Phonenix Police & Police Brutality

[irisblue]

:: Time for Brutal Cops to realize that you are always being recorded::

Source--https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-shoplifting-video-brutality-family-files-claim-11312081
more at the article


The videos, 2 different people,so 2 angles, cause a cop point a weapon at a woman holding a 1yr old is nausea producing.

Meg O'Connor (@megoconnor13) Tweeted:
"My hands are up! My hands are up!" 22yo Dravon Ames says as a Phoenix police officer yells to "get your fucking hands up." The same officer later says "You're gonna fucking get shot!"

Ames says the officers stopped him after his child walked out of a Dollar Store with a doll. https://t.co/Nlkd7IXsyc

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Meg O'Connor (@megoconnor13) Tweeted:
Another angle of the incident filmed by a different resident of the apartment complex where Ames and his pregnant fiancee were dropping off their kids with a babysitter show a Phoenix police officer trying to yank the child from the mother's arms. https://t.co/pTb07lZAXD

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Meg O'Connor (@megoconnor13) Tweeted:
Phoenix police said they are investigating and confirmed this all took place over a shoplifting incident.
https://t.co/X26bV3pqWJ

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. Why did they draw their guns??

Was the person armed or something? If not, then there is zero excuse to point a firearm with live rounds at an unarmed man holding a child. If I were the victim, I'd sue the fuck out of them!

[irisblue]

7. I'm going to bet that the cops in this video thought they could treat POC like that

From the article..."The first officer grabbed the mother and the baby around both of their necks, and tried to take the baby out of the mother's hand. He told her to put the baby on the ground, which she was unwilling to do because the baby could not walk, and the ground consisted of hot pavement," the notice of claim states.
I know, hard to imagine a cop being brutal...( )

[Dennis Donovan]

8. Is meaningful police training non-existent nowadays?

What animals!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Truth be known,

lots of Disciplined and forced to resign Officers end up in Arizona or New Mexico.

[irisblue]

3. The families Attorney

From the article
..."family in the video — Dravon Ames, his pregnant fiancée, Iesha Harper, and their two young children — have filed a notice of claim against the city of Phoenix. The family is seeking $10 million in damages. Former Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is representing the family."


yeah.

[uponit7771]

6. ..👍🏼

[Moostache]

4. This is my response to the "Blue Lives Matter" asshats...

IF you truly support the police, then when assholes like these are caught on film being assholes, you cut them loose and make them pay for their actions.

You don't excuse them because its "a hard job".
You don't ignore the fact that this happens disproportionally to minority 'suspects'.
You don't blame the victim as a way to excuse such aberrant behavior.

You speak up loudly and clearly and demand those officers lose their jobs and are prevented from any future role in law enforcement as they are 100% unfit for duty or to carry a firearm with authority to kill.

I am tired of seeing these kind of videos and the only solace here (at all) is that these people were not the latest victims to die at the wrong end of an over zealous, bigoted policeman's gun.

[uponit7771]

5. More thug cops, tap thier pensions I bet shit changes quick

[gratuitous]

9. Damn

Here's what I'm thinking as the taping begins. You can hear the cops, clearly ready to rumble, yelling and swearing, and the person with the camera approaches cautiously (as he or she should). Considering the stories of people getting shot while holding a cell phone, taping this was an act of bravery comparable to any soldier at war charging an entrenched position. Except the camera operator isn't armed, and isn't being backed up by the rest of his armed squad.

[irisblue]

10. And more info. IMO, this is not going to end well for the Chief of Police

Source--

azfamily 3TV CBS 5 (@azfamily) Tweeted:
Family to sue Phoenix PD for $10 million over officers' response to a report about stolen doll
https://t.co/d8pGHnVSyW https://t.co/G3V1CR2xc5

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more at article...


snip--Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams posted a video to Facebook on Friday afternoon reacting to what happened.

"I, like you, am disturbed by the language and the actions of our officer," said Williams in the video.

She said an internal investigation is underway
"I stand by my commitment of transparency and accountability as we continue to complete this internal investigation," said Williams."

This will not be going away quietly