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Title: Dashcam of Cops Beating 83yo Man Mysteriously Deleted Due to “Technical Failure”
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Free Thought Project/DETROIT FREE PRESS
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/co ... ating-man/#8SBLHZwAftBLE40F.99
Published: Apr 24, 2017
Author: Justin Gardner
Post Date: 2017-04-24 10:10:44 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 3188
Comments: 16
Warner Twp., Mich. – A community is outraged after “the grandpa that everyone loves” suffered a shattered elbow and bloody nose at the hands of State Police, and is now facing a felony charge of resisting and obstructing police. Cops are telling a different story than the account given by 83-year-old Larry Sevenski, and the truth could easily be known – except that the police cruiser dashcam had a mysterious “malfunction” during Sevenski’s arrest. Sevenski is the owner of the only bar in the town of Warner Township, population 410. Larry’s Seven-ski Inn was full on the night of St. Patrick’s Day, with happy customers enjoying Irish food and music. Someone informed Sevenski that State Police were parked on his property waiting to harass people leaving the bar in hopes of collecting some revenue, so Sevenski decided to have a word with them. After driving around and looking for the cops, Sevenski made a U-turn, and that’s when a patrol vehicle pulled him over. Sevenski acknowledges getting out of the car and approaching the cops, but Michigan State Trooper Brock Artfitch tells a tale of this 83-year-old man making threatening statements and attacking the officers. “Artfitch said Sevenski ignored shouted orders to return to his vehicle and instead walked directly at the trooper, reaching him near the front of the patrol car. Artfitch said he put out his hand to stop Sevenski’s advance and pushed on his chest to try to walk him backward toward Sevenski’s car. He asked if Sevenski was carrying any weapons. “His response was ‘I wish I had one,'” Artfitch said. Artfitch, 28, said he then grabbed Sevenski’s left hand to try to turn him around for a pat down. “He squeezed my hand very tightly and he took his right arm and cocked it back in a punching position and formed his right hand into a tight fist,” Artfitch said. Sevenski’s lawyer, Rick Steiger, asked if he was fearful of Sevenski at that point. “Yes,” Artfitch said. Artfitch said he used what’s known as a straight arm bar takedown to get Sevenski on the ground. When he did, Sevenski’s nose was bleeding, his glasses were chipped and he was screaming in pain, saying his arm was broken. Artfitch and his partner handcuffed Sevenski, called for an ambulance and began performing first aid on Sevenski’s nose.” Perhaps Sevenski was a bit angry that his patrons in the small town were being preyed upon by revenue collectors as they celebrated a holiday. However, the idea that 83-year-old Sevenski – known for being kind and gentle – would attack the cops and deserved to be brutally taken down defies belief. All of this could be cleared up, and the beloved grandpa could likely be free of charges, if only the police dashcam wouldn’t have experienced a “technical failure.” When the car’s overhead lights are activated it is supposed to automatically turn on the dashcam, but somehow that didn’t happen that night. “There was a technical failure with the video camera installed in the patrol vehicle involved in this incident,” 1st Lt. Mark Harris, commander of the Gaylord State Police Post, said in a statement. “While the camera log shows that the camera started recording when the patrol car’s lights were activated, the camera malfunctioned and did not write the incident to the memory card.“ The camera did begin recording but only after paramedics had begun tending to Sevenski’s wounds. Despite clear grounds for skepticism, the District Judge went ahead and sided with the State Police trooper anyway, sending Sevenski to trial for resisting and obstructing police. District Judge Thomas Phillips apparently thinks slamming an 83-year-old man to the ground and causing severe injury is a natural and just outcome, saying, ”When you don’t obey lawful commands, often a physical confrontation results.” Sevenski has the full support of the community, who put together a benefit to help pay the medical bills caused by the cops’ brutality. Outside of the courtroom, local residents let their anger be known. “Shame on you, beating on that 83-year-old man,” shouted Don Koshmider, as he recorded Trooper Artfitch leaving a court hearing. “Why did you turn off your video camera?” Sadly, this is just one more example of how the American police state is poised to enact violence on the citizenry which it claims to “protect and serve.” De-escalation seems to be a vanishing practice, and instead, cops like Artfitch are eager to use their “takedown methods” even on the most vulnerable. When asked if he’s known for being strong by the Detroit Free Press, Sevenski said, “You should’ve seen me at the first trial. I was very sick, very tired. But, I stood up straight. I showed them that they ain’t puttin’ me down. They won’t put me down.” Poster Comment: Sevenski’s lawyer, Rick Steiger, asked if he was fearful of Sevenski at that point. “Yes,” Artfitch said. Coward. Afraid of an 83 year old grampa. How "convenient" that the dash-cam suffered a "technical failure". Anyone believe this load of horse crap?
