Noted. Apologies to Steophan. But he does need help!
This was my thought. If you look closely you can see the officer mouthing “you have the right to remain silent” with one syllable for every punch. Clearly the guy was verbally resisting the officer and deserved everything he got, right Steophan?
A textbook case of verbal resisting.
13,811 posts in this thread, almost all of them in response to authoritarians who believe the police can do no wrong. 
Yeah, it’s pretty incredulous to me that someone could look at any video of any cop punching anyone in the face repeatedly, and think “So? What’s the problem?”
Ridiculous.
In Tangentially Related Good News -
The Alabama Sheriff who was pocketing money from his inmates’ food budget and using it for personal expenses lost his primary yesterday!
Well, I sure hope they change that law. :eek:
Aye; I’d be happier to read about the law changing than the sheriff.
A good old-fashioned ass whooping!
‘Suspect’ was not a suspect in any crime. He was unarmed.
The big cop knees the suspect twice, then punches him 6 times in the face.
I think it is time to retire the word “cop”. If you cannot be arsed to use “police” or “officer” or some other more respectful term, at least have the decency to revert to more appropriate language. Like “thug”.
I love this:
The fact that this is a NEW policy says a lot about police attitudes.
That happened May 23, and the Chief said he just became aware of it last week. Not one of the cops said anything to anybody, and the Chief only found out because of the video.
That is a bunch of shit. Nobody would know anything if there wasn’t a video. And all those cops on the video thought it was nothing to report about. Ridiculous.
That’s not what’s happening. What’s happening is that many people are conflating much lower levels of force with repeated face punching, and then claiming anyone who calls them out on that is uncritically in favour of repeated face punching.
For example, the latest story linked is described as a straightforward beating, I’ve no real interest in that as it’s not “controversial”, it’s been dealt with, and doesn’t require any further comment. It doesn’t compare to situations where cops are trying to restrain or subdue someone, but use what is arguably too much force - those are, if they are wrong, errors in the extent of force used whereas this one is an error in using force at all.
Assuming the summary of it posted here is accurate.
$5 says no criminal charges filed against the cops.
Yes, I have to agree that it is not controversial. Some guys from the Mesa Thug Department abruptly decide to beat the shit out of a guy, and as they commence, the elevator door opens and more thugs emerge from it to join in. It looks like a crowd of six of them basically beat the guy senseless. Because, thugs.
Sorry, no loud rap music was being played, so, not thugs.
CMC fnord!
There is video. I counted the punches to the face (after her kneed the guy in the groin twice). At least 3 of the punches were totally unnecessary, as the first 3 knocked his ass out. He’s not slumping because he’s complying, he’s slumping because he in unconscious. Were it not a police officer, we would be describing it as a savage attack.
Here is the disturbing part. This was business as usual. There were 6 cops all around this guy. None of them said anything. The only reason it is a story is that there was independent video.
4 of the officers are on ‘paid leave’.
No, people are seeing videos of cops punching people in the face, and calling it out.
The latest story would be no story if there wasn’t video. You think none of the cops should have said or did anything against any of the other cops because “petty crime”. It requires comment because apparently none of those cops thought that anything wrong happened and they were only caught because of the video. That’s bullshit.
Ah, Mesa PD. The same one that gunned down an unarmed man lying on the floor. About 20 years ago they pulled a “Gauntlet” and put something like 200 bullets into a SUV with two teenagers in it.
Now, every time I’ve dealt with Mesa PD the officers I’ve seen have been totally professional, but someone on the force is doing this shit.
Milwaukee police stepped on Sterling Brown’s ankle, mocked him, bodycam footage shows
The initial police report described Brown as aggressive. Because a suspect acting aggressively makes any kind of beat down OK.