Posted on 10/10/2005 6:59:52 PM PDT by drt1
Officers taped beating man arrested for public intoxication plead not guilty. A television producer recorded as New Orleans police officers arrested and beat Robert Davis, believing he was intoxicated in public. Davis' lawyer denies his client was drunk.
Updated: 7:50 p.m. ET Oct. 10, 2005 NEW ORLEANS - A 64-year-old man who was repeatedly punched in the head by police in an incident caught on videotape was not drunk, as police have alleged, and put up no resistance as he was being pummeled, his lawyer said Monday.
The man, a retired elementary school teacher, had returned to New Orleans only to check on property he owns in the storm-ravaged city and was out looking to buy cigarettes when he was arrested Saturday night in the French Quarter, the lawyer and the man’s father said.
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You just don't beat up a 64 year old drunk, even if that was what he was. He wasn't threatening anyone.
Was there a history of abuse or violent that they had knowledge of before they began the abuse.??
Oh Rodneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!
They did NOT beat that man....he attacked their fists over and over again.
Can't they all just get along....
Plus he tried to bleed on the officers.
Or an American exercising his 1st Amendment rights.
NOLA, from the Mayor's office to the newest LEO on the street, is as corrupt as you will ever see. Reminds me of Mexico.
I pity the people that live there, and I pity the fools that go there looking for a "good time".
The NO finest at it again? Maybe they thought the guy was after their stash from looting.
LOL and they saved him from himself by immobilizing him. These were Good Samaritans and should be congratulated. /sarc
Now the overweight donut eater who confronted the AP reporter is another story.
"Plus he tried to bleed on the officers"
He could have had AIDS. This might be attempted capitol murder of a police officer with his tainted blood. They needed to protect themselves. /sarc
I have no real opinion on this story at all.
Senator, I haven't seen you in awhile! I figgered you might have been a bus parking attendant in New Orleans and been washed out to sea.
I took the first thing smokin' out of there - I hotwired a reggae band's van.
Hey, just because there are five hundred New Orleans police that ran like rats from Katrina and left people to rot doesn't mean they'd lie about the guy being drunk. Or was it 500 cops on the police payroll who never existed in the first place? Either way, they're completely trustworthy gentlemen. cough cough
No doubt a lawsuit is coming, but how do you collect a settlement from a city that is bankrupt?
Amen
Sometimes the thin blue line is so thin that it can't hide all of those hoodlums hiding behind it.
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