14 San Francisco cops gang up on homeless man ‘armed’ with crutches (VIDEO)
It took 14 San Francisco Police Department officers to take down and restrain a one-legged, black homeless man, armed with crutches and apparently dangerous. The incident is the latest embarrassment for the US police, who face constant accusations of unreasonable use of force.
The video of the incident which happened on August 4, shows the extent of humiliation and brute force exercised immediately after the man was wrestled to the ground by #SFPD officers. As the disabled male struggles to move, cops pin him down.
“These are my crutches. I use these to walk,”
the man tried to explain. But even after realizing that the man had a prosthetic leg, the police continued to use overwhelming physical restrain and man-handled him, forcing his head to the ground.
In further efforts to subdue a man already on the ground with four people on top of him, the officers stood on his prosthetic leg and “twisted it around even after they had cuffed him and pinned him to the piss-stained concrete”
Beaten to the ground, the suspect at one point said, “what the f**k is you doing this to me?” as more officers arrived to form a cordon around the incident area. “Is this respectable? When I say ‘no’, is this what you do to me?” the man said.
Witnesses spoke out against police brutality from the start of the video but to no avail as cops continued to abuse the one legged man. The camera operator especially noted the “lack of respect” for the suspect as clothes were pulled off the man during the incident. First one can see the man’s buttocks being exposed, and minutes later his entire back.
Around 6 minutes into the footage, the suspect began saying that he was in pain from the take-down and claimed he had been suffering from an infectious sore on one of his legs.
At one point, fearing for his life, the man said said
“they’re going to shoot me”.
A witness replied: “They ain’t gonna shoot you man, that’s why we have these cameras out here.” /source/
I guess it’s quite soft wording. They really HATE us. What threat was that one-legged man? Really? What’s going on? Thanks God they got that cameras on them. I’m quite sure if shit like this happened about 2 or 5 years age motherfuckers would really shot him. Damn! That’s really really shitty case. I hope these bastards get the punishment they deserve. I know that cop usually get away with such things, but If we, the people, would be active and show the support to this guy, it would be a chance 4 #justice.
#BlackLivesMatter #SFPD #Police #Cops #PoliceBrutality
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