This video was posted on Filming Cops – the Facebook page – and shows several police officers (the youtube video claims these are Bronx cops) hitting a man who’s clearly outnumbered.
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Doesn’t look good. Missing the beginning, but the guy looks like he’s actively resisting.. so they use of the batton doesn’t look justified. But I don’t know the whole story.
NYPD Internal Affairs is investigating four Bronx cops after they were caught on video viciously pummeling and kicking a drug suspect bloody.
The officers, all assigned to the 42nd Precinct in Tremont, were stripped of their guns and shields and placed on modified duty after the footage surfaced on YouTube and other Web sites over the weekend, authorities said.
“We have put four officers on modified duty during the course of our investigation,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told The Post last night.
“Their guns and shields were removed while we investigate allegations of police brutality.”
The footage shows five cops first trying to put suspect Jatiek Reed, 19, against a wall on East 168th Street in broad daylight Jan. 20.
The video shows Reed appearing to resist for a moment, throwing a couple of kicks and swats.
Several of the cops then start whacking their nightsticks against the suspect, whose back is against the wall, the video shows. The teen lands face-down on the sidewalk.
“Yo, chill,” one person can be heard shouting on the video.
“No, no, no! Don’t do that,” another one yells.
Three of the cops are then clearly shown repeatedly pounding Reed — kicking, punching and beating him their batons. Another officer, slightly obscured by the others, appears to hold him down.
A fifth cop keeps his distance, walks away, and paces back and forth while talking on his radio.
A cop on the scene then storms toward the person shooting the video and appears to be threatening to nail him with pepper spray while shouting, “Move back, move back!”
The video cuts out soon after.
Reed’s mother, Schuan, told The Post last night that she and her younger son, Jashawn, 17, went to the station house after the incident and were both struck by more than one cop angry that door was slammed on their way out. She insisted neither she nor her son slammed it, claiming it was an automatic door.
Speaking of Jatiek, she said, “He has staples in his head, staples in his arm. His whole back is black and blue like they were beating on a slave. I refuse to let them railroad my son and accuse him of something he didn’t do. If they saw his stash of drugs, then where are the drugs?’’
She added, “If you beat on a dog like that, you go to jail. They should go to jail, too.’’
A law-enforcement source said that before the video began, police saw the teen trying to toss the drugs.
“They go to arrest him, leading him toward the van,” the source said.
“As he realizes he’s being arrested, he tries to get away. They use force that raises questions of excessive force that was captured on video after he was handcuffed.”
The NYPD confirmed the cops will not be given law-enforcement assignments pending the outcome of the investigation.
Bronx DA Robert Johnson is also looking into the matter, officials said.
Jatiek Reed was being held on Rikers Island last night on a slew of assault charges.
One would have thought that Mr Pepper should have been introduced to the party a lot sooner, and not directed towards the guy filming. 4-5 on 1? I can see one, maybe 2 cops getting rough with someone fighting, but with 5? None of the other cops dove in to tackle the guy (or stop the cops). Seems like the Parking Enforcement Division just got new reinforcements. Though I like the ‘slave’ reference, gotta toss in some spice for the news.
Then again, that’s the Bronx…
The suit will read:
Failure to Supervise
Failure to Train
Failure to Intervene
Violation of 4th, 14th Amendments
Negligent Retention
Excessive Force
False Arrest (maybe)
Violation of Civil Rights Title 42, 1983 +
Bad guy will get a check, I say about $180,000.00 + medical. One of the cops, probably Mr Punter, will take the fall.
I agree with ya common sense.. I just don’t understand the whole batton thing. Maybe they get different training in NY. I’ve used my batton once in a fight. Most fights are up close and personal, so contact weapons aren’t really a good choice. The rest of the time it’s just added weight to my belt and a window “opener”.
Since Rodney King’s beating incident back in 1991…how many times across the U.S. has the police done this to civilians?
Only a tiny fraction of these beating make HEADLINES…why? Because somebody has the courage and RECORDED them.
Unfortunately, for the ones that were not recorded for a reason or else it’s COPS version VS the beaten version. Usually corrupt D.A.s and judges will likely dismiss the case.
I get tort reviews all the times, it’s 1 of 3 things, a crash from a police car, a shooting, or use of a baton. Those are the 3 items that everyone sues on.
All the other stuff, it takes years, even with Ashes, that was what? 6 years? And he didn’t even file his fed suit for a couple. NYPD has a fund set up to pay out on this stuff.
I tell people its just like car insurance, make a claim, its reviewed to see if they (the city) can win in court vs paying attorney fees and a settlement, and then they’ll settle usually with a non-disclosure agreement.
Do not TRY to PLAY smart-ASS with me as you’ve been playing with others here. I’ve been monitoring your posts CLOSELY since you started using that pseudonym [nick-name] and trying to justify the unjustifiable.
