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MoonRiver

(36,975 posts) Wed Jul 4, 2018, 10:18 AM Jul 2018

Police tackled him for stealing a car. It was his own. [View all]

Last edited Wed Jul 4, 2018, 01:24 PM - Edit history (1)

One cop joked he was "lucky" he wasn't shot!

I was face down on the pavement. One police officer was kneeing me in the back, while others pulled or punched. They paid no attention to my screams identifying myself as an engineering Ph.D. student at Northwestern University. They just kept punching. One shouted, "Stop resisting!"

The record is on the dash-cam footage: It's nighttime. I step out of my car, bewildered at being pulled over and surrounded by police vehicles in the college town I've lived in for years. I hold my hands up high, shocked to see several guns pointed at me. It turns out a fellow student had called the police to report that someone was trying to steal a car. That someone was me. The car was my own. I had a key.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-police-evanston-racial-profiling-black-man-0704-story.html?ref=yfp

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Police tackled him for stealing a car. It was his own. [View all] MoonRiver Jul 2018 OP

K&R... spanone Jul 2018 #1

This is so wrong. Thank you for posting and thank you to Lawrence Crosby for writing this. greatlaurel Jul 2018 #2

My husband just reminded me that a Holocaust denier MoonRiver Jul 2018 #4

Infuriating story by what seems to be a remarkable person Hav Jul 2018 #3

"Yes, you were unless you would have called the police for a white guy getting into his car as well" MoonRiver Jul 2018 #6

This is what happens when police depts. hire people that want nothing more than to be a cop. tonyt53 Jul 2018 #5

US police are so afraid they are taught to subdue the suspect by any means necessary and ask questio TrogL Jul 2018 #7

The man had his hands in the air! MoonRiver Jul 2018 #9

Doesn't matter TrogL Jul 2018 #11

Then why didn't they just immobilize his hands? MoonRiver Jul 2018 #18

That's the problem. The training takes away any discretion or common sense, PatrickforO Jul 2018 #22

K&R gademocrat7 Jul 2018 #8

It did not happen to me! MoonRiver Jul 2018 #10

"Stop resisting" as they kept punching...sounds like an excuse to keep punching. gtar100 Jul 2018 #12

sounds so ameriKKKan heaven05 Jul 2018 #13

No kidding. :( calimary Jul 2018 #14

I hope he sues them YessirAtsaFact Jul 2018 #15

This Person Can Have His Arrest Record Expunged dlk Jul 2018 #16

It happened in the '80s to Raider running back Marcus Allen on Rodeo Dr.. oasis Jul 2018 #17

Multiple police shouting orders "hands up", "get on the ground". Ohioboy Jul 2018 #19

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm disabled because of a knee injury and if cops came after me like this, PatrickforO Jul 2018 #21

Police need to be trained to stay calm. Ohioboy Jul 2018 #23

As a disabled person with limited mobility., Kittycow Jul 2018 #29

I guess 'dropping the dime' is getting to be a fad among PatrickforO Jul 2018 #20

Find a good lawyer. Sue the fuck outta them. It is going to be the only way Ferrets are Cool Jul 2018 #24

I hope he does! MoonRiver Jul 2018 #30

This doesn't happen to white people. Ferrets are Cool Jul 2018 #25

I blame it on the lack of the draft. If these people had served in the military with demigoddess Jul 2018 #26

That whole "Stop resisting" bullshit PatSeg Jul 2018 #27

for real NatBurner Jul 2018 #32

If this is what they do when they PatSeg Jul 2018 #33

. Coventina Jul 2018 #28

kick Demovictory9 Jul 2018 #31