A suspended Shafter police officer is facing felony assault charges after videotaping himself clubbing a prone suspect who didn't resist, officers said Wednesday. [More]And then he falsified the police report? Why that's unheard of!
Y'know, when I see our fine "Only Ones" getting in trouble over little things like this, it makes me nostalgic for the good old days of street justice.
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The suspect, 18-year-old Emmanuel Perez, came into the camera's view.
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Perez never made a complaint about the incident.
"He may have been drugged out and didn't know what happened," Fivecoat said.
Chief Fivecoat has done the right thing as regards criminal charges against the offending officer but he is not getting any respect from me. Fivecoat obviously does not know anything about Perez's physical condition at the time of the beating and has libeled a man who will have no opportunity to defend his name. Seems quite likely that Perez figured that complaining would just be setting himself up for _more_ beatings in the future.