When I write that only a T-I-N-Y fraction of all the BEATINGS and misconduct done by “arch-angels”…sorry I meant COPS; make their way to the HEADLINES is because they had been CAUGHT on camera, not because they didn’t happen.
The thing is when you are a civilian dealing with two, three, four, half-dozen of COPS, and your are all-ALONE , they can MAKE-UP any story they want to as it usually happens.
Now, when you or somebody else is holding a camera and are recording what cops are doing to you [him/her], in real-time and that video can make it through the Internet, there is NO WAY cops can deny any wrongdoing because it’s ON TAPE…
Cops arrest and beat people regularly for mouthing off at them and call it something else.
It’s not that COPS are “ANGELS” or “ARCH-ANGELS” like you and other COPS who often post here PRETEND…Anyone who pretends that this is the case is just plain hardheaded and stubborn.
I doubt that “very few” are bad, unless it’s the SAME cops traveling all over across America giving police a bad name.
@ carlos. Your right, when dealing with 6 cops they can make up any story they want. And when u file that complaint.. and there is no video.. for 6 cops.. Heads start to roll. Most PD’s have camera’s and strict policies for them. I’ve been written up for not turning my on b4. And if someone came in to file a real complaint and I didn’t have my tape rolling. My ass would be in a heap of trouble. Fortunately ours are digital so it goes on automatically. And my tape has supported my version of events every time it was review for a complaint. LOVE my camera!! Don’t know a cop who doesn’t.
PSOSGT
You know what is funny about this video, is that these dumb ass cops where being videotaped and knew it, so they commence to kicking this dude in the head and with steel clubs while in a fetal position and not resisting but protecting his self. After realizing they had been caught they try to assault the cameraman with mace and intimidation. And before you say he was interfering with “police duties” he was able to get all these cops in a single frame which means he had to be far enough back to stay within those perameters. Not to mention this was a very unnecessary beating and you wonder why people are getting sick of this SHIT!!!!!!!!
I hope that shit never get out of control and the gates can no longer hold the flood waters. Because when they do, and I’m sure you may be a decent cop, but you better learn to live in your precinct station. I served in Iraq and I can tell you the cops there lived in those police barracks. You know why? I’ll tell you why! Because they fear for their lives. The only time they traveled it was point A to point B and heavily armed with military escorts. That may come here to this country, if your kind does not do something to reform not only the individual police but the system of policing and interaction with the public as a whole. That includes judges, district attorneys, and general public service people. Crime there is different then in the states in a lot of ways. It’s crazy because the military protects cops in the line of duty. The real problem was the fact that a lot of people who you call insurgents are very normal people in their societies. I’ve also seen very normal people target the homes of these public servants and their families aren’t safe. The cops there could not be in two places at the same time and a lot of their families paid for their corruption. I’ve seen it happen several times, because I was part of a civilian escort detail as a medic. Most of the time when they were doing their police duties they used the military to execute their breaches……LOL.
I don’t think I defended anyone as of yet. As I posted before, in 2010, LA County Sheriff arrested 140,000 people, so you make the assumption that everyone was handled with excessive force?
With the advent of video, “if it bleeds, it leads” on the news. That’s just the way it is. There is no national clearinghouse of police complaints. I think most larger department handle them well, smaller ones, perhaps not so good. In this case, I can’t see any justifiable reason the the application of force. From the article, the guy was already in cuff, however I might be wrong. If it was, get the check book out and clean out some lockers.
I have never justified an obvious use of excessive force. The gray area exists when ‘you’ think it was ‘excessive’ but however, it ‘does not shock the conscious of the court’ and therefore is not excessive and/or criminal.
Thanks for the website, let me see if I have this correct.
1575 complaints of excessive force, out of 850,000 officers in the US (on average), that’s 0.0018% of officers, using excessive force when compared nationwide.
Lets use the number from LA county alone. Trying to factor in the number of arrests made in one year in the US is difficult. So, lets just use one single county in the CA (a large county still I admit)
Of the 140,000 arrests made in 2010 by the Sheriff, if there were 1575 complaints of excessive force as reported in your link as complied nationwide, not just one county in one state and they ALL were associated with the LA County Sheriff, that’s just 0.011% of those arrest will have excessive force. Even is you say there are x10 the number of excessive force complaints, that would only be 0.11% of those 140,000 arrests.
While I will certainly agree some arrests do use excessive force, by the numbers from your website only, by the numbers from that website, its a minute percentage.
Doesn’t look good. Missing the beginning, but the guy looks like he’s actively resisting.. so they use of the batton doesn’t look justified. But I don’t know the whole story.
NYPD Internal Affairs is investigating four Bronx cops after they were caught on video viciously pummeling and kicking a drug suspect bloody.
