St. Louis police officers on trial for beating Black undercover detective during protest
St. Louis police detective Luther Hall was brutally beaten while working undercover at a protest against police brutality in September 2017. Now three fellow officers are on trial for the assault, which they claim was a case of mistaken identify. One of the officers already pleaded guilty and admitted to lying on the stand. Lauren Trager, an investigative reporter with CBS affiliate KMOV-TV, joins CBSN AM's Anne-Marie Green to discuss the case.
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“Your honor. We thought we were unlawfully assaulting a nonviolent black protester. If we knew he was a cop, we wouldn’t have done it.”
Judge: "ok i believe you....case dismissed"
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have you seen the video where cops arrest an undercover FBI agent? best part is they obviously don't realise they were being filmed.
@@Krieghandt : Shows how broken the system is when even cops aren't safe from each other.
And I guess he did not resist or try to fight. They start whaling on you for no reason to get you to react. It is human nature to want to defend yourself, that gives them the evidence they need to for “resisting arrest”.
If he wasn’t a undercover cop they would walk away with no trial.
Say it louder 🗣️
Seems to me like the undercover work was succesfull, yoelding results on police brutality rather than looting and all. I hope the planters intentions was open minded.
They'll still walk away. That badge is called a "shield" because it protects them from any consequences of their brutal illegal actions!
If he was an undercover cop I'm sure he wasn't rioting or anything. So this just tells me that they beat up anyone they want to what a shame.
Tell it!
The only reason they're being prosecuted is because it was another cop.
Great point. And true
No qualified immunity between cops. Very sad.
Only "because it was another cop." Exactly. I am so sick of these violent psycho cops. Prison and make them the pay the civil payouts! Not we the taxpayers!
Police corruption is now so bad that the cops are assaulting each other!!!
So, it's okay to beat a person destroy their cell phone, and hold them against their will as long as they're not a policeman?
That is the weirdest defense I've ever heard. We thought he was a protester? But what difference would that make? If he wasn't breaking the law at the time, what was the reason you assaulted him? Wonder if these guys have any confirmed location for 6 January. Jesus. They destroyed this man's life.
They want to discourage protesting sounds like.
Like life in prison if they luck out kind of crime.
@Kimberly Winters troll
@Kimberly Winters you are sick.
@Kimberly Winters And Trump called himself a "very stable genius"... saying it doesn’t make it so.
“My bad, we thought this US Citizen was a protester...”
Praise Jeebuz!
Oh.... Well... That makes it ok, then!!!
Ight ima head out.
Like wtf
@Cloud 9 stfu prove it
"We thought he was protesting so we beat him to a bloody pulp"
Imagine the untold millions who've suffered through the same bs
By stating they didnt know he was a cop, theyre admitting that they hold no regard for citizens without a badge, and should never be given that authority again.
Facts
That should be all the jury needs to hear.
Idiots should be jailed for felony assault.
Exactly
Dam. So if he wasnt a police officer they wouldnt even be on trial.smh
Exactly.
If he was a real protester, he would have been charged with putting his face in the way of the polices fist.
Nope. This is the norm. People that say otherwise just have not been in interactions with the police (whether innocent or guilty does not matter). Death squads with an agenda. Put the middle and lower classes in jail to get more funding because “crime is out of control.” 🙄
Yep
YEP...make that make sense🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Every channel needs to have this on an all over the internet!
Amazing that this is the first I am hearing of this. Thoughts and prayers to the victim-the physical and emotional injuries will never fully heal. Maybe others can/will learn from this.
a black cop damn near murdered for being at a protest against a black guy being murdered by cops. ffs.
Historic Comment Why isnt it Pinned??
He was on duty undercover
America
@@coltdude9127 wtf does that have to do with the comment. He was still a black man present at a rally for a black man killed by police.
@@kendelsdad what did I say wrong?
"We thought he was a protestor" is NOT a defense. Who cares whether he was or wasn't a protestor?
Well the real question was whether they thought he was dangerous.
@@Irisicaaa yes, which is impossible because he was a cop on duty. Thats why they have no believable defense.
@@Irisicaaa to get to that premise legally, they would have been well beyond "is he a protestor or not"....it's called police work. None of which took place here.
@@dbdekudb6338 Bingo
@@TheBooban Yes, but what I'm saying is that's what their defense would hinge on. That they had reasonable suspicion that he was dangerous. It's unlikely to work, but it's the only identity they because it's a matter of "mistaken identity"
The "we didn't know he was a cop" is a legal move cause assaulting a cop carries additional criminal penalties.
yes good point. more jargon more rhetoric
Damn now the police can see how it feels to get busted by an undercover some weird reverse uno phenomenon
Their defense is they didn't know it was a black man with a badge...
