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Related: About this forumFive Miami Beach cops charged after pummeling two men in hotel lobby. Video released
Five Miami Beach police officers were hit with criminal charges on Monday for using excessive force on a man in handcuffs and for pummeling a bystander who was videotaping the incident on his cellphone.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, with Miami Beach Police Chief Richard Clements at her side, announced the charges after showing a four-minute video clip in which 21 officers descend on a man they chased into a South Beach hotel, who is alleged to have hit an officer with his motor scooter.
In the video, one officer repeatedly kicks the handcuffed man in the head, before another officer picks him up and slams his head to the ground. A short while later a group of officers redirect their attention to a man videotaping the incident. Hes soon slammed into a concrete pillar, then repeatedly punched and elbowed in the head and rib cage while on the ground.
Charges against Khalid Vaughn, 28, of New York, who was arrested for using his cellphone camera, were dropped by Rundles office the same day as the arrest and almost as soon as Clements informed her of the videotape. Vaughn had been facing charges of impeding a police investigation and resisting arrest with violence.
Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article253191533.html
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ret5hd
(21,320 posts)beating a man that was cuffed and on his stomach
but its just a few bad apples.
FTP
ACAB
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Two of that first guy put together wouldn't be as large as the average size of the 21 cops on the scene
F*** these assholes.
sop
(12,345 posts)floor after being approached by just one cop. By the time this clown car full of cops streamed into the lobby the guy already had his hands behind his back and was offering no resistance. They were literally falling over and injuring one another trying to get in on the action. To top it off the horde of thugs then turned on the guy recording the attack. This has to be a record for the number of cops it takes to beat down a single unarmed black man.
Dreampuff
(778 posts)And it made me absolutely sick.