Title: Technologically Challenged Cops Assault Teen then Try to Delete Video, They Failed Source:
Free Thought Project URL Source:http://thefreethoughtproject.com/of ... e-footage/#DQu4R0QOsPKxoX0W.99 Published:Apr 9, 2015 Author:Cassandra Fairbanks Post Date:2015-04-11 00:51:35 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:16876 Comments:62
Virginia Beach, VA– In January, 18-year-old Courtney Griffith was pulled over for the light on her license plate being out. Concerned by the officer’s aggressive behavior and knowing her rights, she propped her cell phone up on the dashboard to capture the incident.
After brutalizing her 17-year-old friend and taking them both into custody, the officers attempted to delete the footage. Luckily, the video went to a “recently deleted” file on her iPhone and was able to be recovered.
The young mother had just pulled into her driveway with the father of her child as well as her 17-year-old friend Brandon. As they turned in, police officers who were following her turned on their lights and pulled her over, citing the light above her license plate. One of the officers who pulled her over, Officer Pittman, was the same officer who had previously arrested her as a minor for possession of marijuana, something she maintains she no longer touches. Griffith believes that he had remembered her from their previous encounter.
The officers proceeded to tell the teenagers that the vehicle smelled like marijuana and demand that the passengers step out of the vehicle. At this point, there were four cop cars on the scene over a broken license plate light and the alleged smell of marijuana. Brandon, being a minor, repeatedly requested that his parents be present.
Griffith asks if she is being detained and the officers reply that she is. At this point, an officer moves the front passenger seat forward and instructs the teens to keep their hands visible at all times, after asking another officer to “go cover the driver.”
The teenagers are asked to step out of the vehicle. Brandon continues to request his parents be present while Griffith is heard calling the officer out on being the same cop that had previously pulled her over. Things begin to escalate, and the sensible young woman requests a sergeant be present to avoid her rights being further infringed.
An officer is heard grunting an order at Brandon and his eyes widen as he asks Griffith to make sure she is recording. As he is speaking, he is shot in the eyes with pepper spray.
“I’m seventeen years old, stop!” he cries out as the pepper spray burns his eyes. He states that he is calling his mother and repeats that he is only a minor as the officers threaten to tase him.
Moments later he is hit with another round of pepper spray and tased. As he cries out in pain, the officers continue to grunt at him to get out of the vehicle.
“Get out, or you’re going to get it again!” the officer states.
“Alright,” Brandon complies. As he begins to step out of the vehicle, he’s shot with another volt of electricity from the officer’s taser, seemingly for no reason at all.
The officers begin beating him and screaming at him, continuing to escalate the situation and making things as hectic as possible. Brandon was ultimately tased four times. Eight cops were on the scene, with at least five of them involved in the assault on the unarmed teen.
At the end of the video, you can see an officer looking around the vehicle with a flashlight and then shutting off the camera. Griffith told The Free Thought Project that this was the Sargent she had requested to come to the scene. She believes he is the one who attempted to delete the footage.
“They arrested me, never Mirandized me or Brandon, and they sent me off with a summons. When I went back to my car, my phone had been brought off the dashboard and was on the drivers seat. I asked the cops who deleted the video, after looking for it in my folder, and they all started laughing. It was sickening. I later found it in my recently deleted folder,” Griffith told The Free Thought Project.
Brandon is currently imprisoned until July on charges of assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest.
Please share this story widely and message the Virginia Beach Police to demand they conduct an investigation into these officer’s actions.
If there was a real police state in this country, you'd be shackled to Deckard in some jail cell, trying to make to roll cigarettes with toilet paper while Deckard licks them, by now... so enough of your drama.
If there was a real police state in this country, you'd be shackled to Deckard in some jail cell, trying to make to roll cigarettes with toilet paper while Deckard licks them, by now... so enough of your drama.
Hey donut man, don't make phun about Deckard. You can rant all you want against his posts but there is merit about the posting. If you were to even open your eyes for a second, you could look around the INET just as he performs and see that there is a serious problem in America about a POLICE STATE MENTALITY.
Like two people recording themselves saying there is no weed in the car... and both have it... AND THE ARTICLE WITH "MERIT" DECLINES TO WRITE ABOUT THAT?
You are Kunfused what "merit" is if you base "merit" on these two Einstein's or almost any FTP article.
From a "lite bulb" to "marijuana" to what next? Probable tax evasion to pay your state pension for being a retired skool cross guard that may have beaten little kids for having no free donuts in their lunch pails that you personally confiscated and eat on the spot.
Stupid question. Impossible to answer without my crystal ball. Every case is different. With a sharp, on the ball officer, anything is possible with 17 year old potheads that are double digit IQ constitutional scholars, like you. lol
Stupid question. Impossible to answer without my crystal ball. Every case is different. With a sharp, on the ball officer, anything is possible with 17 year old potheads that are double digit IQ constitutional scholars, like you. lol
Go eat a free jelly filled donut and slurp a kup o' koffee from a local 0bama imported chink give-a-way based on your patrol.
My pension comes from a NYS fund that pays out from 100% payroll contributions from the officers. Same as your IRA
Zero from taxes. Try again, Bucky.
I don't receive any stipends from a government authorized body unlike yourself. Just because you suggest some few years of meaningless life of beating kids for a living while walking them across streets to an elementary skool does not mean I am equivocal to your pitiful life. Nope, unlike you, I work for a living and shall continue to work and shall until the day I die.
Nope, unlike you, I work for a living and shall continue to work and shall until the day I die.
Sounds like you financially planned like you listened in constitutional law class.
It's ok. A well oiled Kapitalistic society thrives on all three economic Klasses. The wealthy, middle Klass and working poor. All equally important to its success, you are equally one-third important to the machine... the other two Klasses thank you.
