Posted On: September 30th, 2009
By: Stopyo - Submit
This clip from BBC can be a good and bad thing. The good thing is that people are speaking out and making complaints against police violence. The bad thing is that they had reason to complain in the first place. Well, it is not an ideal world as you can see.
Posted On: September 29th, 2009
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Here’s the story: a teen seems to have fallen from a bridge. Cops arrive at the scene, and the kid got tasered 19 times by the police. Police violence? Could be. But the police captain said the teen was making threatening remarks to the police at the time. It’s a case of he-says-she-says. Go figure.
Posted On: September 29th, 2009
By: Stopyo - Submit
In this surveillance video, a cop pulls a gun on a woman’s face in a mini-mart. The cop claims that the woman is being confronted about a traffic accident, and he believes that the woman and her group had a firearm. It does smell of police violence if the first thing a cop does is pull out his firearm and shove it to her face.
Posted On: September 29th, 2009
By: Stopyo - Submit
The tape doesn’t lie. Here, you see a sheriff deputy goes all out on a suspect by giving him 13 punches, three kicks, and lots of tasers during arrest. The deputy was fired already, and the suspect has filed charges. One thing to note was that the police claims the suspect was resisting arrest, thus, the tasers.
Posted On: September 29th, 2009
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In this video, the police is captured on tape kicking a guy on the head. The guy was already lying on the ground with arms spread. After the kick, the guy also received a hit on the head from a flashlight. This could be police violence, or this could be the guy getting what he deserved from running away from the cops in the first place.
Posted On: September 29th, 2009
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This is a report on a guy who gets shot by an undercover NYPD policeman. Excessive police violence can be the case here as the guy gets shot apprehending the officer. According to reports, the policeman did not identify himself as such, and a fight occurred, leaving the guy shot dead.
Posted On: September 29th, 2009
By: Stopyo - Submit
A news video caught a police officer using taser on a guy and slamming the suspect’s head on the ground. The news crew thinks this is a possible case of police violence. The disturbing thing is that the police department has not made any comment on the scene. What’s more, the officer’s dad is the police captain in the area.
Posted On: September 29th, 2009
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In this video, you see a kid got taken down by a cop by the neck, then, being dog piled by three other officers. There are claims that this is excessive police violence, but cops claim that aggression was shown by the kid beforehand. As usual, it’s their story against yours.