Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
“San Francisco, CA – An investigation into the brutal beating of man in San Francisco’s Mission District has been launched by the Alameda County Sheriff after video showing the savage assault by police went public.
Pulling no punches, Public Defender Jeff Adachi said the encounter was “reminiscent of Rodney King,” and excessive force was clearly used by the two deputies. But excessive force is only part of their problem.
The video was released by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, after being contacted by witnesses to the vicious attack. Now, some of those witnesses have come forward with claims that the cops bribed them not to say anything and that the deputies took a “trophy photo” of their victim, Stanislav Petrov.
At the 7-minute mark in the video, you can see a deputy posing with the bloodied man for his “trophy” photo.
In the video, deputies Luis Santamaria and Paul Wieber are seen chasing Petrov down an alley when Petrov decidedly stops and surrenders. Petrov is then shoved to the ground and severely beaten about the head and body with police batons. His attorney, Mike Haddad, said that his client suffered a concussion and broke nearly every finger bone in his hands.
“This claim is going to put the county on notice that they’re facing a lawsuit for their deputies outrageously beating and attacking Stanislav Petrov,” said Haddad. Haddad said Petrov is a mechanic and can no longer use his hands to work.
When speaking about the homeless witnesses who were bribed by the cops to remain silent, Haddad said, “We’ve learned from witnesses that they stole a valuable gold necklace from Stanislav and then they gave it to these witnesses who saw what happened to basically bribe them and silence them.”
Jerome Allen and his wife Haley Harris were living in a tent on the corner during the beating that night.
“They came up to me and the first thing they said was did you like the show?” said Allen. Allen said two deputies approached him. One of them handed him some items that belonged to Petrov. “The other cop came around the corner and said, ‘Hey, I found something: don’t spend it all in one spot.’ And he passed me a very nice gold chain with a large medallion cross on it, with diamonds, Turkish gold.”
Harris drew KTVU Fox 2’s Tara Moriarty a picture of the medallion which the couple hawked for $1,500. They said they spent the money on food, clothes and shoes. We found what appears to be the missing necklace on Petrov’s Facebook page.
Allen said he was taken aback by the deputy’s offering. “At first I look around, ‘Is this being recorded or something?’ You know, like they were trying to set me up or something? And I’m like, well, they want me to be quiet; they want me to not say something about that ass whooping they just gave him.”
Aside from the man’s jewelry, the deputy gave the homeless couple money, crystal meth, and some Newport cigarettes.
After the department found out about the bribe, the officer in question was suspended.
“This is absolutely unacceptable, if true, it will not be tolerated,” Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson told reporters at a Monday evening news conference. “They are no better than the criminals they arrest, if these allegations are true.”
“Nobody bribes witnesses when they’re innocent,” said Haddad. And judging from when the officers wrote their reports, they are clearly not innocent.
Haddad noted that the deputies obviously wrote their reports after they had seen the video so they could get their stories straight.
“The deputies waited four days to write their reports,” said Haddad, “when their policy requires the reports to be completed by the end of shift.”
Deputies Luis Santamaria and Paul Wieber both wrote in their reports that they were “exhausted and dizzy” yet Wieber is the department’s fitness champion and can be seen on the agency’s Facebook page with trophies, posing with Sheriff Greg Ahern, reports KTVU.
It is important to note that Petrov was witnessed in a stolen car and led police on a low-speed 30-minute chase before he was beaten. He also rammed a police cruiser in the process. However, he had surrendered prior to this assault.
The deputies attempted to justify their actions by saying their adrenaline was rushing after this chase, but their brutal force on a surrendering man was over the top.
“The problem with that argument is that this is America and this is not a country where the government can get away with beating someone with steel batons on their head without any due process,” Haddad said, pointing out the flawed justification used by these officers.
There is also the existence of another video that is the subject of the investigation. In spite of both officers turning off their body cameras prior to the beating, one of them accidentally started recording during the assault, and the officer had no idea.
“That body cam was inadvertently put on when Deputy Wieber tackled Mr. Petrov,” explained Sgt. Ray Kelly, “and it was not discovered until after those reports were written.”
According to the department, both videos are now being investigated by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon for possible criminal charges.
“It tarnishes my badge, it tarnishes everybody’s badge and we don’t like it,” declared Sgt. Nelson.
This is what due process looks like in the Land of the Free.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-beat-man-rodney-king-video-caught-bribing-witnesses-talk/#LVPK8mOWlpr263WX.99
Too late. Badges have been tarnished for a long time. FN pigs.
I was struck by that line, too. Calling their badges “tarnished” is like saying that a pile of dog crap that someone urinated on has been “contaminated.”
Their badges are symbolic of all the ugliest traits humanity can exhibit: sadism, cowardice, dishonesty, arrogance, hypocrisy, greed, and more. Basically, they’re subhuman but are far worse than any nonhuman animals. The latter aren’t capable of moral judgment and therefore can’t be deliberately evil like the bipedal pigs are.
“We’ve learned from witnesses that they stole a valuable gold necklace from Stanislav and then they gave it to these witnesses who saw what happened to basically bribe them and silence them.”
So they basically admitted to receiving stolen property.
“Aside from the man’s jewelry, the deputy gave the homeless couple money, crystal meth, and some Newport cigarettes.”
METH TOO?
Even if the pigs gave it to them, that’s STILL a drug charge. Unlikely there was any left for the evidence room, however.
“It tarnishes my badge, it tarnishes everybody’s badge and we don’t like it,” declared Sgt. Nelson.”
You’re going like it even less once the sheeple figure out your murderous agenda, and start using those ‘tarnished badges’ for targets, scumbag!
Sick gestapo thug bastards. It is my personal opinion that the guy beaten would be well justified if he spends the last of his days tracking down those two savages and avenging himself.
That would be my goal if I were him. I’d be sure to get revenge even if it was the last thing I ever did.
Also, this is another one of those cases that should make people wonder if they should EVER surrender to the pigs. How do you know that you won’t get beaten to a pulp anyway and left permanently handicapped?
Too bad an armed citizen didn’t happen upon that beating while it was in progress and pop those pigs right in their heads.
Thankfully there is video or these scumbags would be getting promotions and raises and praises.
The only reason there is any ounce of justice is the video.
Notice they are only suspended at this time. Still collecting paychecks.
With these video’s, they should have been FIRED and ARRESTED immediately. But that didn’t happen either.
Penis cancer for every one of them.
That was a brutal, vicious, and uncalled for assault on a helpless person, one of the diagnostic criteria for psychopaths! Those pigs would be dead in one day in prison following conviction if there were any justice.
There is none, so don’t hold your breath.