Posted on 01/16/2015 6:08:45 AM PST by null and void
Full title: Connecticut cop who was caught on camera as he repeatedly stomped suspect is found NOT GUILTY of police brutality
A Connecticut police officer was found not guilty Wednesday of violating the civil rights of a man who video showed being stomped and kicked by three cops who’d just tasered him into submission.
Clive Higgins was the only officer to plead not guilty in the 2011 incident in which drug dealer Orlando Lopez-Soto was seen in footage being brutalized as he lay face down in the grass following a car chase with police.
A jury said Wednesday that Higgins, who’s seen in video arriving to the scene sometime after fellow cops Joseph Lawlor and Elson Morales before getting in his own licks, had not violated Lopez-Soto’s civil rights.
Higgins, an officer in Bridgeport since 2002, had faced up to 10 years behind bars had he been convicted, NBC Connecticut reports.
A video showed police officers kicking and Lopez-Soto after he was shot with a stun gun in Beardsley Park in 2011 following a car chase.
A Connecticut police officer was found not guilty Wednesday of violating the civil rights of a man...
Next time you might want to charge him with battery.
Disgusting.
Maybe he had a poisonous spider on him and the nice officer was killing the spider.
Or, alternatively, the “victim” was a scumbag drugdealer who worked hard to earn a vigorous stomping.
Thank those knuckleheads and black racists in Ferguson and other places for switching the focus from genuine instances if police brutality lIke this one to unfounded outrage as in Ferguson. But my suspicion is that a lot more if this goes on in white and black and Hispanic communities than is reported.
Unfortunately jurors are frequently people who are not as informed and politically educated as the individuals on this forum. They are charged by the judge, intimidated by the Prosecutor and flim-flamed by the cops.
They are out of contool and, unfortunately, Muslim terrorism confuses the issue as the public wants protection.
So... What was the result of the internal affairs investigation?
A jury acquitted him. There may be far more to this story than reported. Maybe.
Or maybe they were flim-flamed.
So. Where’s the video. The link only shows a still shot.
WRONG. Unlike Russia, we have a presumption of innocence here until judged by a jury. The job of the cops is to apprehend and detain suspects, not dispense justice or harass citizens.
If allow them to do that, they can and WILL do it to you.
So... What was the result of the internal affairs investigation?
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You have any faith in IA investigations?
Or maybe, as Cuban Leaf pointed out above, they picked the wrong charge to slap him with.
Civil Rights, as well as hate and similar crimes, are much harder to prove than simpler ones like battery. Unfortunately those are usually the charges various advocacy groups demand get leveled.
It highlights the flaws in the practical effect of those laws. It also illustrates their self fulfilling prophesy nature: when they don’t result in convictions it serves to reinforce that there is a problem that can only be solved with additional laws of a similar nature.
Clive is the negro officer.
He only got in one kick I saw in the video.
Not really. Just check this site, a conservative forum, for links to gross cases of police abuse. The video doesn’t lie and the cops aren’t judge, jury and executioners. The Prosecutor’s office and Courts work intimately with law enforcement on the local level.
Although I like to believe most cops are honest and decent, too many have morphed from peace officers into a unionized version of carabiniri or VOPOS. Believe, as a guy old enough to be your granddaddy, this is no longer your granddaddy’s police force.
Gaffer and I would like a link to that video.
This is the article that the website had cut and pasted on many pages and inclides the video...
Yes really.
A jury acquitted him. That is the end of it whether you like it or not.
The “war on drugs” hasn’t done a thing to reduce their availability or price. It has done significant damage to our freedoms.
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