POLICE BRUTALITY CASES: WALTER SCOTT MURDER & MORE

[HairOfTheDog]

We interrupt this thread to bring you a man being beaten by police following a horse chase.

It's being reported that 10 deputies have been put on leave due to the video of them beating a suspect.

The beating victim, Francis Pusok, seems like a real asshole. He has an arrest for a violent crime and reportedly shot a dog in front of family members once. SBPD wants to make sure we're aware of those things. But, as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter if Pusok is a real asshole.


^ Pusok and his girlfriend of 13 years; she claims that she and Pusok's mother were not allowed to see him after the beating.

If Pusok is a real asshole, he's a real asshole with real big balls. He led a growing convoy of police cruisers on a high-speed chase for 3 hours to avoid a warrant being served, then dumped the car, stole a horse and rode off into the desert to elude arrest, and then... it stops being amusing in any way.

I'm sure the cops' adrenaline was soaring after that long pursuit and there was nothing funny about it to them. And, I'm not suggesting that Pusok should have been handled with kid gloves. But, once the apprehending officers had tased the asshole and he was fully compliant, that should have been the end of it. Two solid minutes of several deputies taking turns kicking and punching the non-resistant suspect is a criminal act, IMO. Will they be charged and convicted? I have my doubts, but maybe the increase in public awareness will help ensure the cops are held accountable for their actions this time, unlike in Kelly Thomas' and Eric Garner's cases.

The thuggish cops who mercilessly beat a crying and compliant Kelly Thomas were acquitted of his murder, despite the damning video evidence and eye witnesses.
Kelly Thomas' thread: http://mockforums.net/showthread.php?tid...lly+thomas

The cop who put compliant Eric Garner in a banned choke hold and ignored his pleas to stop wasn't indicted for his murder or anything else, despite the damning video evidence and eye witnesses.
Eric Garner's thread: http://mockforums.net/showthread.php?tid...ric+garner

The fact that, yet again in the Pusok case, multiple cops participated in the excessive use of force indicates to me that this type of unwarranted brutality is systematically enabled or overlooked.

I bet the cops in Pusok's case figured that the helicopter overhead during the beating was SBPD, rather than the local news chopper. Had that been the case, the police narrative as to what went down when Pusok was finally caught would likely have been self-serving and partly fictional IMO.

Anyway, the FBI has announced its involvement in the Pusok beating case in San Bernadino, CA. They're investigating whether Pusok's civil rights were violated, like the DOJ is doing in Walter Scott's case. Ref: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...story.html