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Demovictory9

(32,482 posts)
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 08:31 PM Oct 2021

Florida Police Officers taunt handcuffed Bloodied Man, Drinking His Gatorade cuz he filmed them

Florida Police Officers Filmed Taunting Bloodied Man, Drinking His Gatorade




Footage has emerged of a bloodied and handcuffed suspect being openly taunted by police officers in Florida who drank from the man's soda while he pleaded to be taken to hospital.

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According to the news outlet, Vaughn was taken down and handcuffed by police while trying to film the arrest of another man, Dalonta Crudup, 24, on his cellphone inside the Royal Palm Hotel on South Beach on July 26.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/florida-police-officers-filmed-taunting-bloodied-man-drinking-his-gatorade/ar-AAP4kWk?ocid=msedgntp


In the video, a visibly distressed Vaughn can be heard telling officers "You all beat me for no reason." An unnamed officer can be heard responding "We beat you for a reason" on the clip, which comes from a police body camera.

The handcuffed Vaughn continues to plead his innocence on the footage. "I didn't resist. I wasn't arrested," he says. "I backed up. You all said back up. Somebody said 20 feet and I backed up. And what happened? All of you charged me and beat me."

At this point, an officer can be heard interjecting to tell Vaughn to "stop crying."

"Stop crying? Look at my face," he replies. "You all did that [expletive] for no reason," Vaughn said." An officer responds: "You chose your destiny."

Vaughn is heard rejecting this claim and expressing disbelief at the officer's remarks. "I did not. I backed up," he says. "That's kind of crazy. What do you mean I chose my destiny? I backed up."

Later in the video, an officer can be seen taking Vaughn's Gatorade and loudly gulping it while Vaughn asks: "Can you take me to the hospital? I can feel myself bleeding."

Responding to the officer's deliberately audible drinking, Vaughn says: "I don't know what you are getting out of that" to which the officer replies "I'm getting hydrated." Towards the end of the footage, another voice can be heard telling Vaughn to go back to New York where he is from.

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Florida Police Officers taunt handcuffed Bloodied Man, Drinking His Gatorade cuz he filmed them (Original Post) Demovictory9 Oct 2021 OP
Disgusting. pandr32 Oct 2021 #1
A Former DU'er started the website "Photography Is Not A Crime" (PNAC) after Miami cops arrested him A HERETIC I AM Oct 2021 #2
I remember that. He was a photojournalist, IIRC. n/t ms liberty Oct 2021 #8
Really? Dr. Strange Oct 2021 #10
Carlos Miller A HERETIC I AM Oct 2021 #11
Guess they don't want tourists like they used to..... Red Mountain Oct 2021 #3
Been to Miami once. Never going again. Aristus Oct 2021 #4
Poeple in SOFL don't even go to Mimai obamanut2012 Oct 2021 #9
I hope they permanently lose their badges. sakabatou Oct 2021 #5
10 LEOs for a scooter violation?? onethatcares Oct 2021 #6
fucking pigs Celerity Oct 2021 #7
Tell me again why this agency needs to be funded. /nt tonedevil Oct 2021 #12

A HERETIC I AM

(24,380 posts)
2. A Former DU'er started the website "Photography Is Not A Crime" (PNAC) after Miami cops arrested him
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 09:27 PM
Oct 2021

For filming them.

Miami Beach cops are no better.

I hope they all get exactly what they have coming to them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_Is_Not_a_Crime

Aristus

(66,478 posts)
4. Been to Miami once. Never going again.
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 10:21 PM
Oct 2021

What a hellhole. And the cops are about what I would expect in such a squalid shitnest...

obamanut2012

(26,158 posts)
9. Poeple in SOFL don't even go to Mimai
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 10:03 AM
Oct 2021

Unless we have to for some reason. I literally drive three hours to Orlando for something instead of driving 45 minutes to an hour to Miami.

Everyone I know in PBC and Broward feel the same way.

A friend of my niece's went to FAU instead of FIU because of Miami, and she had a better financial deal at FIU.

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