Posted on 02/10/2022 2:29:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The beating of an unconscious Trump supporter by a DC Metropolitan Police Department officer on January 6 was deemed to be “objectively reasonable” after an investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, The Epoch Times has learned.
The Internal Affairs investigation was opened in September 2021 based on a complaint filed by a Texas man who assembled video evidence of the officer striking an unconscious Rosanne Boyland with a steel baton and a large wooden stick at the entrance to the West Terrace tunnel at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Ga., was pinned under a pile of protesters who fled the tunnel when police deployed a crowd-control gas. After several minutes of being crushed by the weight of other fallen protesters, Boyland lost consciousness and stopped breathing, witnesses have said.
Boyland traveled to Washington D.C. that day to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally and hear then-President Donald Trump speak at the Ellipse. She became trapped in a crowd that sought entry to the Capitol through the West Terrace tunnel.
As Boyland lay unconscious on the ground DC Metro Police Officer Lila Morris repeatedly struck her with a steel baton and what appeared to be a wooden walking stick, according to a video recording.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Bingo...
If anyone looks at that video and believes the officer was intentionally hitting that person on the ground, then facts don’t really matter to you anyway.
Put it in front of a jury.
It’s a simple test:
1. Is the enforcement legal?
2. Is the means of the enforcement legal?
Well. There you have it.
Not Guilty! (Due to social injustice)
But not a jury in the DC swamp.
Looks like Internal Affairs has an internal interest in the game.
She was white so the beating is alright.
Not to me. I don’t support the defund the police moment but we could do with a few less cops in almost every area.
Far too many are nothing more the tax collectors for the state. And most would kill you dead to keep their pension.
This wasn’t Capitol Hill Police. In the two notorious killings, both times it was DC Metro Police. Probably affirmative action or political or nepotism hirees rather than merit.
Guess they thought it’s not a problem to get some whoop ass. /s
All depends on the jury.
12 white liberals.....not a chance.
12 folks that don’t like the police......who knows.
In an actually free country, I could openly say what I hope happens to the racist nazi bitch.
/redundancy
Good. That makes turnabout reasonable, too.
L
“Absolutely. It is Free Republic Dogma. The Police are on our side. The Police are never wrong. No matter what they do.”
There are the municipal police departments (i.e., our local cops), and then there are the Capitol Police. I support the former, as do many FReepers; but I don’t believe I’ve ever seen anyone on FR support the latter.
12 folks that don’t like the police......who knows...
One of the situations police enjoy the most...
Beating an unconscious person with a nightstick...
Almost as pleasurable as those many SWAT raids where they get to kill children, dogs, cripples in wheelchairs, pregnant women, and sleeping old folks...
This makes me lose all hope entirely. It’s beyond outrageous
Is this a black police officer beating an unconscious white woman and killing her?
Youtube has chosen once again to prevent people from being informed by taking down a video, this time a video of Officer Morris beating the unconscious or semi-conscious Rosanne Boyland.
If anyone sees a video that youtube is likely to censor, please save a copy and upload it somewhere else! Youtube has made saving videos more difficult than it used to be, but browser add-ons such as “Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express” fix that problem.
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