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.
Maybe he had a poisonous spider on him and the nice officer was killing the spider.
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?
So. Where’s the video. The link only shows a still shot.
Clive is the negro officer.
He only got in one kick I saw in the video.
I thought the rule of thumb was three blows. That after a suspect stopped resisting any officer that struck them more than three times was guilty of assault themselves. I guess the idea behind the three is to give the officers a chance to notice the perp has stopped resisting. I honestly don’t remember where I heard/read that though.
Consider that incident in light of the possibility of gun confiscation in Connecticut, and connect the dots between cops being allowed to stomp on someone at will, and disarming the public.
What part of “found NOT GUILTY of police brutality” do you not understand. Were you on the jury?
jury nullification?
it was fine for OJ....
Do you realize this headline is false?
The two officers that “repeatedly stomped suspect “ were not on trial.
I don’t know anything about this blogger, but I am curious about why he chose a still from the vid that makes the stomper look white.
The link to the “Dail Mail” story that someone postedhere shows a photo of Higgins that clearly shows he is black.
(This is not a funny situation, but I have to admit that I giggled when I read under said photo the caption, which ended with “...he violated a man’s civil rights by helping to beat him with two other officers as he lay tasered and face down on the ground in 2011”. He looks like a powerful guy, but I wonder how he beat the guy by using 2 officers.
From my experience of sitting on a San Francisco Grand Jury that handled among others police brutality cases the DA’s office routinely assigned the most green, inexperienced and incompetent ADA’s to police brutality cases. In the case I sat on there were 2 ADA’s present. The clutzy inexperienced one did the presentation while the second one sat in the back of the room taking notes.
When it came to give final summation ADA #1 made his summation then ADA #2 made a summation that essentially was 180 degrees counter to the first ADA summation. We were surprised and confused so no indictment was delivered. All it took was for a majority of jurors to say no.
The DA’s office also stretched the case out for months making it hard to keep facts straight in your mind. That's how it can be done to have the most egregious cases of brutality go away.
“I give my left nut to bang down your door and come for your gun”, *that* Connecticut cop.,
Not surprising.