Big Easy Cops Deny Using Excessive Force

[jayfish]

Big Easy Cops Deny Using Excessive Force

An attorney for the officers, Frank DeSalvo, said police were only trying to subdue Davis, and that their actions were justified because of Davis' resistance. Davis had stumbled into a police horse, had slurred speech and had been belligerent toward officers before his arrest, DeSalvo said.

"I see an incident of a man trying to be brought under control who doesn't want to be brought under control," DeSalvo said.

Davis says he had not been drinking before he was beaten by two police officers in a weekend confrontation taped by an Associated Press Television News crew. Those officers and a third accused of grabbing and shoving an APTN producer have pleaded not guilty to battery charges.

DeSalvo said the APTN producer grabbed one of the accused officers, S.M. Smith, and spun him around before the officer responded by pushing the producer away from the arrest.

What a load. That's it thugs, stick with your pathetic story to the end. And to think, some people were sypathizing with you because you were sooooooooooo stressed out.:nopity:

Jay