as i understand it, the police were involved with a pursuit of another guy. the other guy crashes into the guy in that video, then he starts to put himself out after he's caught on fire. so the cops, then, surround him and kick / beat him.. for i guess getting in the way? what the hell...
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 4:56 pm
by showa58taro
Trying to put out the fire.
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 4:58 pm
by Tiggnutz
Probably fleeing police and crashed
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 5:01 pm
by zombie
Tiggnutz wrote:Probably fleeing police and crashed
one guy was fleeing police and crashed into the guy in that video (in another car, not on foot), is what i'm getting. maybe i'm wrong.
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 5:12 pm
by Tiggnutz
zombie wrote:
Tiggnutz wrote:Probably fleeing police and crashed
one guy was fleeing police and crashed into the guy in that video (in another car, not on foot), is what i'm getting. maybe i'm wrong.
Maybe they didn't know who he was and had to assume he was the one fleeing. As far as dragging him he was laying next to an inferno so I can't think of a faster way of getting him away from it.
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 6:37 pm
by zombie
Tiggnutz wrote:
zombie wrote:
Tiggnutz wrote:Probably fleeing police and crashed
one guy was fleeing police and crashed into the guy in that video (in another car, not on foot), is what i'm getting. maybe i'm wrong.
Maybe they didn't know who he was and had to assume he was the one fleeing. As far as dragging him he was laying next to an inferno so I can't think of a faster way of getting him away from it.
he was laying there because the cops told him to. standard cop procedure, get on the ground, hands behind your head. etc. then they decided to beat him, for whatever reason.
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:36 pm
by Jason
They clearly didn't realize he was the innocent man.
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:37 pm
by showa58taro
Can someone put the link as a link? I can't see the video. . .
Jason wrote:They clearly didn't realize he was the innocent man.
even if he was the guy they were pursuing, at that point he was complying with them. and he had just been on fire. maybe don't kick the shit out of him when he's doing what you ask?
what do you say they cut him some friggin slack!?
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:46 pm
by Jason
He started the god damn fire. I'd have kicked the shit out of him, too.
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:49 pm
by showa58taro
Par for the course for US policing.
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:52 pm
by zombie
Jason wrote:He started the god damn fire. I'd have kicked the shit out of him, too.
the guy who fled is not the guy who was on fire. he did not start anything.
"Our investigators have reviewed the video and we believe with certainty that this man is the bystander from West New York who suffered burns, not Leo Pinkston, the individual pursued by police," Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said in a statement."
i'm not blaming all cops. but when certain cops act like assholes, they should be held accountable. i don't get this need to brush it off like they did nothing wrong, without even looking for the info. cops are as capable of being garbage as anybody else is.
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:57 pm
by Jason
zombie wrote:
Jason wrote:He started the god damn fire. I'd have kicked the shit out of him, too.
the guy who fled is not the guy who was on fire. he did not start anything.
Zomb: "if he was the criminal, he was complying. Don't kick him."
Me: "If he was the criminal, I'd have kicked the shit out of him."
Zomb: "He was not the criminal".
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 8:02 pm
by zombie
Jason wrote:
zombie wrote:
Jason wrote:He started the god damn fire. I'd have kicked the shit out of him, too.
the guy who fled is not the guy who was on fire. he did not start anything.
Zomb: "if he was the criminal, he was complying. Don't kick him.
Me: "If he was the criminal, I'd have kicked the shit out of him.
Zomb: "He was not the criminal".
a mob of cops can't identify whether one guy on the ground is the criminal that they were chasing or a bystander. or they just didn't care one way or the other. there was no reason at all to kick the shit out of the guy before finding out who he was.
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 8:06 pm
by Jason
Is that what you're getting at, or are you gonna change it up on me again?
Re: Cops attack victim of fiery crash
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 8:11 pm
by zombie
yes.
at best, those cops acted brashly and stupid in an isolated incident. at worst, this is the way they handle a lot of situations. whatever the case, i'm glad that someone was filming it, so that it's out in the open.
