Nearly a dozen police recruits quit their training program and are now calling out the department for trying to teach them aggressive tactics that do not serve or protect the public.
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A Texas cop has been fired and is facing multiple charges after he snapped inside a barbecue restaurant and began beating up an innocent 12-year-old girl with autism.
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A Texas cop who was let off after being caught on video assaulting an innocent teacher was allowed back on the streets and has struck again—this time he was finally fired.
An Austin police officer has killed an unarmed man and beaten two innocent men, been sued for it, and somehow still has his job.
Austin, TX — In today’s ‘See Something, Say Something’ society, doing the ‘pee pee dance’ while waiting for a bus is grounds for police action — at least that’s what a woman in Austin thought when she called the cops on a dancing man. Unfortunately, for the dancing man, police would also perceive his harmless behavior a threat and move to neutralize it.
This latest instance of ridiculous police brutality was captured on video Tuesday outside of an Austin restaurant. As the video begins, a nicely dressed man was standing at a bus stop doing a bit of a sidestep dance in place. The officer responding to the fearful woman’s 911 call perceived this dance as a potentially dangerous act.
The dancing man appeared to have a mental imbalance and may have flipped the bird at someone driving by. According to witnesses at the scene, the man may have had “some kind of disorder” and a “mental imbalance of some kind.” However, this was not grounds for what happened next.
In the video, we see the man doing nothing other than dancing when the officer approaches him as if he’s holding a child hostage. Within just a few moments the officer has his taser drawn, aiming it at the man’s head.
When the bus shows up, the man attempts to get on it, as it appears that was his intention the entire time. However, the cop would not have it. As the man attempted to walk toward the bus, the cop waved it on.
“He didn’t do anything,” a bystander says just before the situation turns violent. “He’s just standing there, minding his own business.”
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Then, boom, taser goes off, and the man falls to the ground.
For dancing, this man was shot with a taser and then tackled, assaulted, and handcuffed.
“Stop tasering him, you asshole,” a bystander yells as the cop continues his assault.
“Am I under arrest,” the man keeps asking as the cop sits on him.
“Put your hands behind your back and stop resisting,” says the officer to the man who is lying face down and not resisting at all.
At this point, another officer shows up and apparently had no other way to join in the assault so he started grabbing the man’s legs and twisting them.
“What the fuck, you can’t do that,” another bystander yells.
“He is not even moving,” a woman says.
A third cop then shows up and the officers, clearly at a loss for what their justification was for attacking the man, simply stand around and talk about ‘safety.’
For good measure, to make sure this handcuffed dancing man, who had harmed no one, would be absolutely neutralized — a fourth cop showed up.
“Four cop cars for a person that was appearing a little unstable but not bothering anyone,” says the woman taking the video.
Austin, TX — Police in Austin, Texas have been caught in an unscrupulous practice that looks more like something out of Nazi Germany than the supposed land of the free. In a video uploaded to Facebook this week, Austin cops are seen humiliating an innocent man in public as they poked and prodded his body to take photos of it for a database.
Cody King was on his way to school earlier this month when he was targeted by Austin cops for the alleged ‘crime’ of not using his turn signal. Officers, apparently not having proof of the incident could not or chose not to issue King a ticket. However, the ticket would have been far better than what happened next.
It is important to note that at the moment the officer told King that he was not being given a ticket, the remaining detainment became illegal.
Instead of letting King go on his way, police told the innocent man that they were now going to take photographs of him. King promptly rejected the idea, noting that this is a clear violation of his rights as he had not committed, nor was he suspected of committing any crime.
When King objected, the officer told him that he either lets him take pictures or King goes to jail. In no way is this threat just and it certainly is not standard procedure for traffic stops — at least for now.
“If you don’t allow us to take your pictures down here, we’re gonna go to the jail to take your pictures,” says the tyrant officer.
“Can I call my lawyer?” asks King.
“No, you can’t call your lawyer right now,” replies the cop.
Apparently, this officer forgot the part of the law which allows people, who are innocent until proven guilty, the right to have an attorney present during questioning. Photographing a man’s body is most certainly an instance in which an attorney should be present. However, this cop denied King his right to provide one.
King, who is now under duress and threatened with being kidnapped, eventually concedes and allows these tyrants to take pictures of him.
