Posted on 07/08/2002 3:19:57 PM PDT by EggsAckley
Edited on 07/08/2002 3:29:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Associated Press Monday, July 8, 2002; 10:21 AM LOS ANGELES ?? An amateur video shows Inglewood police officers punching a teenager and slamming his head against the hood of a patrol car, and the department said it will investigate.
The probe was announced Sunday after the tape, taken a day earlier from a nearby motel, was turned over to police and local media.
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I also saw Chris Rock's video, "How Not To Get Your @ss Kicked By The Cops".
Wow....i don't even know exactly what you are referring to but an apology on this forum is rare and deserves applause. I salute you...FWIW..well done!
Stay your course.
Yeah, and if you do you deserve whatever you get!
Christ, there are people here who will defend ANYTHING someone in a uniform does.
Concur, but where do you think the BATF gets most of their rookies? They're dirty local cops whose departments and partners are glad to be rid of them, for the most part, and who want even more federal power to have to use to push people around.
And then there are the ones who give BATF, the bottom rung of the *seven Sisters* ladder, a try and can't even make that low grade, then go back to vent their frustrations on the locals they can still pick on. Every once in a while, one gets caught and bounced [as per the Florida state K9 cop now on death row for murdering female motorists who had been turned down by both BATF and the Border Patrol] but for the most paert, the things they are good at are at walking the thin line of misconduct that will get them criminally charged, or at least being efficient at covering up such acts with the help of their *fellow officers.*
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Give me 10 seconds, though we called 'em nightsticks, if he's convicted and it's determined that he requires the death penalty. And as you say, he'll never do it again. I'm not aware of any jurisdiction that uses that means of execution, but it certainly seems appropriate, and it sounds like the old Roman policy of decimation, as used on the Roman troops that had proven cowardly or disloyal, would certainly be just what that department needs to cure its obvious personell problem.
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Multiple investigations to examine police conduct during videotaped arrest of teen
Tue Jul 9, 8:05 AM ET
By PAUL WILBORN, Associated Press Writer
INGLEWOOD, California - The mayor, police department and district attorney have pledged to investigate the arrest of a teen-ager who was videotaped being slammed onto a police car and punched in the face while he was handcuffed.
Police Officer Jeremy Morse, a three-year police veteran, was relieved of duty and placed on administrative leave following the arrest of 16-year-old Donovan Jackson, police Lt. Eve R. Irvine said Monday.
"It was wrong," Jackson said at his attorney's office. The youth, whose right eye was red and swollen and who had a mark across his neck, said nothing else.
The police and sheriff's departments began separate internal investigations. The district attorney's office was also investigating, spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.
"What occurred within the video is extremely disturbing to the Inglewood Police Department and to the administrators of the city," she said.
The videotape was taken by a tourist Saturday at a motel across the street from the gas station where the arrest took place. It shows the teen hoisted to his feet by Morse and slammed onto the trunk of a police car.
The officer put a hand on the back of the teenager's neck, slugged him with his other hand and then appeared to choke him. Two officers appeared to intervene, with at least one trying to pull away the first officer's arm.
Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Richard Myers said the teen-age passenger became "combative" and was subdued with force and taken into custody. Jackson was booked for assault on a police officer.
A request to Inglewood police to interview Morse was referred to the Inglewood Police Association. Association officials did not return calls for comment Monday.
Roosevelt F. Dorn, mayor of the city of 115,000 in southwestern Los Angeles County, called the tape disturbing and pledged a thorough investigation.
"I also want the public to know that the conduct of this one officer does not reflect the attitude and conduct of the Inglewood Police Department," Dorn said in a news release.
What happened before the camera began taping was unclear.
The Inglewood officers were assisting two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies who were investigating a car driven by Jackson's father that had an expired registration. Irvine said Jackson lunged at a sheriff's deputy, provoking the altercation.
The videotape showed a bloody gash over Morse's left ear. Irvine said the officer also had lacerations on his elbow and knee. He was treated at a hospital and released.
The family's lawyer, Joe Hopkins, said the teen is developmentally disabled and a special education student with no arrest record. "I doubt he is emotionally capable of doing what they say he did," Hopkins said.
According to Hopkins' account, the father and son pulled into the station to get gas and the son went to get potato chips. The deputies passed by and came back, then ordered him against the car, Hopkins said.
"From there it went crazy," he said.
The youth was seated in a squad car when the Inglewood officers ran up, Hopkins said. The youth stood up and a deputy grabbed him by the neck before the city officers began to beat him, the attorney said.
Hopkins said the teen wore a heavy chain around his neck and the officers dragged him by it until it broke.
Irvine said sheriff's investigators had collected images from gas station surveillance cameras but she did not know what they showed. Two cameras were visible at the station.
The three other officers at the gas station were not relieved of duty.
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the teen is developmentally disabled and a special education student with no arrest record.
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