It’s one of those stories of police brutality that’s just…incomprehensible.
Nine police officers beat an unarmed man to death in Bakersfield, California, and then confiscated cellphones that witnesses had used to record the beating.
Really, there’s nothing more to say. The man was being questioned for public intoxication, when cops just started beating up on him. Then, the cops intimidated bystanders filming what went down.
A woman and her boyfriend who filmed the beating were intimidated by cops into house arrest. When a lawyer finally showed up at their house, the following happened:
He asked to speak to his client alone, but the officers refused. Quair’s boyfriend surrendered a phone after being told he would not be allowed to leave for work unless he handed it over, and that it would be taken from him “the easy way or the hard way.”
Is this an American police force or the Stasi?
The police department has not come up with any sort of defense, and there’s no reason why an unarmed drunk man could pose any sort of threat to nine officers.
Tragically, the man is now dead, but at least the cops have been exposed to the media for the appalling way they handled this simple arrest.
