Posted on 04/15/2010 12:13:00 PM PDT by bs9021
(Video) Police Attack U Md Student
Bethany Stotts, April 15, 2010
At the University of Maryland an alleged case of student-on-police violence turned out to be quite the opposite, reported the Washington Post on April 13. Recently-released video footage instead shows three police officers in riot gear attacking an unarmed student.
“Charging documents say [John J.] McKenna and [co-defendant Benjamin C.] Donat provoked the beating by attacking officers on horseback,” Ruben Castaneda writes for the Washington Post. “The video clearly shows the officers rushing McKenna and beating him, although the teenager had not touched any of the mounted units.”
“The charging documents also say that the horses injured McKenna and Donat and make no mention of the beating by the officers. The video shows no aggression by the horses,” Castaneda writes. The filmed incident took place on March 3, following the University of Maryland’s narrow basketball victory over Duke University....
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I saw the video last night, it was brutal. Doesn’t even look like the guy did anything. He was standing there when they just knocked him down and started pummeling him.
In 99.9% of these incidents the police get a get a citation for heroism. What a fluke!
I watched the whole video. Did not see anything that would indicate that the police did anything outside of their authority.
At the end of the video, the riots police are actually doing the infamous Roman sword-shield taps...
Good example of Obamas civilian police force. Just a dry run for them to break up a company whose masses didnt vote for him, or a church that doesnt harbor the feeling he wants to see, or a party of people who do not see things the way his view of AmeriKKKa is
A month and a half ago and the cops have yet to be identified?? Is that right?
If there was no video the student would still be facing charges. These Facists need to be prosecuted and the PD needs to be sued into oblivion for hiring these thugs in the first place. There are a lot of good LEOs and a few bullys giving the rest a bad name.
There's two types of cops in this world --those who have been caught in their lies and those who have yet to be caught lying.
Pretty inconclusive because we can’t see what, if anything, he did to the mounted cop.
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