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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Yea, the technical experts from the Michigan State Police Cyber Section and the camera manufacturer do….they both independently confirmed there was no tampering of the in-car video or memory card by any Michigan State Police personnel. But WTF, if you don’t read it in TFTP….you don’t believe it anyway.
Do you believe the camera manufacturer after the camera manufacturer has stated: “There was no tampering of the in-car video or memory card by any Michigan State Police personnel?”
Do you believe “the same defect was found in other cameras in other patrol vehicles from other posts around the state?”
Read this … Then watch at 2:08 on this …
Really? How about the idea that this "kind and gentle" Sevenski would leave his bar and go looking for the cops, get out of the car and approach the officers making threatening statements and attacking the officers, saying he wish he had a gun? Does that defy belief? Well, it happened. Screw the camera. Sevenshi's actions alone demonstrate resisting and obstructing police.
Unless, of course, you're older. Then the laws don't apply to you. Oh, wait. That would be unconstitutional.
Oh? Either they were lying or they decided to play a prank on old Sevenski, knowing the old man hated the cops. Wouldn't a normal person walk outside a and look around, see that there weren't any cops, then go back inside? No, this yahoo gets in his car and goes hunting for cops and takes out his anger on the first cops he comes across.
Say - aren't you the bootlicker who is always whining about the video starting late? Guess it's all good when cops do it. Hypocritical POS. You don't need a video to determine what happened in this instance. The bar owner went looking for trouble, and trouble is what he got. Now he's whining about it on YouTube. F**k him.
My guess is that was exactly what he did.
Attaboy! Putz! Cops have become judge, jury and in many cases executioners in police state Amerika. And the simpleminded apologists keep supporting these thugs. My guess is... Yeah - that's all you have is a guess. We didn't have cameras for hundreds of years and I heard nothing about any "police state". Actually, cameras have shown me that we have an anarchist America where every citizen being recorded has flaunted the law and is uncooperative with law enforcement. Have you posted ONE video that is otherwise? No. I rest my case.
And your "facts" are invented.
My guess is that was exactly what he did. As soon as I read the artile....that scene in the video immediately came to mind
He's lucky he wasn't shot. Seriously. One sudden move to his pocket and he'd be dead man. What a f**kin' idiot. But don't Deckard's articles always start this way?
Yes, and the poor misguided soul continues on to hopelessly try and defend them.
#2. To: Deckard (#1)
Anyone believe this load of horse crap?
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
Anyone believe this load of horse crap?
#4. To: Deckard (#3)
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“On Friday, March 17, at approximately 10:40 p.m., two troopers from the Michigan State Police Gaylord Post conducted a traffic stop for a traffic violation in the area of Thumm Road near US-131 in (Antrim County's) Warner Township,” reads the MSP response. “Upon stopping, the male driver exited the vehicle and became aggressive toward the troopers. The troopers subdued the driver, which caused him to sustain injuries, for which they sought medical attention for him.”
#5. To: Deckard (#0)
"However, the idea that 83-year-old Sevenski – known for being kind and gentle – would attack the cops and deserved to be brutally taken down defies belief."
#6. To: Deckard (#0)
”When you don’t obey lawful commands, often a physical confrontation results.”
#7. To: Deckard (#0)
(Edited)
"Someone informed Sevenski that State Police were parked on his property waiting to harass people leaving the bar ..."
#8. To: misterwhite (#5)
Screw the camera.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#9. To: Deckard (#8)
"Say - aren't you the bootlicker who is always whining about the video starting late?"
#10. To: Gatlin (#4)
"Then watch at 2:08 on this …"
#11. To: misterwhite (#9)
(Edited)
You don't need a video to determine what happened in this instance.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#12. To: Deckard (#11)
"Cops have become judge, jury and in many cases executioners in police state Amerika."
#13. To: Deckard (#11)
"Yeah - that's all you have is a guess."
#14. To: misterwhite (#10)
"Then watch at 2:08 on this …"
#15. To: Gatlin (#14)
“Artfitch said Sevenski ignored shouted orders to return to his vehicle and instead walked directly at the trooper, reaching him near the front of the patrol car.
#16. To: misterwhite (#15)
But don't Deckard's articles always start this way?
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