The officers, all assigned to the 42nd Precinct in Tremont, were stripped of their guns and shields and placed on modified duty after the footage surfaced on YouTube and other Web sites over the weekend, authorities said.
“We have put four officers on modified duty during the course of our investigation,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told The Post last night.
“Their guns and shields were removed while we investigate allegations of police brutality.”
The footage shows five cops first trying to put suspect Jatiek Reed, 19, against a wall on East 168th Street in broad daylight Jan. 20.
The video shows Reed appearing to resist for a moment, throwing a couple of kicks and swats.
Several of the cops then start whacking their nightsticks against the suspect, whose back is against the wall, the video shows. The teen lands face-down on the sidewalk.
“Yo, chill,” one person can be heard shouting on the video.
“No, no, no! Don’t do that,” another one yells.
Three of the cops are then clearly shown repeatedly pounding Reed — kicking, punching and beating him their batons. Another officer, slightly obscured by the others, appears to hold him down.
A fifth cop keeps his distance, walks away, and paces back and forth while talking on his radio.
A cop on the scene then storms toward the person shooting the video and appears to be threatening to nail him with pepper spray while shouting, “Move back, move back!”
The video cuts out soon after.
Reed’s mother, Schuan, told The Post last night that she and her younger son, Jashawn, 17, went to the station house after the incident and were both struck by more than one cop angry that door was slammed on their way out. She insisted neither she nor her son slammed it, claiming it was an automatic door.
Speaking of Jatiek, she said, “He has staples in his head, staples in his arm. His whole back is black and blue like they were beating on a slave. I refuse to let them railroad my son and accuse him of something he didn’t do. If they saw his stash of drugs, then where are the drugs?’’
She added, “If you beat on a dog like that, you go to jail. They should go to jail, too.’’
A law-enforcement source said that before the video began, police saw the teen trying to toss the drugs.
“They go to arrest him, leading him toward the van,” the source said.
“As he realizes he’s being arrested, he tries to get away. They use force that raises questions of excessive force that was captured on video after he was handcuffed.”
The NYPD confirmed the cops will not be given law-enforcement assignments pending the outcome of the investigation.
Bronx DA Robert Johnson is also looking into the matter, officials said.
Jatiek Reed was being held on Rikers Island last night on a slew of assault charges.
One would have thought that Mr Pepper should have been introduced to the party a lot sooner, and not directed towards the guy filming. 4-5 on 1? I can see one, maybe 2 cops getting rough with someone fighting, but with 5? None of the other cops dove in to tackle the guy (or stop the cops). Seems like the Parking Enforcement Division just got new reinforcements. Though I like the ‘slave’ reference, gotta toss in some spice for the news.
Then again, that’s the Bronx…
The suit will read:
Failure to Supervise
Failure to Train
Failure to Intervene
Violation of 4th, 14th Amendments
Negligent Retention
Excessive Force
False Arrest (maybe)
Violation of Civil Rights Title 42, 1983 +
Bad guy will get a check, I say about $180,000.00 + medical. One of the cops, probably Mr Punter, will take the fall.
I agree with ya common sense.. I just don’t understand the whole batton thing. Maybe they get different training in NY. I’ve used my batton once in a fight. Most fights are up close and personal, so contact weapons aren’t really a good choice. The rest of the time it’s just added weight to my belt and a window “opener”.
Maybe all this conflict is the result of loss of ability to tell right from wrong, black from white, up from down etc?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes/blowing-the-whistle-on-war-crimes-is-a-crime-but-committing-war-crimes-is-fine.html
Since Rodney King’s beating incident back in 1991…how many times across the U.S. has the police done this to civilians?
Only a tiny fraction of these beating make HEADLINES…why? Because somebody has the courage and RECORDED them.
Unfortunately, for the ones that were not recorded for a reason or else it’s COPS version VS the beaten version. Usually corrupt D.A.s and judges will likely dismiss the case.
What have cops become in this country?
I wouldn’t want em’ near me in a 20 miles radius…
Carlos
All 5 cops on scene should be facing long prison sentences and the lose of all pension benefits.
@ Carlos OOOOOORRRRRRRR it doesn’t happen that often.
I get tort reviews all the times, it’s 1 of 3 things, a crash from a police car, a shooting, or use of a baton. Those are the 3 items that everyone sues on.
All the other stuff, it takes years, even with Ashes, that was what? 6 years? And he didn’t even file his fed suit for a couple. NYPD has a fund set up to pay out on this stuff.
I tell people its just like car insurance, make a claim, its reviewed to see if they (the city) can win in court vs paying attorney fees and a settlement, and then they’ll settle usually with a non-disclosure agreement.
I disagree with Carlos, it does make the news, just not the ‘nation, MSM headlines’…
@Common Sense,
Do not TRY to PLAY smart-ASS with me as you’ve been playing with others here. I’ve been monitoring your posts CLOSELY since you started using that pseudonym [nick-name] and trying to justify the unjustifiable.
