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Its difficult to keep track of all the unarmed black men receiving treatment on a scale of illegal-to-lethal at the hands of American law enforcement. But hopefully you remember Floyd Dent. He is the retired auto worker who was pummeled by police officers following a routine traffic stop in Inkster, Michigan. In addition to the dash-cam video showing Officer William Melendez using his fists to protect and serve all over Dents head, new video has emerged purporting to show the manly and tough Inkster police officers guffawing and fist-bumping about the savage beat down they just gave the 57-year-old man.
WDIV Detroit obtained the video, which the town somehow failed to turn over to Dents attorney. The tape seems to show officers wiping Dents blood off their persons, and joking and pounding fists in bro-tastic celebration, while one cop stages a hilarious re-enactment of the beating. This bit of theater results in a much needed laugh for everyone in the room except the injured Dent. Theres no audio with the video, so maybe they were giggling about an old Jay Leno monologue. Maybe they were chortling at the officers depiction of a scene from the departments favorite Oscar Wilde play. Maybe they were LOLing about how stupid Melendez was for allegedly planting crack cocaine on a man with no criminal record (while on video) who would end up testing negative for drugs. In any event, the laughter is real and taking place mere feet away from Dent, who claims all of this happened before the police called an ambulance to treat his broken ribs and orbital fracture.
WDIV Detroit obtained the video, which the town somehow failed to turn over to Dents attorney. The tape seems to show officers wiping Dents blood off their persons, and joking and pounding fists in bro-tastic celebration, while one cop stages a hilarious re-enactment of the beating. This bit of theater results in a much needed laugh for everyone in the room except the injured Dent. Theres no audio with the video, so maybe they were giggling about an old Jay Leno monologue. Maybe they were chortling at the officers depiction of a scene from the departments favorite Oscar Wilde play. Maybe they were LOLing about how stupid Melendez was for allegedly planting crack cocaine on a man with no criminal record (while on video) who would end up testing negative for drugs. In any event, the laughter is real and taking place mere feet away from Dent, who claims all of this happened before the police called an ambulance to treat his broken ribs and orbital fracture.
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Malraiders
(444 posts)a God fearing, intelligent, peaceful and non-violent rational man, and they murdered him.
cali
(114,904 posts)He wasn't murdered because he was viewed as disposable. He was murdered because he was seen as meaningful and a potent threat.