The father called that Denver officer and learned his son had been arrested for resisting arrest and had been sent to Denver Health Medical Center. The charge was later dropped.
"Your son got a little road rash on his nose," he recalls the officer telling him.
Here's the road rash:
I’m missing something here. The kid was admittedly drunk. Why the aggression by the cops?
I have a question about bad cop behavior in general. Is it mostly urban law enforcement that perpetrates such atrocities on the public or do rural sheriff deputies act equally poorly?
I need to advise that I make a distinction between rural area sheriff depts and urban or metro area sheriff depts. Having grown up in a rural area that is now overrun with urban cockroaches, I make a very big distinction between the two.
Michael's father, Anthony DeHerrera, said he could hear the altercation for seven minutes through the phone's open line.
"The last thing I heard is, 'We have to get rid of the phone, they're recording us.' And then the phone went dead," he said.
Isn’t it interesting how a change in perspective can expand awareness? My, my.
The family hired lawyers, and received a $17,500 settlement.
wow, just peachy. Now what is this about NOT video taping cops. The ONLY protection you have against rogue cops is the public eye on them. They shouldn't be ashamed of anything they do on duty unless it's beating the cr#p out of a weakling or girl, planting dope, faking disability in order to up their pensions, getting blow jobs from hookers for protection payment or just ripping off drug dealers.
In fact video taping cops helps the good cops.
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I would have to see the whole video, before I could even have a chance at a ball park observation here.
This may have been a decent kid. It appears he didn’t have a criminal record. Did he act out here? Did the officers feel the need to send a message.
If the officers did think a message needed to be sent, this wasn’t the way to go about it.
My first inclination is to support the officers. Sadly, that is a position that can’t always be sustained. In this instance, it appears there is a real problem here.
Public employees SHOULD NOT be able to form unions.
Here is a conflict of interest. The good of the public is not served by defending officers who have beaten a suspect.
This kid should have been taken into custody without incident. I’d have to see the video to fully understand why he wasn’t.
Either there is something I’m not seeing here, or the officer seriously screwed up. If they did, they abused this young man under color of authority.
We see this sort of thing over and over. It appears there needs to be a re-education of officers. If there is a problem, we’ll back you when you try to get things back under control. If you abuse your authority, we’ll help put you behind bars for a long time.
Officers, I want to support you. Please make it possible for me to do so. Beating kids around the head for no reason (if that’s what took place here), is no way to gain my or the public’s at large support.
There is no way you can have a positive relationship with someone who is sanctioned to lie to you but will arrest you for the same.
They beat him because he was Hispanic—plain and simple.
Boom towns have less cops. Safe towns have less cops. Here’s my findings. Stick with them.
(1) Cops cause crime.
(2) More Cops means more crime.
(3) Less cops means less crime.
(4) Cops do not lower crime.
I put the seemingly least defensible finding on top. But it’s true too. Since I have confidence in the underlying truth of my findings I will not provide further evidence or argument for them. Truth has a way of arguing for itself very well once it is remarked upon.
And the most sickening thing of all was the in house police ‘investigation’ who determined that excessive force was not used in this instance.
Bad cops are no friends to good police work, good police forces or good communities. If all cops understood that there would be no “blue line” of defense shielding them, just because they were “one of their own”. Instead, the good cops would make sure their own units DISOWN them.
These cops need to be fired and prosecuted.
This is a reality check. Cops are not your friends and way too many of them are dishonest and corrupt.