FBI Investigates Taped Beating By Tennessee Police (Darrin Ring)

[1monster]

The FBI has launched a criminal probe into a January incident where Tennessee police stripped a man naked, then kicked and beat him while he lay handcuffed in the snow.

The incident, recorded by a patrol car's dashboard camera, also reveals police repeatedly shocking the man, Darrin T. Ring, of New Johnsonville, Tenn., with a Taser and spraying him with pepper spray.

For nearly ten minutes, the video shows Ring writhing and screaming in pain as a gaggle of officers shout contradictory demands at him.

"If he even flinches, shoot his ass," one officer declares on the tape.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/25/darrin-ring-beating_n_908986.html?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk3%7C220106#s316288&title=Rodney_King_Beating

video (which I didn't watch--the article was graphic enough for me) and more at the link

[Dawson Leery]

1. Deference to authority is contrary to the ideals of a free society.

Of course, these thugs think they are above us all, until the Koch Brothers dump them for Blackwater/XE, which is already occurring.

[1monster]

4. When I was in my early teens, I remember remarking, on some news story, that

I didn't understand violence or the need to hold power over others. My father, who had some violent tendencies and power issues himself, told me that I didn't belong in world if I really meant that.

It's some forty or so years later and I still don't understand.

I understand even less the need of those who are supposed to protect us from the sociopathic and criminal elements in our society acting as bad or worse than those sociopathic and criminal elements.

Everyone involved in the law enforcement and court systems should have to be seriously psychologically screened (with periodic rescreenings) and be required to take continuing ethics classes and to take ongoing courses on defusing situations rather than aggravating them.

Those LEOs in the above article stopped being LEO and became a violent mob that preyed on a weaker member of society.

[L0oniX]

11. "defusing situations"is what security guards do ...it's proactive. Cops are reactive.

[WhiteTara]

2. I hope they spend a long time in prison.

They are more animal than human and should not be on the street.

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[peace13]

5. I think the problem started when the cop said...

'Don't put your hands in your pockets." to a very drunk person. I have seen some really drunk folks and it could have sounded like an order to put your hands in your pockets. 'Don't...put your hands in your pockets' Or hands in your pockets was all that he could understand. What ever happened to cops directing one to put your hands behind your head. A positive direction could have avoided a lot of confusion. Definitely not as much fun as beating, tasing and getting all hot over a prisoner though. I have lived long enough to know that repeating a direction over and over that is being ignored is a signal to change the directions being given.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Good, kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, 1monster.

[1monster]

7. I was surprised that it hadn't been posted before.

You're welcome.

[lumpy]

8. Glad the FBI is investigating. Probably nothing would come of

this if left to local authorities.

[lpbk2713]

9. Let's hear it for luddite LEO's.

"Say, what's this thingamabob doin' on my dashboard?"

Either they were sure they were above the law or they had no idea what the dashcams were for.

[Fly by night]

10. Tennessee is a Third World country -- a reich-wing, totalitarian one.

PLEASE do not spend any of your money coming to this state. There is nothing here worth risking your life (and your sanity) to see.

[tblue37]

12. In Ricky Gervais's movie "The Invention of Lying," which is set in a world

where everyone always tells the truth because they cannot even imagine saying something that is contrary to fact, a cop who drags a man from a car and starts to beat him acknowledges that he gets sexually excited from roughing people up like that.

I think that a lot of times the cops do get a thrill--and often it is a sexual thrill--out of beating people when they are helpless.

[TxVietVet]

13. Being the victim of police violence, I hope those cops spend a very, very long time in prison.

Making Bubba happy. Pricks with a gun and badge.