Controversial Police Incident in the Mission Caught on Video

[KamaAina]

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/04/controversial-police-incident-in-the-mission-caught-on-video

Given the national Black Lives Matter movement and recent text-messaging scandal involving the San Francisco Police Department, strained police-community relations have been at the forefront of public dialogue recently....

An April 1 incident at the San Francisco intersection of 16th and Capp streets illustrated how deeply that trust has been eroded. Bystanders reacted to police use of force by voicing fears that police would severely injure the person who was being detained.

Shortly after 6 p.m., a small crowd had gathered to observe a group of officers clustered around an African American man who had been detained and was lying face down on the sidewalk. Smartphones were out as observers filmed, bystanders yelled out in frustration, and all eyes were on the police.

The man’s body appeared limp when officers lifted him up off the sidewalk to transport him to a police vehicle, but an officer on the scene dismissed bystanders’ accusations that he’d been beaten unconscious, saying, “He was never unconscious. He just didn’t want to walk.”

[mackerel]

1. I always tell people to stay away from Capp Street. That aside

I love how so many cops think their doctors.