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Katatawnic · #6 07-02-2009, 09:08 PM

Very well put, medicineman! I was thinking the same as I watched that vid: way too much possible future harassment for my taste.

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Originally Posted by medicineman

Have you ever noticed when they have a perp face down in the dirt with a 250 lb cop with his knee on the perps neck, two more pulling his arms out of the socket trying to cuff him, they keep yelling, "Quit resisting"? That's strictly for the camera. When the camera is not around, I'm sure some rib shots are going on.

When my 22 yr. old son was 19, there was no camera as six cops held down and brutally beat him on the head because he had the "wrong" answer to the question as to the whereabouts of some guy he barely knew. And yet as six of them did this, they yelled "Quit resisting!" over and over. Kinda redundant when your ear drum is busted and bleeding, your head is severely injured, and they're still beating on you mercilessly. Perhaps they make a practice of saying this so they don't forget when the cameras are running?

OH, he was also extremely sick from asthma; had bronchitis and pneumonia and lung infection. He was literally too weak to walk, and after beating him like they did, they then arrested him and charged him with felony assault on an officer! (He eventually got a misdemeanor for "resisting arrest" instead, after about a year of everything being dragged out in court; hence he couldn't charge the cops with brutality/assault.) Then to top it off, the guy they were initially seeking (for beating and putting his pregnant girlfriend in the hospital) showed up at my mom's house the next day, she called the cops and turned him in, and they let him go right there at her house!!! WTF?!?!?

Fast forward.... last weekend, he was again arrested, for taking a machete to a guy in self defense. (Just barely grazed the guy's leg.) When the cop asked him why he didn't call the police instead of defending himself to the drunk trespassor in my son's home, he told the cop that he doesn't trust cops, and explained why. (From three years ago, DUH!) This cop is pretty cool, lives near my son; had my son known he'd be the one on duty, he'd have called because he's the only cop my son does trust. Thankfully this other guy was arrested moments later at his ex-girlfriend's house (next door to my son) for threatening her next, so my son's story was that much more believalbe to the court and he was home again on Monday with no charges against him, and a restraining order against the other guy to boot.

Point being, had my son not been beaten like he was three years ago, he would have called the cops when this guy first showed up drunk & violent and looking for trouble. Well, other point is that they still yell at people to stop resisting when there aren't cameras around as well.... maybe it makes them feel more justified in what they're doing, by saying this as if the person being brutalized really is resisting.

I stay off of cops' radar in all ways humanly possible. I have nothing to hide, but I don't need the B.S. that all too many of them like to give; especially when living in a pretty damn bad area like I currently do. I think they just assume that if you're low income you must be a "bad" person up to no good.... yeah, cause being disabled allows for a posh lifestyle, eh?!