Policing in this country really seems to be going to the dogs. Yes, that’s a silly euphemism, at least unless you live in Vineland, New Jersey. A video filmed a week ago Tuesday appears to show local police allowing a K9 dog to tear into the face of what looks to be an unarmed black man while he is curled up on the ground. The man, identified as 32-year-old Phillip White, later died while in police custody.
The police were responding to a report of a disorderly person, who was “screaming and yelling,” according to a local television station with access to the police radio transmissions of the incident. Multiple officers arrived on the scene and requested backup, yelling as they allege White reaches for one of their weapons. Moments later, one of them reports, “Slow units down. Subject under apprehension. Tried disarming me.”
According to a statement from Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae, "White was handcuffed and restrained… White was placed in an emergency vehicle to be transported to the hospital. At some point during transport White became unresponsive."
Philadelphia’s NBC10 station reported that the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office said White, the father of three, was transported to a local hospital for “respiratory distress,” where he was declared dead, despite efforts to revive him.
The person who shot the footage, which is from a phone, is shown being approached by police, saying, “I need your information and I’m going to need to take your phone.”
It is legal to film police interactions in New Jersey.
The situation is under investigation by the New Jersey State Police, Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office, and a private lawyer hired by the family named Conrad Benedetto.
Typical BS "he tried to disarm me". We don't believe your Nazi tactics anymore.
ReplyDeleteHe may have, but WTF? That doesn't justify turning a dog loose on him (or letting said dog chew on his face for several minutes). They obviously had plenty of officers on scene to control the guy; if one of them was dumb enough to loose his weapon to the guy, he was an idiot.. I played the law enforcement game in the Army for 19 years, and I can say from experience that one belligerent unarmed person is nothing to worry about if you have several officers on scene. I can see no justification for turning loose a K9.
ReplyDeleteTypical blue suited thugs. No public servants here.
ReplyDeleteYou want my phone, pig? Get a frickin warrant. Try to take it from me and you'll come down with a case of lead poisoning.
ReplyDeleteCan I get an AMEN!
ReplyDelete"She had that smoky, sultry look to her. The type that could DISARM the hardest communist party member.....so I had a dog chew her beautiful face off!"
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