Well.. My eyes tell me the TRUTH much more often than WORDS... Not to mention the independent variable of WHO might be speaking the words.
The video I saw showed a group of LEOs putting a man to the ground and holding their knee on his neck while he gasps for breath. Oh, and all because he was SELLING single cigarettes to passing foot traffic.
Don't tell me they couldn't have issued him a simple citation and NO physical altercation was necessary. You must be one of dunces that slo-mo'd the Rodney King beating and then saw something other than a man being beaten.
Did you even SEE the video. It was removed within an hour or two of being posted. It told me everything I needed to see and it was NOT edited from what I saw.
It's readily available on LiveLeak and YouTube.
It told me everything I needed to see and it was NOT edited from what I saw.
It has five blindingly obvious edits - edits that would be unsubtle on a CBS sitcom.
What you didn't see in the video:
Anyone punch him.
Anyone kick him.
Anyone hit him with a baton.
Anyone put a "knee on his neck."
What you did see: one cop put him in a submission hold (not a choke hold, because you can't shout and yell if you are in an actual choke hold).
Four cops putting body weight on him to keep him from taking a swing.
How would you arrest a 6'4" 350 lb man who didn't want to be arrested?
Tase him? Hit him with a nightstick?