Cops Caught on Video Holding a Black Army Lieutenant at Gunpoint, Then Pepper-Spraying Him.

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🚨Cops Caught on Video Holding a Black Army Lieutenant at Gunpoint, Then Pepper-Spraying Him.

When Lt. Caron Nazario said he was afraid to get out of the vehicle, one officer responded, “Yeah, you should be."

Cops Caught on Video Holding a Black Army Lieutenant at Gunpoint
When Lt. Caron Nazario said he was afraid to get out of the vehicle, one officer responded, “Yeah, you should be.
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11:58 AM · Apr 9, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dm3m/cops-caught-on-video-holding-a-black-army-lieutenant-at-gunpoint-then-pepper-spraying-him

Caron Nazario was driving his newly-purchased Chevy Tahoe home when two police officers pulled him over in Windsor, Virginia, whipped out their guns, and started barking orders.

With their weapons raised, the officers demanded that Nazario, a Black and Latino man, get out of the SUV. Nazario looked in the mirror and saw he was being held at gunpoint, then placed his cellphone on his dashboard to film the December 5 encounter. He repeatedly asked to know what was going on. At one point, he even admitted to being afraid to leave the vehicle.

“Yeah, you should be,” one of the officers responded.

Nazario, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, was coming home from work and in full uniform at the time.

“I’m serving this country, and this is how I’m treated?” Nazario told the officers, according to his cellphone video.

By the end of the incident, the cops would threaten Nazario, pepper-spray him in the face, and knee-strike him in the legs, according to body camera footage, Nazario’s cellphone video, and legal filings. Later, when Nazario was in tears and on the ground of a gas station parking lot as officers put him in handcuffs, he repeated, “This is fucked up, this is fucked up.”

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[Blue Owl]

1. Lawsuit time

Sue the living fuck outta those racist pricks and let them live homeless the rest of their lives

[sdfernando]

3. hell yes!!!

until these racist animals start paying a PERSONAL price for doing this shit...it will continue. There has been some headway in revoking qualified immunity...its a start.

I hope Lt. Nazario is OK and getting the support he needs.

[wryter2000]

8. Unfortunately

It's not a personal price. They don't pay. The municipality they work for does.

[groundloop]

20. The police department needs to do an infinitely better job of screening and training

The city needs to pay for this, then maybe, just maybe, cities will take note and rethink their hiring and training practices.

And the 'officers' involved should find work in another field.

[demigoddess]

24. they need to start taking it out of their pension funds, or their promotions.

make the actual people pay not the city.

[Rebl2]

28. Good idea

[dhol82]

29. Exactly!

That’s when it might make a difference.

[whathehell]

31. The pay if they lose their jobs

and even more so if they're criminally prosecuted.

[whathehell]

32. The pay if they lose their jobs..

and even more so if they're criminally prosecuted.

[SergeStorms]

37. They won't lose their jobs.

They may be fired from Police Force #1, but they'll be hired by the adjoining city's Police Force in a heartbeat. These Police Departments stick together so tightly you can't pry them apart, and their unions won't do a thing to the problem officers. It's almost impossible to be fired completely from Police work.

[uponit7771]

48. actually it looks like insurance companies do the paying.

[wryter2000]

54. I'm sure you're right

Maybe they should stop selling policies to repeat offending municipalities. Then, the loss would have to come out of their budgets.

[Cha]

2. Rt wtf! TY These cops should be brought up on charges!

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[blm]

4. Lock them up. This is why we kneel.

[Cha]

7. These cops stopped Nazario for

Driving while Black. And, then threatening him with destroying his career if he complained. They know they were wrong.

They've learned NOTHING! They need to be locked up.

[Mister Ed]

12. I think the specific unwritten statute he violated was

Driving a Nice New Car While Black.

[malaise]

27. You nailed it n/t

[Cha]

38. Yeah, I got a look at that

fancy car.

[Demsrule86]

57. One that they probably can afford and that just set them off... a Black man driving a car nicer

than they will ever own...brand new SUV.

