Maryland’s ACLU takes Baltimore’s Police Dept. to the cleaner$!
Baltimore, MD — Concerned that the Baltimore City Police Department routinely violates the First Amendment by threatening citizens who try to photograph or record police encounters, the ACLU of Maryland on August 4, 2011 informed BPD that the organization is prepared to sue on behalf of Christopher Sharp, a man whose personal videos, including many of his young son, were deleted after he filmed Baltimore police officers roughing up a female friend of his in the Clubhouse at the 2010 Preakness Stakes.
The following Video taken of the beating by another observer shows Baltimore City cops using excessive force, the girl laying on the ground did nothing but mouth off and in return got clocked three times and laid in a pool of blood……
The ACLU asserts that after Sharp recorded the police beating, he was detained and harangued by police officers, demanding that he surrender his cellphone as “evidence”. Sharp politely declined, but police continued to demand that he give up his phone. Fearing arrest, he finally handed over the phone to an officer who assured him he would simply download the videos for evidentiary purposes, then return the phone to Sharp. Instead, police destroyed the police encounter videos and all other videos it contained — about two dozen in all — before returning the phone to Sharp.
But, Maryland hardly has a monopoly on police corruption and brutality.
by Larry Hohol
Pennsylvania — The above Dashcam of the BRUTAL beatings of Robert Leone by cops after stopping the wrong man is as bad as or worse than the Rodney King beating. The State’s judicial system charged with doing justice by ALL the parties turns its back on the victim. Pennsylvania State Police pursued Robert for a MINOR traffic violation that he apparently DID NOT commit. While Robert was detained he was nearly killed by the police while they executed their form of street justice. He suffered through 11 hours of multiple beatings. He was tasered at least 10 times. He was also chemically maced. He spent more than 2 1/2 years in JAIL. Robert was charged with felony assault on a police officer because the officer broke his hand when he punched Robert in the head with his fist while he was being detained! This is part of a BIGGER story of police brutality, corruption, and official coverup throughout the Pennsylvania judicial system. This video is chapter one of this story – visit http://worsethanrodneyking.com to watch this story unfold and to participate in the discussion.
After I released this video it quickly went viral. The reaction to this video has been a public firestorm of protests and demands for investigations – and yet the police involved are still on the street. They have NOT been punished in any way. Sadly, not a single politician has taken a stand by publicly speaking up.
