Gee, every cop is trained to recognize a colostomy bag, yep they should have known. A bulge in the pants could be a colostomy bag, a gun or an erection. They should wait and see and risk their live while waiting.
“Gee, every cop is trained to recognize a colostomy bag, yep they should have known. A bulge in the pants could be a colostomy bag, a gun or an erection. They should wait and see and risk their live while waiting.”
They should have just left him the hell alone.
the coppers intervened for no apparent reason, certainly no legit reasons.....
Even when they ripped from his body they thought it was suspicious...They probably thought it was a terrorist bomb or some wierd drugs...They put it on the hood and started poking it with their night sticks...
Ahhhhhhhhhh
I'm getting that monkey movie feeling again....
It's a mad house!
When Powell's mother asked the cop if he could tell her son had Down's Syndrome, the cop said he wasn't a doctor.
Hey doc they couldn't even tell this guy had Down's Syndrome.
So I'm confident these officers will now be up for promotion to detective!
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
What part of the above is so difficult to understand?
Was he doing anything...anything at all, wrong?
I know quite a few downs syndrome people...and quite a few people who are disabled with colostomy bags. Those people do not go out looking for trouble. People in those conditions are almost universally very reserved.
This is another travesty.
They allowed their, what I am willing to bet were unwarranted suspicions of him to cause them to intrude on his walk home, and when he was not fast enough responding to them (and Down’s Syndrome can easily make that happen), so they beat him to the ground and ripped his colostomy bag off of him.
It’s indefensible unless they can show in any way that he was participating in any criminal/illegal behavior, or that he was a threat to anyone. But it is a pretty sure thing that he wasn’t.
They should have just left him the hell alone.
In your estimation the cop should probably have shot the kid on sight, I’m sure. The cop would be less likely to get in actual trouble had he, in fact, just shot the kid in the back and then said to the next person on the scene, “I felt threatened,” then go off on his paid extra vacation reward.
More importantly what was the 4th amendment and 1st amendment issue?
Those just go out the door at the whim of an officer?
What right does he have to detain anyone on the street, forcibly search them and beat them?
Was there some exigency for his exerting authority under the color of law?
Without reasonable cause or an exigency he had no right to so much as detain him...
Unless he was disabled and clearly inferior to the officer who normally patrols his “territory” with vigor...
Yes cops should just beat down everyone who has stuff in the pockets. Lets start with YOUR FAMILY!
Shameful post.
Yes by all means cops should have the right to beat the crap out of anyone with a pouch attached to their Stoma. The Cop needs to be horse whipped and banned from any future LEO positions. A Downs Syndrome CITIZEN usually has the functional capacity of a child. IOW it's obvious even if the Colostomy bag wasn't. BTW I know some Instant A-Hole Cops just add badge once it goes on the transition is complete. My deceased FIL was one of the worst in Eastern Tennessee history for brutality.
On a person with Trisomy 21 YES! Plus the fact they should have realized very quickly after talking to him that he had the disorder. Any normal, rational person would come to the conclusion that this is not your average run of the mill drug runner and this person is mentally off and just send him on his way.
Do you think "a bulge in the pants" constitutes probable cause that a crime had been committed? What crime?