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Ex-cop who ‘beat the s–t out of’ jaywalk suspect charged with assault

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https://nypost.com/2018/03/09/ex-cop-who-beat-the-s-t-out-of-jaywalk-suspect-busted-for-assault/

Christopher William Hickman, who resigned from the Asheville Police Department in January, is facing charges of felony assault by strangulation and misdemeanor assault inflicting serious injury and communicating threats in connection with the Aug. 25 incident, the Buncombe District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.

Video first published by the Asheville Citizen-Times on Feb. 28 shows Hickman, 31, beating and choking Johnnie Jermaine Rush, who was suspected of jaywalking and trespassing after crossing into a parking lot of a business that was closed at the time. Rush, 33, who can be heard on the footage saying multiple times that he can’t breathe, was also shocked twice with a stun gun while being restrained.
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DA dropped the jay walking charges in Sept but it took til Jan to open a criminal investigation
Beaten,tased & strangled - Felonies & misdemeanors

Why did it take approx 5 months to open a criminal investigation?
DA reviewed the body cam. Dropped the jaw walking charges, then what? Nothing till the video was leaked.
He needs to be investigated.
5 months to lay charges - charges were laid after the video was leaked to the press- WHY? -Vid time 3.00
Smells like a coverup.

What did the Trainee report?

Link to video and commentary
Ex-officer charged with assault in beating and Tasering of alleged jaywalker - ABC News


A white former North Carolina police officer, who was captured on body camera video in 2017 beating and using a stun gun on an African-American man stopped for jaywalking, was the subject Thursday in a criminal arrest warrant for assault and communicating threats, the Buncombe County district attorney announced.

The warrant against Christopher Hickman was issued by Chief Magistrate D.L. Cowan on charges of assault by strangulation, assault inflicting serious injury and communicating threats, according to a press release from District Attorney Todd Williams.
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We need some serious changes to the way police officers are hired and trained. There's way too much of this. There shouldn't be. If we need to pay more to get better people, then pay more.
 
JANFU said:
https://nypost.com/2018/03/09/ex-cop-who-beat-the-s-t-out-of-jaywalk-suspect-busted-for-assault/



DA dropped the jay walking charges in Sept but it took til Jan to open a criminal investigation
Beaten,tased & strangled - Felonies & misdemeanors

Why did it take approx 5 months to open a criminal investigation?
DA reviewed the body cam. Dropped the jaw walking charges, then what? Nothing till the video was leaked.
He needs to be investigated.
5 months to lay charges - charges were laid after the video was leaked to the press- WHY? -Vid time 3.00
Smells like a coverup.

What did the Trainee report?

Link to video and commentary
Ex-officer charged with assault in beating and Tasering of alleged jaywalker - ABC News
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Point of Information 1: It is hard to speak, much less yell...if you "can't breathe."

Point of Information 2: He was clearly resisting arrest throughout the incident.

Now having said that, the video also clearly shows that the officer wearing the cam threatened to beat the suspect and then at one point struck him on the head with his fist several times. There also appears to be something metallic in his fist.

That was improper abuse and the officer should be held accountable.
 
Mr Person said:
We need some serious changes to the way police officers are hired and trained. There's way too much of this. There shouldn't be. If we need to pay more to get better people, then pay more.
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And we need to get rid of sovereign immunity as well. No one, not even cops, should be above the law. If they break the law then they ought to be liable for it.
 
People still get arrested for jay walking? Who knew. Where I live it's often harder to find people who actually cross at a cross walk.

Who knew #2: It's trespassing to walk through the parking of a closed business? I do that pretty much every day.

Or maybe it was because the guy was young and black..........
 
Captain Adverse said:
Point of Information 1: It is hard to speak, much less yell...if you "can't breathe."

Point of Information 2: He was clearly resisting arrest throughout the incident.

Now having said that, the video also clearly shows that the officer wearing the cam threatened to beat the suspect and then at one point struck him on the head with his fist several times. There also appears to be something metallic in his fist.

That was improper abuse and the officer should be held accountable.
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Including the use of a taser.
Officer stating he would ff him up hardcore -V -0.30
Both Officers on top same time frame
Beating him repeatedly about the head and using a taser
Depends upon how hard one is being strangled, and one can strangle release pressure and then strangle again, repeatedly
Why 5 months after DA viewing, and video had to go public before the DA opened an investigation?
Speaks to a coverup by the DA.
Did anyone on the Police force review this video?
This investigation from what I gathered was conducted by the FBI
Resisting at the beginning- yes- after being tased 3 time(iirc) Taser result in loss of muscle control.
 
Mr Person said:
We need some serious changes to the way police officers are hired and trained. There's way too much of this. There shouldn't be. If we need to pay more to get better people, then pay more.
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Yes, but the OP's thrust here through his comments, is to lay claim to the States Attorney's Office not bringing charges, UNTIL the video was leaked!

Which is a separate, but just as critical, problem.
 
JANFU said:
https://nypost.com/2018/03/09/ex-cop-who-beat-the-s-t-out-of-jaywalk-suspect-busted-for-assault/



DA dropped the jay walking charges in Sept but it took til Jan to open a criminal investigation
Beaten,tased & strangled - Felonies & misdemeanors

Why did it take approx 5 months to open a criminal investigation?
DA reviewed the body cam. Dropped the jaw walking charges, then what? Nothing till the video was leaked.
He needs to be investigated.
5 months to lay charges - charges were laid after the video was leaked to the press- WHY? -Vid time 3.00
Smells like a coverup.

What did the Trainee report?

Link to video and commentary
Ex-officer charged with assault in beating and Tasering of alleged jaywalker - ABC News
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Maybe the cop was afraid the guy was going to run for president!
 
