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:
Well, after being called a copsucker, a troll, sick, a bootlicker, supporting the cops every chance I get, ignoring the 4th Amendment and having a secret hidden agenda, etc., etc.....lol..
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Here is my assessment, based on the video and article...
A armed massive show of force at 1:30 a.m. because of slightly overdue $1000 civil fine/fee not paid to government?
This is totally uncalled for and beyond outrageous. If accurate this is clearly Nazi style behavior which is becoming common place in America. Have these agents of the government never heard of wage garnishment or tax liens for civil issues?
If they had a warrant, why did they not say so? If they had a warrant, why just knock down the door? Why would it take them 30 minutes of knocking on the door if they had a warrant? This reeks really really bad.
The occupants asked repeatedly why they were there, and I never heard a response.
In addition, to show how stupid the cops were, they were not even capable of disabling the cell phone video/audio, after they finally gained entry. Since the video/audio continued to run, this enabled everyone to hear these LEO's threatening these people and acting like GD gestapo/Nazis.
To summarize my opinion, these cops were totally out of control and unprofessional. In fact, if they had a warrant, whoever in local govenrment authorized the warrant and gave the nod to raid this home at 130 a.m., over a 1000 dollar unpaid civil fine, should be immediately fired and possibly prosecuted criminally.
All the LEO's in this incident should also be terminated from employment due to very unprofessional conduct not to mention being totally inept.
Considering the lack of professionalism and this govenrment response over an unpaid civil fine, the occupants of this home are lucky they didn't get shot to death and have their home burned to the ground, WWII Nazi style.
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I hope this helps..
Well said. Thank you.
So your hidden agenda is that you were trying to be divisive and get people angry.
Sounds trollish.
Incorrect. I was just asking questions that were clearly evaded and went unanswered.
Cheers.
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