Their worse fear an undercover black detective
It's basically the ending scene from Black Klansman: kzhead.info/sun/n62bcqWPsXdse3A/bejne.html
Exactly, they couldn't see his blue life through his black skin.
Gee your intelligence, how did you figure that out Einstein?
Or maybe the brotha let the BLM hype get to him and acted a fool.
"Why did you beat up your co-worker?" "I thought he was a protester." This is their defense. They aren't even bothering to hide it are they? Not like they ever did.
Why hide it?
They not trying to hide a damn thing they come right out and say we have to beat them to" protect" them
They thought he was a protester, but knew he was a Black man and that's the only reason he was beaten.
@@demonhunter2121 all cops do is lie. What's the point in stopping now?
@@demonhunter2121 protesting is a legal right. It is illegal to beat someone for protesting. Does that answer your question?
"And was just simply a Black man." That statement is wrong on so many levels.
This video needs to be tagged to every network.
"He resisted our illegal arrest, so we had to beat him." Typical pigs.
They were beating unarmed protesters😳 how is this ok? These saltines are really filled with hate demons and it's apart of their heritage
not pigs, just bad cops
@@robertlespanky3757 All Cops Are Bad Cops. The institution is systematically flawed and corrupt to its very core. Until the entirety of the corruption is purged, my statement will remain true.
@@kazzysenpai5906 Yeah, no. These police departments just need to be more strict imo, so many cops get away with racism and just being plain evil these days. Especially in the past few years. The three cops should have been fired immediately and put in jail. Not all cops are bad, some legitimately joined to serve this country, it’s just cops like these that deserve a free pass to jail.
@@pumpkiniii6309 Except when your institution is founded on inherent racism and prejudice, no amount of strictness will fix it. As I said, it needs to be torn down and rebuilt
I also love the irony of the police sending informants and secret agents into protests against police brutality, and then they brutalize their own plants.
Almost like justice was served.
w(°ｏ°)w
😂😂😂😂😂
They sent police in to infiltrate Antifa/BLM
Facts!!!!
when I was protesting in 2014 there was somebody throwing bottles at cars and spray painting and we as a group separated ourselves from him... I’m just glad they’re admitting they use undercovers during protests because we always knew....
This need to go viral. My first time hearing this! Make it a movie and maybe people will start believing. Say it loud!!!
They believe it & definitely know it but if they SAY it's not true then that's that. Privilege.
How America is still being hailed as “land of the free” is beyond me.
It stopped being free the moment Europeans arrived.
The most free country in the world
@@beetlejuice2519 it's not lol
@@avaphynx this isnt a free country? Bro I been all over the world. Even Iraq. This is the best country. And it's not even close.
what country is more free? even the nice ones have hate speech laws and lock people up for speaking freely.
As they should have already been off duty and no longer called officers of the law
When you beat one of your own. At least he felt for once how citizens feel when they complain about these issues
Black first, cop 2nd.
"They thought he was a protester" oh because then it's fine to assault people 🙄
@@V8chump They made plans in advance to "beat up protesters."
@@V8chump Hurr Durr Durr.
@@surfpsych it’s just weird you never see police brutality at actual protests, just protests that are actually full blown riots... I’ve also heard they have people undercover to stir the pot and turn it into a riot but judging by this comment section a lot of people just read every headline they see and jump to conclusions without looking into it at all.... kinda like this video where they keep saying “protest” about a riot as if they’re opening fire on an MLK speech. If anything they made plans to ensue a riot then beat up “rioters” not “protesters” I’ve never seen police go after people peacefully protesting unless it was already an out of hand, violent, situation aka a riot
@@KenyanBunnie too much thought for you I know. Jump to conclusions that works wonders.
@Mateo Hodge when the goal is to stop potential violence and property damage done to innocent people who have nothing to do with it I don’t see anything wrong with it. We gonna arrest the guy who shot and killed a black “protester” that was trying to break into his store and take his livelihood? Nothing to do with his skin color or his political agenda whatsoever. Also his partner wasn’t beaten because he wasn’t in the active riot they mention that they were nowhere near each other when it happened. They’re not hunting down peaceful black protestors and beating them like it’s the civil rights movement let’s calm down.
"We thought he was a protester. So of course we HAD to beat him."
