Cops severely injure Black Friday shoplifter (graphic)

[Courtesy Flush]

Run time: 02:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE03xl9cUns   Posted on YouTube: November 25, 2011 By YouTube Member: dchadd427 Views on YouTube: 3987   Posted on DU: November 25, 2011 By DU Member: Courtesy Flush Views on DU: 8115

 
The actual assault was not caught on video. The comments from the crowd tell what happened.

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Maybe I am wrong, but..

it is not "shoplifting" until you LEAVE the store without paying... if this guy was slammed down while IN the store, that will be a million dollar lawsuit.

[Courtesy Flush]

2. Not sure where they are

They could be in the mall's common area, outside the store. Really can't tell from the video. Regardless, the force was excessive for a perp who posed no threat to anyone.

[kickysnana]

5. They are in the Electronics dept -- crowd started ripping open closed pkgs of mdse

He put the DVD? in his waistband to pull his grandson out of the middle of it and was body slammed per another news article on DU.

[Marnie]

27. But you don't know he was a perp.

That's the initial error of judgement these "Peace Keepers" made. He apparently wasn't.

[HereSince1628]

3. I'm sure that made some shoppers feel secure and welcome.

Really, truly! For once I am not being sarcastic.

[PatrynXX]

18. can't imagine Winona Ryder being body slammed

you can bet she'd be suing for sure then. I asked my brother who used to work for Sears and Target, with Sears it wasn't shoplifting until you left the store. Then it was a gray area if you left into the mall. Which ended up more common sense first. Theoretically if the grandson was on the floor in front of the games and being stepped on then theres no way he'd be in the mall area. Thus the shoplifting offense is off the table. He must have said something rash considering everyones stepping on his grandson and the cops were more interested in him so the cops took offense and lost their mind. There is no shoplifting here.

[sce56]

4. Modern Police tactics beat first ask questions later!

[ZombieHorde]

6. Wow, the police really fucked that guy up. nt

[sandyj999]

7. This is disgusting. These cops are out of control all over this country. Very frightening.

And if this is the same person in the other article on DU they had no right to do this. I would sue their sorry asses.

[progressoid]

8. To protect and serve...the Walmart Corporation.

[Jumping John]

9. I think shop lifting is trying to leave the store with the merchandise. eom

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. If this is the same incident, I'm not convinced shoplifter is the correct way to identify the victim

[Courtesy Flush]

16. Sorry. That's the word the witnesses were using. Nt

[limpyhobbler]

11. This happens all the time but now people have cameras in their

phones, so that's why things will start changing hopefully. Something like this happened to a buddy of mine maybe 20 years ago, when he was stealing fruit from a grocery store.

[EC]

12. Should they have been moving him around like that?

Without a neck brace or having been checked by an EMT?

[JBoy]

14. I noticed their priority the whole time seemed to be getting the cuffs on.

And they never came off.

[EC]

15. Getting the cuffs on and wiping the blood off.

So it wouldn't look so bad when help did get there?

[Marnie]

29. That and cleaning up the mess.

This video was taken after one of the cops had seen the blood worked his way through the crowds and gone to a supply closet and gotten a roll paper towels and had worked his way back through the crowd. In that amount of time if they, the pigs, had been on their phones that would have had multiple cop cars on the scene and EMS on the way and maybe already there.

Their primary interest after they had him unconscious was to cuff a guy who was totally limp, clean up the floor and clean up his face. CYA

Disgusting, shameful, and scarey as hell because that can happen to anyone anytime.

[Marnie]

28. My thoughts exactly.

[spedtr90]

13. body-slammed by police while shopping with grandson (link to text story)

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/25/police-body-slam-leaves-grandpa-bloody-unconscious-at-wal-mart/

[iamthebandfanman]

17. you definitely have to leave the store to be shoplifting.

i had someone at the local walmart tell me that at their store that even included the parking lot.. told me the story of a couple that decided to walk out of the building with a TV in their cart that they hadnt payed for... they watched them the entire time and even called the police when they noticed they werent going to pay..

officers showed up and stayed out of sight and watched them put it into their trunk and try to drive off... they arrested them directly outside the parking lot

[DreamSmoker]

33. Agreed..

Yes you have to leave the Building to be shop lifting..
Don't see these Guards tackling anyone who is eating
Food they have not payed for yet..

