NYPD cops caught on video beating alleged pizza thief taken off the street

[Liberal_in_LA]

Source: my daily news

The NYPD cops under investigation for the videotaped beat down of a Brooklyn man with his hands raised in surrender have been stripped of their guns and badges, the Daily News has learned.

Officers Pearce Martinez and Lenny Lutchman of the 81st Precinct have been removed from street patrol as the investigation by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office and the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau intensified Thursday.

The cops were caught on video pounding robbery suspect Thomas Jennings with their fists and a baton in a Bedford-Stuyvesant grocery store on July 7. The video, obtained by the Daily News, does not back up the cops' sworn claims that Jennings was resisting arrest and flailing his arms.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cops-video-beating-alleged-pizza-thief-sidelined-article-1.2302350

[RoccoR5955]

1. WTF is wrong with these damn pigs?

The guy didn't resist, yet they punched the crap out of him?
Test the bald pig for steroids. He looks like he is suffering from 'roid rage.

[christx30]

3. People don't want to become cops

to help people or serve their communities. They want to become cops because it'll give them the excuse to kick people's asses. They're the guys that would rip wings off flies.

[cstanleytech]

4. These specific ones? No idea but it varies from state to state but the most common problems are

departments hiring people who should never ever be given a badge and poor training.
Could be either or both for these two officers but they should not have badge after this at the very least.

[olegramps]

9. This was caught on Video, but how many are never seen.

[pennylane100]

2. There is something very wrong with our justice system

when law enforcement believes there will be no consequences for such violent behavior. We have make them accountable or people will start seeking their own justice. I cannot imagine how a family copes when a violent sociopath, protected by a badge, gets away with such abuse.

[RoccoR5955]

11. Yeah, it has become a "Just Us" system. n/t

[Chakab]

5. A large percentage of "resisting arrest" charges are filed against people who've been beaten up

by police in order to cover the cops' asses.

What's funny is that Bill Bratton's "solution" to the Eric Garner controversy was to make resisting a felony charge, so in Bratton's perfect world, people like Thomas Jennings would be facing a felony charge on top of the beating that they've had to endure at the hands of the officers who've arrested them.

[Sunlei]

13. thats why police shout DON"T RESIST, DON"T RESIST as they beat and shock people. its a set-up.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. This is cultural. They are TRAINED in what the charges should be....

Recently the entire police force EVERYWHERE in America FAILED in the international use of force exam.

They believe their role is to punish the guilty.

[PADemD]

7. Is there a link to the article?

[Sunlei]

14. you know how to use search,please? here is one report about the USA torture of prisoners

The U.N. Committee against Torture urged the United States on Friday to fully investigate and prosecute police brutality and shootings of unarmed black youth and ensure that taser weapons are used sparingly.

The panel's first review of the U.S. record on preventing torture since 2006 followed racially-tinged unrest in cities across the country this week sparked by a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury's decision not to charge a white police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

The committee decried "excruciating pain and prolonged suffering" for prisoners during "botched executions" as well as frequent rapes of inmates, shackling of pregnant women in some prisons and extensive use of solitary confinement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/28/us-usa-un-torture-idUSKCN0JC1BC20141128

you can find hundreds of articles on search or just get into the private message boards of police and see how they laugh over injuries they cause to prisoners with their beatings and attack dogs.

[PADemD]

22. My request for information was directed to Spitfire ATJ.

The request was for information on the USA failure of international use of force exam mentioned in his post, not the UN Report on Torture.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. Here you go...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/18/us-states-police-use-of-force-standards-amnesty

[PADemD]

26. Thank you.

[winterwar]

8. Here we go again

At least they got them on camera

[Beauregard]

10. Bed-Sty.

[Sunlei]

12. 1k docked from the pay for each hit and lifetime medical care for the head trauma & PTSD

[christx30]

15. I could not agree more.

This kind of garbage will not stop unless the actual officers have something to lose. Until there is accountability, they are empowered to do anything they want.

[Sunlei]

17. got to hit police personally in the pocketbook and the city/state or this shit will get worse.

fine the lookie police too, the ones who stand around chatting and laughing-as they ignore the abuse.

[christx30]

19. Maybe then they will reserve the use of

dangerous and deadly force for the people that are actually a danger to the community (armed robbery, murder, ect), and not simply people that disrespect the police.

[Sunlei]

20. lapel cams will help, like current videos do but even our Federal DOI has been asked for 20 years

to place up a 24/7 camera on wild horse holding pens (like all the zoos & vacation parks have 24/7 livecams) AND THEY IGNORE THE "PUBLIC OUTCRIES" TOO, FOR 20 YEARS!!

[geek tragedy]

23. they should lose all of their pay, forfeit their pensions, get their

freaking asses fired, and go work security at a mall or casino

[Sunlei]

24. they will never lose their benefits, best in the country.

[Gormy Cuss]

16. I wonder what he said.

It looks like the escalation is in response to the suspect saying something. He certainly was not flailing his arms, never mind moving them in a menacing way. The bald cop just came out of nowhere swinging.

[Sunlei]

18. hes just helping his fellow police admister the daily beatings to the $3 slice of pizza thief.

police shouldn't care what any person says to them.

[Gormy Cuss]

21. His body language suggests that he wasn't being confrontational

which is why the attack by the bald cop is so jarring.

And yes, police should be able to tolerate insults, curse words, and a lot of other language without escalating the situation (never mind using language as an excuse to beat someone.) If you insulted my mother and I punched you, the cops would arrest me, not you.

[Faux pas]

27. They seem to be

continuing 'business as usual' as if nobody is paying any attention. Crazy a**holes.