WTF!!! Police Brutality - MERGED

Overheal

Five Birmingham police officers fired Tuesday on charges they used excessive force on a man after a pursuit have appealed the decision to the Jefferson County Personnel Board, authorities said. A hearing officer will investigate the claims and make a recommendation to the Personnel Board's three-member governing body. The officers involved each have between 7 and 15 years of experience on the police force.
Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper and Mayor Larry Langford announced today the firing of the five officers based their roles in the videotaped beating of a man following a police chase on Jan. 23, 2009. Disciplinary action also will be taken against supervisors who failed for months to report the incident to higher-ups, officials said.
The beating incident happened when a Birmingham police officer tried to question 38-year-old Anthony Warren about possible drug activity. Warren fled starting a chase, captured by a police video camera, which showed Warren struck a Hoover police officer and then was thrown from his own car after he crashed. Authorities said he was unconscious when officers began beating him with a billy club, fists and feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RPVs4gFfr0

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Heisenberg.

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My name is URL

Ah... Birmingham, US

Now I get it =p

AckwelFoley

To be honest i think this is very unfair.. clearly they thought he was on fire and tried to save him

stovelid

Cars are all driving on the wrong side of the road. Even the police. What a country.

Daroxtar

Driving without a seat belt??? The fkkr wont do that again!!!!

5318008!

That's exactly the type of "assert your authori-tah" "zero tolerance" stuff most boardsies seem to condone (usually accompanied by severe overuse of the word "scumbag").

The only thing that ever condones violence is violence.

godtabh

they were just beating him to make sure he wasnt getting up

stovelid

How lucky was that policeman at about 0.08secs?

I'm sure that contributed to the beating.

A7X

stovelid wrote: »

How lucky was that policeman at about 0.08secs?

I'm sure that contributed to the beating.

That's what I was thinking.

Him flyin out of that car looked like something from GTA.

connundrum

Unlucky to the fat cop at the start of the beating.

How crap is it to fall on someone whilst trying to beat them with a stick.

Overheal

stovelid wrote: »

How lucky was that policeman at about 0.08secs?

I'm sure that contributed to the beating.

it looks like his leg/foot got runover so idk about that. maybe thats why they beat him up though. not a justification however.

minidazzler

In fairness he ran over a Police Officer before the beat him, he deserved a good Hiding, but 5 people was too many.

We all know the say "Too many Chefs Spoil the Broth"

Well "Too many cops, They will get caught."

Overheal

minidazzler wrote: »

In fairness he ran over a Police Officer before the beat him, he deserved a good Hiding, but 5 people was too many.

If it had ended like a regular chase where you get out of your car and put your hands on your head i might agree. but he was flung out of his own window and was laying face flat unconscious.

5318008!

minidazzler wrote: »

In fairness he ran over a Police Officer before the beat him, he deserved a good Hiding, but 5 people was too many.

We all know the say "Too many Chefs Spoil the Broth"

Well "Too many cops, They will get caught."

He was clearly hurt.

Police forces are supposed to rise above emotions and revenge and all that, in order to best serve the community. If they lower themselves to the human level it makes the criminal;

a). hate them more and be less likely to cooperate (they're actively being dicks and not just doing their job)
b). See the police as people like themselves rather than an efficient system and thus treat them with the respect they would give a group of peers who tried to boss them around.

Sadly, many people would rather forgo these benifits in order to briefly feel good in themselves knowing another "scumbag" has had it shoved in his face.

utick

hope that scumbag died, trying to run down police like that and people are b1tching about how the cops give him a few little punches. if someone tried to murder someone i cared about like that i would do a lot more than throw punches

Graham_B18C

utick wrote: »

hope that scumbag died, trying to run down police like that and people are b1tching about how the cops give him a few little punches. if someone tried to murder someone i cared about like that i would do a lot more than throw punches

He didn't try and hit the cop, he was swerving around the stinger thing, granted he shouldn't of done any of it in the first place but the fella got thrown out of a tumbling car, is that not enough physical hurt?

He probably got a few years for his trouble (which he deserves) but the cops should get a few years for that too

Gummy Panda

I heard the guy was listening to R Kelly when he flew out the window..

he swerved to try kill the police officer.. that wouldn't have even helped his escape so yea, he deserves a raping.

