Video Catches law enforcement officials in a Lie about Why They Beat and Smashed man’s Face Into Pavement

 

Louisville police are receiving some much-needed attention recently after several of their officers kicked within the door to an innocent couple’s home and murdered Breonna Taylor in her hallway. Since then, the country has learned how far the system will head to protect cops who violate the rights of citizens. However, because the following incident illustrates, Taylor’s case is simply one in all many during which police engage in deceptive tactics to justify their violence to the general public.

Body camera footage was released on which contradicts the reasoning given by officer Jason Burba and other officers for using violence against 25-year-old Princeton Brown. In their report from the incident that unfolded in October 2019, police claimed that after they approached Brown, he “took a fighting stance” and officer Burba had no other option by punching the insane man within the jaw before he was slammed face-first into the concrete.

But because the newly released footage shows, that's not how the scene unfolded. Brown showed his hands as requested and never once took a fighting stance.

According to police, a lady called 911 because Brown — who may be a diagnosed schizophrenic — asked for her keys to her car within the parking zone. He failed to harm the lady but frightened her when he allegedly tried to induce in her car, enough to where she sped off and called police. Obviously, attempting to require someone’s keys and find within their car isn't okay but the force used against Brown in the subsequent beating and takedown wasn't okay either.

As the video shows, Brown is compliant until he’s told to urge on the bottom. Despite refusing to urge on the bottom, Brown wasn't violent and only passively resisted by grabbing a close-by fence as police attempted to force him down.

“Get off the fence,” Burba shouts before slamming the unsound man into the concrete face first. The impact sent Brown’s tooth piercing through his lip and fractured his cheekbone.

Only after police injured Brown did they be told he was a diagnosed schizophrenic.

Since the incident, Brown’s family has retained an attorney and filed a lawsuit against the LMPD.

“People don’t must be treated this manner to travel into custody,” Attorney David Johnson said. “They don’t have to be beaten up.”

Highlighting Brown’s state of psychological state that day, when police questioned him, he told officers what he did, noting that he was “trying to urge a car.” He clearly had no concept that what he was doing was wrong.

“Schizophrenia, that’s what he’s been diagnosed with,” Brown’s mother Rosa Brown said, saying that her son has been this manner since he was 17. “He’s probably had about 20 procedures and surgeries on his brain.”

This case highlights two problems. the primary problem is that police lack the training to be ready to cater to unstable people without resorting to violence. this can be an issue that has to be addressed but isn't a straightforward one to resolve.

“That officer on the road is doing his or her job, and (mentally ill people) don’t wear an allegory saying ‘I’m unsound,'” retired Judge David Holton said in relation to Brown’s arrest. “They appear as if you and me.”

The second problem could be a much easier one to deal with. Police who stagnate what happened during an arrest must be fired and if the lie ends up in unsubstantiated charges against a suspect, they have to be charged with a criminal offense. Unfortunately, this problem doesn't appear to exploit any time soon.

“LMPD treats every incident with aggression and excessive force just naturally,” the Brown’s family attorney said. “It’s always ‘beat up or shoot and ask questions later,’ and it’s just out of control.”

Indeed, as this case and therefore the case of Breonna Taylor illustrates, LMPD officers are quick to use unjust violence and even quicker to hide it up.