eight times to put his hands behind his back! For the ever-love of fuck, how is that even possible to be that fucking stupid? If these guys aren't already violent shitfucks, they're fucking retarded, too? Do I want fucking violent, muscle-head morons walking around with guns pretending to be protecting me when they're really protecting the rich and powerful? Fuck no.

They see assholes like Dick Cheney get off, and they're just following the lead.

Fascist fucks, the lot of them.