Right 😑
The first amendment and the rest of the Constitution don't matter in this country anymore...
Sounds like some stuff you'd see in South Park.
@R' merac thats my take, id give it 50\50 to appease all the trigger happy people who like to label everything racist but that seems to be the case, still awful that they would want to do this to anyone in general
"We beat him because we thought he was a protestor" ............ Let's think about that statement for just one moment.
Uhhh, Sorry bro. We thought you were just an American citizen peacefully practicing your Constitutional Rights.
I can't believe this isn't on the national news radar. That alone says a lot.
Yes it does.
We really settle for the tiniest things. Look how long it’s been. I don’t blame the police for doing thing when there’s close to no repercussions you give someone this much power and make them close to infallible they be idiots not to take full advantage.
I can't believe it either! This is actually the first time I have even heard anything about this case. THIS needs to be a NATIONAL NEWS STORY!!
wtf is CBS.. thats national news.
No it does not. It’s all mind control
Took 4 years to bring them to trial? Good job judicial system.
Power of White Supremacist
They beat him til he's still suffering FOUR. YEARS. LATER??!!! Good Lord!! Can you imagine what they have been doing to people?
@@michbob9292 undercover cops, being agitators, should be the bigger concern here
that would be because of the defense.. not the prosecution.
@@tomservo5007 but the racist cop literally said that the undercover cop was not resisting, so tell me your argument again...
R.i.p. to Deputy Kerr, and shouts to the Army LT. Arrested, demeaned, and tear gassed, for buying a new truck in Virginia🇺🇸🤢
Anarchy among law enforcement.
This is some crazy ish Imagine they texted before that thing happened, they knew what they were doing, they knew they was about to beat up someone, and that’s what they did 👁
First degree. Intent.
Imagine being an undercover police officer and fearing the people you’re investigating but ending up being almost murdered by your “brothers” in blue
The irony of finding the crime, you´ve been searching for, but at a totally different place...
So much for "brotherhood"
Welcome to America.
@Joshua K rats too. I noticed one dead in a trap in my chicken coop, and came back in an hour and another rat chewed it off at the neck and took the body to eat elsewhere
Biggest gang in the United States police departments
Even if he was a protester the cops should not be beating on folks like that
Beating seems normal in America...
If he was a protestor it would be even worse tbh.
@@testexpirement5181 He was a "protestor"...the issue is more...if he was Anglo-Saxon like his partner (in the bowels of America) the pigs would have not beat him senseless.
beating a cop posing as an agitator ? That's karma
@@tomservo5007 You kind of right...
Now he knows how it feels.
"our bad... We thought you were a citizen which would have made this beating ok..."
Those officers went into this protest with racism, beat one of their own so badly he continues with health issues. They need to be held accountable. No excuse for their actions.
Absolutely
So Luther was assigned to investigate the protesters and inadvertently found some dirty cops...kinda ironic, yet poetic at the same time.
Methinks that Internal Affairs should employ a LOT of black cops. Make the other police live in FEAR every time they go to a protest. Could one of those protestors be an undercover agent recording brutality?
Dirty cops, from overseas it looks like you have to work ultra hard to find any who aren’t.
Poetic Justice.
@@alexsmith358 True.
I read the caption and started laughing they beat one of their own 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Now he knows how the public feels!😂
"We didn't know he was a cop!" That's not a valid excuse when you sell drugs to an undercover cop...so how could these cops be dumb enough to try that excuse???
RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT!!!👏👏👏✊
ACCURATE AF!
The irony is 🤯
Hope the public is too dumb to know the difference...
That's the most overused excuse when someone is caught speeding past an unmarked squad car xDD
why is nobody talking about how they beat him for thinking he represented someone seeking equality non violently?!
exactly!!
Unbef'nlievable
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Facts!
Exactly!
They didn't know he was a police as if when they were clobbering him he yelled out saying wait I'm a cop! How do I know he yelled this out because if your a cop and you're getting a beat down by cops, that's the first thing you're going to say!
"Sometimes a soldier falls on his own sword."
People, please stop saying we are better than this. This is exactly who we are. We should be saying, this is who we are, let's change, let's get better.
Or pray for a meteor to incinerate us in the near future.
Yup! We are 😈
Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry ! What is wrong with you people ! Raise the bar people !
We?
No, we gotta go to Mars first.
He was there to look for possible crime. He found it POLICE BRUTALITY!
