Man Beaten and Arrested for Yelling "Do Your %#&*% Job" at Miami Cop

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Jose Farquaharson was standing on a street corner in Overtown one night in 2015 when a car sped past him. The 42-year-old says he shouted to two Miami Police officers across the road: "Do your fucking job and stop the cars from speeding!"

Farquaharson says one of the cops, Luis Arcia, ran across the street and yelled back at him to "kiss my ass." The officer grabbed Farquaharson by the wrist, threw him to the ground, and cuffed one of his hands. Then, Farquaharson says, Arcia punched him several times in the face, beating him so badly he required hospitalization.

Farquaharson ... was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, but the charges were dropped the next day. Three years after the horrific incident, he's now suing (officer) Arcia and the City of Miami for false arrest and excessive force in a case filed last week in Miami federal court.

As of 2016, Arcia had received four citizen complaints, had seven use-of-force incidents on record, and had once been relieved of duty. Farquaharson's attorney, Roderick Vereen says what the officer did to Farquaharson is symptomatic of how Miami cops treat Overtown residents.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/man-beaten-arrested-for-yelling-do-your-fucking-job-at-miami-cop-10562593

[2naSalit]

1. Aparently they think their job is to beat POC.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Link to this story:

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/man-beaten-arrested-for-yelling-do-your-fucking-job-at-miami-cop-10562593

[tblue37]

3. K&R for visibility. nt

[Downtown Hound]

4. What I'm really sick of is incidents like these only being dealt with in civil court

These are crimes. These are straight up assaults on the American public. If I assaulted somebody like that I would go to jail and probably have a felony on my record. It should be no different for the police.

[Ponietz]

5. Dopers in Uniform?

John Hoberman, a professor at the University of Texas–Austin, has written extensively on steroid use, primarily among athletes. In Dopers in Uniform, he turns his attention to another population: police officers. There is no way to know for sure how many cops use anabolic steroids to bulk up and project strength, but after sifting through mountains of anecdotal evidence and preliminary investigations, Hoberman conservatively estimates that there are thousands, "probably tens of thousands," of officers who do. There is no definitive proof that steroids cause violent, erratic behavior, but the two are definitely correlated, and this fact alone, in Hoberman's view, is reason enough for police forces to implement zero-tolerance policies on steroid use. Easier said than done, of course: Hoberman notes that, while the U.S. military has such a policy, steroid use remains a barely concealed fixture of military life.


https://psmag.com/magazine/the-hidden-world-of-police-on-steroids
https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/hoberman-dopers-in-uniform