Inglewood Police Brutality - anyone have details???

[truthaddict11]

i have only heard vague details about this. i also heard the guy who filmed it has been arrested. what was the guy "doing with his hands" that caused the pigs to slam him into the side of a cruiser and punch him? i smell another riot brewing

[abstractmentality]

from what i have heard, is that the guy getting arrested hit the officers testicals, and that is why the officer decided to slam him into the car. the kid is 16 i believe, but i could be wrong.

[Fires of History]

I've read some, but my time is limited right now. But I still want to know WHY the man who filmed the attack is behind bars and the abusive pig is home on paid leave?

WTF?

Can anyone clear that up? Or a link?

[Breast Pump]

he's in jail because he failed to show up to a hearing back in '98 when he was accused of petty theft, that's why. 98... 2002 4 years have gone by and all of the sudden the pigs do their job.

anyway, a big lawsuit will follow & they'll award the victim millions of dollars us tax payers get stuck paying. I definitely think this boy deserves every penny but I don't think the citizens should be responsible for the actions of these power abusing pigs. take it out of his paid leave.

[Fires of History]

Breast Pump,

Agreed, and thanks for the info. Maybe if oinkers had to pay the lawsuits for their own actions there would most likely be a reduction in police brutality.

I also think more should be taped. We have the technology now to easily tape every police encounter from several angles. I have been in the backseat of a car where the cop pulled us over, found my friend's little Altoids box of pot, and then simply said, "Now get out of here." Cruising for bud himself? I think so. And I've heard far too many stories like this for my taste. Anyone have a pig story?

Police abuse power on many levels.

[Rob]

Another piggy story--in Oklahoma city, a guy got busted for trying to pick up a hooker. He refused to lie on the ground but allowed the cops to handcuff him. Eventually, he was forced to the ground, kicked, hit with a nightstick, kneed, brought back up to his knees, and sprayed with mace. All that sound a little unneccessary for a handcuffed suspect to anyone else?

[Shyne]

the officer was in the right. the kid shouldnt have been doing bad shit anyway. this is a big issue here in southern cali but i really dont give a shit. the cops are here to protect innocent people and control the 'bad people'. 'bad people' shouldnt have any fucking rights because they usually abuse them anyway.

(Edited by Shyne at 7:27 pm on July 13, 2002)

[pastradamus]

The policemans lawyer said that what u cant see on the video is that the kid grabbed the cops testicles.

[Breast Pump]

"bad people shouldn't have rights?" too bad many of these so-called bad people run the country. your comment was stupid at the very least. who do you suppose will determine who is "bad" the good guy... or the bad one?

no one has mentioned this but i think you should know that this 16 year old boy is in 'special' classes at his high school. i can't remember the exact term they used to describe him but he's a bit slow, mentally disabled is the term i think they used to describe him. CHA-CHING!

whether the boy grabbed his balls or not is irrelevant. cops are trained to do a job and should remain professional at all times (or at least most times) this is a boy he's dealing with and he assulted the boy after he was handcuffed.

(Edited by Breast Pump at 5:56 am on July 14, 2002)

[Conghaileach]

Angry Protests Demand Justice in Inglewood
Revolutionary Worker #1159, July 21, 2002, http://www.rwor.org

The response to the brutal beating of Donovan Jackson-Chavis has been immediate and ferocious. On Tuesday, 100 demonstrators invaded the office of the mayor in Inglewood's city hall, demanding that Officer Jeremy Morse be fired and arrested. Over the next few days, there was a prayer vigil, a press conference, and another demonstration.

On Friday, 400 protesters came to the Inglewood police headquarters, and every one of them was angry. Many family members of victims of police brutality came with photos of their loved ones. Dick Gregory, gang truce youth from the projects in Watts, the Mexican American Political Association, Reverend Martin Luther King III, Celes King, the Rainbow Coalition, Reparations Now!, the Nation of Islam, anarchist youth from Long Beach, the October 22nd Coalition, Unity March, high school students, immigrant mothers, representatives from various local politicians, preachers, teachers, and many others were there to represent.

Some of the most poignant and powerful moments came from the many prior victims of thug-officer Jeremy Morse, most of them carrying photos of the injuries he'd inflicted, each of them carrying their own painful, ugly story of brutality:

Neilson Williams was handcuffed and beaten with fists and batons by Morse and other officers as he was leaving a park where he serves as a gang counselor. Beaten into a coma, he was in the intensive care unit for five days. The police gave no explanation for stopping him. Williams was never charged with a crime.

