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Rainbow City PD releases video to refute claims of officer brutality
al.com ^ | 7/14/17 | Jonece Starr Dunigan

Posted on 07/14/2017 10:03:55 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl

Rainbow City PD releases video to refute claims of officer brutality

In an effort to silence claims of police brutality made in a viral Facebook post, Rainbow City police have released body camera video of a traffic stop that occurred Thursday night.

The post, which has been shared 28,600 times as of early Friday evening, claims officers beat, use a stun gun and pushed a man off a bridge around 10 p.m. The post says the man was taken to a Gadsden hospital and airlifted to UAB Hospital, but next of kin was not notified. Photos of the man in a hospital bed with a bloody mouth were also posted.

"Rainbow city beat him half to death and pushed him off a bridge," the post said. "The people who are supposed to serve and protect. He's trying to talk but his whole front row of teeth are knocked out, he had to have his tongue sewed back together and his femur bone is broken he has to have surgery on it."

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Chief Jonathon Horton said he found out about the Facebook post Friday morning.

He released a 30-minute video of the incident Friday night, which shows the man jumping off the bridge during the traffic stop.

(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; busted; police
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Even if your motive was to be nitpicky

Yes, I am a nitpick.

Which doesn't change the fact that a lot of people throw around quotes that they are convinced come from the Bible, but are in reality from, e.g., "Petticoat Junction."

Regards,

21 posted on 07/15/2017 1:59:58 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

All of them will buy her story. She sees dollar signs in front of her face. She forgot there would be video.


22 posted on 07/15/2017 4:57:56 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Pro-humanity” is a two way street. Civility and the social contract only apply if all those involved honor it. Juries enforce it using the assumption that those who break it first are the more guilty, and they look more favorably on those who, once it is broken, try to restore it.

The biggest offender of all is not a person, but alcohol and drugs, because they strip people of their civility and let their uncivilized personality come to the fore.


23 posted on 07/15/2017 5:40:25 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Hitler’s Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is “My Jihad”)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I understand how the police feel the need to show the entire unedited video, but is anyone willing to view the whole thing and post the time stamps of the highlights?


24 posted on 07/15/2017 5:42:13 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Hitler’s Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is “My Jihad”)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

save for later


25 posted on 07/15/2017 6:00:53 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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To: jimmyray
FYI "The 69th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army. It is from New York City, part of the New York Army National Guard. It is known as the "Fighting Sixty-Ninth",[1] a name said to have been given by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War. An Irish heritage unit, as the citation from poet Joyce Kilmer illustrates, this unit is also nicknamed the "Fighting Irish", immortalized in Joyce Kilmer's poem When the 69th Comes Home.[2][3] Between 1917 and 1992 it was also designated as the 165th Infantry Regiment. It is headquartered at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan.

The regiment currently consists of a single light infantry battalion (1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment) and is part of the 27th Infantry Brigade of the 42nd Infantry Division. Its history dates back to 1849, when it was created as the 9th Regiment New York State Militia, and A Company, 1/69 can trace roots back to the American Revolution. The regiment has seen combat in five wars: the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War. It has also participated in 23 campaigns, so many that the staffs of its regimental colors are authorized to be one foot longer than normal to accommodate them all.[4]:12

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26 posted on 07/15/2017 6:25:21 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The video will make no difference at all to the BLM types. Police Brutality and Police Existence are the same thing to BLM.


28 posted on 07/15/2017 7:50:00 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Blue Jays

I was born in Gadsden, AL. Rainbow city was next door. I remember it as a kid in the 60’s. Its name predates the homo movement.


29 posted on 07/15/2017 8:04:25 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Blue Jays

But that’s where they store all the pots of Leprechaun gold.


30 posted on 07/15/2017 8:41:31 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( The "Russia collusion" clowns make the worst birthers look perfectly reasonable. ))))
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Busted in more ways than one.


31 posted on 07/15/2017 8:57:53 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

undoubtedly. but no reason to provide fodder for others to dismiss oneself as boorish. presentism is easily avoided once one is aware of it.


32 posted on 07/15/2017 11:38:43 AM PDT by jimmyray (there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

The original Facebook post had been removed, but I archived it last night.

https://archive.is/nXYpE

Archive.is is a great tool for archiving things that tend to go away quickly. And it’s free. Just put the bookmarklet tool on your browser and when you’re browsing, just click the button and Archive.is will work in the background saving that page.


33 posted on 07/15/2017 12:37:46 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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