[a kennedy]

5. I AM SO FAWKING SICK OF COPS DOING THIS KIND OF SHIT. 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Thrill]

6. How the fuck are you supposed to keep your hands up and get out of the vehicle

Man is fighting for his country and this is how he’s treated??

[mercuryblues]

45. That is

how they get you for resisting arrest and obstruction.

[MLAA]

9. Sure hope he sues the criminal cops.

[Wishful-Thinking]

10. WTF did they pull him over for? Driving a new car?

I’m a white baby boomer woman and I just don’t get it.... this is really awful and continues to disgust and sicken me. What can we semi woke white people do to benefit the situation? I’ve voted blue my whole life, donated more than I could afford, marched in protest many times but it’s nothing compared to the problem that is repeatedly revealed. I respond to these stories wanting to be violent to stop them so I can only imagine the hate, fear, and frustration anyone of color must feel. Damn this is a disgrace but that word isn’t strong enough.

[demigoddess]

26. I'm an old military brat and I don't get it. I feel safer than anywhere on a base, and that is

where you see black men carrying guns etc. I have never felt scared of a black man, armed or not. And my daughter, taught by a black woman when she was young, loves black people more than anyone.

[uponit7771]

49. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 Wifey and I have been talking about this forever. We're both black and we know

... why we felt safe with LEOs on base and its because they don't treat people who could be connected like bald heads.

That black person they harassed about a stupid light on the license plate being bright enough might be the niece of a brigadier general and then that's a cops ass.

The military IMHO can heal the country of this cop shit quick by telling that story

[demigoddess]

56. That guy getting pepper sprayed for having a new car really made me mad! He was polite and

honorable and the cops were just hoping to be able to shoot him. You could tell on the video. Armed cops in your face with pepper spray because of a sticker!!!!

[uponit7771]

58. +1, the murder cop even said something like "you better be" when the guy said he was scared ...

... and you could even see the damn sticker from the back of the window.

Just damn, on CNN they're talking about 'training" ... training my f**ckin ass it doesn't take a lot of training to tell these guys shouldn't pepper spray someone with their hands up !!

The there's felony coercion at the end

[d_r]

11. It would be impossible

To get past the unions, but the way to stop this shit would be to start taking away their pensions to pay for the lawsuits.

[dickthegrouch]

55. It just takes one courageous judge

To find the cop and the union guilty, and structure the damages award appropriately.

[stillcool]

13. thugs with a badge...

impossible to believe that the police in this country have not declared war on black people.

The officers were not “willing or able to articulate why they had initiated the traffic stop,” according to the lawsuit. Gutierrez told Nazario, who did not immediately get out of the car despite repeated orders to do so, that he was “fixin’ to ride the lightning,” according to body camera footage.

“This is a colloquial expression for an execution, originating from glib reference to execution by the electric chair,” the lawsuit alleges.

Gutierrez attempted to remove Nazario from the car with an “arm-bar,” but failed, according to the lawsuit. The officer pepper-sprayed Nazario in the face and continued to order him out of the SUV, body camera footage shows. The pepper spray caused Nazario’s dog, which was in a crate in the back of the vehicle, to start choking, according to the lawsuit.


Nazario was told that he could leave without charges if he would “chill and let this go,” according to the lawsuit—or, he could be charged, have to go to court, and face the consequences in his military career.

[niyad]

22. So the Lt. can add animal abuse to his lawsuit.

[flying_wahini]

14. When lawsuits against this type of corruption comes out of the policeman's group retirement fund

It will stop. Not the municipal local taxpayers but the Cops themselves.

You would see a lot more cops policing themselves before this kind of shit gets out of hand.

[Luciferous]

30. Yep, until they are held personally responsible this shit won't stop.

[uponit7771]

47. +1, or buy stock in the insurance companies that back them and then sue the insurance companies

... for fud violations.

I don't know why someone hasn't done this just thing

[japple]

15. I thought I heard him say something about his dog. Was there a pet in the car

with him?

