Lawsuit: Car Passenger Tased 11 Times, Criminally Charged after Asking Officer “Why?”
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Although police violence doesn’t grab headlines as often as it did a few years ago, the problems of unnecessary and excessive force continue throughout the country. One case out of Glendale, Arizona is making its rounds on the Internet after the body camera video from the officers was released to the public.
If you click through to the very disturbing video, you can see what is detailed in the federal lawsuit against the officers and the Glendale Police Department (GPD): In July 2017, Johnny Wheatcroft, a passenger in a stopped vehicle, asks why the police officer demanded to see his identification. The officer, Matt Schneider, falsely told Wheatcroft that vehicle passengers needed to carry identification. Schneider then needlessly escalates the situation, forcibly removing Wheatcroft from the car while still entangled in his seatbelt. Wheatcroft was physically abused and shocked with a Taser 11 times, several jolts of which were inflicted after he was prone and in handcuffs, including once in the groin area (the lawsuit asserts he was shocked directly on his genitals, though GPD released a statement denying this and said the Taser was applied to Wheatcroft’s thigh). This spectacle all takes place in front of Wheatcroft’s wife and rightfully horrified children who were in the backseat of the car.
Wheatcroft was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault. He spent months in pretrial detention before charges were dismissed after review of the footage.
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Only a few bad apples folks
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Holy fucking shit !
Fuck the DNC and its heard of goats -
I would say, UNBELIEVABLE, but here it is, about 2 years later… BELIEVABLE.
No accountability…. No transparency…. Nothing that was meant to represent “protecting and serving” the public funding a police department except a sick and demented police structure. Based on personal observations of how a corrupt police department gets out of hand, the fish stinks from the head down.
Hell, no... I'm not giving up...
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Unbelievable. These cops not only deserve to be fired, they deserve general population in the nearest prison.
“As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore.” Barbara Lee
“Politicians and pro athletes: The only people who still get paid when they lose.” William Rivers Pitt
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