Posted on 04/14/2015 12:05:52 AM PDT by LibWhacker
“San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon ordered an immediate internal investigation Thursday into an arrest by deputies after a horse pursuit caught on camera by NewsChopper4.
Deputies appeared to use Tasers to stun a man and then beat him after the pursuit in San Bernardino County Thursday afternoon.
Aerial footage showed the man falling off the horse, and then being stunned with a Taser by a sheriff’s deputy.
The man appeared to fall to the ground with his arms outstretched. Two deputies immediately descended on him and began punching him in the head and kneeing him in the groin.”
“The group surrounding the man grew to 11 sheriff’s deputies.
In the two minutes after the man was stunned with a Taser, it appeared deputies kicked him 17 times, punched him 37 times and struck him with batons four times. Thirteen blows appeared to be to the head. The allegedly stolen horse stood idly nearby.
The man did not appear to move from his position lying on the ground for more than 45 minutes. He did not appear to receive medical attention while deputies stood around him during that time.
The man, identified as Francis Jared Pusok, 30, of Apple Valley, was hospitalized with unknown injuries, authorities said.”
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No tears being shed here either, but the fact that he is white means that the media will quickly lose interest if they haven't already. No narrative to play up in this case, so we won't see 24-7 coverage like we would if he weren't white.
The horse got his shot in,kicked a cop and sent him to the hospital.
Shocking and the horse survived!
Obviously, cops need to be issued Stinger missiles to shoot down any unauthorized film crews which may be operating overhead and thus discourage unauthorized filming of such arrests. Especially since the very act of photographing such proceedings has the effect of destroying carefully falsified evidence against the guilty and jeopardizes the state’s attempt to administer justice to criminals. Evidence must be preserved at all costs!
I’m sure that overseers of our fine cadre of jackbooted thugs, judges, will see the wisdom of this argument and rule in favor of them per usual.
You're a saintly person and I'm proud to post at you.
Yep.
Keyboard commandos. That’s why I love the ol’ interweb. He wasn’t stealing the horse, he was attempting to flee and evade capture. That apparently wasn’t going so well (duh, idiot for even thinking he could get away on a horse) so he gave up and hit the dirt. Game over. Or at least it should have been. Yeah, he’s a horse thief, hang ‘em... and the horse should have been sent to the glue factory for assaulting a police officer, right? Lucky it wasn’t the 1800s? He sure was. If it had been, there wouldn’t have been a helicopter flying overhead documenting every criminal count flailed on the surrendered perp for alleged... um, identity theft? Yeah, identity theft. I’m pretty sure Wyatt Earp and his posse never tracked and beat down a man for identity theft...
The police should all be fired and thrown in jail and hopefully each receive similar treatment by their fellow inmates out in the yard. Unfortunately, the bad guy is now the victim and will receive a very large paycheck in the near future.
And cops hospitalized for dehydration?! Seriously? Dude... A 100-yard sprint followed by a couple minutes on the speed bag in 100 degree heat after a breakfast of Bavarian Cremes from Dunkin Donuts is probably not a good idea. Freakin’ idiot cops. They deserve what they have coming to them and then some.
Falling off a horse alone can get you hurt pretty bad...doing it in front of a bunch of angry cops leads to even more damage, it seems.
Yeah, 2015 and stealing a horse temporarily is more important than out of control, big government union cops.
Deserved it? You guys don’t seem to realize that the petty criminal is not our concern, our larger worry is the law enforcement people, the city, county, and state agencies.
The bad guys come and go and we catch them as we can, but the cops are there forever and we need to get them under control, before they attain total immunity from our oversight.
When we capture them and video and learn what they are doing, and we still look for an excuse to ignore it and permit them to carry on, then we are heading for them to complete their choke hold on our budgets and everyday lives.
He'll also get enough of a settlement out of this that from taxpayer's money that with a careful financial plan, he might never have to work again. As for the deputies, they'll never work again either, at least not in law enforcement. Not their current employer nor anyone else could afford the risk of hiring them to wear a badge or a gun, let alone the cost of insuring them. Of course, like the man arrested, they will all have criminal records too by the time this is over, so maybe all that is moot.
What about rape, that's temporary. Yea, that's how it sounds.
What is important to the citizens and voters is what we learned about the sheriff’s department, not who the beating victim was.
It is clear that approve of police imposing violent beat downs on us for no reason, why? How do you think that is good for us and our future when we can actually catch them at it, and you cheer lead them instead of asking for criminal charges?
I see, you aren’t posting seriously, you are just playing games.
I see a beating like witnessed in this video as no less culpable than if the officers had reached into the man's back pocket and stolen his wallet.
We handled it tactfully, for instance if the customer had to be placed
into a headlock to be walked out the door, a few chairs in the way would
do the work for them, or a table in extreme circumstances.
But I always told the supporting customer who wanted the bouncers
to fight back, that the bouncers had my full backing to beat the hell
out of anybody they thought deserved it. That wasn't true but the illusion
was there for word to get around, and I rarely had trouble in the club.
And we also had the full backing of the customers when trouble started.
What happened in this case is similar, we sit back and say "They should've
beat the hell out of that guy", but when it does happen the demeanor changes
to excessive force and the police lose their backing of the public. The guy
did deserve the beat down, but seeing it actually happen makes those
armchair Police Captains cringe, and turns them into mushy activists.
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