[niyad]

23. See post 13.

[left-of-center2012]

16. A lot more here from ABC news

Lawsuit: Virginia police officers threatened man during stop

A second lieutenant in the U.S. Army is suing two Virginia police officers over a traffic stop during which the officers drew their guns, pointed them at him and used a slang term to suggest he was facing execution

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lawsuit-virginia-police-officers-threatened-man-stop-76982103

[PNW-Dem]

17. Insane and disgraceful

I hope his lawsuit is crowdfunded. I will contribute.

This crap has to stop!

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. Could hardly be more appalling...unless you ask George Floyd's family.

[Iggo]

19. Well to be fair, they were cops and he was black, so...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. ACAB.

[malaise]

25. How dare he have a new SUV?

That is all

[AverageOldGuy]

33. Furthermore, he should know . . .

. . . that Driving While Black is a capital offense in some places.

[ShazzieB]

35. Effing GD assholes with badges! 🤬

[Dawson Leery]

36. These subterranean PIGS are why Kaepernick kneels in protest.

Fire them (the overpaid scumbags are fleecing the taxpayer) and bust their "union".

[jmowreader]

39. "Ride the lightning" is also slang for a tazing

Both officers need to be decertified, for one thing.

[True Dough]

42. Thanks for that

I Googled it and found that it meant a trip to the electric chair. Your explanation fits better.

[sop]

40. Cops feel invulnerable when brutalizing blacks, even their body cams haven't curbed the violence.

These police officers approached Nazario's vehicle in the same manner Minneapolis police confronted George Floyd's Mercedes SUV: guns drawn, screaming conflicting orders, demanding immediate compliance, threatening violence if disobeyed, eager to brutalize and punish. I can't even imagine how it must feel to be a black man in this country today, at the mercy of these police thugs with guns and badges. It is sickening to watch.

[panader0]

41. I thought he showed remarkable poise. Impressive.

He gave the police zero reason to get as crazy as they did. There's nothing the police lawyer
can point to as provocation.

[Kid Berwyn]

43. The Lieutenant seems to be an excellent US Army officer.

The two “policemen” should spend 10 years behind bars to learn shame.

[electric_blue68]

44. Into the clinker you bully bastards!

Life forbid you are a Black man driving a nice new car!
And the man is serving his/our country, tio..

Infuriating!

Very much like the suggestions or taking pension monies
or something similar from their own pay etc

If nothing else self interest might make them behave!

[EndlessWire]

46. Just disgusting.

I never got over the man who was with his family and got his arm shredded, and then died because of it. This was all because a boneheaded, cowardly cop was afraid of him. The man had informed the cop that he had a legal-carry weapon in his vehicle. So, the Black man had been trying to do the right thing, and cooperating, but died anyway. No excuse for this.

There doesn't seem to be any reason for the stop of this latest victim, except that he was driving a new vehicle. Nothing else has been mentioned. Gads, this has got to stop! Cops with hair triggers can kill people with no reason.

We haven't yet entered the time when cops can just stop you, have we? Don't they still have to have a probable cause? They are going to look stupid in court:

Judge: Why did you stop him?
Cops: He was driving a new car.
Judge: Wut?

Why should Black people have to have a new car actually delivered to them, instead of just driving off in it like White people? DWB seems to be a real thing. And, cops have to be educated that yes, indeed, Black people have money.

Thank you for your service, Lt. Go get them in court. This has got to stop.

[uponit7771]

50. Uh, yeah "chill and let this go," ... that sounds like a felony coercion. Hmmm, yeah ...

... that LT is about to get paid

[uponit7771]

51. "The temporary tags are visible in the body camera footage. " FUCKIN WOW !!! Racist assed cops

[cilla4progress]

52. Sue the asses off

the whole bunch of them.

I'm raging.

Thank you, Lt. Nazario: the nation appreciates your service and apologizes - though it could never be enough.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

53. These cops need to be fired

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