Was there even a reason the cops initiated the stop? From the video I’ve seen the guy was just sitting there like dozens of other homeless people.
The video began with Ramos stopping Thomas on July 5, 2011, after the officer answered a call about a disheveled man jiggling the handles of car doors in a busy transit center parking lot.
Ramos grew frustrated with Thomas, who wasn't following orders to sit on a curb with his hands on his knees.
Just before the altercation began, Ramos snapped on plastic gloves, made two fists and then held them in front of Thomas' face as he said, "Now see these fists? They're going to (expletive) you up."
They received a call that a man was moving through a parking lot jiggling all the door handles on the cars. They had to check it out.
The victim gave the cops attitude initially and then resisted throughout instead of going limp and allowing the cuffs to be placed on him.
So the JBTs responded in the only way their little piggy brains were trained to do.