Alabama cops hold man down and beat him following car chase for pot possession

[marmar]

An Alabama police chief is defending his officers after a video was released showing five officers holding a man down while a sixth repeatedly punched him in the head following a car chase after he was found to have marijuana in his car.

According to the Montgomery Advertiser, officers from the Wetumpka police department pulled over Roger Deffenbaugh, 52, and discovered marijuana and a bottle of liquor in his car. Deffenbaugh refused to step out of his vehicle and instead took off, leading police on a car chase.

“We asked him to step out of his car, but he refused to get out of the car and took off,” Wetumpka Police Chief Danny Billingsley explained. “We got in pursuit and ran him all over 231 through a subdivision and wound up at the rear of the casino, where he rammed his car into a door out there and at that time, he was taken into custody.”

In video taken from a casino balcony, Deffenbaugh cannot be seen as he is held down by five cops while one punched him over and over as another officer observes.

According to Billingsley, Deffenbaugh tried to run over one of his officers and the arresting police were trying to handcuff him as he resisted arrest. ..............(more)

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/watch-mississippi-cops-hold-man-down-and-beat-him-following-car-chase-for-pot-possession/

[libdem4life]

1. Psst ... I'ts Mississippi but I agree, hard to tell the difference in these cases.

[marmar]

2. Isn't Wetumpka in Alabama?

[libdem4life]

3. Have no clue...just read the url...I could probably recite the story and fill in

hundreds of locations...sad to say.

[marmar]

4. Oh, I just noticed the url. The url has the wrong location.

.... and you're right about the "fill in" the blank statement.

[libdem4life]

6. Ha..good thing I admitted to not reading the article !!

[Mnemosyne]

7. Yes, it is in AL, I lived there in 1993. Found out the landlord was some big whig in the KKK,

and moved soon after he told us that our AA friends weren't welcome there.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Story correctly says Alabama, url wrongly says Mississippi....n/t