The officers surround King and begin lifting up his clothing to take pictures. The effect of such police action is nothing short of degrading and dehumanizing.
King, according to the video has no criminal record and was simply on his way to school. He was then singled out, apparently for his appearance, and then photographed for some police database — a practice fit for 1930’s Germany.
Please share this story so that this humiliating and tyrannical practice is exposed and immediately brought to a halt — before it becomes the norm.
Austin, TX – Pulled over for driving 15 mph over the speed limit, an elementary school teacher was recorded on police dash cam video being slammed to the ground twice by an overly aggressive cop. After the woman was placed in the back of a patrol car, two separate videos caught the arresting officer making false statements regarding the arrest and another officer making racist comments to the restrained teacher. In spite of the glaring evidence against him, the officer responsible for the brutality, Brian Richter, will not face charges.
On Thursday, a grand jury did not indict him. The grand jury heard 13 hours of testimony from eight different witnesses over a three-week period before returning the irresponsible decision.
At 12:30 p.m. on June 15, 2015, Austin Police Officer Bryan Richter pulled over 26-year-old Breaion King for driving 15 mph over the speed limit. According to Richter’s dash cam video, the officer immediately ordered King to step back inside her car before informing the teacher that she had been stopped for speeding.
Complying with his orders, King sat inside her car and gave Richter her driver’s license as commanded. When ordered to put her feet inside so Richter could close her door, King asked, “Could you please hurry up?”
Instantly losing his temper, Richter demanded, “Okay, ma’am, stand up for me. Okay?”
“Okay,” King responded.
Despite the fact that King had been complying with his commands and had agreed to exit her vehicle, Richter suddenly grabbed her for no apparent reason before she could step out of her car.
“Why are you touching me?” King asked in absolute terror. “Oh my God!”
“Stop resisting!” Richter immediately shouted. “Get out of the car!”
“I’m getting out,” King replied. “Let me get out.”
Gripping King’s neck and arm, Richter abruptly pulled her out of the car and whipped her around before violently slamming her against the ground.
“Put your hands behind your back!” Richter ordered.
“Oh my God!” King pleaded. “Are you serious?”
“I’m about to taze you,” Richter threatened as King stood up and placed her hands behind her back.
“Are you kidding me?” King asked as Richter swept her legs and threw her to the ground again for no apparent reason.
“Put your hands behind your back,” Richter repeated while pressing his full weight down on her back.
“Would you let me get down, please?” King pleaded.
After cuffing the 112-pound woman, Richter and a fellow officer led King to the front of his patrol car by lifting her arms behind her back in a torture position. Before she was placed inside the back of the car, King genuinely asked, “Why are my arms so high up?”
Later in the video, Richter recounted the incident to a superior while blatantly making false statements.
“Once we got out of the car, she took a swing at me,” Richter lied. “She missed. And then she swings – and I saw it coming – so I just threw her down. We were on the ground. I didn’t want to hit her. So we just kinda wrestled.”
Falsely stating that King had slipped out of her restraints and needed to be thrown against the pavement again, Richter gave a version of events that failed to corroborate with his own dash cam video. While sitting in the backseat, restrained in handcuffs, King was later subjected to a second officer’s racist comments as he transported her to jail.
“Why are so many people afraid of black people?” Officer Patrick Spradlin asked King in the second video.
“That’s what I want to figure out because I’m not a bad black person,” King responded.
“I can give you a really good idea why it might be that way,” Spradlin continued.
“Why?” King asked.
“Violent tendencies,” Spradlin answered.
Ironically, King was nonviolent when Richter suddenly pulled her out of the car without giving her any time to comply with his orders. Although she had initially been charged with resisting arrest, King’s case was dismissed earlier this year and she ended up paying $165 for driving 50 mph in a 35 mph zone.
After requesting a federal investigation into the incident from the Justice Department, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo publicly apologized to King and her family at a press conference in July.
“I’m sorry that on the day you were stopped for going 15 miles an hour, you were approached and treated in a manner that is not consistent with this police chief and department,” Chief Acevedo stated. “We’re in 2016 and this will not be tolerated.”
But that apology is now in vain as the cops who perpetrated this injustice will not be held accountable.
