re: #78 HappyWarrior

Hmmm if hte videos showed the cops were right then they wouldn’t have turned them away to obscure what was happening. Seriously what an asshole that commentator is for so many reasons for broadrbushing the black community like that.

One thing that didn’t get included in the story I originally linked, but did make it to the CNN story that was recently done on this - the officers involved in the beating had disobeyed an order to stop the pursuit.

cnn.com

(CNN) — Dallas, Texas, police are seeking criminal charges against three officers in the videotaped beating of a motorcyclist after a chase.

One of the officers turned a second video dashboard camera away during the incident, Police Chief David Brown announced at a press conference Wednesday.

The two officers who apparently were in the lead chase vehicle disregarded an order to stop the chase on the evening of Sept. 5, Brown said. A recording showed that either officer Kevin Ray Randolph or Paul Gregory Bauer said, “Keep us going. I’m going to kick the s—- out of him.”

The video, which was discovered after an anonymous note, shows the police vehicle bumper tapping the motorcycle, which had by then stopped.

Randolph is shown hitting Collins with a baton several times while Bauer uses his fists and knee, Brown said. Other videos of the incident have since been found.