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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2014, 08:29 PM Nov 2014

Denver Police Beat Man, Trip His Pregnant Girlfriend, Then Try to Delete the Evidence

Once again the Internet stymies the cops....


.......But police did not limit their use of force to Flores. They also tripped his girlfriend, who was almost eight months pregnant.

Luckily for Flores and his girlfriend, Frasier recorded the entire incident on his tablet. But the police took his tablet and deleted the video. At least they thought they deleted it. When Frasier got home he discovered the video file reappeared once the tablet synced with the cloud server.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/watch-denver-police-beat-man-trip-his-pregnant-girlfriend-then-try-delete-evidence

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Denver Police Beat Man, Trip His Pregnant Girlfriend, Then Try to Delete the Evidence (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Nov 2014 OP
lock em up! n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2014 #1
It is a felony for police to delete video. But they do it all the time. Ans lie about it. nt Logical Nov 2014 #2
I watched the news report at the link. Savannahmann Nov 2014 #3
i wonder how many innocents are in prison or dead because of similar things to this JI7 Nov 2014 #4
They watched cops run around with no IDs or badges and thought that was a good idea. Rex Nov 2014 #5
 

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
3. I watched the news report at the link.
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 04:56 AM
Nov 2014

The News station offered to show the video to the Police, and the Police declined. Then the official statement was that the Police wanted the guy who shot the video to come in and share the information with them. Guys, the video was available before this story went to air. The News station called, the reporter called you and said hey, want to see what we're going to air tonight and have a comment included? Nope, we don't want that. We want to have everything in private where it can't be seen by anyone.

I want to write something like, astonishing, astounding, or perhaps unbelievable. Unfortunately if I was to write something like that, I'd look like a fool, because astounding and the rest apply when something like this doesn't happen every single freaking day. Brutality, cover ups, intimidation, and abuse happen literally every single day. That's not astounding, astonishing, unbelievable or any other descriptor.

JI7

(89,172 posts)
4. i wonder how many innocents are in prison or dead because of similar things to this
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 05:01 AM
Nov 2014

but before we were able to record things so easily.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
5. They watched cops run around with no IDs or badges and thought that was a good idea.
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 05:11 AM
Nov 2014

St. Louis county PD set off a real shit storm. Arresting reporters and roughing them up. Not identifying themselves. Acting like overall thugs, no doubt that was a trial balloon for other LE to do what ever the fuck they want to. Nobody is stopping them, seems all cops want to do is cover the asses of their fellow cops or make excuses for obvious killing of innocent people.

It really is shoot first and then cover up later.

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