Busted: Video shows Georgia cop slammed elderly black -- and lied

[laserhaas]

Source: Raw Story

A former Georgia police officer was indicted this week after cell phone video showed that he lied to justify force against a 69-year-old black man who was moving into his new home.

While responding to a suspected burglary call on May 2 with at least three other officers, then-Clayton County police officer Ryan Hall said that he attempted to arrest 69-year-old Dhoruba Bin-Wahad because he “lied” about a second burglar being in the home.

Although the “fellow burglar” turned out to be another police officer, {cop officer} Hall claimed Bin-Wahad was “uncooperative and verbally argumentative.”



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/busted-video-shows-georgia-cop-slammed-elderly-black-mans-head-on-concrete-and-lied-about-it/

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Video of cop(seen in this pic above from Raw Story of WDB-TV) picking up 69 year old Bin-Wahad, who was sitting down and then bad cop Ryan Hall slamming his head down -- can be found at this link

http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/former-clayton-county-officer-indicted-on-simple/vDX2HC/

[SoapBox]

1. WTF is wrong with these asshole cops???

We need a nationwide enema, to get rid of these creeps.

Hope the man sues the ass off of the department.

[7962]

2. Good to see indictments are coming a lot faster than in the past. nt

[lark]

5. Indictments are a good first step.

I'll start rejoicing when Prosecutors actually start winning these cases and don't just go through the motions to appease those of us with a conscience.

[erronis]

7. Absolutely. And that temporary appeasement is all that they plan to give us.

[lark]

9. That's my exact concern.

[daleanime]

10. +1

[heaven05]

3. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a train be a-coming...............

[SamKnause]

4. .............and lied.

There in lies (no pun intended) the problem.

When a good cop observes a bad cop doing something wrong

or illegal they lie to cover one another.

The liars should be prosecuted along with those committing the illegal acts.

Police, district attorneys, public defenders, attorneys and judges should face

double penalties when the are found guilty.

It is their job to enforce and uphold the law.

[erronis]

8. +1 - agree. They're not only accomplices they are interfering with the law.

[stillwaiting]

15. Definition of obstruction of justice. nt

[frylock]

6. fuck tha police

[Chakab]

11. Only battery? He should be charged with obstruction of justice and falsilfying evidence

for lying in his report.

The only way to stop these guys from lying constantly is to actually punish them for it.

[Duppers]

12. Zactly!

[msongs]

13. another candidate for union president nt

[passiveporcupine]

14. This movement is growing but it's still going to take a long time

to see real change in prosecution of cops, or retraining so things like this don't happen.

This never needed to happen. Cops need to stop showing up at a scene of something like a "called in report of burglary"...especially in broad daylight. They could have driven up and watched to see him carrying items out of the house and instead seen him carrying items into the house. The caller could have seen that too, if they hadn't been so panicked by seeing a black man they didn't recognize entering this house. Burglars don't carry things into the homes they are robbing.

This is so disgusting. And I'm so glad this cop was fired and indicted. Let's hope it is followed through and he is convicted and sentenced appropriately for this.

[laserhaas]

16. OH LOOK, It's a black man, he must be guilty of somethin.. Let's beat the frugg'r up

and find out if our racial bias against them no good negro's is what we think it is.

Then... Dunkin donuts is on me...

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. and if the video didn't exist?