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marmar

(76,985 posts)
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 02:13 PM Jul 2012

Brutal Police Raid On California Marijuana Dispensary Caught On Video





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 dispensary’s 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/



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Brutal Police Raid On California Marijuana Dispensary Caught On Video (Original Post) marmar Jul 2012 OP
Hippie punching, there is nothing authoritarians like to do more.. Fumesucker Jul 2012 #1
Cue the apologists for this Federal (i.e. -- *current administration*) policy in 5, 4, 3, 2... villager Jul 2012 #2
We can't blame the feds this time, they're sharing the dickishness arcane1 Jul 2012 #3
The feds are using Le Taz Hot Jul 2012 #5
Exactly. And yes, no one would claim the Long Beach PD aren't crypto-fascist dicks, either. villager Jul 2012 #6
Bingo arcane1 Jul 2012 #8
It's a Democratic Administration Le Taz Hot Jul 2012 #4
+1 villager Jul 2012 #7
So let me get this straight Tsiyu Jul 2012 #9
"What kind of cop smashes a security camera?" hobbit709 Jul 2012 #10
"But if you're not doing anything wrong..." and all that Tsiyu Jul 2012 #12
Thank you!~ Maybe this should be its own post? 20score Jul 2012 #17
Thank you, too Tsiyu Jul 2012 #20
Not having a permit I am thinking is just a civil issue Samantha Jul 2012 #18
Yesterday, on D.U., a poster lamented about cops being derogatorily labeled. jerseyjack Jul 2012 #11
Video: Wanna File a Police Complaint (Arrested for Trying) Fire Walk With Me Jul 2012 #19
Come on now... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2012 #21
Shit, I got locked out of one of my OPs for taking issue with one coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #23
Crips aren't the only gang that wears blue. n/t Sirveri Jul 2012 #24
Then more of us should protest by calling the cops PIGS. Zalatix Jul 2012 #25
In the post raid footage Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2012 #13
fuck tha police frylock Jul 2012 #14
Smashing the camera is destroying evidence...A crime!!! Where's the DA? W T F Jul 2012 #15
It is ridiculous that, in 2012, cannabis is still criminalized obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #16
and the pigs wonder why they are hated so shanti Jul 2012 #22
Police only insite animosity against themselves with such actions. Dawson Leery Jul 2012 #26
Hey cops, do you understand why you are hated so much now? Downtown Hound Jul 2012 #27
Fascist Blackshirts. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #28

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
1. Hippie punching, there is nothing authoritarians like to do more..
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 02:26 PM
Jul 2012

It's so fun that it's like doing crack, one punch and you just can't stop..

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
5. The feds are using
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 02:48 PM
Jul 2012

local law enforcement to do the dirty work. Few dispensaries have been raided by the actual feds.

 

villager

(26,001 posts)
6. Exactly. And yes, no one would claim the Long Beach PD aren't crypto-fascist dicks, either.
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 02:58 PM
Jul 2012

Problem is, they're emboldened by the Federal policy that sets them loose.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
4. It's a Democratic Administration
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 02:47 PM
Jul 2012

so it's OK. It's only wrong when the Republicans do it. Sorta like torture.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
9. So let me get this straight
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 03:02 PM
Jul 2012

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)
10. "What kind of cop smashes a security camera?"
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 03:13 PM
Jul 2012

A cop that doesn't want his actions recorded. Next question.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
12. "But if you're not doing anything wrong..." and all that
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 03:23 PM
Jul 2012


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)
17. Thank you!~ Maybe this should be its own post?
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 04:18 PM
Jul 2012

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)
20. Thank you, too
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 05:03 PM
Jul 2012


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)
18. Not having a permit I am thinking is just a civil issue
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 04:44 PM
Jul 2012

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)
11. Yesterday, on D.U., a poster lamented about cops being derogatorily labeled.
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 03:19 PM
Jul 2012

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.

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
23. Shit, I got locked out of one of my OPs for taking issue with one
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 05:33 PM
Jul 2012

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.

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
25. Then more of us should protest by calling the cops PIGS.
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 08:41 PM
Jul 2012

Rise up and overwhelm censorship with extreme numbers. I'll go first. Damned PIG COPS.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
13. In the post raid footage
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 03:38 PM
Jul 2012

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?

shanti

(21,672 posts)
22. and the pigs wonder why they are hated so
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 05:31 PM
Jul 2012
wtf was that all about, stepping on his neck with his hard shoes??

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
27. Hey cops, do you understand why you are hated so much now?
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 09:23 PM
Jul 2012

And the fact that you still don't, is proof that you deserve to be so. Clueless fascist morans.

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