Exactly
That's ironic
LMFDO
Yep
I wonder what those 5 cops thought & said to each other when they found out that Hall was a fellow cop & they were beating him like a rug? Oh my Lord, I just looked to see what happened since the trial ended a month ago and this is what I found..."Defense attorneys said in spite of all of the photo and video evidence, nothing shows the three officers had a role in the beating. They said the prosecution was based on speculation, lies, and innuendo." Wow...just...wow. 😡😢
To the officers in this video: You beat up one of your own. If this is how you treat one of your own, how to you treat innocent people?
So if he wasn't a cop they would have gotten away with beating someone.
An innocent someone most likely.
Pretty much
Basically
welcome to america!
This is why you don't become a NARC
"We thought he was one of those citizens we were supposed to be protecting"
"protecting"
Now, he understands what civilians have to go through...
It’s interesting how phrasing can expose bias. The reporter said multiple times that the officer “changed his mind” rather than “changed his story” or “admitted he previously lied”
"he was filming"...ahh, accountability...the one thing police hate...the camera doesn't lie
Doesn't stop them muting or turning of their bodycam tho. That should be corrected, it should be impossible to mute or switch off once on shift.
@Mrs. Phoenix Jones Funny the people that want police and law reform want biased ruling. No wonder more and more people are leaving that idiotic defund the police movement/scam organization.
@Mrs. Phoenix Jones You don't want unbiased ruling. Because you said it's because he's black. That shows me that you default to race every time it's a white cop on poc situation. I just don't understand why y'all are so eager to keep up this act. Because I used to be this way, but I stopped 2 years ago.
Video is very admissible in a court room. Throw them in jail and beat them ip the same way.
The Police don't hate it... The crooks that infiltrate the Police Uniform hate it...
So what if he's a protester, that doesn't give them a right to beat him
My bad I thought he was a civilian
"I didn't know they were cops, I thought they were trying to mug me!" That doesn't work unless state law exempts your acts in self defense when you don't know or have no reason to know they were police officers
They really trying to use the “I thought it was a protester I was beating the crap out of not a cop” excuse? Like it would have been ok for them to do so.
Because they believe they have a right too. It's sad, but thats what this country has become. It's got to stop now.
let's be real. it *would've* been ok. They'd all just be placed on paid administrative leave while they wait for the next incident to happen and then they can just slither back into their lives like nothing happened. Happens time and time again :(
If he wasn’t a cop they would stick to the “he resisted” argument. Speechless that this isn’t a bigger story.
@@dryhumorfoe8275 what do you mean that's what this country has become this country has always been that way the f*** out of here
@@ronaldwilliams3182 for some reason ppl can't fathom that it was worse than it is now. Some ppl act right when they know they are being filmed or someone can take out a camera at any time, others don't give AF. Before you could just capture stuff like that on camera ppl were getting their heads beat in and nobody would go to trial. If they did it was some type of bs trial where there was no chance anybody involved was going to be convicted.
So they destroyed his life for NOT resisting arrest, while doing nothing wrong.
Good point!
Funny how the Blue Line and "Support OUr Fellow Officers" and such....do NOT seem to apply to African American Officers. Then again this is what happens when Police are NOT required to Protect OR Serve
Exactly
If he was an undercover cop I'm sure he wasn't rioting or anything. So this just tells me that they beat up anyone they want to what a shame.
@Jazzy Bebe but protesting isn’t illegal “wrong” either. And certainly doesn’t warrant violence.
Now is the time to realize “WRONG is just WRONG”. No matter how hard you try to cover it and makes it looks GOOD or RIGHT. Justice is justice too and should apply to all wrongdoers no matter who they are.
The one cop changed his mind when he found out the "protester' was a cop. Only two black jurors?
His job was to blend in, looks like he blended well enough to expose a much larger problem.
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Ur right, soo right on it😧
if found guilty they should have to donate 3 major organs
I like blending
Hello somebody?
“Thought he was a protester”. Haha. Ok. Protesting is a crime now?
Unfortunately, to the political conservative right, yes it is, unless you’re a Trump rioter at the insurrection, mind you, or armed white protesters confronting state police at their capitals...... see the pattern? Protesting while black has more severe consequences.
No, but burning and looting in the streets is..
@thatsroughbuddy the UKs left has created all the hate speech laws and they're openly Anti Jewish anti British and pro immagrants.
@@moparman1692 Just because your participate in a protest doesn’t mean you started burning tires or breaking windows. You can’t just group everyone up like that
@@sweetsue4204 trump supporters still dnt believe it was MAGA at the capitol; they’re blaming antifa
This police brutality MUST stop NOW!
