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Four Arizona police officers put on leave after video shows man's beating

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...icers-put-leave-after-video-shows-man-n880456

Newly released footage from Arizona appears to show another example of police using undue force on an unarmed citizen.

Video captures police beating unarmed man in Mesa, Arizona

The surveillance video opens with a Mesa police officer exiting an elevator onto an apartment complex's fourth-floor deck. A man — later identified as Robert Johnson, 33 — comes into view. He leans forward on a railing and checks his phone.
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Just another example of some poor guy being in the wrong place when the cops showed up looking for reported trouble.
 
JacksinPA said:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...icers-put-leave-after-video-shows-man-n880456

Newly released footage from Arizona appears to show another example of police using undue force on an unarmed citizen.

Video captures police beating unarmed man in Mesa, Arizona

The surveillance video opens with a Mesa police officer exiting an elevator onto an apartment complex's fourth-floor deck. A man — later identified as Robert Johnson, 33 — comes into view. He leans forward on a railing and checks his phone.
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Just another example of some poor guy being in the wrong place when the cops showed up looking for reported trouble.
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In before the Freedum crowd comes in and tells everyone they better do as their told. They love when innocent people are beaten unconscious for not immediately doing as they were told. That and forced patriotism. FREEDUM!!!
 
Hopefully the thugs get charged with assault and end up in jail for a couple of years
 
The video certainly makes the officers look guilty...but it's fairly heavily edited. Which I don't trust. Show me the full unedited video.
 
The Mesa Police Association, which represents the officers, said in a statement that the video does not provide the full context of the encounter because there is no audio.

"It is important to understand that any use of force, when viewed, is difficult to watch and never looks 'good,'" the union added.

As a result of the incident, the Mesa Police Department has changed its use-of-force policy so that officers can only hit people in the head or face if they become physically violent, officials said. Previously, the policy could be interpreted that it was acceptable for an officer punch someone even before they turned violent.
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Hopefully the thugs get charged with assault and end up in jail for a couple of years
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Not funny but I've been binge watching Breaking Bad on my new Samsung tablet. Last night was the episode where DEA Agent Hank is all over Walter's RV when he gets a call on his cell that his wife has been airlifted to a hospital miles away. He goes there only to find he's been punked. So he goes to Jesse's house & beats him into a near coma. Comes the internal review board & he gets suspended without pay & has to give up his gun & badge. He's later nearly killed by 2 Cartel thugs but manages to get the one he's just killed's gun & shoots the other. Hope the Mesa cops are clean for these cops.
 
Those officers need to be fired and never work in law enforcement again.

What, by the way, was going on there? Why where there so many officers around?
 
HowardBThiname said:
Those officers need to be fired and never work in law enforcement again.

What, by the way, was going on there? Why where there so many officers around?
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I read that this was in response to a domestic dispute. That PD apparently responds in force when violence an/or weapons are involved. The poor slob in the video was just standing there when the cops came in. He did not immediately comply with an order to sit on the floor & the video shows part of the result. He needs to get a lawyer. Better call Saul.

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From the evidence provided in this video, it looks like pure thuggery.

Some poor schmoe unrelated to anything, in the wrong place and time. Thing is, it was not the wrong place and time, until the cops made it so. To serve & protect ... right ...
 
Common Sense 1 said:
The Mesa Police Association, which represents the officers, said in a statement that the video does not provide the full context of the encounter because there is no audio.

"It is important to understand that any use of force, when viewed, is difficult to watch and never looks 'good,'" the union added.

As a result of the incident, the Mesa Police Department has changed its use-of-force policy so that officers can only hit people in the head or face if they become physically violent, officials said. Previously, the policy could be interpreted that it was acceptable for an officer punch someone even before they turned violent.
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I'd sure like to know what the guy could have said, to justify beating him to a pulp like that.

I call bull****.
 
Chomsky said:
I'd sure like to know what the guy could have said, to justify beating him to a pulp like that.

I call bull****.
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He did not get beat to a pulp... His buddy did as the police ask him to do. No harm, no foul.
He decided to disregard the police. All he had to do was comply and there would have been no hands on him. They put out a few seconds of tape with no audio and decide from that that everyone should fired or jailed.
 
Common Sense 1 said:
He did not get beat to a pulp... His buddy did as the police ask him to do. No harm, no foul.
He decided to disregard the police. All he had to do was comply and there would have been no hands on him. They put out a few seconds of tape with no audio and decide from that that everyone should fired or jailed.
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He was not involved in anything that would make any police detention legal. So they made no lawful order in their requests to him.

The police are not the caller of " Simom Says" where to win you have to do whatever they say. People are not show dogs for the police to order around and get punished when they don't.
 
Common Sense 1 said:
He did not get beat to a pulp... His buddy did as the police ask him to do. No harm, no foul.
He decided to disregard the police. All he had to do was comply and there would have been no hands on him. They put out a few seconds of tape with no audio and decide from that that everyone should fired or jailed.
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What I saw was a severe beating. Classify it as want, but the video doesn't lie.
 
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