[PDJane]

19. That's what a police state looks like.

And I'm glad my neighbour, an elderly woman, is too sick to have gone shopping with her daughter, an ex-pat Canadian.

That's insanity.

[Lil Missy]

20. That is awful. ;(

[RowdyRacer]

21. I NEVER shop at WalMart,

under any circumstances. They have played a big role in turning this country into the shithole that it is.

[tomm2thumbs]

23. Ya Sure? Not even for $2 Waffle Irons?? ** VIDEO **

If Only They Fought As Hard For Health Care vs $2 Waffle Irons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf1QahyOccQ

[Flatulo]

37. Man, that is just nuts. I had to chuckle at the hefty blonde who's pants were falling off

exposing some weapons-grade ass crack.

[Renew Deal]

22. What happened there?

There has to be surveilance in the mall, but there aren't many excuses for that sort of thing.

[Maine-ah]

24. where the fuck are the EMT's

all these people with cell phones, did anyone call 911?

[osteenq]

25. Even if...

...he was stuffing handfuls of merchandise into a duffel bag and loudly announcing to everyone present, "I'm gonna steal this here stuff!", tackling him/body slamming him onto the concrete floor was unnecessary.

It was an older, not very large guy there with his grandson.

Large pool of blood under his head there. Nice job, assholes.

[Marnie]

26. Firstly. Why was it necessary to ue this kind of force against

a person who they presumed was committing a non violent, non threatening crime?

Secondly, where was the first aide training? They were drowning the man in his own blood.

Thirdly,since he probably also had a concussion (Severe limpness would seem to be a pretty obvious hint.), their yanking him around like that definitely made it worse.

Fourthly who was calling 911? Emergency vehicles respond extremely quickly, and in large numbers to potential dangers in situations where there are lots of people who might be injured.

Fifthly, where were store management and store employees? Does that store not have coded alerts to call out to their staff?

Fifthly who was making sure this man's grandson wasn't abducted during the confusion they created?

These monkeys in uniform did just about everything wrong that could possibly be done wrong.

So do we all feel safer being protected by ill trained steroid crazed zoo escapees just because their shirts say "Police?"

[ooglymoogly]

30. To call this man a shoplifter before adjudication is libelous.

[Dutchmaster]

31. Glad to see the people in the crowd giving the thugcops shit

[RSillsbee]

38. I was thinking the same thing NT

[axollot]

32. Two words: Maricopa County! eom

[GETPLANING]

34. The guy had $600 worth of merchandise in his cart

and he's going to shoplift a video game? This is a classic case of a cop making a mistake, and then going as far as necessary to avoid having to admit it.

[vrp]

35. Steal a trillion,

and you go free.....steal a couple bucks, and you get body slammed. Bastards......

[PA Democrat]

36. "They also said in-store security cameras failed to capture skirmish."

How convenient. :eyes:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/25/police-body-slam-leaves-grandpa-bloody-unconscious-at-wal-mart/

[SunSeeker]

39. Videos that inciminate the officers always seem to disappear...

That happened to me a few years back after a traffic stop. The officer said everything was recorded by the onboard video camera. A few days later I made a Public Records Act request for the video. They said the recorder was malfuncting that day and there was no video. It became my word against the officer's in court. The judge said we were both credible, but he "had to" believe the officer because otherwise "the whole system" would fall apart.

[Politicalboi]

40. He's not a shoplifter

And I hope he sues the shit out of Wal-Mart. From the story, they said he put the game in his waist to help his grand kid. He couldn't set it down, the mob would have taken it. Shoplifting includes leaving the store first.

[Devil_Fish]

41. he wasn't shop lifting, he was trying to pick up his trampled grandson. NT