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Title: Calif. Police Investigate After Cell Phone Video Shows Officers’ Beating Of Unarmed Student
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://blog.taragana.com/n/calif-po ... ing-of-unarmed-student-206617/
Published: Oct 25, 2009
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2009-10-25 13:53:26 by Brian S
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers’ conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said.

The video, posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its Web site late Saturday, shows one officer hitting 20-year-old Vietnamese student Phuong Ho with a metal baton more than 10 times, including once on the head. Another officer is seen using his Taser gun on the San Jose State math major.

The final baton strike in last month’s incident appears to take place after handcuffs have been attached to Ho’s wrists.

“It takes me back to the day I saw the Rodney King video on TV,” said Roger Clark, a police expert and a retired lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.

The last baton strike ought to bring a felony charge, Clark said.

Officers arrested Ho on suspicion of assaulting one of his roommates. He was not armed when police arrived and he told the newspaper he didn’t resist arrest.

The confrontation began Sept. 3 when Ho’s roommate, Jeremy Suftin, put soap on Ho’s steak. The two scuffled, and Ho picked up a steak knife, saying that in his home country he would have killed Suftin for doing what he did.

Police were called, and four officers responded.

Officer Kenneth Siegel encountered Ho in the hallway, but couldn’t understand the student’s accent, police reports said. Ho then ignored a police command to stand still, reports said.

When Ho tried to follow Siegel into his room, officer Steven Payne Jr. moved to handcuff Ho. Payne wrote in his report that he pushed the student into a wall and then forced him to the floor when he resisted being handcuffed.

Ho, who weighs more than 200 lbs., said his glasses fell off. As he went to pick them up, the officers struck him, he said.

Another one of Ho’s roommates, Dimitri Masouris, captured the events on his cell phone. An officer can be heard on the video shouting, “Turn over!” Ho can be heard moaning and crying as he’s struck.

“In philosophy, they call it ‘dehumanization,’” Ho told the Mercury News. “So when they think me a dangerous guy, they don’t treat me like I was human. They hit me like an animal or something.”

Masouris said he considered the police response excessive. He sold the tape to San Jose lawyer Duyen Hoang Nguyen, who is representing Ho.

The Mercury News obtained a copy of the video and showed it to Daniel Katz, San Jose’s assistant police chief. The police department is taking the matter very seriously, he said.

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said the incident would be investigated by the internal affairs division of the San Jose Police Department and the results forwarded to the Santa Clara County district attorney for possible criminal prosecution.

“Both investigations must respect the constitutionally guaranteed right of due process, which belongs to all parties to an investigation,” Reed said Sunday in a statement.

The city’s large Vietnamese-American community is already angry over the police shooting of a mentally ill Vietnamese man in May, the newspaper said in an editorial about Ho’s beating. The lack of public disclosure in the investigation that followed was also a problem, the paper said.

Police experts said the grainy, shaky video is difficult to view and may not show actions by Ho that justified the officers’ response. Nevertheless, several said the video raises serious concerns.

“Once he is handcuffed, then he is helpless,” said Frank Jordan, a former San Francisco police chief and mayor. “If you can show that his hands are behind his back, and he is handcuffed, that is where you get brutality. That would be excessive force.”

Siegel and Payne didn’t respond to written requests for comment sent through department officials and their union. Subscribe to *Jack-Booted Thugs*

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

“If you can show that his hands are behind his back, and he is handcuffed, that is where you get brutality. That would be excessive force.”

Anytime prior to that is fair game I guess.

Cops would be wise to just assume they are being filmed at all times. Sadly their actions, even in front of their own dash cams, show they really don't care.


"Greenhouse gases do not act as a blanket around the earth and they do not keep the atmosphere warm. ... greenhouse gases emit more radiation than they absorb and this ongoing radiation loss tends to cool the atmosphere at between 1C and 2C per day, a fact known for more than 50 years. And yet we continue to get the simplistic explanation that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere and so more greenhouse gases will warm the atmosphere more. No wonder the public is taken in!" --William Kininmonth, meteorologist , 1791

farmfriend  posted on  2009-10-25   14:00:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Brian S (#0)

officer Steven Payne Jr.

Just another day involving demented minded power happy cops who get their thrills inflicting "payne" upon unarmed citizens.

sizzlerguy  posted on  2009-10-25   14:02:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: sizzlerguy (#2)

unarmed citizens.

If you are not with them, you are against them. Right? Isn't that what Bush said?


"Greenhouse gases do not act as a blanket around the earth and they do not keep the atmosphere warm. ... greenhouse gases emit more radiation than they absorb and this ongoing radiation loss tends to cool the atmosphere at between 1C and 2C per day, a fact known for more than 50 years. And yet we continue to get the simplistic explanation that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere and so more greenhouse gases will warm the atmosphere more. No wonder the public is taken in!" --William Kininmonth, meteorologist , 1791

farmfriend  posted on  2009-10-25   14:03:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: farmfriend (#3) (Edited)

Bush said?

Cops have displayed a pattern of abusing unarmed citizens for decades.

That cop mentality of abusing their authority is "ingrained" in their sociopathic/psychopathic minds.

Most of the bad ones were born with sinister minds.

sizzlerguy  posted on  2009-10-25   14:16:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: sizzlerguy (#4)

Yeah I wouldn't argue against you that is for sure.


"Greenhouse gases do not act as a blanket around the earth and they do not keep the atmosphere warm. ... greenhouse gases emit more radiation than they absorb and this ongoing radiation loss tends to cool the atmosphere at between 1C and 2C per day, a fact known for more than 50 years. And yet we continue to get the simplistic explanation that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere and so more greenhouse gases will warm the atmosphere more. No wonder the public is taken in!" --William Kininmonth, meteorologist , 1791

farmfriend  posted on  2009-10-25   14:42:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: sizzlerguy, farmfriend (#4)

The nice thing about a lot of PD's eliminating people with high I.Q.'s from consideration is that they are not only recruiting thugs to wear badges, but STUPID thugs.

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France

Original_Intent  posted on  2009-10-25   15:53:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Original_Intent (#6)

The nice thing about a lot of PD's eliminating people with high I.Q.'s from consideration is that they are not only recruiting thugs to wear badges, but STUPID thugs.

We have some of those 'types', albeit retired, posting on this very forum...indeed!

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2009-10-25   16:54:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Original_Intent (#6)

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Eric Stratton  posted on  2009-10-25   20:24:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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