here is your daily, sometimes, presentation of the thin blue line violating and beating their way thru our neighborhoods;
Los Angeles, CA — In one of the most egregious acts of ignorance, violence, and racial profiling we’ve ever seen from police, an innocent black man was assaulted at his home and kidnapped for fitting the description of a suspect. The suspect was a white man.
Body camera footage was released this week which is now the subject of a civil rights lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department and the city. LAPD officers accosted and arrested Antone Austin and his girlfriend in front of his home because the officers were too lazy and ignorant to realize the man they were looking for was white.
The incident unfolded on May 24, 2019 but the body camera has only just been released after the city kept it from the public for two years. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office had said in a court filing that it did not want the Los Angeles Police Department video released publicly because it would “be contrary to LAPD policy and may have a chilling effect on future LAPD investigations.”
However, as the LA Times reported, U.S. Magistrate Jacqueline Chooljian agreed with an attorney for the producer and his girlfriend that the 11-minute video should be released.
On that day, Austin had harmed no one, had broken no law, and was simply taking out his garbage when two tyrants with the LAPD drove by and decided to attack him.
As their patrol car makes a U-turn after passing Austin, one officer asks the other, “This dude?”
“Probably,” says the other cop. The officers were reportedly responding to a 911 call made by a neighbor about her ex-boyfriend, who was white.
When the cops get out of their car, Austin thought it would be a peaceful encounter as he had committed no crime and thought they may have needed help. But this was no peaceful encounter and cops immediately began violating Austin’s rights from the start...........read and watch more........
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