Posted on 06/06/2018 3:33:35 PM PDT by Mr.Unique
Four police officers from a Phoenix suburb have been put on paid administrative leave after video showed them beating an unarmed man last month, the Mesa Police Department said.
On Tuesday, the department released a 15-minute video of the incident, which took place May 23, in an effort to be transparent after recent high-profile cases where its officers use of force was questioned.
The footage shows four men in uniform frisking a man in a gray shirt as he stands near a railing on the upper floor of an apartment complex, holding a phone to his ear. The officers appear to give direction to the man later identified as 33-year-old Robert Johnson at which point he walks toward a wall.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Man, talk about police brutality. Beating up a guy without arms !
Oh, at first I thought this was about “The Fugitive”.....
But the killer had one arm in “The Fugitive”.......
Mesa...that’s the Dept. where the puke cop murdered the pest exterminator as he was crawling down the motel corridor begging for his life isn’t it? Nice outfit you got there chief.
Article is behind a pay wall unless you shut down your ad blocker. No thank you.
At least they didn’t dis-arm him. That would be painful.
Drug test the cop for steroids.
This seems to be the entire video of the incident. It is 20 minutes long. There is no audio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbxyueUpifc
Yea, looks like the department has a problem. I've seen Mesa cops at gun shows and on the street. Some guys are quite muscular and have skins with a slick appearance, like they've just put on lotion. Rare in this climate. I'm beginning to wonder if they have some cops with 'roid rage.
At least they didn’t shoot his puppy
It’s no mistake. It’s a crime. Some people have NO business wearing a badge. This guy is one of them.
Ditto what you said!
Cops are our basic interface with the government. If that interface isn’t pure as the driven snow then we have a terrible problem.
I wish more conservatives understood this.
Fire the black bald cop, he’s racist! Beating down black men. He must really hate black people. (Or maybe some people like to punch others for any reason, yeah he went too far.)
I wonder where the ‘thin blue line’ worshipers are to explain to us why this man needed to be beaten down by a gang of armed thugs?
Comment 10 was one
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.