Cops beat some black dude in New orleans.
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051010...s_taped_beating


NEW ORLEANS - Two New Orleans police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations.


After being questioned, the three officers were arrested late Sunday and charged with battery. They were then released and ordered to appear in court at a later date, Capt. Marlon Defillo said.

"We have great concern with what we saw this morning," Defillo said after he and about a dozen other high-ranking police department officials watched the APTN footage Sunday. "It's a troubling tape, no doubt about it. ... This department will take immediate action."

The assaults come as the department, long plagued by allegations of brutality and corruption, struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the resignation last month of Police Superintendent Eddie Compass.

The APTN tape shows an officer hitting the man at least four times in the head Saturday night as he stood outside a bar near Bourbon Street. The suspect, Robert Davis, appeared to resist, twisting and flailing as he was dragged to the ground by four officers. Another of the four officers then kneed Davis and punched him twice. Davis was face-down on the sidewalk with blood streaming down his arm and into the gutter.

Meanwhile, a fifth officer ordered APTN producer Rich Matthews and the cameraman to stop recording. When Matthews held up his credentials and explained he was working, the officer grabbed the producer, leaned him backward over a car, jabbed him in the stomach and unleashed a profanity-laced tirade.

"I've been here for six weeks trying to keep ... alive. ... Go home!" shouted the officer, who later identified himself as S.M. Smith.

Police said Davis, 64, of New Orleans, was booked on public intoxication, resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and public intimidation. He was treated at a hospital and released into police custody.

A mug shot of Davis, provided by a jailer, showed him with his right eye swollen shut, an apparent abrasion on the left side of his neck and a cut on his right temple.

"The incidents taped by our cameraman are extremely troubling," said Mike Silverman, AP's managing editor. "We are heartened that the police department is taking them seriously and promising a thorough investigation."

Davis, who is black, was subdued at the intersection of Conti and Bourbon streets. Three of the officers appeared to be white, and the other is light skinned. The officer who hit Matthews is white. Defillo said race was not an issue.

Three of the five officers — including Smith — are New Orleans officers, and two others appeared to be federal officers. Numerous agencies have sent police to help with patrols in the aftermath of Katrina.

Under normal circumstances, it takes unusually offensive behavior to trigger an arrest on Bourbon Street. But New Orleans police have been working under stressful conditions since the hurricane.

Officers slept in their cars and worked 24-hour shifts after the storm. Three-quarters lost their homes and their families are scattered across the country.

"Our police officers are working under some very trying times," Defillo said. "So it's a difficult time, but it doesn't excuse what our jobs are supposed to be."

Many officers deserted their posts in the days after Katrina, and some were accused of joining in the looting that broke out. At least two committed suicide.

Conditions have improved — officers now have beds on a cruise ship — but they don't have private rooms and are still working five, 12-hour days.

Compass, the police superintendent, resigned Sept. 27. Despite more than 10 years of reform efforts dating to before he took office, police were dogged by allegations of brutality and corruption.

On Friday, state authorities said they were investigating allegations that New Orleans police broke into a dealership and made off with nearly 200 cars — including 41 new Cadillacs — as the storm closed in.


the world's fucked up.

Damn. :(
Poooooooooop for him.

If these cops don't get fired or nothing, that's messed up.

Just because you're out there helping and getting stressed out, it doesn't mean you can take it out on a 64 year old man. Now not just any man. But a black man getting beaten by white cops. Sounds kinda familiar to me.

*waits for moron to say "GOD punished that guy cuz he was prolly some sorta FAGGIT"*


pssf


daz how dumb people are on this site

wow thats low
65?
dudes old too

I saw a video Of Guys Getni shot by cops. For runnin in the opposite direction of a mall.

damn, I bet they was white.

I Knew It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

idk shit like this happens all the time.... its just not brought to our attention.. but because its in new orleans its getting more publicity...

I'll stab you with the sharpest knife I can grab
Come back the next week and re-open your scab

no, shit like that DONT happen all the time.
where do 3 white men beat 64 year old black men till they're bleeding in the street all the time at?

