Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
New York, NY — Nothing exposes the brutality of police quite like cops beating up one of their own. If police mistake you for a criminal, there is nothing you can do to stop their assault and a retired cop just learned that the hard way.
Ronald Lanier, retired Nassau County corrections officer, is now planning to sue the Garden City Police Department after he says they mistook him for a criminal, handcuffed, and then beat him.
“I’ve never been cursed, physically abused, beaten and treated like a slave as I was two days ago,” Lanier said through tears as explained how he ended up battered and in the hospital. “For somebody to grab me by the neck in the supermarket, and I’m telling you, ‘I’m one of you,’ and you disrespect it — it was like you’re just another black dude.”
“They cursed at him, they abused him verbally, they then start to beat him,” his attorney, Fred Brewington, told 1010 WINS. “He was taking blows with his hands cuffed behind him as he laid facedown.”
According to Lanier, when he tried to explain to the officers who were beating him that he was also a cop, they laughed in his face.
The cops who beat Lanier claimed he fit the description of a suspect in the area. So, using ‘he fit the description’ as their only means of justification, multiple officers attacked this innocent man.
“They didn’t have a good description of who they were looking for. That doesn’t give you the right to go into a store and grab the first black person you see and throw them to the ground,” said Brewington. “The fact that he happened to be a black male in the store does not make him a culprit, it does not make him a suspect.”
After finding himself on the receiving end of police brutality, Lanier wants these cops stripped of their badges. If history is any indicator, however, that is a mere pipe dream.
“I’m tired of hearing officers constantly talking about we have to retrain. We don’t have to retrain, we got to let them be held accountable for their actions,” Lanier said. “Imagine if I had my gun at that time. It could have went either way.”
When CBS2 reached out to the Garden City Police Department, they explained that they were chasing a fleeing shoplifting suspect who fled into a supermarket and provided no other details about the alleged assault.
“We are hoping Garden City Police Department will come forward with respect, identifying their officers, disciplining their officers,” said Dennis Jones, with the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
According to Brewington, after Lanier was beaten, he was then thrown in the back of a squad car for 20 minutes before being let go with zero apology.
“The sergeant, without any apology or any other way of making it clear that they were acknowledging the mistake that they had made, just said cut him loose,” Brewington said.
When cops are beating fellow cops, there might be a problem in the system.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/treated-like-slave-innocent-cop-mistaken-criminal/#eg0wqP6MseIvirah.99
HaHaHa merry Christmas you ducking dirtbags. Good luck with your “justice” too bad he wasn’t packing, there might have been multiple fatalities. Suck it pigs, cling to your “thin blue line”. Scum of the earth.
People want to praise all the time “it’s just a few bad eggs” well when you have one pig crying whilst being beaten by other pigs it ain’t “just a few”. Let them get what they’ve been dishing out for decades.
It’s definitely too bad he didn’t have his gun on him, since more pig deaths are always welcome. But he still deserved every blow he took. As an (apparently) unrepentant former pig, he deserves punishment for the things he did to citizens just as surely as the current generation of enforcers deserve whatever they get.
Note how his words after the event still betray the “Blue Privilege” mentality. His outrage appears to be centered not on the fact that the pigs used grossly unnecessary force, even when he was in handcuffs, but on the fact that they didn’t give him the special treatment he felt entitled to as a former “officer.”
If they had assaulted “just another black dude” (his words) instead of him, I suppose it would have been just fine with him.
*** “I’m tired of hearing officers constantly talking about we have to retrain. We don’t have to retrain, we got to let them be held accountable for their actions,” Lanier said. ***
He’s correct about this much at least. The problem isn’t “training”; the pigs know exactly what they’re doing when they stomp on someone’s rights. The problem is the fact that (1) there is very rarely justice when police abuse their position, and (2) the job, which is very attractive to power-hungry, lowlife scum and psychopaths to begin with, is made even MORE attractive by (1).
Nice…more please…stupid tyrant enforcing fu##s…! You and them deserve every fkn bit of all of it…!
I am here to claim my Noble rights of prema nocta….it is my noble right … do not resist….
A day comes hopefully sooner than later…where a critical mass of violent resistance to the tyranny that violates our bill of rights begins…
Then, the costume wearing enforcers of tyranny will bare the brunt of the people’s resistance to them….!
Dttnwo and all who serve it…! & that includes the trumpraeli….!
#STANDING BEHIND BMF AND CLETUS#
DAMN SKIPPY!!!!
hard to type from laughing…..
another much deserved Karma
sucka
now im sure he will cry to get disability and sue and such