Video: Miami ? Cop under investigation for beating handcuffed young blk man in the back of a car

stringer bell
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edited August 2015 in For The Grown & Sexy
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article31070781.html
Miami cop investigated for jumping into vehicle with suspect

A 47-second video that shows a Miami police officer placing a handcuffed teen in the back of a patrol car, then jumping on top of him as the woman filming the scene has her camera knocked away, has landed the officer in hot water and prompted an internal affairs investigation.

Late Thursday night Miami police hadn’t named the officer. They hadn’t named the man in handcuffs or described the charges against him. And it was unclear who the woman was who took the video, who swatted the camera away from her, or why the officer jumped into the back of the patrol car on top of the man.

What was clear: The video was going viral, having received almost 80,000 views by 11 p.m. Thursday. And the actions of the officer were being investigated late into the evening.

“We have seen the video and we have launched a full Internal Affairs investigation into the matter,” said Miami Police Maj. Delrish Moss. “We take that responsibility very seriously. The officer involved in the incident will be relieved of duty as we investigate.”

The incident, which took place at about 5 p.m. inside the Liberty Square housing project, also caught the attention of police union president Javier Ortiz, who posted it on his Facebook page and released a statement.

“While the video may seem concerning to some, the FOP [Fraternal Order of Police] is confident that when everything is analyzed within the totality of the circumstances, it will be concluded that the police officer was doing what he is supposed to be doing: Protecting our community,” said Ortiz.

The release of the video comes at a particularly sensitive time for law enforcement. Video captured encounters between police and residents in New York, Cleveland, South Carolina and Baltimore over the past 13 months sparked major protests.

In at least three of those instances, a black man or child died during an altercation with a white police officer. In Miami Thursday, an unidentified black officer jumped into the patrol car with a black teen.

The Liberty Square video, which was originally posted on the Facebook page of a woman who says her name is Marilyn Smith, begins with officers standing around a dark car, then a black police officer escorts a young black man in tan long shorts and dark T-shirt into the back of a patrol car. At the 37-second mark, the officer appears to leap on top of the man through the back passenger door.

The officer can be clearly seen lying on the back seat, while the man in handcuffs is out of view. Then, as someone appears to swat away the woman’s phone camera, the picture goes fuzzy and she can be heard saying, “Don’t touch my phone baby, move.” Then the video ends.

Moss said the officer’s gun and badge will be taken away during the investigation, and he will be taken off the street.

“Internal Affairs is still working and taking statements,” Moss said late Thursday night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9wSj3vd2ig

Well I think this once again disproves the mainstream media theory of more "black" cops.. Somehow equates towards better understanding & respect towards the community...

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  • Brother_Five
    Brother_Five Members Posts: 4,448 ✭✭✭✭✭
    more black cops are necessary, but they can't just be black faces...
    we need more black cops and major reform to the system.
    the system as it is currently situated, will not allow black cops to have a meaningful impact.
    power corrupts no matter your color.
    u give a bunch of black fuckboys the right/authority to harass/abuse ppl they will.
    i think the issue with the 'more black cops' argument is that there is an assumption that blacks will be less likely to take advantage of the corrupt policing system that is in place. that is misguided.
  • BelovedAfeni
    BelovedAfeni Members Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭✭✭
    under investigation

    code word for

    ACQUITTED
  • stringer bell
    stringer bell Members Posts: 26,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
    http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/08/13/miami-officer-relieved-of-duty-after-video-shows-alleged-police-brutality/
    Miami Officer Relieved Of Duty After Video Shows Alleged Police Brutality


    MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The City of Miami Police Department said they have a relieved an officer of duty after a video started circulating on social media showing alleged police brutality.

    The video starts off with a man being arrested by Miami Police in Liberty Square. The handcuffed suspect is then taken to a squad car and seated. A few seconds later, an officer turns to the suspect and appears to punch him repeatedly.

    “I don’t want to pre-judge an investigation because as a commander, a major, that would be unfair to the officer. He is allowed due process as any person is. But what we saw in that video raised eyebrows enough that we launched an investigation and took away his police powers,” said Miami Police Maj. Delrish Moss.

    Authorities have not released the name of the officer. The supervisors of the officer in question were surprised to see him do this because they say he’s a community-oriented guy who is very friendly.

    Police did not release the name of man being arrested, only saying he remains in police custody.

    The Fraternal Order of Police released a statement in response to the incident. It read, in part:

    “While the video may seem concerning to some, the FOP is confident that when everything is analyzed within the totality of the circumstances, it will be concluded that the police officer was doing what he is supposed to be doing: Protecting our community.”

    The FOP also said that social media has begun to cast a negative light on law enforcement nationwide.

    They also said they were concerned with the photos found on the Facebook page of the person who posted the video.

    “What is extremely concerning is that the poster of this video has photographs of her with young men armed with handguns,” the statement read. “Our community has accepted behavior that motivates violence in our younger generation. It’s time for the community to take a stand against this reckless behavior and stop the violence.”

    Late Thursday night, the FOP said people were using social media to make threats towards law enforcement.

    A screenshot of a post the FOP sent out to the media showing the alleged threats read:

    “Y’all killing each other (expletive) that load that choppa and let it rip on the Miami Police Station.”

    The statement was followed by three gun symbols.


