 |
Drugs suspects ... The two latino’s tackled by Denver police in August.
|
THE Denver cops punched a man in the face and bounced his head off the pavement. They tripped his pregnant wife — and then saw they were being filmed. What happened next has the “land of the free” in uproar.
Late in August, Levi Frasier saw a violent scene unfolding on the street before him. So he decided to use his tablet to record it.
As plain-clothed men repeatedly punch a Latino man in the face, they can be heard shouting: “Spit the drugs out! Spit the drugs out!”
In the background, a woman is screaming “stop” in Spanish. Two uniformed officers rush up and help restrain the man — and knock the feet out from beneath the visibly pregnant 25-year-old. She lands on her stomach and face.
Some 55 seconds later, someone shouted “camera”.
A police officer stormed up to the witness, who was white, snatching his device from his hands and threatens him with arrest.
The officers’ victims lay writhing on the ground behind them.
Strong arm of the law
“When he took it, I said, ‘Hey! You can’t do that. You need a warrant for that!’ and he said, ‘What program did you take the video with? Where is that?’” Frasier later told Fox 31 News.
The police officer proceeded to search through his files.
Frasier says he filled out a witness statement — which didn’t mention the excessive violence or his tablet — “under duress”.
“The first officer that comes up to ask me about my witness statement brings me to the police car and says we could do this the easy way or we could do this the hard way,” Fraser said. “It was taken as ‘You can either cooperate and give us what we want or we’re going to incarcerate you.’
“It was survival mode. It was like, ‘Okay, I’m going to make it out of here. Not going to go to jail today for something I didn’t have anything to do with,’” Frasier said.
When police eventually returned his tablet, the video evidence was gone.
“I couldn’t believe it. My heart dropped,” Frasier said. “I know I just shot that video, like it’s not on there now?”
Police body cameras are the answer.
ReplyDeleteThen they will conveniently not work...or the cop will "forget" to turn it on...People taking back the country, now that is the answer.
ReplyDeleteNot cool at all. Author “The Art of Debt Guerrilla Warfare, how to beat debt collectors
ReplyDeletewhen your back is against the wall.”
Another further reason for loving NOT living in the US ... a corrupt cop like that would last all of 10 minutes here on either the brutality charges or deleting private public recordings .... but then again I don't live in a paranoid, out of control police state dictatorship.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG7pD-NHB0
ReplyDeleteJct: Same thing happened to me. All the video after the arrested officer pulled up were deleted including where I'm told to turn off the camera and I do!!!
How do you take it back?
ReplyDelete