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Brutal Police Raid On California Marijuana Dispensary Caught On Video
Video footage of a brutal police raid on a Long Beach marijuana dispensary on June 19 recently surfaced on YouTube.
In the video, a police officer walks on the back and neck of a complying Dorian Brooks, the dispensarys volunteer employee, who awaits arrest stomach-down on the floor. Two undercover officers can be seen smashing the surveillance cameras of THC Downtown Collective, destroying possible evidence.
I just felt three hundred pounds on my neck, Brooks told NBC Los Angeles, I felt violated; I felt disrespected. He said, They noticed there was a camera that was on the wall right above my head, so they proceeded to smash it with a metal rod, and that the debris shattered on him. ...............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1024796/brutal_police_raid_on_california_marijuana_dispensary_caught_on_video/
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)It's so fun that it's like doing crack, one punch and you just can't stop..
villager
(26,001 posts)nt
arcane1
(38,613 posts)This one's all on LAPD
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)local law enforcement to do the dirty work. Few dispensaries have been raided by the actual feds.
villager
(26,001 posts)Problem is, they're emboldened by the Federal policy that sets them loose.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)so it's OK. It's only wrong when the Republicans do it. Sorta like torture.
n/t
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)If the average Joe or Jane decides they don't like someone, or they're pissed about something, they CANNOT go smash another person's property.
Here in America, we call them thugs and looters and gangbangers when they go around smashing others' property.
But if you're a cop in California, you can smash someone's property any time you feel like it? And you're not called a thug, a looter or a criminal?
These cops are no better than gang members. In fact, they are worse. What kind of cop smashes a security camera?
My condolences to the citizens who were the victims of these rogue, gangbanger, thug, criminal goons they call cops in California.
A pox on the Long Beach Police Gang Members who perpetrated this crime.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)A cop that doesn't want his actions recorded. Next question.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)They perpetrated this evil thuggery because the dispensary had no city permit - as the victim said, no more a misdemeanor than a jaywalking ticket.
The Long Beach Thug Gang PD took the ATM Machine and cannabis, after busting the camera like goddamned gang thugs.
The dispensary has filed a million buck claim and I hope they win.
The number to the Long Beach PD - to anyone who wants to give them a piece of your mind:
562-570-7260
Flood those gangbangers' telephone lines.
20score
(4,769 posts)I know I'm sick of seeing cops that work for us, act worse than any gang-banger. With the insult of hypocrisy added to the mix.
Time to rein these bastards in.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Fortunately, the cops around me don't pull this crap. It really is more like Mayberry where I live.
I can't imagine the abuse heaped on those who live in the over-funded/over-militarized law enforcement zones. You have to be frightened of the cops rather than the gangs!
My heart goes out to all of you suffering under criminal/violent/thug police departments anywhere.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)They didn't catch anyone in a criminal act. However, they conducted the raid as if they were cornering hard-core criminals -- felons. Way, way inexcusable. I am sorry the people who launched the litigation ONLY asked for a million dollars. I hope they demand the participants be fired as well.
Sam
jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)This is why cops are called, pigs, fascists and so forth. The best thing your brother and his brothers in blue could do is to ostracize fellow employees who behave in the manner shown in this video. Better yet, file complaints against such criminal actions.
Instead, I wonder how many cops in the cop shop back-slapped these assholes.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)90% of cops give the rest a bad name
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)of the pig defenders. The alerter had trotted out the "my brother the cop who got shot while chasing bad guys" defense to counter the Rampart Division scandal and upbraid my use of the porcine perjorative.
As far as I'm concerned, after Rodney King and Rampart, the LAPD is just another gang, albeit one operating under color of the law. Even middle class kids started finding this out on November 30, when the Blue Gang busted up the Occupy Los Angeles camp. But LA's minorities have known this truth for a long, long time.
Sirveri
(4,517 posts)Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Rise up and overwhelm censorship with extreme numbers. I'll go first. Damned PIG COPS.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I'm surprised they didn't punch holes in the walls looking for secret stashes.
I know someone who was raided and they did that with every wall in his home. Every 16" you could see where they punched a hole to peek between the joists and they were all over his attic cracking the ceiling in every room. They even dug up his yard after going over it with a metal detector and drug sniffing dogs. All it would take is for the dog to pause and they'd dig there looking for Tupperware.
They didn't find a thing and were forced to pay for professional repairs to the damage they'd done but he still sees guys outside staking out his house and he figures his phone is tapped. Cops HATE to come up dry.
See what happens when you are a member of a garage band?
frylock
(34,825 posts)W T F
(1,145 posts)obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)Especially MMJ.
shanti
(21,672 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)And the fact that you still don't, is proof that you deserve to be so. Clueless fascist morans.