Ferguson: Cops beat wrong man, charge him for blood on their uniforms

[green73]

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him.

“On and/or about the 20th day of Sept. 20, 2009 at or near 222 S. Florissant within the corporate limits of Ferguson, Missouri, the above named defendant did then and there unlawfully commit the offense of ‘property damage’ to wit did transfer blood to the uniform,” reads the charge sheet.

The address is the headquarters of the Ferguson Police Department, where a 52-year-old welder named Henry Davis was taken in the predawn hours on that date. He had been arrested for an outstanding warrant that proved to actually be for another man of the same surname, but a different middle name and Social Security number.

“I said, ‘I told you guys it wasn’t me,’” Davis later testified.

He recalled the booking officer saying, “We have a problem.”

The booking officer had no other reason to hold Davis, who ended up in Ferguson only because he missed the exit for St. Charles and then pulled off the highway because the rain was so heavy he could not see to drive. The cop who had pulled up behind him must have run his license plate and assumed he was that other Henry Davis. Davis said the cop approached his vehicle, grabbed his cellphone from his hand, cuffed him and placed him in the back seat of the patrol car, without a word of explanation.

But the booking officer was not ready just to let Davis go, and proceeded to escort him to a one-man cell that already had a man in it asleep on the lone bunk. Davis says that he asked the officer if he could at least have one of the sleeping mats that were stacked nearby.

”He said I wasn’t getting one,” Davis said.

Davis balked at being a second man in a one-man cell.

“Because it’s 3 in the morning,” he later testified. “Who going to sleep on a cement floor?”

The booking officer summoned a number of fellow cops. One opened the cell door while another suddenly charged, propelling Davis inside and slamming him against the back wall.

“I told the police officers there that I didn’t do nothing, ‘Why is you guys doing this to me?’” Davis testified. “They said, ‘OK, just lay on the ground and put your hands behind your back.’”

Davis said he complied and that a female officer straddled and then handcuffed him. Two other officers crowded into the cell.

“They started hitting me,” he testified. “I was getting hit and I just covered up.”

The other two stepped out and the female officer allegedly lifted Davis’ head as the cop who had initially pushed him into the cell reappeared.

“He ran in and kicked me in the head,” Davis recalled. “I almost passed out at that point… Paramedics came… They said it was too much blood, I had to go to the hospital.”

A patrol car took the bleeding Davis to a nearby emergency room. He refused treatment, demanding somebody first take his picture.

“I wanted a witness and proof of what they done to me,” Davis said.

He was driven back to the jail, where he was held for several days before he posted $1,500 bond on four counts of “property damage.” Police Officer John Beaird had signed complaints swearing on pain of perjury that Davis had bled on his uniform and those of three fellow officers.

The remarkable turned inexplicable when Beaird was deposed in a civil case that Davis subsequently brought seeking redress and recompense.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...erguson-cops-were-caught-in-a-bloody-lie.html

 

[thoughtomator]

Davis had a speeding ticket in 1992, so force was justified.

 

[presence]

 

[SeanTX]

Davis had a speeding ticket in 1992, so force was justified.

And he was black. Double justified.

 

[presence]

And he was black. Double justified.

Could you imagine the indignity? Black blood on a white cop's uniform? Disgraceful! Its not like you can just wash it or even throw a sacred uniform out. You'd have to have a ceremony and burn it.

 

[jkr]

 

[Philhelm]

Is it time yet?

 

[jkr]

 

[jkr]

Is it time yet?

...ask this crack head, he'll know

l00ks like its half past a monkeys ass, a quarter till oh my god!

 

[Suzanimal]

But however lax the department’s system and however contradictory the officers’ testimony, a federal magistrate ruled that the apparent perjury about the “property damage” charges was too minor to constitute a violation of due process and that Davis’ injuries were de minimis—too minor to warrant a finding of excessive force. Never mind that a CAT scan taken after the incident confirmed that he had suffered a concussion.

Just sickening.

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[economics102]

In the technological age we live in, why is that we law-abiding citizens are kept under 24-hour surveillance but the people who are legally empowered to use violent force are not?

 

[Anti Federalist]

In the technological age we live in, why is that we law-abiding citizens are kept under 24-hour surveillance but the people who are legally empowered to use violent force are not?

Because that's what all this "technology" was for in the first place.

Keeping us Mundanes in line.

Prison planet.

 

[phill4paul]

Because that's what all this "technology" was for in the first place.

Keeping us Mundanes in line.

Prison planet.

There really is no other way to look at it. If it weren't so, then government docs, emails, phone records, etc., would be readily available to the public. We, of the citizen caste, are the only individuals that these records are collected on that don't require years of red tape to wade through.

 

[tod evans]

From the other thread where "The cops charge the guy"...

In order for this dude to be "charged" there had to be an indictment filed by the DA.

These lawyers encourage and protect this type of behavior and I for one want to see them held accountable on the public square!

 

[Natural Citizen]

Originally Posted by Natural Citizen
Savages...

if you ask me its half past a monkeys ass, a quarter till oh my god!

I posted that comment in the thread discussing the stoning of the woman for Intermarrying with Muslim Man. I hadn't decided to participate in this thread.

Please don't do that.

 

[phill4paul]

I posted that comment in the thread discussing the stoning of the woman who married the Christian. I hadn't decided to participate in this thread.

Please don't do that.

I don't think he meant to. It was probably qued into copy/paste as evidenced by the next post. He probably meant to edit post and created a new one. PM him.

 

[jkr]

I don't think he meant to. It was probably qued into copy/paste as evidenced by the next post. He probably meant to edit post and created a new one. PM him.

fixed it!

and its waaaay better now!

 

[Henry Rogue]

What, no charges for assaulting the officers fists with his face? They were lenient.

 

[Uriel999]

gee and the cops in ferguson wonder why they are not popular...