Finaly, police knows how it feels to be a civilian. And please, don't get me wrong!!!
Lol, they didn’t know he was an undercover, they thought he was just a regular black dude & they would just do what they regularly do.
Exactly... What are the chances? Corrupt cops beat blk man? during a protest about police violence? The blk man is a police man to? 😅
No American is regular, except the stupid ones. We are literally the bridge between the world being total chaos and a safe world. Yes other countries are trying but with the evil in the world we are the only ones currently strong enough to fight them all. Unfortunately our weakness "Racism maybe the fall of our country" at it is the very thing that creates conflict with other nations around the world.
@@Daso1n 😂😂😂 this post is funny. America? The bridge that holds the world together?😂😂😂
@@lulup5452 lol I'm not sure whether to laugh or simply roll my eyes at that comment.
Cops: "Your honor we thought we were beating up a regular civilian!" Judge: "Fair enough!" Charges Black undercover cop with entrapment...
Wow, this is a scary thought!
Underappreciated comment.
FACTZ/PREACH
This is unjustice.
This just gives blm more justification. A system built against black people but actively denies it.
Just shows you what a pack of cowards are on the force.
Where is Candice Owen's on this story. Since she says racism doesn't exist
I feel like she would definitely find a way to spin this story
imagine he wasn't a cop no justice ever.
M so hold them to a higher standard.
Right, they got and get away using force. This is never going to stop if cops get away with things. No more chances you use force you better have it on video and if you do get found guilty then charges jail goodbye jobs. Felony charges should be giving to officials hired to protect then use the power badly. This is worse than regular people who hurt others, because we are intrusting our well being to them so they should be held to a higher standard
Every day
@Endtimes are upon us why should he?Because the truth burns like sunlight on a those who hide behind the shadows
Thats the American way!
"One of the officers already pleaded guilty and admitted to lying on the stand." I no longer expect any better than this from police.
Haaa the police spy got a first hand experience of his fellow crooks in blue.
Chris Barber - Yes, police have lost SO MUCH respect.
They aren't even safe from each other.
I have not heard of this. I feel so much anger.
“Thought he was a protester” straight up fascism
@Ralph Rodgers lol we got a fascist sympathizer here everybody. I bet if the german people had rebelled against the nazis you would’ve disliked it too because its mean to the authowaties :(
@Ralph Rodgers doesn’t matter what you hate. You’re not on the side of the people, you’re on the side of capital and its protectors and some day they’re going to be against you.
@Ralph Rodgers considering you are the descendants of the most evil group evil on the planet your opinion doesn't matter.
@Ralph Rodgers sound about white lil
Yeah
"Thought he was a protester" That's not an excuse though. That's literally you admitting that you just wanted to beat up a protester for being a protester. Cause I guarantee an undercover cop did nothing to warrant being beaten smh.
Right! Does that mean they indiscriminately beat other protestors?
@@fitawrarifitness6842 yes
@@fitawrarifitness6842 yes
Obviously.
What they call protesters is what we in the red states call rioters, and there not exactly none for there stunning compasion and kindness in the red states seeing as they damage personal property and hurt people. But you wouldnt hear that on your cnn news now would you.
Yeah, mistaken identity as in, "We didn't know he was a cop". Uh, derp. That's the whole point of working 'undercover'.
Same stuff drug dealers say when they get caught in a sting. "We didn't know he was a cop" doesn't work for them, though.
I'm confused as to why it's not assault on a police officer
He never identified himself as a police officer. because the beat down came without warning.
Even if they thought he was a protester why did they have to beat him? 🤦🏽♀️
Because that was their mission that night; they'd even said it.
Lol they already said it they were looking forward to beating people
“My bad we thought you were a civilian “ - The police
Number 1 comment
No they thought he was just a BLACK protester
Weird because police _are_ civilians, not soldiers. "Police" literally means "men of the city" = civilians.
@@ThePinkBinks Yep 🤜🤛 that's Right 👍
Suzette Bavier 🤜🤛 _bump_ 😊
Luther has been questioning the convictions that he held earlier in life.
Well surprise surprise surprise they thought it was just a plain old civilian that they were beating. 🤔
So their defense is, "we thought he was a regular protestor." I don't think thats a defense. Beating someone for practicing their constitutional right to protest is an even worse reason.
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Out of that uniform they treat you exactly how they would any of us. This is what you call irony!
Its not just limited to non-White cops
@@goldenvulture6818 Which other race gets beaten ???
