Two Seattle police officers are under investigation after a bystander recorded them beating a man with their batons at a bus stop last week.
In the video, which was posted online and first reported by NBC affiliate KING 5-TV, two officers can be seen hitting a man with their batons last Friday afternoon. In the 40-second clip, one of the officers appears to grab the man’s hair before he uses a knee to pin him down.
The video does not show what occurred before the officers started beating the man.
This is why body cams are essential. So now one of two things will happen. They’ll either release the footage and it’ll show that this man threatened to detonate a huge bomb and destroy the city and the cops had to beat him to stop it and everyone will praise them, or the footage will be lost and we’ll all assume they beat the shit out of him because they felt like it.
I’ll hold my breath.
I’m not going to give Seattle PD the benefit of the doubt. They have a long history of violent abuse, especially towards minorities.
Like that time a Seattle cop ran over a 23yo Indian girl and said it was okay, because she had limited value?
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattle-police-officer-heard-joking-after-womans-death-has-been-taken-off-the-streets/
Or when a cop punched a 16-year-old girl in the face for yelling at him.
Or when they beat up an old man for getting on a bus with a golf club he was using as a walking stick.
Or when they beat up a guy while yelling “I’m gonna beat the Mexican piss out of you”
Or when they shoot a native dude in the back from 20 feet away because he had a small knife.
Threatening to detonate a bomb would not justify what they did. I can’t imagine a scenario that would justify grabbing someone’s hair and pinning them down with a knee and beating them with batons.
Yeah I’m being an incredibly facetious devil’s advocate saying the only way to save the city is to beat the absolute shit of of a dude.