Super-Rush

Read my sig

S.I.R

he was thrown from a car rolling ( lucky to not been in a wheelchair or brain dead ) and beaten by the school perverts bullys ?


they'll get beatin in jail... beaten HARD

RonMexico

They beat him like little girls. I'd have run over him and then reversed.

Local-womanizer

He wasent unconsious,he was trying to pretend he was sleeping in that ditch the whole time.Sly fcuker,them criminals will try all sorts.

Dave!

He was resisting arrest, can't let him get away with that sh*t

Deserved it.


I hate the way some people can give liberals such a bad name. My mantra is do whatever the **** you want to, but when it involves hurting (and possibly killing/maiming!) other people - then you need a good baton party.

Gonzales

what ever happened in the dublin case last year where a security guard & cashiers boyfriend chased raiders out of the shop & the raiders died?

Rented Mule

They need to but Blackhawk helicopters in the air for these chases.

You run = you die.

End of story.

Overheal

Rented Mule wrote: »

They need to but Blackhawk helicopters in the air for these chases.

You run = you die.

End of story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

It would work under the "speedy" requirement. I dont know about fair though.

Points for thinking out of the box though!

Cunny-Funt

saw the thread title and then started watching the vid , when I saw him nearly kill the cop with his car I was thinking 'well he fckin asked for it' I'd probably do the same if I was a cop and saw that. But then I saw the crash and the guy getting flung out the window, and then they beat him? Idiots.

smellslikeshoes

I'm normally all for a bit of police brutality but he was unconscious for feck sake.

ericl

Fuk'm,

Free the Birmingham 5.




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MagicMarker

They forgot to piss on him.

Nodin

My name is URL wrote: »

Ah... Birmingham, US

Birmingham, Alabama. 'Yeeehaaa' country.

technobreed

5318008! wrote: »

Police forces are supposed to rise above emotions and revenge and all that, in order to best serve the community. If they lower themselves to the human level it makes the criminal;
.

IMO, policeman are also ordinay mortals like us. Further seeing their fellow police man being run-over in the line of duty, will infuriate any policeman. They were fair they used only their limbs and no battons or stones or *****.

RossFixxxed

JUSTICE. Vic Mackey would be proud.

It means they get results you stupid chief!

O'Coonassa

If somebody písses you off and then they run away and you have to chase after them then it's fairly hard for it all not to end in a beating. It's kind of like an instinct that apes have. I blame the testosterone.

WillieCocker

I kind of expected to see a beating at the end of it.
He tried to run over a cop, in America that = severe hiding.
Concious or not!!!!

Cuddlesworth

Gobsites. They should have waited till he was all better after a stint in hospital, then put him back in there.

Elliemental

I suppose the Police could knock eleven shades of sh1t out of this guy, and then just say the injuries were sustained in the car accident and get away with it. That kind of opportunity doesn`t come along too often. Too bad someone was filming!
Seriously though, that did look horrific and I hope the guy`s OK now. No one deserves a kicking like that.

WillieCocker

Elliemental wrote: »

Seriously though, that did look horrific and I hope the guy`s OK now. No one deserves a kicking like that.

:pac:

Elliemental

WillieCocker wrote: »

:pac:

what does :pac: mean?

WillieCocker

Elliemental wrote: »

what does :pac: mean?

It means FPMSL.
And that means your having a larf......
that means..............................and so on.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

THis sorta crap happens all to often

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RV_INHoFrg

WillieCocker

Ooops

Dyr

"oohhh..that's not my tazer....daaamnn"

biko

A beating in time saves nine.

Oink

Losing your job for beating a guy up? wtf is that? whatever happened to getting your arse hauled in court for battery? Or is that only if you're guilty of self-defence?

Spastafarian

I would've kicked the shit out of anyone who tried to run over a friend of mine. Especially if he was unconscious. Cos it's easier.

TechnoPool

good enough for em :P

Naos

I'll admit, the first thing I said when I seen this was "Holy **** :eek:!"

Then when I realised it was in the US and not , my shock was genuinely lessened to an "Oh right".

Sagat06

Link

So I saw the headline and thought here we go again.

Is it just me or should these police men have been given medals for their efforts!!

**note the drivers attempt to hit a cop at the start of the vid!