Cop Pauses Beating to Take Call in New Brutality Video

To be fair, I'll withhold judgement until I see the video.

That's great, SP. You weren't even a figment in my mind, but it's great knowing you care so much.

Blah blah, write to Bloomberg... the newspapers... it'll happen to you.

LOOK: When are we rioting until some politician schmuck wakes up to stop this crap?

I like your posts JDS, snarky with no passive aggressive editorials.

Interesting how Orwell got it all wrong. Little bro is watch ya.

"You are not supposed to beat a man once he is cuffed, but the video shows the [suspect] down on the ground, cuffed. They even stand him up in the corner and beat him with the [baton] some more," said a police source familiar with the security video.

How do you know this guy getting beat wasn't just touching little kids on the playground? How do you know he didn't spit on the officer? I have seen many a tune up administered and most of them were deserved.
Repeat offenders don't fear jail the way the average citizen does. It isn't punishment to them. It's just another day to them. They aren't going to be disgraced. They aren't going to face a fine or have their wife leave them. Pain is the only punishment you can inflict on a career criminal.
I'm not saying it's right or should be condoned, but until you spend some time dealing with these animals you will never understand the motivation. This officer at 43 is no hot headed rookie; I'd like to hear his side of the story.

As a former vet all I can think is that maybe this is some subconscious resentment from the officers. I mean, we know the majority of them didn't have the balls to enlist even though they thought of themselves as 'hard assed' military types. In a way he's trying to beat himself. "Damn you! You are such a coward! You are so weak! So weak!"

#13, you such a fucking moron. What makes you assert that this guy is a "repeat offender" and an "animal?" You obviously did not even read the story. And, there is no justification for "administering a tune up." You are the animal. Please go get hit by bus now, like the filthy rat you are.

In defense of this alleged victim, no where in the story does it state he is a repeat offender.

I'm assuming the DeHostos Houses are a drug infested housing project. The majority of the residents are poor, but decent people, many of whom are hardworking people. I acknowledge that, unlike most of the liberals here who demonize the working poor.

The police need to administer a firm hand in dealing with the violent element of those projects. The goal is to have a place where children can play free from drugs, where there isn't random violence etc.

Unfortunately, to keep the drug element out, the police need to see who belongs there, and who doesn't. What appears to happen is that the Officers asked this gentleman to produce some ID, and he refused. Something ensues, which the video will clear up, and this gentleman was on the receiving end of an attitude adjustment.

The video will clear up everything, since it's a security camera that apparently captured the whole incident.

Just don't rush to conclusions, and spout anti-cop sentiments. It's the police and the good people of those gentrified neighborhoods that allowed you hipsters from Ohio to settle in places like the Lower East Side, Williamsbug, DUMBO, etc. Don't you libs forget that.

#13 is mostly right.

@ Indy

Agreed. They bring the level of discussion down to a very low level. They should be blocked as highly offensive to any decent person. Why give them the space to spew hate?

Is anyone who isn't a limp wristed liberal considered a troll here?

I think most folks across the political spectrum would not appreciate an unprovoked beatdown by a cop.

"I have seen many a tune up administered and most of them were deserved."

Wrong. In our system, the courts administer punishment, not the police. It's that simple.

indy - They do have their own blogs. FreeRepublic, LGF, Hotair, just to name a few.

#13 said: "How do you know this guy getting beat wasn't just touching little kids on the playground?"

Totally irrelevant. Police officers' job is to take the suspect into custody, not to determine guilt or inflict punishment. They aren't vigilantes.

Deca = Roided-up Bill O'Reilley/Patrick Pogan Sr.

The farce that is "New York's Finest" just gets better with each passing day. I think they should launch a new reality show just with NY cops. They can call it NYPD Black & Blue.

I read Jack Welch applied a 10% rule while running GE. 10% of the companies employees are stars, 80% are worker Bees and 10% are no good and should be replaced each year.

I apply that 10% rule to all groups, cops, politicians, CM riders, clergy, plumbers, lawyers etc. My rule works like this: At least 10% of all groups are absolute idiots, and when you have a large group that means these idiots can drastically impact the public’s opinion of said group. When these 10%ers behave like idiots it gets attention, after all no one reports when a plane lands safely. Is it fair, I can't say, but the silver lining is that other 90%.

So lets look at the NYPD, almost 40,000 cops. That means 4,000 bad cops who shouldn't be on the job. This minority can have a drastic impact on their peers and the public opinion of the NYPD. Some would call it a “Blue Wall of Silence”, but I also think it is fair for them to be loyal, like a team. In many cases it is clear what is morally right, but acting the right way can be hard especially when older senior officers have, perhaps, dated attitudes toward what civil law enforcement should be (I know the CM cop was a rookie, but it is a family business). Same goes for CM, 1000 riders. That means 100 idiots.

It isn't us against all of them, just some.

Anyway it is something I think about when reading stories like this one and the others this week. Maybe I'm naive, but it helps keep the hopelessness at bay. I do have exceptions, some groups, like say the Nazis and hit-men rise to the 100% BAD level.

There are 8,000,000 New Yorkers, that means 800,000 idiots. The chance that one will ruin your day, if you let them, is pretty high. Don’t let them.