The other cop indicted is white, so the race card doesn't hold up. The scuttlebutt is that the local bar and restaurant owners didn't like the homeless hanging around the downtown area and the cops were directed to roust them out of there.
What's telling is that the police have so far refused to release the 911 call about the alleged break-ins at the parking lot--break-ins, by the way, that don't show up in the police crime logs for that day. There's a good chance that there was never any such call.
His color was irrelevant.
No human being should be treated like this.
CERTAINLY not by goons who are paid by the public, protected by the public and granted benefits by the public.
I hope all of them wind up in a prison where street justice is swiftly administered. Its better than they will get in a Court of Law.
Not quite. It was Officer Manuel Ramos who calmly put his gloves on, then told the unarmed white guy, "See these fists, they going to beat your ass".