When I write that only a T-I-N-Y fraction of all the BEATINGS and misconduct done by “arch-angels”…sorry I meant COPS; make their way to the HEADLINES is because they had been CAUGHT on camera, not because they didn’t happen.
The thing is when you are a civilian dealing with two, three, four, half-dozen of COPS, and your are all-ALONE , they can MAKE-UP any story they want to as it usually happens.
Now, when you or somebody else is holding a camera and are recording what cops are doing to you [him/her], in real-time and that video can make it through the Internet, there is NO WAY cops can deny any wrongdoing because it’s ON TAPE…
Cops arrest and beat people regularly for mouthing off at them and call it something else.
It’s not that COPS are “ANGELS” or “ARCH-ANGELS” like you and other COPS who often post here PRETEND…Anyone who pretends that this is the case is just plain hardheaded and stubborn.
I doubt that “very few” are bad, unless it’s the SAME cops traveling all over across America giving police a bad name.
http://www.INJUSTICEEVERYWHERE.com
Carlos
@ carlos. Your right, when dealing with 6 cops they can make up any story they want. And when u file that complaint.. and there is no video.. for 6 cops.. Heads start to roll. Most PD’s have camera’s and strict policies for them. I’ve been written up for not turning my on b4. And if someone came in to file a real complaint and I didn’t have my tape rolling. My ass would be in a heap of trouble. Fortunately ours are digital so it goes on automatically. And my tape has supported my version of events every time it was review for a complaint. LOVE my camera!! Don’t know a cop who doesn’t.
Simple, sarge…..the bad ones.
PSOSGT
You know what is funny about this video, is that these dumb ass cops where being videotaped and knew it, so they commence to kicking this dude in the head and with steel clubs while in a fetal position and not resisting but protecting his self. After realizing they had been caught they try to assault the cameraman with mace and intimidation. And before you say he was interfering with “police duties” he was able to get all these cops in a single frame which means he had to be far enough back to stay within those perameters. Not to mention this was a very unnecessary beating and you wonder why people are getting sick of this SHIT!!!!!!!!
I hope that shit never get out of control and the gates can no longer hold the flood waters. Because when they do, and I’m sure you may be a decent cop, but you better learn to live in your precinct station. I served in Iraq and I can tell you the cops there lived in those police barracks. You know why? I’ll tell you why! Because they fear for their lives. The only time they traveled it was point A to point B and heavily armed with military escorts. That may come here to this country, if your kind does not do something to reform not only the individual police but the system of policing and interaction with the public as a whole. That includes judges, district attorneys, and general public service people. Crime there is different then in the states in a lot of ways. It’s crazy because the military protects cops in the line of duty. The real problem was the fact that a lot of people who you call insurgents are very normal people in their societies. I’ve also seen very normal people target the homes of these public servants and their families aren’t safe. The cops there could not be in two places at the same time and a lot of their families paid for their corruption. I’ve seen it happen several times, because I was part of a civilian escort detail as a medic. Most of the time when they were doing their police duties they used the military to execute their breaches……LOL.
I don’t think I defended anyone as of yet. As I posted before, in 2010, LA County Sheriff arrested 140,000 people, so you make the assumption that everyone was handled with excessive force?
With the advent of video, “if it bleeds, it leads” on the news. That’s just the way it is. There is no national clearinghouse of police complaints. I think most larger department handle them well, smaller ones, perhaps not so good. In this case, I can’t see any justifiable reason the the application of force. From the article, the guy was already in cuff, however I might be wrong. If it was, get the check book out and clean out some lockers.
I have never justified an obvious use of excessive force. The gray area exists when ‘you’ think it was ‘excessive’ but however, it ‘does not shock the conscious of the court’ and therefore is not excessive and/or criminal.
Ah, I see my comments need moderation…thanks for the freedom of speech…
@Carlos
Thanks for the website, let me see if I have this correct.
1575 complaints of excessive force, out of 850,000 officers in the US (on average), that’s 0.0018% of officers, using excessive force when compared nationwide.
Lets use the number from LA county alone. Trying to factor in the number of arrests made in one year in the US is difficult. So, lets just use one single county in the CA (a large county still I admit)
Of the 140,000 arrests made in 2010 by the Sheriff, if there were 1575 complaints of excessive force as reported in your link as complied nationwide, not just one county in one state and they ALL were associated with the LA County Sheriff, that’s just 0.011% of those arrest will have excessive force. Even is you say there are x10 the number of excessive force complaints, that would only be 0.11% of those 140,000 arrests.
While I will certainly agree some arrests do use excessive force, by the numbers from your website only, by the numbers from that website, its a minute percentage.
I welcome your rebuttal.
that peurto rican cop said get back from the public sidewalk or i’ll blow your face off… reminds me of the cops around here.