'Pain compliance': Video shows trooper pummeling Black man

[pknopp]

Fair enough, just remember that would open the door to videos of all the abuse cops get.

Absolutely BUT the cops release that.

 

[fncceo]

A family should not have to get a lawyer to pry the video away from the cops.

No attorney is necessary for filing a Freedom of Information Act request. In fact, the forms are online.

If you're facing criminal charges and you don't intend to plead, you'd be a fool to go to court without one.

Public defenders are available free of charge.

 

[pknopp]

No attorney is necessary for filing a Freedom of Information Act request. In fact, the forms are online.

If you're facing criminal charges and you don't intend to plead, you'd be a fool to go to court without one.

Public defenders are available free of charge.

Many have had to file lawsuits to get the video. You know this.

 

[Rogue AI]

Absolutely BUT the cops release that.

No double standards, that sort of thing diminishes the whole idea of equal justice.

 

[bodecea]

Graphic body camera video kept secret for more than two years shows a Louisiana State Police trooper pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — an attack the trooper defended as “pain compliance.”

“I’m not resisting! I'm not resisting!” Aaron Larry Bowman can be heard screaming between blows on the footage obtained by The Associated Press. The May 2019 beating following a traffic stop left him with a broken jaw, three broken ribs, a broken wrist and a gash to his head that required six staples to close.

Bowman's encounter near his Monroe home came less than three weeks after troopers from the same embattled agency punched, stunned and dragged another Black motorist, Ronald Greene, before he died in police custody on a rural roadside in northeast Louisiana. Video of Greene’s death similarly remained under wraps before AP obtained and published it earlier this year.

Federal prosecutors are examining both cases in a widening investigation into police brutality and potential cover-ups involving both troopers and state police brass.

State police didn’t investigate the attack on Bowman until 536 days after it occurred — even though it was captured on body camera — and only did so weeks after Bowman brought a civil lawsuit.

The state police released a statement Wednesday saying that Jacob Brown, the white trooper who struck Bowman, “engaged in excessive and unjustifiable actions," failed to report the use of force to his supervisors and “intentionally mislabeled” his body camera video.

'Pain compliance': Video shows trooper pummeling Black man

This is why we need to step up our efforts for Police Reform across this country.

Having video doesn't even get these officers convicted.

They are protected by those at the top that is why this type of police brutality continues.

Should be good listening to the usual suspects coming out to defend this officer's actions and blame the victim in this case.

Thank goodness for cameras now.

 

[bodecea]

Not good, but meanwhile we have approximately one million officers of the law all working for various police debts that all run 24/7 365 days a year accounting for tens of thousands of encounters every single day, and no one wants to talk about them, only the few that don't go so well.

And wouldn't it be a good thing if they never covered for the bad cops.......

 

[bodecea]

I guess a two year old alleged assault by a Police Officer trumps the ongoing torture and murder of loyal Afghans courtesy of old Joe.

I see you are in support of the abusive cop.

 

[pknopp]

No double standards, that sort of thing diminishes the whole idea of equal justice.

Of course it does. No one is arguing that the police only release the video's that make them look bad. It all should be.

 

[bodecea]

Your kids can't attend school if their vaccinations are not up to date, why is that Trump Humpers don't complain about that.

Because they haven't been told to....................yet.

 

[cnm]

There certainly may be.. Yet police cam's are shown weekly on this cable show of arrests, shootings and police doing their job to serve and protect.

My point is that if actions are filmed from a public place anyone may publish them, as far as I know. There are no privacy strictures of which I'm aware in that situation, as people seem to be implying.