Police Brutality Strikes Again

by **J The Kidd** Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:21 pm

A Manhattan man claims that cops who arrested him for disorderly
conduct slammed him down on a car hood, repeatedly struck him with a
baton and Maced his eyes while he was handcuffed on a Bronx street.

And he appears to have cellphone video to prove it. The crude footage
of the June 20 incident involving demolition worker Raphael Jefferson
shows police officers cursing at bystanders, calling Jefferson a
"faggot" and shoving the 20-year-old against a parked car's bumper
after allegedly Macing his face.

The video also shows an officer loudly smacking an object onto the
street near Jefferson's head as he lay face-down on the ground and
another officer wiping the sole of his foot either on or near the
Harlem man's pants.

"He was treated like an animal," said Jefferson's lawyer, Justin Blitz,
who has filed a notice of claim against the city, the first step to a
planned police-brutality lawsuit.

"There can be no legitimate justification for hitting and striking a man who is handcuffed on the ground."

The Police Department says Jefferson was busted for disorderly conduct
and resisting arrest after he "became irate" when officers stopped him
for drinking alcohol outside a store at East 167th Street and
Washington Avenue.

Jefferson said he was not drinking but that he drew the cops' ire when
he walked away from them as they approached an acquaintance who was
drinking a beer.

"I heard the officer say, 'Stop. Where you going?' " Jefferson said.

Jefferson said he was handcuffed and had his face shoved into a hot car
hood. Then, after Jefferson was placed on the ground, a cop "hit me
about two to three times in my lower back and in my neck," he said.

Jefferson said he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct on the advice of
his then-lawyer and received a sentence of time served after spending
two days in jail.

When asked for comment, a police spokesman mentioned Jefferson's past arrests for drugs and burglary.

NYPD Internal Affairs officers interviewed Jefferson last week.

Last month, two NYPD officers were placed on modified duty after separate incidents involving them were videotaped.

One tape showed a cop shoulder-tackling a bicyclist in Times Square.
The other showed an officer repeatedly striking a man on his legs with
a metal baton as other cops tried to handcuff him.

by **TREND$ETTER** Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:23 pm

See why all my posts are on the fuck the police shit. Fuckin' pigs beat dead ho

Police Brutality Strikes Again

Police Brutality Strikes Again

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