NYPD Officer Beats Man With Metal Baton (VIDEO)

The New York Police Department is embroiled in controversy after a video has surfaced showing an officer brutally beating a man with a metal baton while he lays on the ground. This is the second time this week that an NYPD officer has been caught on camera in an act of seeming police brutality.

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Related: 'Critical Mass' Bicyclist Assaulted By Police Officer (VIDEO)

Comments

[berrycooda]

That is not the only place that policemen abuse their power....Try the diabetic who is in a semi coma and
is trying to tell them that they are diabetic..­...Usually get tasered....
Granted that police have some tough things to face but when someone is already down...why kick them...
unless their adrenaline is so far up that they are also out of control...
Just like the ones who taser someone until they are in a coma...(some are cowards in a uniform)

Funny that they are using metal batons....I thought they used rubber hoses.

Just because they have a badge and a gun doesn't mean they don't get carried away...abuse of power comes in all areas...Take away the power and they are just like (us) ordinary people, at the mercy of those
(not necessarily bigger) but those who have the Title - the badge - or a gun. ( sometimes all three)

[psychmaj323]

I hope he loses his badge.

[dadw5boys]

So where exactly does the USA get the morals to tell the rest of the world how to live when our police beat our own citizens like slaves for carrying ICE into a park on a hot day.

Since when is drinking a beer in the park against the law? Central park has always had people drinking beer at cookouts.

[MizLiz]

All I can say is, don't walk around Portland Oregon if you're bipolar, schizo, or just plain nuts. You'll get killed by the police...in a "justified shooting" , of course.

[Danny]

We're in dire need of a kinder, softer nation.

[xcrunner77]

Sadly, this has been going on for decades. As a college student in Philadelphia in the late 1980s I witnessed police kicking and beating what was probably a homeless guy who was down on the ground. The guy seemed pretty much too drunk to get up, and was nearly passed out. It was on a somewhat dark street without much traffic so they believed they were safe. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I couldn't help stopping and staring, wondering what I should do. I was an unarmed 19yearold. They were two armed cops doing something they knew they shouldn't be. I felt completely outraged that this was happening, helpless to do anything about it, a bit fearful for my own safety (maybe I'd be beaten next) and confused as to what to do. This was before cellphones w/cameras, cheap videocamers, and youtube. It would be my word against two policemen, if i didn't get my ass kicked first and then have them accuse me of starting it.

I ended up simply staring at them (from a safe distance). After a minute or two they realized there was a witness to their behavior and they started to back off the guy. But they were not worried about getting in trouble.

To this day I wish i had done something more. And I am not surprised at all when I read of the police beating helpless people who are not resisting them. I've seen it for myself.

[piperson]

Go easy on yourself. What good would it have been for you to have gotten your ass beaten too? When I was 19 in my hometown I was scared to death when I got pulled over by the cops. The used to wear those belts around the waist and a strap that went across the shoulder--just like the Nazis. They would carry a blackjack tucked in the belts even though it was against regulations. I had a lot of friends who got the crap beaten out of them by the cops. If the cops beat you up too many times, the municipal judge talked to the local draft board and you were on your way to Vietnam. I guess that was adding even more injury to injury. The way they portray cops on TV as being maligned and misunderstood just about makes me puke. The problem cops have is that people are beginning to understand them too well. Just look at the videos and ask yourself what there is to understand.

[MarkInEugene]

Ok....where are the: I HATE NEW YORK buttons! Uuuuuuuuuuuuugly!

[Wilburrr]

What... was the battery on the officer's Tazer already dead when the video started? Why beat a guy when you can just squeeze a trigger? This wouldn't have happened to a white guy... unless he was on a bicycle... was this officer in Times Square a couple of days ago?

[rdlmorgan]

I agree. Why beat him with a stick when police have tasers at their disposal. I sell them on my web site to cops all the time so I know they have them and they work.

Sounds like he was wanting to get out some of his anger instead of just subduing a trouble maker. Sad to say, it happens. There needs to be some better accountability or anger management for the officers.

[floydSmoot]

What do you do when the gangs wear blue?

[Lib2daBone]

Take a close look at this guy's foot.. it points in the opposite direction. THEY BROKE HIS LEG. They almost beat this guy to death. Just think if he had been resisting......

[ObamAtomic]

By the way,police officers do not ask your party affiliation ,
they are equal beaters enforcers,haha!

[richardgordon]

I realize that the police are the "thin blue line" between chaos and anarchy and a stable and we depend upon them for a safe society, never the less, until we the public demand that incidents like these are punished to THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW. As if the rolls were reversed, i.e. it was a police officer on the ground getting beaten mercilessly, then we will continue to see these incidents play out. This is sickening and the police, like every other person in our society should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[Henk]

"I realize that the police are the "thin blue line" between chaos and anarchy and a stable and we depend upon them for a safe society,"

And how is it that you believe this? What evidence to you have to make you believe this? I submit that they often cause chaos. Most people I know DO NOT call police unless it is a life threatening situation. Once they are called there is no way of knowing what is going to happen. A simple misunderstanding can lead to a beating or arrest with charges hugely out of proportion to what ever situation prompted the call.

Watch the show "Cops" with a critical eye sometime. They treat people like crap. Often time they escalate the situation to the point where the HAVE to arrest someone. They will take a person who is already feeling threatened and keep backing them into a corner. Finally the person reacts negatively and shy not, they are being back into a corner, its instinct, fight or flight and they can't run.It is a trully sad show to watch. These are not major ciminals they are ussually drunked domestics that would resolve themselves if the police weren't invovled.

[Guynemer]

I was partying in Tokyo about ten years ago when a couple of bosozoku motorcycle gang members tried to run a barricade the police had set up. One athletic young motorcycle cop got off his bike, took out his baton and surgically clipped one of the young punks off his bike as he tried to zoom past.

Funny thing about Japan. You could leave a $3,000 Canondale bicycle unchained on the corner, and it would most likely still be there two hours later. Try doing that in New York.

[jerrypenguin]

The NYC PD provide equal opportunities to bicyclists:

http://laist.com/2008/07/28/video_of_the_day_police_knock_cycli.php

This seems to be part of the War on Terror.

[MPeter]

NYPD, New York's finest. These guys are savage brutes. But, they always have the mayor to protect them. It is times like these that we miss Johnny Cochrane. He knew how to stick it to them.

[strandwolf]

There's a police brutality lawyer in Oakland, John Burris, who would turn this into Payday for the cyclist if he can practice his profession in NYC....

[CaptainHowdy]

This happens all the time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkiyBVytRQ