Trans man beaten and arrested by sheriff's deputy asks judge to be declared innocent

[limbicnuminousity]

It was March 8, 2024, exactly 392 days after he’d been beaten by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in front of a 7-Eleven, then arrested and accused of biting the lawman who pummeled him. Afterward, he’d been sent to the Norwalk station lockup and booked for three felonies and a misdemeanor. By the time prosecutors dropped the case seven months later, he’d already lost his high school teaching job.

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For the next three minutes Brock struggled as the deputy held him down, all of it captured on the 7-Eleven’s surveillance camera.

“You’re going to kill me! You’re going to f— kill me,” Brock shouted, screaming for the deputy to stop.

“Instead Benza rained at least 10 closed fist punches at Brock’s head and face,” the suit says, “while Benza used his greater body weight to pin the plaintiff to the ground as he continued to angrily pummel Brock with both fists, scraping his knuckles in the process.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-20/trans-man-beaten-arrested-by-sheriffs-deputy-declared-innocent-files-suit

[obamanut2012]

1. Barbaric

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Gosh, looks like LA County needs even MORE money for more training.

[Fla Dem]

3. What a travesty of Justice and it happens all the time. So glad Brock was found innocent.

[SamKnause]

4. Scum of the earth.

They are trained to fear and hate the public.

They are trained to lie.

They enjoy harming people, torturing people, ruining people's lives, and k*lling people.

They huddle together and laugh about their latest victims.

They are proud of their lawlessness.

They know the Supreme Court and the Congress will never hold them accountable or take away their over reaching powers.

They are gangs paid for with our tax dollars.

They display gang colors on their uniforms, cars, and offices by desecrating the U.S. flag.

Back the Blue until it happens to you.

[republianmushroom]

5. To protect and serve, what a joke to some LE.

[intheflow]

6. You thought that saying meant to protect and serve regular citizens?

No, it's always been about protecting property over people. Modern policing started as slave patrols. Enslaved people were property, and the police did the bidding of the wealthy plantation and businesses owners who relied on that free labor to make obscene profits.

[republianmushroom]

7. You are correct.

[lostnfound]

8. Can someone confirm...

When i read ‘trans man’ is that a person who identifies as a man but was born as a biological female?

The hatred runs deep in police departments, and apparently it runs wide, as well.