cops violently take down man suffering from huntingtons disease, said he appeared intoxicated

[Liberal_in_LA]

The video was posted to YouTube by a witness to the arrest who identified herself as Sara Bostonia. She calls out 'stop it!' — and is confronted by one of the cops arresting Bane.

'How are you involved with this guy?' he asks.

'I just was driving by,' Bostonia replies. 'This is insane.'

'He is choking on his own blood,' she adds. 'I can hear it from my car.'

'This is wrong,' she tells the officer defiantly.

'If you want to continue filming, that’s OK,' the cop replies. 'If you continue to be loud and boisterous, I will arrest you for obstructing, OK?

'Just leave me alone,' she says.

Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754781/Familys-outrage-cops-violently-arrested-father-two-appearing-intoxicated-taking-care-kids-actually-TERMINAL-ILLNESS-makes-look-way.html

officers in West Virginia brutally arrested a 39-year-old father of two who they say appeared intoxicated and was handling his kids roughly while walking them to the park.

But his outraged family denies that 39-year-old Jeffrey Bane was under the influence on Sept. 6, when he was left choking in his own blood and pleading for help while he was pinned to the ground by four Granville PD cops during the Sept. 6 arrest in Morgantown.

The whole arrest takes some 10 minutes and was recorded in a shocking video uploaded to YouTube.

The family says Bane suffers from Huntington's disease, a genetic and terminal illness that causes sufferers to increasingly lose their motor functions, at times appearing to be under the influence.

[Tumbulu]

1. This is so sad, but before there was never proof

and so now at least there are people taking pictures and video's and I am hoping that the violence with be reduced- and can we hope- eliminated?

Another thing that I would like to see if that the prosecution of these crimes captured by video not depend on the victim pressing charges or not. I think anyone who assaults someone else should be prosecuted regardless of what the victim later gets bullied or coerced into retracting.

[Warpy]

2. Either the fucking cops are going to have to be reined in

or we're going to have to start wearing our medical histories on jerseys when we leave the house.

People with Huntington's can appear drunk. So can people diabetes, stroke, Parkinson's, and a dozen other conditions. A cop always has time to ask questions before he starts throwing people to the ground with a couple of thumps from a nightstick to make sure they stay there.

And cities have got to fire the thugs. Yes, the unions will whine and try to raise hell. However, into each life some rain must fall and bad cops need to go.

I've known some very good guys in cop suits. There are too many bad ones out there, though, and they're giving them all a bad name. It's not going to go away until the bad cops do.

[xocet]

6. Isn't that the truth!

But the IQ of police recruits would have to be increased, so that they would be able to read either medical symbols or descriptions of various maladies. Maybe a general and simple slogan like "SICK - NO BEAT! NO SHOOT! NO KILL!" (on the front, back and sleeves of a jersey) would be enough if the requisite IQ for police candidacy could not be increased.

As an example of the pure, unspoilt intellect of one of the police officers who was on the scene of this incident, from 1:10 to 1:28 in the video, the following conversation occurs:

Sept. 6, 2014 - Westover & Granville Police

...

Police Officer: "Ok, how are you involved with this guy?"

S.B.: "I just was driving by....THIS IS INSANE!"

Police Officer: "You're just a bystandard (sic)?"

S.B.: "I'm not a standard (actually dripping sarcasm and anger) of anything. Go away! Leave me alone! I'm not doing anything wrong either, and I'm on private property.

...

[hr][h1]TRIGGER WARNING: Violent Restraint and Cries for Help[/h1]

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There is also this page on facebook:

Justice for Jeffrey Bane (https://www.facebook.com/Justice4JeffreyBane).

[Downwinder]

3. Practicing medicine without a license.

Making a medical diagnosis.

[woo me with science]

4. An outrage. And not just because they mistook Huntington's for intoxication.

Even if he had been drunk, look at his face. They brutalized him, and I severely doubt it was accidental or unavoidable. It is criminal for police to treat *any* citizen that way, even if they are arresting him for a good reason.

[truedelphi]

8. That is a very good point you are making.

I mean,what happened to the old fashioned America where when the guy is drunk, then the local "beat" cop walks him home to his family?

Of course, what is going on locally at the "cop level" is a major reflection of what the nation is internationally. We are as a nation nothing but disgusting bullies and crazed manics, who bust in the doors of people whose land we occupy, and then haul those people off to to Abu Gharib, where they and their nine year olds then get raped.

[Skidmore]

11. No revenue in that type of policing

any more.

[woo me with science]

14. +1000000 "Protect and serve."

Our politicians are supposed to be public servants, too.

That was a really good post.

[defacto7]

5. I am appalled.....

Sue the bastards, take their jobs, throw them in jail.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. POLICE STATE

When have we had enough?!?!

[Mercy_Queen]

9. Mistaking his medical condition is bad, but I'm not seeing the outrage over the rest.

All this video appears to show is them holding him down. No punching, kicking, beating, batoning, tazing or SHOOTING. If he had been black this video would likely be VERY different.

As it is, the video shows a couple of cops restraining a guy they mistakenly thought was drunk.

[IDemo]

12. Did you see the photos at the link?

This is not the result of Officer Friendly "holding him down" -

[Mercy_Queen]

13. Looks like road rash that would occur while writhing around and being held down

Not defending the cops just saying what it looks like.

[madokie]

10. our cops are out of control

simple as that

[RandiFan1290]

15. Call the Cops - Rob Hustle ft. Liv (graphic police violence)

[damnedifIknow]

16. Good job to the woman videotaping

She not only records the assault but speaks up for the man also even though threatened with arrest.

[lpbk2713]

17. Limbaugh would heartily approve of the police takedown.