Posted on 08/09/2013 9:37:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Chilling video from a home in Dekalb County, Ga., shows local police entering a house illegally, berating the home’s residents and then tackling them to the ground.
The entire incident took place because the mother of the home, Natania Griffin, was two weeks late on paying a $1,000 fee to the county.
Griffin’s 23-year-old son, Donovan Hall, recorded the event. He was alarmed and confused when police began banging loudly on his door in the middle of the night.
“I was immediately confused as to why the police would be at my house,” Hall told the Huffington Post. “The knocks became more and more aggressive.”
On the video (see below), Hall timidly opens the door and asks the police why they are at the house. But police quickly enter the home and soon pin Donovan and his brother on the ground.
“One officer hit me in the face with his gun and I fell to the floor,” Hall said. “Another officer began kicking me and bending back my arms. They put handcuffs on me and continued to kick and punch me. At that point, an officer with his knee in my back stood up and put both feet on top of my head. He was standing on top of my head.”
The officer’s continued being violent to the boys, even putting a Taser to the head of Hall’s younger brother.
“Why are you being so aggressive, sir?” Hall asks in the video. “We haven’t done anything wrong.”
The officers never answered Hall’s question.
Later in the video, an officer can be heard saying “I wish I could cane both of y’all.”
Griffin says she was never asked for her name or read her Miranda rights.
“It was a perfect storm of abusive power and arrogance,” she said. “They are criminals. Their conduct was criminal.”
Hall posted his video to YouTube where it received almost 200,000 views. The video ended up on the front page of Reddit.
The family hopes to hire a lawyer and press charge against the DeKalb Police Department, but they lack the funds to do so. They are hoping that the video will spread awareness of the incident and someone will agree to represent them without charge.
“Although it happened to my family, it’s a microcosm of the world,” Griffin said. “What about the other countless families who feel powerless against this kind of tyranny? Who is championing their cause? This is a problem.”
Here is Hall’s video of the incident:
I scrolled thru the video and its pretty much as described. Most of it is audio as the camera was set down on the floor it appears.
I didnt hear the cops use the word warrant. They did threaten and cuss the residents repeatedly.
The poster has some clear anti-cop music at the beginning so I’m guessing they don’t donate to the policemans fund.
Sounds like the residents are black and at least some of the police are as well. It was a decent house from the little bit I could see.
Didn’t appear they were arrested. They were just threatened and beat up.
Did the police have a warrant? Then I don’t need to open the door.
The number of ACTUAL incidents versus the number reported is ALWAYS greater.
Since you posted this what is your assessment of this event?
Actually, I’m behind a firewall at work. I didn’t watch the video. So, I have nothing to offer but speculation.
Actually you already implied or suggested this was police brutality. Now you say you never watched the video?
That's a bit curious.
Your point is unclear.
Let me help you here.
You post a thread about police incident and in your first post you state it's been, "Hours since the last police brutality thread?"
You seem to clearly suggest in your own words this was police brutality.
Then when asked what is your take on this event, you said you had no opinion, as you never watched the video because your at work, behind a firewall, and unable to watch it..
This seems a bit odd.
When you get time to watch the video from the tread you posted, suggesting/implying this was just another case of police brutality, let me know what your assessment is of this event.
I'm just curious
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
no dragnet, you have an agenda you are trying to hide.
7 thug deputies and the head thug Sargeant at 1;30 in the morning for a civil matter refusing to say they had a warrant for a certain person and getting the address wrong to boot? Though they have the street thug language down pretty good. This is police state gone wild shit and needs to be stopped.
What agenda is that?
My condolences for your illness.
Another thread on this is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3052730/posts
along with the comments of a number of GA FReepers.
What?
LOL!
This is police state gone wild shit and needs to be stopped.
...but then what would happen to all those cool TV SWAT team shows on the Criminal Investigation Network...?
There’s a term some FReepers use to describe trolls like dragnet.
Copsucker.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
(Bulloney)
I asked someone if those in the home were arrested and your respond with:
What part of the 4th Amendment are you having trouble with?
And then suggest I am ill?
LOL!
It sounds like they broke the exact same civil rights laws that the Rodney King cops were sentenced for.
I suspect these guys have prison time in their future.
Youtube could end the reign of the Good ol’ Boy.
What agenda is that?
Bootlickers abound on FR, as you know. There are idiots who routinely show up on these threads to defend ANYTHING the cops do.
Including this one.
OTOH, it may just be that Youtube is showing us how bad it has always been.
What is going to have to happen before it goes any further?
It is looking like it is happening. Youtube. And I suspect it will put an end to a lot of it.
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