Roberto Francisco Willis and Lance Elliot Eaton were at a friend's apartment when Morse and other officers knocked on the door, demanding to be let in. Both Willis and Eaton were handcuffed, then beaten. Willis' two front teeth were knocked out.

Akkilah Artiga was struck in the back by Morse with his baton. She was pregnant at the time.

Chris Mares and Leslie Noriega were parked in their car when Morse beat Mares for having Leslie's graduation tassel hanging from his rear view mirror. When Leslie protested, Morse told his partner to pull her out of the car and beat her, too.

Roland Wetherby was beaten by Morse with a flashlight and thrown to the ground in front of his mother and other witnesses.

At Friday's demonstration, many people were making a connection between the government's so- called war on terrorism and the terror the government unleashes daily on the people. As one man put it, "They're not only murdering here on the Crenshaw strip [one of the main boulevards that runs through many African-American neighborhoods in Los Angeles, including Inglewood], but over on the Gaza Strip."

Officer Morse is now on paid administrative leave. More protests are planned.

[Brian]

I hate Police,there bunch of pigs.

[Dhul Fiqar]

I hate 'em too, maybe we could start an award for Inventive Way To Resist Arrest Of The Year! I propose we call them "The Goolies" for short, in honour of this year's first candidate!

If he indeed had his hands cuffed behind his back, and was being roughed up by the cop, I find it amazingly inventive of him to conceive of grabbing the guys meat and two veg. Actually managing to do so shows a great deal of dexterity, to say nothing else.

Then again, if anyone grabbed me there, I'd probably do something a lot worse than the piggie did. Seemed to me they started whooping him before anyway though.

Fires of History: In the case you mentioned, I doubt your friend would want the tape to be revealed, since he's the original owner of the ganja in question. However, I am aware of several similar cases in Iceland. Most of them, I believe, were purpotrated by two Drug Squad officers in particular, who were in a really bad state from speed and cocaine abuse over a long period of time. They attacked a brother of a friend of mine once, were pale with rings under their eyes and pulled him into an alley and screamed that he had drugs, he HAD to have drugs. OH, WON'T YOU PLEASE FUCKING HAVE SOME DRUGS!!!!! You get the idea ;)

Anyway, they took two grams of meth from him and ran to their car and sped away without so much as a comment. He was interviewed by them on a more professional basis since and before, sometimes no charge ever arrived at his door despite being busted and he assumes they pocket at least half of everything they take.

It's the same story everywhere, piggie can't take the heat, and piggie's too stupid to get the hell out of the kitchen, so piggie goes looking for the powdered sugar ;)

Or something...

--- G. Raven

(Edited by Dhul Fiqar at 1:50 am on July 16, 2002)

[Breast Pump]

Just for the record: I don't hate police in general. Many of you may believe there is no need for a police state but not all police persons are bad. Only pigs.

I'd call them if I was in real danger.

[PunkRawker677]

PIG STORY!!:

My next door neighbor is a cop, and my other next door neighbor is FBI.. they both buy illegal satellite cards off of.. umm.. someone i know!. lol.. figure it out.. anyways.. the cop sells me quarter sticks of dynamite whenver i want in exchange for either ganja or cold cash.. i only bought it once, but nevermind that.. the FBI agent purposely wrecks his car once a year and occasionaly either floods or sets fire to his house to get all the FBI benefits...

i love the people who protect this country..

could they be more corrupt?/

[Dhul Fiqar]

LOL, good one PunkRawker! If I were you I'd collect some evidence, just in case either of them ever tries to bust ya.

I used to be 'chums' with a guy who was into smoking weed and other illegal activities I also enjoyed then. One time I meet him when he's out jogging and he says he's training for the Police exam, of course I just laughed it off.

A few weeks later I run into him and he's a cop already, but as luck would have it the drug squad seems to be busting a guy I know just across the street. He's all excited, says Drug Squad is his dream job and he wants to go over with me and introduce me to these guys while they read the rights to this (very very very dangerous) acquaintance of mine. He then said he wanted me to be an informant and was pissed off that I wouldn't hang out with him and his piggie friends!

To make a long story short, he threatened to turn me in if I didn't give him all my contacts, but I called his bluff and nothing came of it except an end to our friendship. So be careful when fratrenizing with the enemy, or potential enemy! ;)

--- G. Raven