Another day. Another vicious beating of someone by police. It’s almost as unnewsworthy as Trump saying something stupid. And yet, and yet… Is it ever going to stop (at least there’s some hope that we stop hearing Trump saying stupid things after November 6th) ?
Do we have to wait a hundred years for our descendants to look back at us as we look back on cruel slave owners whipping their slaves, raping and killing them? With videos such as this to illustrate the insanity of the early 21st century in America?
The first video shows an initial, apparently unprovoked, attack on a 22 year old man named Alejandro Rojo. It takes place in a store in Murietta, CA by a police officer called into the emporium because the man had been acting strangely. Judge for yourself.
The second shows police officers beating on and kicking the man outside the store; more and more officers arrive and they continue their vicious attack, again for no apparent reason. The videographer keeps saying “Oh my God!.” Someone else witnessing the attack observes that this is why officers are referred to as “pigs,” “Hating to say it” because her nephew is an officer.
The title is a quote from the police report which, unsurprisingly, has descriptions of the incident which in no way match what the video shows.