America ?

you must not be from America.

no.. why is the word black even brought in to this?? if i white dude gets beat.. its just a dude getting beat.. Police Brutality is everywhere.. wether u want to turn this in to a racial issue or not..I dont see it having anything to do with race..

because it DOES have to do it race.
3 black men wouldnt have beat the 64 year old black man.
3 black men wouldnt have beat a 64 year old white man eithe.
only 3 white men would do this.

lol @ ur ignorance..

ignorance?
its the fuckin truth,
ASK EVERYONE BLACK PERSON ON THE SITE.,
You obviously are white and are gettin offended.
but 3 black men wouldnt have beaten a 64 year old man.
thats some some white shit.
shit only white people would do.
dont say its ignorant because you dont want to acknowledge the truth

i aint even black and i agree with will. sorry guys. argue if you want, thats jus my opinion.

^thank you.
you obviously have soul
*raises right hand*

LoL. you crazy.

throw up a fist for black power. cause all we want is this freedom.

thats Nas fools

Will S.Unyu is and Implicit are only ppl chatting sensical shit in dis thread

"not about race"<--------------YOU ARE SOOOOO NAIVE

i love ppl who go off this "world is equal now, racism dead, prejudice obliterated" type crap....believe me i wish it was true but as a black man i KNOW it is nothing more than eutopian, naive and wishful thinking...1

you have soul....LMAO reminded me of Undercover Brother..LMAO...classic

yeah, thats what I had in mind.
when he had to do the handshake to get in the door.
lol

Ha Ha Ha. Yes! I got soul!!!!!

LMAO tats what im talking about...that film has too many quotables...SOLIIIID!!!!

no.. its like this... i'm not saying there is no racism.. and that mean getting beat.. very well could've been due to racism.. but no one in the article does it say so.. there was even a light skinned police officer involved.. im just not soo touchy on the subject that everytime i see a white on black crime.. it has to due with racism.. cause its not always the case.. and i was saying lol @ your ignorance at stereotyping whites.. saying only a white man would do something like that.. so Will are there no black on white crimes? really is that what ur trying to say.. cause if it is.. lol @ ur ignorance..

you wont find 3 black police officiers beatin a 64 year old man.
It has NEVER happened in the history of America.

and there was no light skinned black man beatin anyone!

alrite sounds good..

That's not fair to say.

There are good and bad people in every race.. I'm willing to bet I could find 3 black men who would do that in this country.

Oh, and about the "not about race" shit. It probably is.

But the point is, there are racists in the black and white races.. so claiming that only white men could pull off such a task is illogical. And saying I should ask every black person on this site is just retarded in itself.. I don't know ANY white person that would pull that off, but it happened. No black person on this site can truthfully know that NO black men would ever pull off beating up an old white dude.

You didn't say before that it had never happened. You said it never WILL happen.. which you can't say with any confidence because nobody here has the power to see into the future.

no, actually I didnt say it never WILL happen, you mondo bitch!!
:mad:

Mim thank you for your better wording skills.. thats what i was trying to say.. but obviously wording it wrong and make myself look like an insecure white person..

probably deserved it lootin n shit

you can't just assume what 3 individuals would do in any case involving humans because we have such strong emotions. if u havent noticed, it's hard to predict what human beings will do in any situation.

i'm completely basing this on observations i have made of your ignorance and racist beliefs, but....if you and two of your clones, who also happen to be cops, saw a white man who was drunk and resisting arrest, to me it seems as if you would beat the living hell out of the man because you feel as if the white man has suppressed you as well as your people for years.

i know you're gunna say sumthin like "you can't say that, because you don't even know me!".. well guess what?? you don't know the 3 black cops who may or may not beat the one black/white man who was breaking the law in your hypothetical situation...so i must add this: shut up, hypocrite

yes, but that's bringing up an entirely different issue...how many times have you seen 3 black police officers together at one time?? this could be due to many different things, but if there were 3 black cops working together, who are you to say they wouldnt beat anyone??

yea i seen this one the news......

and was stunned....

did you see the video?
he was on the sidewalk and they had him hemmed up punchin him in the back of the head
then they threw him on the ground and started punchin him and twistin his legs
and afterwards he was a bloody mess.
he wasnt lottin nothin at all!

this was the dumbest post, EVER. You did alot of ramblin and made arguments that didnt make sense. Yo dumbass are makin assumptions that doesnt make sense. you're super dumb, REALLY, Me and 2 other cops would beat a drunk 64 year old white man just because we can? NO, The observations of my ignorance and my racist beliefs make you a dumbass(im usin this word alot, because it describes you very well).
and then you call me a hypocrit because you're sayin I will do the same thing based on your assumptions?
wow, you're a dumbass, Im not a hypocrit until I ACTUALLY beat a 64 year old drunk white men ass.
dumbass!