Shaun King: This Baltimore Police Officer needs to be fired immediately (disturbing video)

[demmiblue]

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JFC... that is insane.

[dalton99a]

1. He should be arrested ASAP.

[demmiblue]

2. Baltimore police officer suspended after viral video shows him punching, tackling man

A Baltimore police officer was suspended by the department Saturday after a viral video emerged showing him repeatedly punching a man in the face before taking him to the ground.

Interim Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle said he was “deeply disturbed” by the video, and that the incident is under investigation.

“The officer involved has been suspended while we investigate the totality of this incident,” Tuggle said. “Part of our investigation will be reviewing body worn camera footage.”

Tuggle did not identify the officer or the man who was punched, and the department would not say how the interaction between the two began. People on the street said the man who was punched was taken away by police, but police did not immediately answer questions as to whether the man had been arrested, and if so, on what charges.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-police-incident-20180811-story.html

[magicarpet]

3. WTF - Cop over dosed on steroids ?

Cop thinks he is Mohamed Ali - the local neighborhood streets are his personal boxing ring.

Can his ass.

[safeinOhio]

5. Every use of force needs

a drug test for the cop. Married to a cop and a lot of them are gym rats on steroids. A town I use to live in had a gym owned by a cop and he was busted for selling them out of his gym. She alway use to say "who's going to arrest me, I'm a cop". I worked in an industry that required drug test for every injury accident.

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. What the hell.

[salin]

6. All of the blood on the concrete - seen at the end of the video -

was not there when the man was first taken down. It is his blood from the beat down.

I don't see a weapon (the "fear for my life" defense), nor do I see resistance - the man seems to be surprised by the physical attack by the police.

Even if the guy had a warrant out for his arrest (which wasn't stated by the police in the video), I don't see the threat or resistance requiring the beat down that occurred.

Back to my first statement - blood is pooling under the guy's face - there was no stain on the sidewalk before he was taken down.

King is Right - the aggressive officer needs to go.

[mythology]

8. My guess is that the cop will claim the slight push/brush away the guy did

It shouldn't work as a defense.

[uponit7771]

9. Looks like the cup touched him first

[oberliner]

7. Doesn't Shaun King also generally try to get people to ID the person?

Looks like some of the commenters are on that.

[demmiblue]

10. UPDATE: charges filed.

BREAKING: Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has charged Baltimore Police Officer Arthur Williams with multiple counts of criminal assault and misconduct in office.

A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

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[TheFrenchRazor]

11. question: where did the video come from? if it was cop video it never would have seen the light of d

light of day where i live, and the whole incident would have been immediately misrepresent by police and swept under the rug.