Video Shows Carolina Cop Violently Arrest Black Man For Sitting On His Porch

[womanofthehills]

City council members in Greensboro, North Carolina voted this week to strip the law enforcement credentials of a police officer who is accused of violently arresting a man sitting on his porch after body camera footage of the arrest was made public.

The council voted unanimously Monday to permanently sanction Officer Travis Cole for using excessive force during the June arrest. The body camera footage shows Cole roughly throwing Dejuan Yourse to the floor of the porch and punching him as Yourse waited for his mom to come home and let him into the house, according to local news WREG.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dejuan-yource-arrested-on-porch_us_57eec39ee4b024a52d2ef329?section=&

[BumRushDaShow]

1. And one wonders how many thousands of these types of incidents

are going on daily yet are not captured on video or shared on the internet.

[uponit7771]

2. Que copologist giving this cop the benefit of the doubt in 3 ... 2.... 1, man even calls officer sir

... fuckin assholes

[exboyfil]

3. From another article

http://wncn.com/2016/10/01/greensboro-city-council-accused-of-breaking-the-law-by-releasing-body-cam-footage/

After Yourse was in custody, Cole and Jackson discovered two active warrants for his arrest. It was also discovered Yourse was charged with breaking and entering into his mother’s house, 2 Mistywood Court, twice in the past.


What would have been a better interaction by the police with Mr. Yourse? Based upon the fact that Mr. Yourse was charged with breaking into this house twice before. It seems you do have probable cause if someone is seen using a shovel to attempt to lever open a garage. Based upon the prior charges, the neighbors must have known that this was a problem.

Should the police have waited for the mother to come home (which was an undetermined time)?

Punching is almost always wrong for a police officer, and he should be punished for that. He also overreacted when Mr. Yourse used an expletive while calling on his phone.

[exalted circles]

5. thanks for your concern,did you miss the part were his brother video cops beating his ass

if you are going to accept stupid statements like he punched the cop first, The incident escalated as Cole grabbed the phone out of Yourse’s hands and eventually punches Yourse several times before arresting him. Yourse is heard yelling several times that he was not resisting and at one point turned to Jackson and told her “you better not lie for him,” referring to Cole.

[exboyfil]

7. I said the cop punched him

not the reverse.

[uponit7771]

4. The LEOs could've checked his credentials BEFORE they attacked him !!! The meme going around white

... supremacist sites about this is he tried to break into his mothers house twice and that's not been verified.

[exboyfil]

9. The story about those break ins were reported on two different news sources

http://wncn.com/2016/10/01/greensboro-city-council-accused-of-breaking-the-law-by-releasing-body-cam-footage/

http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/group-says-greensboro-officers-in-yourse-case-not-getting-fair/article_63b52429-42c3-5fb7-be10-15db39f2d621.html

The police union's attorney William Hill is the source of the information according to the Greensboro News and Record. If it is in fact untrue, I think Mr. Yourse is going to be a very wealthy man.

[Nevernose]

10. And kind of irrelevant

For one thing, there's still no confirmation about the break ins, according to your articles. Even if true, there's no indication that the police knew when they arrested him.

Finally, from your second source, the "Police officials finished their internal investigation Aug. 30. They ruled that Cole violated four department directives: use of force; courtesy toward the public; arrest, search and seizure; and compliance to laws and regulations."

Responding to a neighbor's complaint or even Yourse's criminal record isn't what the cops are being called on. They heard the victim use the word "harassment," got pissed, and proceeded to beat the shit out of him. Even the police department thinks their own cops were in the wrong.

[uponit7771]

12. +1, copologist will criminalize anyone...they looked up the traffic tickets of the guy in Minnesota!

[Lint Head]

6. The Huffington Post headline says South Carolina but the article says Greensboro, North Carolina.

This is the very reason things are so f'd up in this country.

[aikoaiko]

8. This Travis B Cole (former officer) will be back in the news someday for sure.

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[womanofthehills]

15. Travis B. Cole was also in the news 2014 for arresting a black man walking down the street

GREENSBORO — Charges against two brothers, who recorded their August 2014 arrest on video, have been dismissed. The men also received a written apology from the city and the police, and one officer involved in the incident was suspended.

