They Lied About The Beatings

There is no racism among our police. Well maybe just an isolated incident. Well maybe just a few isolated incidents. Well maybe just a lot of isolated incidents. But they are isolated. And rare. And isolated.

When asked if he did something to threaten the police officers, he responded, “No, actually I was pinned to a position where I couldn’t even move. … I hear an officer shout, ‘He’s reaching for her gun. He’s reaching for her gun.’ All I could do was say, ‘No, I’m not. I’m not reaching for anything.’”

He expected to die that night.

The beating required 45 stitches, left him with a concussion and a traumatic brain injury

So is it SOP for officers to claim “he was reaching for my gun” ? It has gotten so bad that it is called testilying.

So what was going on that was so dangerous?

Police found marijuana on his passenger, who is white. They began searching the car. Landau said when he asked if they had a warrant, three white officers – one of whom was female – started beating him.

Now this was in Colorado.

In November of 2000, voters of the state of Colorado passed Amendment 20 to the state’s constitution, codified in article XVIII, section 14. This article effectively legalized limited amounts of medical marijuana for patients and their primary caregivers.

So marijuana has been quasi legal in Colorado since 2000.

None of the officers were prosecuted or disciplined in the Landau case. However, Landau did receive $800,000 from the city of Denver. Two of the officers were later fired for lying about other beatings. One of those was captured on videotape. Hathaway quit her job as a teacher to join her son’s fight against racial profiling and excessive force.

“I never intended to spend this part of my life studying police brutality, but that’s what has happened,” said Hathaway.

Never question authority or you will meet the fasces. They are wielded by people called fascists.

Update: Reason Magazine chimes in on the issue.


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5 responses to “They Lied About The Beatings”

  1. captain arizona Avatar
    captain arizona

    Here is the problem 60% of white people vote republican and like the police beating and shooting black people(And don’t think they do it enough!) like rodney king unless of course the black community returns the favor remember reginald denny? Whitey didn’t like that. The squeaky wheel gets the oil you no squeak you no get oiled! Things are improving! Every month in ameriKKKa 100,000 minority kids turn 18(voting age) these are citizens not illegals! And almost every one hating republicans so this will soon sort itself out that is why republicans are so interested in minority vote suppression.

  2. Marlene Avatar
    Marlene

    Arizona,
    Are you being facetious or just gratuitously stupid?

  3. c andrew Avatar
    c andrew

    Marlene,
    that would be #2

  4. captain arizona Avatar
    captain arizona

    I notice you didn’t say anything I typed was not true because it is true!

  5. Neil Avatar
    Neil

    Cap A,

    White people are getting riled up about police brutality these days because the police are no longer necessary to keep the black man down. These days, we pick the smartest black men and women out of the neighborhoods and send them to Harvard where they are trained as “community organizers”. The job of a community organizer is to solicit charitable funds and government grants which are used to pay thugs to start a riot and destroy black wealth whenever a black neighborhood starts to get too uppity.

    This is called Progress.

    Since we no longer require the police to destroy black neighborhoods, the police have found new employment bashing white skulls, starting with the stoners. It won’t end there.

    This, too, is called Progress.