Seattle Police Incident with Hispanic Man. Police Brutality? You decide.

[alp227]

Run time: 02:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-aCVrG-M_0   Posted on YouTube: May 08, 2010 By YouTube Member: tvnews0419 Views on YouTube: 425   Posted on DU: May 08, 2010 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 1544

 
See also official KOMO-TV story about officer's apology: "
Officer: 'I am truly, truly sorry' for ethnic slurs>"

It turned out that the victim was actually innocent. This is simply unacceptable, and I'm glad that the cop apologized.

Is there a city called Seattle in Arizona? No, this is the Seattle that's home to the Space Needle, Microsoft, and non-stop rainy days. But you never know if something like this could easily happen in Arizona because of SB1070.

(h/t: Jonathan Turley)

[midnight]

1. If this is how we allow police to treat the innocent, how do they get to treat

the guilty?

[peacetalksforall]

2. What about the woman cop who stomped on him? Free ride? Hope not.

Even in brutality woman seem to accept a secondary role to men in horrendous acts? Or is it just rank that lets the male kick the head whiel the female stomps the arm?

I can't get the image of the woman or women nurses standing and watching the brutality against a boy in a juvenile prison? in northern Florida?

I am so angry with my country - where do these cops get off taking the law into their hands. How many videos is it going to take to get their superiors to do something - to get rid of their own racism and not permit it?

I want more for this country - I want it to be what it claims to be.

In the meantime we are watching crime, race, gender, wealth, celebrity hypocrisy every day - from political leaders and reverends who talk against homosexuality while they participate in it to cops who are supposed to come up with solutions, not brutality. To Wall Street who is all for someone being kicked out of their house because of the rotten loan that was designed for them and approved by a Bank president and then their bundling of it using their manipulative minds of deception to bring the country down to their knees.

We are a colossal land of hypocrisy,

For those who think of us as a Republic - welcome to the criminal Republic.

This stuff really hurts. Every week we have something like this. Stomp on his arm? That is pure hate in the heart. Kick him in the head? Pure hate in the heart.

So sad. So pathetic. The tourist should stay away until we get our problems straightened out.

[cliffordu]

3. Those chickenshits should NEVER be allowed a badge and gun, again.

And they should be MADE to serve any time in the general population in prison....

Fuck 'em.

[SkyDaddy7]

9. Just think about how many times this happens...

and is not caught on video?!?!? My guess is this incident would have been much worse had the police not noticed they were being filmed! You can see when they notice they are being filmed and then they chill out.

This incident will be like all the others across the nation...It will be described as an isolated incident, the cops will get a slap on the wrist and everything will go back to normal!

[dotymed]

11. Exactly Skydaddy

the only reason this is "an isolated incident" is because there are not videographers all over the nation catching the atrocities on film. The police are para-military institutions, nationwide. They are trained and encouraged to treat people like shit for their own "protection." I am old enough to remember when "to protect and serve" meant just that. Of course, there were always some assholes who wanted revenge for the bullies they encountered in H.S. Now, they seek out sociopaths and train them to be brutal. The elites count on them to be there when this house of cards crashes.

[Truth2Tell]

12. I was sitting here expecting to hear from Paulsby

in this thread any second. But alas, I see he is no longer with us. I wonder which one he is in the video?

[d_b]

4. and he's a shitty actor, too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrHbNN27ccU

[mrJJ]

5. Fox affiliate refuses to air video of cops brutalizing innocent Latino, even though

Fox affiliate refuses to air video of cops brutalizing innocent Latino, even though ...

the video was shot by one of their own employees. The money quote was "We'll beat the f*****ng Mexican out of you, Homey!"
When the photographer who shot the video took it to his employers, Seattle Fox affiiliate KCPQ (Q-13), he was told, "We're definitely not going to run that." Eventually, the piece was aired by a competitor. More "fairness and balance" from the most trusted name in news.

http://www.kirotv.com/video/23482801/index.html

The man was released when the officers realized he was not involved in the reported crime.

http://www.kirotv.com/investigations/23490010/detail.html

PS... A few days after he shot the video, he was fired, Morris said.

"I've shot a lot of news. This, by far, is the most important news story I've ever shot," said Morris.

[lunasun]

6. Well isn't all of the above how America should be? n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

7. guess Fox thought he should have burned the tape

he's smart enough to know that Fox is a losing proposition and firing him was the best thing that could happen to him

[Wizard777]

8. Failure to properly secure a detainee leading to brutality.

[Citizen Worker]

10. To serve and protect

Sadly the SPD has a long and sordid history of beating and killing racial minorities with impunity. A few years ago one of the local daily newspapers published a story about the number and location of homicide by cop over the last 20 years. All of the victims as I recall were Black and their murders took place in what is called the Central District. There were a 2-3 exceptions to the neighborhood but overwhelmingly the crimes were in the CD. Not a single cop was ever charged or prosecuted for these homicides. The excuse du jour is always "officer safety" and it has worked well for the SPD.

A few years ago the SPD was on a recruiting drive for new officers. It was announced in the local paper that there weren't enough qualified officer candidates in the Seattle area so recruiters were sent to military bases in North Carolina. I remember thinking at the time that recruits from the military may be combat veterans from the first war for oil and may suffer from untreated PTSD. I'm wondering the same now.