Posted on 05/06/2022 12:39:23 PM PDT by simpson96
Police said Berris McKenzie was struck three times before an officer was able to handcuff him
A Florida man says Lauderhill Police went too far when they repeatedly used a Taser on him for loitering outside a convenience store.
As reported by WSVN, police say, Berris McKenzie, 64, was warned multiple times about selling coconuts and sugarcane from his van in the parking lot of Kwik Stop Food Store on Northwest 16th Avenue. McKenzie doesn’t have a permit to sell his goods.
“It’s against city ordinance to be selling items or conducting business without going through the city for a permit,” said Lauderhill Police Maj. Mike Santiago, according to the report.
On the day of his arrest, officers spotted McKenzie once again in the parking of the store before asking him to leave. “Wrap it up, boss, wrap it up,” said an officer was recorded saying on body cam, but McKenzie ignored the request.
“The cops approach me and say, ‘What did I tell you?’ I replied, ‘Officer, it’s you again, man? Can’t you give me a break? I just got here because someone called me, so just relax,’” McKenzie told the news outlet.
“Now I’m upset, so I used two Jamaican curse words and tell (him) to go look for some thieves who are selling coke and crack and leave me alone,” he said.
The bodycam footage reportedly shows McKenzie asking the officer to give him a break. But when he was asked for ID, police say McKenzie locked himself in his van. After several moments, he exited the vehicle but then ignored the officer’s commands to stop.
“The individual began screaming, became very non-compliant,” said Lauderhill Police Maj. Mike Santiago.
“Do you wanna get tased? Do you wanna get tased?” WSVN reports the officer said to McKenzie.
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A member of the deep state enforcing state theft with violence.
Is McKenzie an illegal alien?
Lauderhill Police went too far ?
The perp is lucky he wasn’t in Polk county. Grady’s boys would have unloaded...
5.56mm
I don’t understand the problem needing a taser.
Just arrest the man.
And DON’T EVEN think about setting up a lemonade stand!!
Once cops have RAS, reasonable articulable suspicion that the guy has or is about to commitva crime (selling without a permit), he must follow lawful orders such as show id or exit the vehicle. Guy will lose this one.
He forgot the free donuts. Cops always look the other way for free donuts.
Blood fyah bumboclaat..
Cops do not like that. I think I got a few more miles per hour on a speeding ticket because I asked him why he wasn't chasing crack dealers.
ha!!!
I once said “ you’re in Woodbridge Virginia, you sure you can’t find someone committing a real crime?”
PoPo no likey.
First they came for the coconut and sugar cane vendors and I ignored it....
1000 dentists agree that illegal sugarcane trade is a menace to our children.
If so, he could have gone down and got a peddlers license and the cops couldnt do a GD thing to him.
I'm kidding you say? Go check it out.
Possibly selling stolen items from shoplifting or stealing. It’s very common.
“Wrap it up, boss, wrap it up,” said an officer was recorded saying on body cam, but McKenzie ignored the request. “
That was the gift horse that this guy thought it would be smart to stick in the eye with a hot poker.
No sympathy
When legislators decide who can buy and sell the first thing bought and sold is legislators
Have you ever tried to get one of these permits? You sometimes have to apply and be turned down many many times before you “might” get one. And each time there is an application filing fee non refundable. If for some reason they decide you will never get one then you will NEVER get one, but they will gladly let you apply over and over and over even though they never plan to ever give you one.
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