re: #136 Shropshire Slasher

1) Don’t park your scooter in the crosswalk.
2) Don’t throw the first punch.

*Share widely.* Police assaulted my colleague’s young client. She & he asked that I share this disturbing video to help find witnesses & those who took video. 9/15/2018. Flushing Ave/Humboldt St Brooklyn. Front of Green Corner Fish & Farmers Market. Tips: info@bds.org. Watch: pic.twitter.com/2OsZF8zh4s

— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) March 18, 2019

Where’s this ‘first punch’ you see, exactly?

Yes, ticket him, but there’s zero excuse for 3 plainclothes policemen to mob him and gangbeat him the way they did. Also, you know, they lied to shit in their report about it From the Daily News article from that second tweet:

Lawyers who released surveillance video of Brooklyn arrest said cops lied about their confrontation last year with a delivery man buying groceries for his boss at a Williamsburg bodega.

Cops had said they did not use force when they took Christopher Parham, 20, into custody on Sept. 15, 2018, at the store, but video shows them tackling him to the ground.

Officers had also said a pedestrian was forced to jump out of the way of Parham’s illegal scooter, but video shows otherwise.

Cops also said Parham created a public disturbance that caused a crowd to gather. The video meanwhile shows just a handful of pedestrians on the corner at Flushing Ave. and Humboldt St.