From [HERE] A horrifying video has emerged showing St. Petersburg police forcing a man out of his car before pouncing on him, leaving him hospitalized with several injuries, all because the cop claimed he was in fear for his life.
According to his report:
I exited my marked patrol cruiser and walked towards the vehicle and I noticed the driver staring at me with a blank stare as he continued revving the engine louder and louder. I thought by his actions the subject was going to attempt to hit me with his car.
The video, however, shows it was Curtis Shannon, a young Black man from Florida who was probably fearing for his life during the arrest. He was stopped one block from his home. Shannon is a Marine Corps Corporal.
[Stop Pretending you are in a post-racial utopia. Forget what you believe and have in confidence in what you see and know to be real. Non-white men, especially Black men, must understand the reality that they are dealing with. This is not a benign environment and you can be killed at any time in the name of racism/white supremacy. That is reality - truths about legal rights will be of little value in the present moment of a one-on-one encounter with a racist white cop or a Black Android [programmed in service of white domination] cop. It is not fair - but nothing is the way it should be in this white supremacy system. You are not white and are also not in a position to make demands to cops. In reality you are powerless. On the street all you should be thinking about is how to avoid 1) death, 2) injury and 3) greater confinement (avoid arrest and do not incriminate yourself) when dealing with these cops. Anything else is probably not constructive - as we see above.]
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After being pulled from the car, he says, he got treated to some more truth, justice, and the American way:
The officer then slammed me onto the ground, making sure that my head made full contact with the curb on the way down.
He got on top of me and demanded I give him my arm (so he could handcuff me). I couldn’t. He was intentionally pinning that arm to the ground with his knee and he knew it. For almost two minutes, he would elbow me in the back of the head (elbows don’t leave bruises or bumps as easily), knee me in the ribs and kept yelling for me to give him my arm. Then it started to make sense. As the stars flashed behind my eyelids after every strike, I realized that we are between two parked cars. No one can see us. As far as anyone else can tell, I’m fighting this officer on the ground. So I just laid there and shouted as loud as I could , “YOU’RE PINNING MY ARM TO THE GROUND!! QUIT PUNCHING ME!!” He stops and you can start to hear the mumbles and murmurs of the neighbors as they start to discuss what’s happening. The officer realized that playtime is over and cuffs me. When he gets me off the ground, I could see the mischevous grins on two of the officers’ faces. The third one, the one who said I would’nt be harmed, just stood there almost in disbelief. Maybe he was new, I don’t know.
Shannon also transcribes the police report, verbatim, reproducing the report’s many typos — though he doesn’t have a scanner to provide the actual document, so maybe he’s making the whole thing up! Dear readers, you will almost certainly not be too shocked to learn that the cop claimed that Shannon assaulted him:
I advised him that he was under arrest and he attempted to closed the door on me., and he began reaching for a unknown object in the passenger seat.
I reached inside the car and placed my hands on Shannon’s left arm and attempted to pull him out of the car and he pulled away aggressively with force. Shannon then exited the car and charged towards me. Shannon pushed me in my chest causing me to lose my balance as I stilhad a hold of his triceps, which help me regain my balance. I then pushed Shannon away from me and advised him “to stop resisting”. Shannon then attempted to charge towards me again and I escorting Shannon to a the ground using an armbar takedown maneuver.
While on the ground Shannon continued to resist as I attempted to place, my department issued hand cuffs on his arms, as I yelled for him to “stop resisting and place you hands behind your back”. Ofc [#2] abd Ofc [#3] were unable to assist me in detaining Shannon because we were on the ground between a set of closely parked cars. [MORE]