Houston PD: "Put your hands up. Over your head! Pretend like we're going to shoot you."

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VIDEO: Houston police officer recorded telling woman to put hands up and 'pretend like we're going to shoot you': https://abc13.co/2rZzYAS #HouNews
7:00 PM - May 20, 2018

Houston police officer heard telling woman to put hands up and 'pretend like we're going to shoot you'

Monday, May 21, 2018 04:36PM
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) --

A viral video involving Houston police officers is now under investigation after an officer was recorded ordering four individuals to exit a vehicle. In a video recorded by Denee Harris, an officer can be heard over the loudspeaker saying, "Hands up! Put your hands up. Over your head! Pretend like we're going to shoot you."

"Why would he say that?" Harris said in the video.

Another officer confiscated one of the passenger's crutches, throwing it on the ground, and an officer can be seen driving the vehicle away from the scene. Harris is heard commenting in the video, and later told Storyful News, "I was so scared. I didn't know how it was going to end."

The reason for the traffic stop and detentions were not immediately clear. HPD told Eyewitness News that they are aware of the video and are looking into the video and circumstances of it.

http://abc13.com/hpd-officer-caught-telling-woman-pretend-like-were-going-to-shoot-you/3499764/?sf189935876=1

Just another terrorizing day in the neighborhood for black people.

ETA - here is a longer version of the video -

[Exotica]

1. Far from an end or even an abatement of this institutional thuggery (often murderous)

I see it getting worse. As a PoC, I am so glad I do not have to deal with thsi here in the part of the EU I live in.

These coppers need to be sacked. Instead, they will probably get a raise.

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2. And this is not that far from Santa Fe HS where those high schoolers were just shot.

And I would think that parts of that area are still trying to recover from Hurricane Harvey last summer.