Our Goon Thugs At Work
Our Goon Thugs At Work Doing The Only Thing They Know
How To Do—Brutalizing The Public, On Our Dollar Of Course
14 San Francisco cops gang up on homeless man ‘armed’
with crutches (VIDEO)
Published time: 18 Aug, 2015 04:10Edited time: 18 Aug,
2015 05:11
© Bobbie Johnson / YouTube
It took 14 San Francisco Police Department officers to
take down and restrain a one-legged, black homeless man, armed with crutches
and apparently dangerous. The incident is the latest embarrassment for the US
police, who face constant accusations of unreasonable use of force.
The confrontation was captured on video released by journalist Chaedria LaBouvier via blog
platform Medium, and shows white police officers taking down a one-legged
homeless black man on the city’s central Market street. According to witnesses,
police were called in to the scene to take care of a suspicious man waving some “sticks” around.
The video of the incident which happened on August 4, shows the extent of humiliation and brute force exercised immediately after the man was wrestled to the ground by SFPD officers. As the disabled male struggles to move, cops pin him down.
“These are my crutches. I use these to walk,” the man tried to explain. But even after
realizing that the man had a prosthetic leg, the police continued to use
overwhelming physical restrain and man-handled him, forcing his head to the
ground.
In further efforts to subdue a man already on the
ground with four people on top of him, the officers stood on his prosthetic leg
and “twisted it around even after they had cuffed him and pinned him to
the piss-stained concrete,” LaBouvier noted.
Beaten to the ground, the suspect at one point said, “what
the f**k is you doing this to me?” as more officers arrived to form a
cordon around the incident area. “Is this respectable? When I say ‘no’,
is this what you do to me?” the man said.
Witnesses spoke out against police brutality from the
start of the video but to no avail as cops continued to abuse the one legged
man. The camera operator especially noted the “lack of respect” for
the suspect as clothes were pulled off the man during the incident. First one
can see the man’s buttocks being exposed, and minutes later his entire back.
Around 6 minutes into the footage, the suspect began
saying that he was in pain from the take-down and claimed he had been suffering
from an infectious sore on one of his legs.
At one point, fearing for his life, the man said said “they’re
going to shoot me”. A witness replied: “They ain’t gonna shoot you
man, that’s why we have these cameras out here.”
The latest incident comes a year since unarmed black
teen Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
Anger and protests engulfedthe St. Louis suburb and spread nationwide, giving
birth to the Black Lives Matter movement. They were exacerbated further by the
subsequent deaths of black suspects during encounters with US police. The
movement with its continued protests highlights racial tensions between police
and the communities they serve.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic
Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for
Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had
many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide
following. Roberts' latest books areThe Failure of
Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
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