Horrifying Video Shows Cop Drag Pregnant Woman By Handcuff Chain, Breaking Her Wrist

Big Spring, TX — A rather disturbing video was uploaded to Facebook over the weekend showing a Big Spring police officer dragging a handcuffed woman—by the handcuff chain—through gravel and dirt to put her in the cruiser. After the video was posted, the department was forced to launch an investigation.

According to the police department, this entire incident was over a misdemeanor warrant for possession of marijuana. In the land of the free, you can and will be thrown to the ground, attacked, and treated like a slave for possessing a plant that is legal in some form in over half the country—not in Texas though.

According to a BSPD Narrative Report, an officer was patrolling in the 100 block of West 11th Street when he saw a woman he recognized as Crystal Mesler walking westbound.

The officer knew Mesler had pending charges and asked dispatch to run a wanted check, according to the report. The officer was then informed that she had a warrant for marijuana possession. He now claimed the legal right to kidnap and cage Mesler because she had been previously kidnapped for possessing a plant. So he acted.

Not wanting to be kidnapped and thrown in a cage for possessing a plant, Mesler told the officer “no.”

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The folks who filmed the video, Marcos Chavera and Teresa Sanchez, said the then officer knocked Mesler to the ground and pushed the woman’s face into the gravel.

“He told her to put her stuff on the hood, she took a step back and said, ‘no.’ Right when she did that, he just grabbed her and pretty much took her to the ground,” said Chavera. “He started trying to handcuff her, she was on the phone the whole time. After he did cuff her, he called for back up already.”

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She said the woman could be heard saying that she was hurt and calling for an ambulance.

However, this officer wanted nothing of it. After he stood up from taking down the woman for possessing a plant, he dusted himself off, grabbed her by the handcuff chains and dragged her like an animal to the back of the cruiser.

As News West 9 reports, a second video shows back up did eventually arrive but Chavera said the woman had already been dragged by the first officer on the scene. Chavera and Sanchez could hear the woman screaming several different things.

“I’m pregnant, you’re hurting my arms, you broke my wrist,” said Sanchez. “He turned her arm up pretty bad when he was trying to get her second arm behind her,” said Chavera.

According to CBS 7, Police Chief Chad Williams says the video prompted the department to open the internal investigation. No further information has been released as of Tuesday.

Sanchez, who posted the video to Facebook said she was attacked by apologists for daring to show this act of police brutality. However, she does not regret it.

“I don’t think it was right the way she was being treated, nobody should be treated like that,” said Sanchez. “It was awful seeing her being dragged like that especially in all that gravel and rocks.”

After being kidnapped for possessing a plant, Mesler was then hospitalized for her injuries.

Mesler is someone’s daughter. Imagine, for a moment, what it would feel like to watch someone do this to your daughter over a plant. 

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Below is the raw video of the arrest.

Video Catches Cops Jumping On, Punching Man in HANDCUFFS, as He Yells ‘I Can’t Breathe’

New Kensington, PA — When police officers preach transparency and trust only to be caught on video beating a man who is in handcuffs, that trust is broken. Residents of New Kensington, PA, now have little reason to trust their police after a recent video uploaded to Facebook began going viral this week.

Two Westmoreland County police officers and a New Kensington police officer are now on leave after a Facebook video showed them beating a handcuffed man so bad that even the police chief called it ‘disturbing.’

“It’s disturbing. We’re not going to condone any misconduct that is done,” New Kensington Police Chief James Klein said in a brief news conference held Friday night.

According to police, they were involved in a pursuit of a 40-year-old suspect, Justin Harvey. After police suspected Harvey of having marijuana on him, a brief vehicle chase and then foot chase ensued.

It is unclear as to what happened prior to Harvey being placed in handcuffs as all we have is the official police account. However, none of the officers have reported any injuries, so it is entirely clear that Harvey did not hurt them, nor did he pose a threat after being placed in handcuffs.

As the video begins, we see police on top of Harvey as he yells, “I can’t Breathe.” According to the person who took the video, Andrea Baker, it was those words that made her go to her door and start filming. Baker posted the video online Friday along with the following statement:

I heard someone outside screaming “I can’t breath” so I went to look and seen this.. I wish I could’ve got it from the beginning. They were stepping on his neck, punching and shooting him with their taser gun while he’s already hand cuffed on the ground

As the video continues, Harvey is still pleading with officers, telling them, “I can’t breathe.” One cop is seeing repeated punching Harvey as two others assault him off camera.

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Instead of stepping back and giving the man, who is in handcuffs at this time, some room for air, one of the officers stands on him — and begins jumping up and down.

When the officer is done ‘surfing’ on top of Harvey, another officer grabs the chain in between the handcuffs and pulls the beaten man up. Harvey is then placed in a choke hold, thrown onto the back of the police car and elbowed for good measure before being put in the back seat.

According to police, Harvey actually pulled a pistol from his pants during the pursuit and ignored their orders to drop it. Amazingly enough, instead of shooting Harvey for pulling the gun, the officers claim they allowed him to continue ignoring their commands. Harvey then allegedly threw the gun along with another object over the fence. He was then held at gunpoint by Officer Biricocchi.

According to police, Harvey continued to resist being held at gunpoint and they deployed a taser. As they were tasering him, Harvey reached for the taser, according to police.

It appears that the video begins when two other officers arrive as Harvey is on the ground.

According to officials, Harvey is charged with receiving stolen property, disarming a law enforcement officer, fleeing or attempting to elude an officer, resisting arrest and reckless driving.

“It was just disturbing. The action of the cops after he’s in cuffs is very disturbing. I thought the New Ken police were better than that,” said Harvey’s cousin, Jerris Price.

Perhaps Justin Harvey is a bad person, or, perhaps he is not. However, that is irrelevant now as police were caught on video depriving him of his human rights by continuing to assault him after he’d been restrained.

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Any chance of actual justice coming from this case has been tainted by the officers’ decision to beat a man in handcuffs.

“It’s disheartening because you want to build trust with the community but when you look at videos like that, how can you suggest that? One officer standing on the back of this young man, another officer punching him, another officer jumping off his back, all while this young man is handcuffed,” Harvey’s attorney, Todd Hollis said.

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter and now on Steemit