Title: Police Brutally Slam Man To The Ground and Raid His House Over Parking Ticket! Source:
Counter Current News URL Source:http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/ ... -police-unconstitutional-raid/ Published:Jun 2, 2015 Author:Jackson Marciana and M. David Post Date:2015-06-03 10:32:23 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:12769 Comments:54
If it wasnt caught on video, few would have believed it. I think we all know what would have happened if he wasnt there, Octavius Johnson said about the video.
It was his childhood friend who had secretly recorded four police officers abusing him in the video.
It would have been swept under the rug, Johnson said without hesitation.
Is he right? He certainly seems to be.
But now, because of the quick-thinking of his buddy, all of the four officers involved have been fired.
Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer was very animated when he talked reporters at a press conference about the embarrassing incident.
Many of the police actions that took place that day are in violation of our policies and do not represent how I want our officers to conduct themselves, he said.
The final resolution will be fair to the citizens of Omaha, the Omaha Police Department and the specific employees involved so that we can move forward and restore any public trust that may have eroded with this incident.
The Johnson family is not satisfied with the firing. It doesnt go far enough, they said.
Now, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have filed suit seeking damages for the anxiety and depression that have surfaced in the months since. A full eight officers have been named in the suit with another 24 who remain unnamed.
This incident will live with our family for the rest of our lives, Sharee Johnson the mother of the two young men said, None of us can call 911 when we need help and believe that police would be there to help us. We live in a city where we feel we have no protection.
The suit alleges that dozens of Omaha police officers turned a parking violation into a brutal arrest, unconstitutional raid on the familys house, and confiscation of video that was taken of these illegal police actions. All of this stemmed from Octavius Johnson parking his truck on the wrong part of the street. A secondary video taken by Johnsons childhood friend shows the incident from a second story vantage point. Police can clearly be seen grabbing an non-resisting Johnson by the neck, and throwing him to the ground, then punching him numerous times, as other officers rush in.
He went around my neck, threw me to the ground, choked me out to the point where I couldnt breathe or speak, Johnson said of the illegal assault by police officers. The officer told me to stop resisting, punched me in the face. As if this were not enough, they implied that they would murder him right there in the street, saying do you want to die today?
Octavius brother Juaquez, was chased and then arrested for filming the arrest on a camera phone, even though he was on private property, and did not interfere with the illegal arrest.
It is a breath of fresh air to see the Omaha Police Department act quickly to fire these officers, but the Johnson family is right, were it not for that second video of the assault, no action would have been taken on their complaints alone. They would have been ignored, shrugged off and ultimately they would have been prosecuted for the crimes alleged in the illegal arrest, crimes which they never committed.
You must pay your parking tickets or the police will come to your home and beat the shit out of you. They have so little to do anymore, since they're forced to stay away from crime, that they just lose their heads a bit.
LE meet force with force... as allowed by the Use Of Force continuum.
Hence, Man got the "shit beat out of him" because HE RESISTED ARREST. Not for a parking ticket.
From the article
Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer was very animated when he talked reporters at a press conference about the embarrassing incident.
Many of the police actions that took place that day are in violation of our policies and do not represent how I want our officers to conduct themselves, he said.
Yeah, that's right GI - even the Chief will not defend this badged thuggery.
You're a real specimen.
Man breaks constitutional law (like a parking ticket)
A ticket is given for an an ordinance violation you blithering tool, not breaking a "constitutional law".
My wife and I have just returned from shopping. While we were driving back home, a motorcycle cop pulled up in the left lane and stopped at the light next to me. It did not surprise me that I felt no uncontrolled fear with him being so close by.
I looked over at him, and I am sure that his highly trained senses let him see me doing that in his peripheral vision .so he looked back over at me. When he did, I gave him a big thumbs up. A pleasant smile broke out on his face and he returned with a matching gesture. When my wife saw this going on, she leaned forward and also gave him a big thumbs up. He broke into a laugh and gave her a thumbs up.
The moral of this story is: And a cop made two more friends today.