Biff_Poindexter
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'I want to hit this kid': Newly unearthed body cam footage shines light on Boston police during racial justice protests
Newly unearthed body camera footage captured by Boston police during the demonstrations protesting racial injustice and police brutality in May shows officers using force against nonviolent protesters, pepper-spraying crowds, and, […]
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"The videos published Friday show officers pushing nonviolent demonstrators to the ground apparently unprovoked, spraying pepper spray on individuals and into crowds to force them back, and one department member explaining how he possibly hit people with a car on Tremont Street --In one clip, a police sergeant approaches an officer whose camera is rolling in Downtown Crossing.
“Dude, I f***ing drove down Tremont (Street). There was an unmarked state police cruiser they were all gathered around,” the sergeant says on video. “…Then I had a f***er keep coming, f***ing running. I’m f***ing hitting people with the car, did you hear me, I was like, ‘get the f***—’” --- The officer equipped with the body camera then pushes the sergeant’s face away from the camera, turns, and walks away from him. He looks back and says, “This (thing) is on.”
Hopefully, nothing will come out of this and that officer won't be in any trouble -- luckily the body camera officer acted quickly and protected the other officer from saying anything else damaging -- which good cops are supposed to do....This is why so many cops are opposed to body cams; it's like how can you open up to your fellow officers about planting evidence on innocent people, or wrongfully shooting someone in the back if those pesky body-cams are always on??? -- that could hurt police credibility....