Distressing video has revealed how a black man was confronted by at least five police officers while picking up trash outside his own house in Colorado.
Footage taken from inside the home in Boulder shows the man, who is identified as Zayd by his friend, having an angry conversation with an officer on Friday morning.
Zayd can be heard telling the cop that he has ‘no right’ to be detaining him and asking him why he has his hand on his weapon.
Meanwhile the cop can be heard shouting back at him to ‘put down the weapon’, referring to the litter-picker in the man’s hand.
Reinforcements soon arrive as at least three other officers surround an increasingly irate Zayd while his friend shouts at them to leave from inside the property.
Zayd can be heard repeatedly telling the officers that he lives at the property, before going over and having a conversation with one of them.
The two men spend several minutes talking before sharing a fist-bump as Zayd walks back into the house and the video ends.
Boulder police say they are now investigating the incident after the footage caused outrage when it was posted online.
A police press release said the altercation began after an officer saw a man sitting in a partially enclosed patio area behind a private property sign around 8.30am.
The officer asked the man whether he was allowed to be there, to which the man said he lived there and was picking up trash.
He then showed the officer his school identity card.
The officer detained the man to investigate further and then called for backup, saying the man was unwilling to put down ‘a blunt object’, meaning the litter-picker.
A supervisor and several other officers responded to the call, but left after determining that the man had a right to be there.
On Monday morning the police force launched an internal affairs investigation.
The Professional Standards Review Panel – which is made of six community members and six members of the police department – will then review the findings and provide a recommendation to the chief of police of any further action.
These A-holes have not a thing better to do that harass us all day long. What a bunch of freakin losers!!!!!
Who would honestly want to be a Blackwater?
Totally agree Katie , this is getting like nazi Germany more and more everyday now. Seriously becoming a police state, bigtime.
Try the Soviet Union, you needed permits for every little thing you did and if they did not like how you were doing it… Gulag.
“Meanwhile the cop can be heard shouting back at him to ‘put down the weapon’, referring to the litter-picker in the man’s hand.”
https://youtu.be/a8jphxpi1ro?t=7
The police state at it finest. This is why they need to be shot.