http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/17/1412832/-14-San-Francisco-Cops-vs-1-One-Legged-Man-Two-Crutches-and-Multiple-Phone-Cameras?detail=email
It took fourteen San Francico police officers to not arrest a man (need we say he is African-American) walking down the street with crutches and a prosthetic leg. It also took at least 30 minutes to not arrest him, during which time they had him pinned to the ground by his prosthetic leg, face down into the brick sidewalk.
A reporter, Chaedria LaBouvier, from Medium happened by and caught most of the incident on video, but not the initial disturbance (if, indeed, there was one) or the takedown.
a Black man... was taken down by police in the mid-Market area of San Francisco... I began to see outlines of the incident unfold... a limping Black figure, wearing black, increasingly cornered by a wall of blue. By the time I had crossed 8th street, I was pulling out my phone as fast as I could.
Witnesses said there had been a call about somebody waving sticks around... By the time I arrived... several officers had arrived on the scene, and forced this man to the ground, which is where this footage begins. And they held him down, much of the time half-naked, for at least half an hour on one of San Francisco’s busiest streets...
sticks? They were his crutches. You can hear people in the background around say so much.
No, no one was murdered. No one was even arrested. No phone cameras were snatched or stomped on, no police person even went crazy, as we've seen in so many other incidents. But still, as La Bouvier notes...
"These are my crutches. I use these to walk." ... they stood on his leg, held it, and twisted it around even after they had cuffed him and pinned him to the piss-stained concrete...
5 seconds in, you can see a cop literally stomp this man’s real leg and prosthetic leg.
At 10 seconds, the man-handling of his head begins.
At 22 seconds the man says, "What the fuck is you doing this to me?"
... this is everyday harassment. Which is to say, that we’ve normalized and habitualized the kind of policing in San Francisco and the rest of America that brutalizes the most vulnerable people, which strips them of their human dignity, the agency to their bodies - to walk with crutches when physically disabled, to have this body unviolated - when in actuality, they are whom the police are especially supposed to be protecting.not to lessen the fact that he was not killed but c'mon they let White guys with AR-15's stand on busy corners and just talk to them no take down no knees or foot in the neck. the report said guy waving sticks who among you my friends all of you on all 7 continents that visit me cannot recognize the difference in sticks and crutches?????
in past stories of police murdering citizens usually it's one or two but when it comes to take downs it's always a gang of cops with malicious intent.
Eric Garner and afew others i can't remember
remember to pool party???
