‘We’re going to need medical': Colorado officer reminds fellow cop of body cam but he beats jailed man anyway
So a cop is arresting a guy and beats him as he yanks him out of the patrol car. He slams him on the pavement. Typical police brutality in America.
But after the arrest, the cop loses his shit and continues to violently assault the already arrested man. In the video (posted below) you can see him slam the man face first into a concrete block wall, bloodying (if not breaking his nose)
There is one mention of the arrestee 'lunging' at the cop but no further description of what that really meant. I put it in quotation marks because cops lie so often it's hardly prudent to take their word for it. Especially when somebody has been injured and they go into ass-covering mode. I could not see anything that looked like "lunging' to me.
This cop shows he doesn't care about all that.
Video later shows Magness flying into a rage after the man lunges at him inside a holding cell. Another officer reminds Magness that he is being recorded by body cam video, but Magness continues to beat the suspect.
The out of control officer is told that medical help is needed for the man but Magness accuses the man of 'resisting" (again with the resisting)
“I’m sorry sir,” the bloody man says as he is thrown into a chair. Magness ignores him, pressing his fingers into his eyes and temples.
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“I don’t care, strap him to the chair,” Magness says as the second officer again points to his body camera.
I know a lot of well-meaning and good people wish to put their faith into the camera, which cops do hate like certain unwanted bugs despise kitchen lights but they do not protect people from out-of-control cops.
Sure, they help get an officer fired and charged. That IS all well and good, but it does not protect a person during an arrest where all the damage is done. The camera records the man being violently beaten and injured and NOTHING helps stop this needless beating.
All the camera does is look and later - maybe - the cop(s) will get their wrists slapped or something.
Of course, this officer has previous complaints against him, with a $500 fine for needless aggression in a 2009 arrest but all he seems to have received was a slap on the wrist and got to keep his job. Hardly a deterrent.
Video: needless to say, it's violent so 'viewer discretion advised'.
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