Devin Scales recorded his brother, Rufus Scales, being taken to the ground by a Greensboro police officer and posted the video to Facebook and the Web. The video also showed a second officer grabbing for Devin Scales’ camera before the recording abruptly ended. The Scales brothers were arrested Aug. 4, 2014, for standing on a public street.

According to court documents, Officer Travis B. Cole accused Rufus Scales of appearing intoxicated in public, blocking traffic and cursing. When Cole asked Rufus Scales to stop and present his ID, he refused. The incident occurred on Memphis Street, near where the brothers live.

com/gallery/charges-dropped-against-greensboro-men-who-recorded-arrest-city-apologizes/article_5f0b3214-eeb1-11e4-9774-d716ec3c51dd.html

[womanofthehills]

16. The Scale brothers received a $50,000 settlement & Cole got promoted

Cole, who was hired in 2008, had been suspended without pay for one day in mid 2015 over an incident with brothers Devin and Rufus Scales the year prior. After significant public pressure, the city issued a formal apology to them and the Scales brothers received a $50,000 settlement.

In October 2015, the Scales brothers’ case appeared prominently in a front-page investigative New York Times piece about race and policing in Greensboro, helping to make it one of the most well-known and most frequently cited incidents of police misconduct in the city’s recent history. (The author contributed reporting to the article.)

Given Cole’s history with the Scales brothers, speakers during the public comment section of the meeting lambasted the city for acting so slowly. It is not immediately clear why Cole received a promotion in the middle of the department’s investigation, but spokesperson Susan Danielsen said officers are presumed innocent until an investigation determines otherwise.

https://triad-city-beat.com/2016/09/video-shows-police-brutality-activists-demand-broader-change/

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Why did the cop snatch his phone and punch him?!

I understand that the cops later checked the man and found warrants, and I personally was a little suspicious when the black man didn't seem to want to show him ID at first, but it doesn't look like that was known before the physical confrontation.

By the way, I had a local cop approach me on my back patio in a confrontational manner a few years ago, and I'm white.

I was working 2nd shift and I was a smoker at the time. After I was home from work, I went outside to smoke a cigarette at around midnight. I was sitting in a folding chair next to my back door. There was a cop car that started patrolling the apartment parking lot behind my residence, and I quietly puffed and watched. The car stopped and I heard the cop yell, "What are you doing?!" I didn't know he was talking to me at first, but then he stepped out of his car and approached me while yelling the same question. I was sure that my neighbors were in bed, so I quietly replied that I was smoking. I got up and walked toward him a little so there wouldn't be a need for shouting and waking up everyone. I told him again that I was smoking. My conscientious low voice didn't matter because he remained LOUD the entire time. The cop told me to put out the cigarette and I did. Then he asked me where I lived and I replied, "Uh... here." I walked back toward my back door and opened it. "See?" He asked me for ID. I told him it was in my car, so I'd need to retrieve it from my glove box. He asked why the heck my ID was in my car and I answered that I had a tendency to forget my driver's license if I didn't leave it there. I unlocked the car (parked close to the back door), slowly opened the glove box to get my driver's license (without getting shot!), exited the vehicle and and handed the ID to him. He requested a check on me through his radio. Why? No idea. He eventually returned the driver's license (I knew that I had no warrants or anything like that) and then ordered me to stay in my apartment. He said there was a car about a block away that had a window smashed, so he was looking for the culprit.

I acted pleasant the whole time and went inside like he requested, but I actually felt like punching the guy in the face for being confrontational and loud when I was peacefully minding my own business. After the cop drove away, I went outside again and resumed smoking.

[uponit7771]

13. The warrants weren't know, SOME leos will try and criminalize ANYONE when they fuck up

[struggle4progress]

14. All charges against Yourse dropped. Both officers resigned.

[joshcryer]

17. The officers should be charged with assault.

But other than that that's a good result. Yourse needs to get a nice settlement to retire on.