JANFU said:
...Resisting at the beginning- yes- after being tased 3 time(iirc) Taser result in loss of muscle control.
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NO! :naughty

Resisting beginning when the individual kept running away, then refusing to be handcuffed and struggling.

There are other errors in your list, but I am only concerned about the response to my point of information.
 
No doubt that the "internal review" process is still in place. If not for the "leak" then this is how the "blue wall of silence" works.
 
Captain Adverse said:
Point of Information 1: It is hard to speak, much less yell...if you "can't breathe."

Point of Information 2: He was clearly resisting arrest throughout the incident.

Now having said that, the video also clearly shows that the officer wearing the cam threatened to beat the suspect and then at one point struck him on the head with his fist several times. There also appears to be something metallic in his fist.

That was improper abuse and the officer should be held accountable.
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Yep, but to make those "resisting arrest" charges then the video must be made available to the defense. It is ridiculous that the police can (and do) get away with "roughing folks up a bit" and later drop the charges to cover up the "street justice".
 
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ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, but to make those "resisting arrest" charges then the video must be made available to the defense. It is ridiculous that the police can (and do) get away with roughing folks up a bit and later drop the charges to cover up the "street justice".
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No argument there.

I would demand production of all evidence pertaining to the arrest and would use it appropriately in the defense of the client.
 
Captain Adverse said:
Resisting beginning when the individual kept running away, then refusing to be handcuffed and struggling.
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We shouldn't be surprised that he's running. We can't expect people to be willing victims of police brutality.
 
Captain Adverse said:
No argument there.

I would demand production of all evidence pertaining to the arrest and would use it appropriately in the defense of the client.
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That works if the police didn't "forget to turn the camera on" or "lost the video due to a clerical error".

There was a case of a very drunk (off duty) cop that left a bar and crossed the road with no headlights on crashing into a GIs car injuring him seriously. The police impounded and cleaned up the cop's car (which witnesses had claimed was full of beer cans) and, of course, the cop was never tested for BAC.

The police "accident" report said that the cop's headlights were on. A clever lawyer for the GI examined the (then spotless) cop's car at the impound lot to discover that the filament was intact on a broken sealed beam headlamp giving him solid evidence that the headlights were not on either before (or after) the crash.
 
JANFU said:
https://nypost.com/2018/03/09/ex-cop-who-beat-the-s-t-out-of-jaywalk-suspect-busted-for-assault/



DA dropped the jay walking charges in Sept but it took til Jan to open a criminal investigation
Beaten,tased & strangled - Felonies & misdemeanors

Why did it take approx 5 months to open a criminal investigation?
DA reviewed the body cam. Dropped the jaw walking charges, then what? Nothing till the video was leaked.
He needs to be investigated.
5 months to lay charges - charges were laid after the video was leaked to the press- WHY? -Vid time 3.00
Smells like a coverup.

What did the Trainee report?

Link to video and commentary
Ex-officer charged with assault in beating and Tasering of alleged jaywalker - ABC News
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Why? It's called due process. Evidence has to be collected and reviewed, interviews of witnesses and victims have to be done, the defense has to have time to build it's case and probably the biggest delay, a court date has to be set. If this takes 5 months to go to trial, I'd say it was fast tracked.
 
exoplanet said:
We shouldn't be surprised that he's running. We can't expect people to be willing victims of police brutality.
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"Flight" is a crime. The moral of the story: don't run from the cops and don't fight them when they catch you.
 
PoS said:
And we need to get rid of sovereign immunity as well. No one, not even cops, should be above the law. If they break the law then they ought to be liable for it.
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If Ryan Bundy has his way, and is elected as governor of Nevada, we can all forget about or ignore the lessons learned in 1865.

Ryan Bundy plans to run for Nevada governor as independent

This is the man who declared himself an "idiot" in some rather bizarre filings before the failed government prosecution of the Bundy family's grazing practices.
 
apdst said:
"Flight" is a crime.
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Police brutality is a crime. Maybe if you didn't have the privilege of feeling like the police are going to act lawfully towards you, you'd have a different perspective on this case.
 
exoplanet said:
Police brutality is a crime. Maybe if you didn't have the privilege of feeling like the police are going to act lawfully towards you, you'd have a different perspective on this case.
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It pays to 'Yes sir' & 'No sir' cops if you encounter them. You never know if they had a bad night before. They can always find something to charge you with if they feel like it.
 
exoplanet said:
Police brutality is a crime. Maybe if you didn't have the privilege of feeling like the police are going to act lawfully towards you, you'd have a different perspective on this case.
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I don't have a problem dealing with cops, because I don't do anything that might cause them to kick my ass.

That isn't privilege. That's common sense.
 
apdst said:
I don't have a problem dealing with cops, because I don't do anything that might cause them to kick my ass.

That isn't privilege. That's common sense.
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Don't get caught "trespassing" on a closed business's parking area and get into a game of Simon Says with a cop.
 
Gaius46 said:
People still get arrested for jay walking? Who knew. Where I live it's often harder to find people who actually cross at a cross walk.

Who knew #2: It's trespassing to walk through the parking of a closed business? I do that pretty much every day.

Or maybe it was because the guy was young and black..........
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There it is.. within 5 posts deserves a collective eye roll.

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JacksinPA said:
It pays to 'Yes sir' & 'No sir' cops if you encounter them. You never know if they had a bad night before. They can always find something to charge you with if they feel like it.
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Unfortunately, that's enough for everyone. And even if it was, why should we put up with that?
 
apdst said:
I don't have a problem dealing with cops, because I don't do anything that might cause them to kick my ass.

That isn't privilege. That's common sense.
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Like I said, you expect them to behave lawfully towards you and respond appropriately to your behavior. Too bad that privilege isn't extended to everyone.
 
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