14 San Francisco Cops vs. 1 One-Legged Man, Two Crutches and Multiple Phone Cameras.

[KamaAina]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/17/1412832/-14-San-Francisco-Cops-vs-1-One-Legged-Man-Two-Crutches-and-Multiple-Phone-Cameras

It took fourteen San Francico police officers to not arrest a man (need we say he is African-American) walking down the street with crutches and a prosthetic leg. It also took at least 30 minutes to not arrest him, during which time they had him pinned to the ground by his prosthetic leg, face down into the brick sidewalk....

a Black man... was taken down by police in the mid-Market area of San Francisco... I began to see outlines of the incident unfold... a limping Black figure, wearing black, increasingly cornered by a wall of blue. By the time I had crossed 8th street, I was pulling out my phone as fast as I could.

Witnesses said there had been a call about somebody waving sticks around... By the time I arrived... several officers had arrived on the scene, and forced this man to the ground, which is where this footage begins. And they held him down, much of the time half-naked, for at least half an hour on one of San Francisco’s busiest streets...

The sticks? They were his crutches. You can hear people in the background around say so much.

[Lancero]

1. Saddest fact is that events like this are no longer a suprise, or a shock.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Totally insane world we live in.

[Hoppy]

3. -- should be worth about $30k + the cost of repairing the prosethetic leg.

[uponit7771]

4. "We see you" should be the chant when cops act this way

[RoccoR5955]

5. What should be said in these circumstances

is what was said during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
Tell these pigs, in a rousing chant, "The whole world's watching!"
Time for a revolution here in the US, when police act like this!

[jwirr]

16. That is exactly what should be said. Wonder what in the hell this pack

of idiots are going to use as an excuse this time? If they do not like what we say about them they should clean up their act.

[Egnever]

6. Wow

The Woman filming completely rocked the commentary.

Well done!

[KamaAina]

7. Well, it is SF

the techies haven't completely ruined it.

[Egnever]

8. The techies haven't ruined it at all

The idea they have is ridiculous.

[KamaAina]

9. Maybe not them personally

but the skyrocketing rents they've brought about, especially in the Mission.

[Egnever]

11. SF has always been expensive

Always will be. It is one of the most desirable cities in the world to live in. There is no way to change that fact, the techies didn't cause that.

Money has been gravitating there for decades. Blaming the tech sector for real estate scarcity is ignoring what San Francisco is.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

14. Do you live here?

I do, have for 55 years. You are factually inaccurate on each and every one of your claims. You must be very young or work in Tech.

[Egnever]

17. Not any more

and haven't in 20 years. But it wasn't cheap when I did. Never has been.

Which claim did you find factually inaccurate?

[TDale313]

18. Yeah, born and raised in the Bay Area,

And what's happened in the last 15 to 20 years or so to housing and rent costs is insane. It's always been pricey, but *nothing* like this.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

10. Is he an SF resident? Does he often walk Market Street?

How did they treat him when they finally let him up?

What The Fuck indeed...

[KamaAina]

13. More than likely.

That area, the Tenderloin, has one of SF's largest remaining African American populations, and since most people there live in single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels, they do spend a lot of time walking Market St. This only became an issue when Twitter got the city to give it a hefty tax break to move in there.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

12. Obviously it's time for San Francisco to take down it's Confederate flag. nt

[IcyPeas]

15. blue wall...

this is their new tactic? sending in a bunch of cops solely to block people filming. wow. they didn't pull his pants up until the woman recording kept saying they had no respect for this man over and over. This is disgusting.