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Nothing Cops Do as Fellow Cop Stomps the Throat of Man, With a Gun to His Head


 George Orwell’s prophetic words above painted a bleak and disturbing picture of the long run when he transcribed them to text over 7 decades ago. Now, due to the technological age of video and also the internet, we've got seen countless samples of his prediction playing out sort of a broken record, over and another time.


Body camera footage released in the week captured the materialization of Orwell’s proverbial boot onto the foot of Cleveland law officer John Petkac and onto the neck of London Wilson.

According to police, on the day in question, they were responding to a report of force within the area once they encountered Wilson. Wilson was never charged with violence, so it's unclear if he was the suspect police sought out. However, when police showed au fait the scene, for a few reasons, Wilson ran.

Petkac was the primary officer on the scene and because the body camera footage shows, he pursued Wilson on foot before losing him. About three minutes later, a neighbor then told the officer that Wilson was hiding in a very bin.

As the video shows, when Petkac opened the lid on the rubbish can, Wilson emerged, shirtless — showing he had nothing in his waistband — and together with his hands up. Despite completely surrendering to the officer, Petkac grabbed the person by his hair and tipped over the rubbish can.

After Wilson is slammed to the bottom of the trash barrel, Petkac drags the person by his hair, all the while holding a gun to Wilson’s head. the whole time, Wilson is asking why the officer is doing this to him as running when the police arrive doesn't automatically give police evidence.

“Why are you doing this to me? Why are you doing this to me?” Wilson asks the officer repeatedly. He receives no answer and only more violence.

We can see within the video that Wilson isn't resisting in the least. In fact, he's lying on his back along with his hands within the air and with a gun to his head — posing no threat whatsoever. Nevertheless, Petkac decides that now could be a decent time to stomp on the man’s throat.

As anyone in their right mind would do at this time, Wilson tried to urge the officer’s boot off of his throat by pushing it away. However, Petkac stomped right back within the same spot.

Likely thinking that this officer was visiting to kill him, Wilson went into self-preservation mode and passively defended himself from the officer’s attack. This nonviolent resistance was then interpreted by Petkac as “resisting arrest.”

“Why are you arresting me?” Wilson asks.

“Because you’re assault and battery,” Petkac replies. As reported, assault without cause for an actual arrest within the first place may be a tactic utilized by cops to justify their violent behavior when attacking people without justifiable reason.

“Why are you punching me though?” Wilson asked.

More officers arrive and watch the mistreatment of Wilson by their fellow officers and rather than stopping it, they made up a story about Wilson trying to grab Petkac’s weapon.

Wilson is then placed in handcuffs because the officers pick him up and convey him to the cruiser. rather than putting him within the cruiser, however, Petkac abused his victim even further — slamming his face into the side of the cruiser in an exceedingly clear act of retaliation.

A month later, Wilson pleaded guilty to the sole crime with which he was charged that day, “resisting arrest.”

This incident passed off on December 22, 2018, and Petkac and his fellow cops who aided and abetted him remained gainfully employed until on.

Cleveland Safety Director Karrie Howard fired Petkacconsistent with Cleveland.com, Howard also fired officer Howard Hart — who investigators said smoked crack cocaine for four years — and suspended five other officers for between 13 and 30 days for failing to report Petkac’s actions accurately. Howard also suspended a police supervisor for failing to analyze the man’s claims that Petkac stomped on his head.

When people speak about a “bad apple” in an exceedingly department, they ignore all the assistance given to those bad apples by their fellow officers and supervisors. Here, we have a crackhead cop, covering for a raging lunatic who stomps on people’s throats while holding them at gunpoint and 6 other officers going together with it. “Bad apple” doesn't even begin to explain this example.

What’s more, because the system protects bad apples and their enablers, Petkac will likely be rehired shortly. in step with the report, Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association President Jeff Follmer previously said Petkac’s actions didn't warrant his firing which the union would appeal to urge Petkac’s job back because it does in most cases where the department fires of disciplines officers.


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