    Pig Union logic:

    "See everybody nothing to see here.. Beating a defenseless handcuffed person in Miami is standard and good policing.. The real problem is the community not us we did nothing wrong.. And the real victims are us the police because look we got threatened on social media.. By some thug who had the nerve not to support us beating on defenseless person"
  • stringer bell
    stringer bell Members Posts: 26,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/08/14/woman-who-recorded-officer-punching-a-suspect-becomes-target-of-miami-police-union/
    Woman who posted video of officer punching a suspect becomes target of Miami police union

    Just after 4 p.m. Thursday, a woman stood a few feet away from several Miami Police Department patrol cars with her cellphone camera recording. After a few seconds, an officer entered the frame, escorting a handcuffed young black man to the back of a police car.

    Suddenly, the officer put his head inside the car door and appeared to punch the suspect.

    “Oh!” a woman exclaimed on the recording, reacting to what was unfolding before her. The woman, who the Associated Press identified as Shenitria Blocker, moved closer, and the officer climbed into the back seat of the car. Moments later, the camera shook and the video ended.

    “That was the officer trying to grab my phone,” Blocker later told ABC affiliate WPLG. “He snatched my arm, so I snatched back.”

    Police told her to delete the video or she would be arrested, said Blocker, who refused to have her face shown on the ABC station’s camera.

    She didn’t delete the video, but instead a friend, Marilyn Smith, posted it online, where it quickly went viral and prompted a police investigation.

    “The cop told him he didn’t have to tell him why he was being arrested, and the officer jumped in the car, got on him and hit the man a couple of times,” Blocker told the AP.


    The officer who appears in the video has been relieved of his duties, according to Miami police, and his gun and badge have been taken away while the investigation is pending.

    But the Miami Fraternal Order of Police is focused on an entirely different issue.

    In a statement, the police union said “social media has placed a very negative tone on law enforcement nationwide” and that the officer in question was “protecting our community.”

    The remainder of the union’s statement focused on criticizing Smith, the woman who at the time they believed recorded the video. It highlighted screenshots of Smith’s Facebook page and accused her of posting photos of herself with men who have handguns.

    “It seems that no one cares to address this,” Lt. Javier Ortiz, the union’s president, said in the statement. “Social media has focused so much on #blacklifematters/alllifematters campaigns, yet nobody targets the root of the problem our community faces today.”

    The man arrested in the video has been released from custody, WPLG reported. “The video will have to speak for itself,” the man told the station.

    Police have not said what he was charged with.

    They also haven’t identified the officer.

    “We have seen the video, and we have launched a full Internal Affairs investigation into the matter,” Miami Police Maj. Delrish Moss told the Maimi Herald. “We take that responsibility very seriously. The officer involved in the incident will be relieved of duty as we investigate.”

    Ortiz, the union president, said that “if the police officer has done something not within policy, it must be corrected,” but added that “there is a much more serious message by this video poster.”

    “Our community has accepted behavior that motivates violence in our younger generation. It’s time for the community to take a stand against this reckless behavior and stop the violence,” he continued. “As the saying goes: It takes a village to raise a child. Guns don’t belong in the hands of children.”

    Video recordings by bystanders have been at the center of several cases in which officers have been accused of using excessive force in their interactions with the public — black men in particular.

    A New York police officer was recorded using a chokehold to arrest Eric Garner, a black man from Staten Island, who died. That officer was not charged with Garner’s death.

    But the man who recorded the video, Ramsey Orta, has said that since then, he has been harassed by police.

    And in South Carolina, a North Charleston police officer was recorded shooting a fleeing black man in the back. That officer, Michael Slager, was charged with murder in the killing of Walter Scott.

    This is not the first time Ortiz has delved into the issue of recordings involving police officers. Last year, after Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa told a local television station that he was surprised that the officer in the Garner case had not been indicted, Ortiz released a statement detailing the reasons why Garner should not have resisted arrest.

    “Chief Orosa’s statement that he believes that New York police officers will most likely be indicted at the federal level has absolutely no basis,” Ortiz wrote in a letter to the station. “It might sound good for the audience he may be trying to impress, but it is absolutely not true. ”

    Recording police encounters with citizens is perfectly legal, and an officer can’t force a person to delete the video.

    In this case, Blocker’s video was viewed more than 80,000 times within hours of it going online, according to the AP. It has since been removed from Facebook.


  • Laverne9x7
    Laverne9x7 Members Posts: 47
    Hmm something to think about.


    Having more black cops won't solve this issue but rewarding those cops who do good will.
    Look at the records of corrupt cops.......
  • Splackavelli
    Splackavelli Members Posts: 18,806 ✭✭✭✭✭
    man its been 3 days and only 5 responses. where are all the keyboard revolotionaries now? wheres fake outrage. oh I guess because the cop was black its okay for him to go upside a ? head for no reason.
  • gh0st
    gh0st Members Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    man its been 3 days and only 5 responses. where are all the keyboard revolotionaries now? wheres fake outrage. oh I guess because the cop was black its okay for him to go upside a ? head for no reason.

    nah not even that fam' speaking for my self; I'm just getting numb to this ? . I'm on some redman time for some action ? . But when i try to talk to family and friends about boycotts or organized shows of force suddenly I'm militant or "angry" i'm looking at my people like why the ? aren't you?!
    to quote Superfly:
    "I ain't givin' you ? ! I'll tell you what you do, you go get you a gun and all those black folks you keep doin' so much talkin' about get guns, and come back ready to go down, then I'll be right down front killin' whitey. But until you can do that, you go sing your marching songs some place else. Now we're through talkin'."

    yeah that's how i been feeling lately
  • Copper
    Copper Members Posts: 49,532 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2015
    More black cops has never been the answer

    Holding cops accountable, firing unstable cops and proper training >>>
  • Copper
    Copper Members Posts: 49,532 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That fraternal order of police response statement is disgusting