Posted on 02/16/2014 11:22:31 AM PST by Altariel
MOORE, Oklahoma - Three Moore Police officers were put on administrative leave while detective investigate an in-custody death from overnight. The family of the man who died said police beat him badly and they recorded it with a cell phone camera.
Nair Rodriguez and her daughter Lunahi told News 9 they got into an argument at the Warren Theater around midnight. Nair said she slapped her daughter then stormed away. Her husband, Luis, chased after her. That was when the family said officers confronted Luis Rodriguez and asked to see his identification.
According to Lunahi and Nair, he tried to bypass the officers to stop his wife from driving off because she was so angry. They said officers took him down and it escalated.
Lunahi Rodriguez said that five officers beat her father to death right in front of her, in the parking lot of the movie theater.
"When they flipped him over you could see all the blood on his face, it was, he was disfigured, you couldn't recognize him."
By the time it was all over, Nair Rodriguez said that she knew her husband was dead.
"I saw him. His [motionless] body when people carry it to the stretcher," she explained. "I knew that he was dead."
Nair says her husband was only trying to defuse the fight she was having with her daughter. She said when police asked her about it she told them what happened.
"I told them I hit her and he was just trying to reach me. Why didn't they arrest me?"
Lunahi added, "My mom was taking a video and asking, ‘What are they doing this for? Why?' And they didn't give really an explanation."
Rodriguez told News 9 that police took her phone with the recording on it. Another family member provided News 9 with an audio recording she said was taken when that happened. The family hoped Luis would pull through, so they waited for news at the hospital.
"Two hours passed. They finally called her up to say, 'Oh you could see him,' but it turned out it was a lie. They moved his body elsewhere," said Lunahi.
The family told News 9 they would hire an attorney.
While throwing a public temper tantrum is childish and inappropriate at best, it is not a major crime, any more than the chasing after to defuse the whole thing by the husband was. I remember when cops were admonished to not interfere in a domestic dispute that was not a knock-down drag-out unless they had been asked to do so by someone involved-but I’m sure it is a lot more fun for them to beat someone to death for arguing in public...
I have an awful Hispanic temper, but self control is possible for anyone-and it appears, safer in Moore, Oklahoma. I don’t like the use of lawsuits as a sovereign remedy, but I hope these cops not only lose their jobs, but that a judge and jury tear them a new one...
That would all be right and good for most of us but not for the Police. They are immune and the Law does not apply to them. Essentially they can kill or maim whomever they desire to kill or maim for good reasons or from whim.
Welcome to the Police state comrades.
Yeah, you are correct here. But it will never happen as the cops are immune to prosecution. And in the rare event that they are successfully sued, the government picks up the tab, and they never see a jail from the inside. The actual criminals here are never touched.
Seems to me it is about time that concerned citizens take a look into this behavior, and take action: preventative action; and retribution for past crimes.
I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. It is a testament to the law-abiding nature of the American people. When that character starts to change, I don't think the police or other powers that be are really going to enjoy it much.
“When that character starts to change, I don’t think the police or other powers that be are really going to enjoy it much.”
I am not sure that a character change is required. I think it is more of coming to a state of being totally fed-up with lawlessness on the part of government officials, LEO, and others that are sworn to uphold the law. When the ones that are tasked to uphold the law won’t/don’t, someone has to step in. And it will be, reluctantly but forcefully, the everyday American.
And you are right: the LEOs and other government officials will not like it... Not at all...
Yep, better obey Massah and hopefully Massah won’t beat you anyway....
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