Even with uniform on
@@anonymous00117 todays word is racist remember that 😆
@@goldenvulture6818 make it all about you
Where is the body's cameras footage?
Just imagine, this was going on for many years
Their testimony is that they thought he was a protester and simply a black man? Man that's messed up. Luther Hall should sue those officers.
You are just hailing cbs as gospel and that’s the problem
He will SUE ..... HE WILL RECEIVE A VERY GOOD AWARD, MILLIONS !!!!!!!!! BREAK THE POCKETS OF ST.LOUIS. WHICH INCIDENTALLY, IS ONE OF THE LAST BASTIONS OF ULTRA-CONSERVATISM OF the OLD SOUTH......
He needs to sue the state because I'm sure if you dig into the police department they will find that this crap happens all the time. They were texting their intentions before the shift that they were going to this. Why weren't they texting saying that they were going to keep cool heads and not let anything escalate?
This leads to a greater question: How many victims have been unnecessarily assaulted by the police where they claimed he/she was "resisting arrest?"
Basically, all of em.
We all know the answer to this question... Countless. Throughout the years; countless.
Damn near all
Thousands
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This is so disturbing and messed up!! I'm so sick of this sh*t!
I pray for that officer and hope he heals from his injuries
"just comply," they say, "listen to the officers," they say.
Yea no lol not anymore we aint gonna take it anymore!
@@johndoe-ss9bzlook into it, the issue is there is NO training
Riiight
We all know that was never true
@@johndoe-ss9bz I hear they've been getting trained by more brutal racist countries.. so they are adhering to the training. the de-escalation training is either a lie or too short to be effective.
The saddest part about this is theyll still be ppl defending the officers & claiming race has nothing to do with it
The saddest part is the US police thinks they can just beat people up as long as they are not cops.
Yea its not about race its about the badge. The officers made that clear
@@wholeass83 thanks for proving my point
@@wholeass83 you should go play in rush hour traffic
@@HNiCDuke what an intelligent comment and conversation from you.
The police officers that are on trial had the "Intent"to "Harm" and "Not Serve and Protect the Populous"! How about More Psych Awareness and Compassion,when called for, and the Will to Do Your Due Diligence For the Populace! Thank you 🙂
All the officers involved in beating a undercover cop,should be fire and jailed,abuse of any kind shouldn't be tolerated.
“He is seeking a more lenient sentence because he is facing prison time.” Yeah, after a violent assault, filing a false police report, false arrest, perjury in court, and a preplanned random act of violence.
Terrorism. When one uses violence for political reasons, or to install fear into a group of people, it's not just violence anymore, it's domestic terrorism; In spirit, if not in law.
They make isis look tame
@@ShadowMokujin let's not be over dramatic.
@Duck Billed Platypus you can preplan to randomly attack any protester they can get their hands on. Probably got this cop because he wasn’t scared and running like the rest.
Transformers...cowards in disguise.
They need to be accountable for what they did.
Good luck with that
Prison for the criminals.
@Tiger lily55 Ocean waves I agree the double standard in the media outlets do exist, go research the name (Charles Edward Turner) stabbing a 12 year old while shouting racist antics. The mainstream media won't cover it because it doesn't fit their narrative, but society can keep ignoring the double standards.
@@MusikaDeLaCalle Hundreds of years worth of double standards in this country and now people like you come out of the woodwork, waiving your handkerchief around as you cry "double standard"... smh, grow up. We're all only human.
@@seriousblack5018 people like me? You mean a minority brown American that see thru the B.S double standards with most of the media that are targeting a particular ethnicity & the people that support the same media are the racist themselves.
The cops stated they thought he was a protester as if that would justify this gang assault
For the love of God, hold them accountable!!!
"Back the blue, unless they are black, but did not know the black blue has a badge." Rank and file are silent because the blue line does NOT extend to black blue with badge. Silence equals tacit agreement with racism.
you know what gets me is that the cops are in trouble for beating a black man thats a cop...that's bad....but if he wasn't a cop it was going to be ok???
It's not okay to beat protesters. Protesting is just as as your right as owning a gun.
ABSOLUTELY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was a sell out black cop... So glad those cops beat him. He thought he was immune
In reality you have a lot of people in uniform who, if they had never joined the police, would have most likely had criminal records in another life. Rigorous psychological screening at the recruitment stage, improved training and regular performance review are desperately required in US policing. Until that happens the disconnect between the community and their consent to be policed by the forces imposed upon them will remain.