Cops: Smashing Your Face Into Pavement Is "Standard Arrest Technique" (VIDEO)

WE HAVE SOME DISTURBING FOOTAGE FOR YOU.
THIS IS CELL
PHONE VIDEO OF A 22-YEAR-OLD COLLEGE STUDENT NAMED MICHAELA
SURRATT BEING DEVASTATED, BRUTALIZED BY POLICE IN COLORADO
SPRINGS, I BELIEVE THIS IS EARLIER THIS WEEK.
TAKE A LOOK.
OH, I GOT THAT ON TAPE!
THAT VIDEO WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY BARSTOOL SPORTS, SOMEONE
WITNESSING AN ONGOING ALTERCATION BETWEEN THAT WOMAN
AND HER BOYFRIEND AND THE POLICE AND A BOUNCER -- MANY PEOPLE,
EITHER THE VIDEOTAPER FOR THE PEOPLE AROUND, LAUGHING.
NOT A
LAUGHING MATTER, THAT IS ABOUT AS SERIOUS AND ACT AS YOU CAN
TAKE, THE POLICE WILL SAY THAT YOU DON'T SEE THE CONTEXT, YOU
DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE VIDEO, BUT WE ALSO WOULDN'T
HAVE SEEN ANYTHING IF NOT FOR THAT VIDEO.
WE KNOW HOW THOSE
SITUATIONS NORMALLY GO WHEN SOMEONE DOES NOT TAKE THEIR CELL
PHONE OUT, POLICE SAY SHE WAS BEING RESISTANT -- NO ONE WOULD
BELIEVE HOW DEVASTATING THAT BODY SLAM IS, BUT YOU SAW IT,
THERE IS NO ACCUSED FOR THAT.
SHE DIDN'T HAVE A MACHINE GUN IN
HER HAND.
I WOULDN'T DO THAT TO MY WORST ENEMY.
SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTING TO BREAK UP A FIGHT BETWEEN HER
BOYFRIEND AND SOME OTHER GUY, AND APPARENTLY THAT IS WHEN COPS
GOT INVOLVED, COPS SAY THEY TOLD HER SHE COULD LEAVE AT THAT
MOMENT BUT SHE DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE, AND I WILL BE HONEST, IF
I WERE IN THAT SITUATION AND HER SHOES AND I EXPERIENCED MY
SIGNIFICANT OTHER IN SOME SORT OF PHYSICAL ALTERCATION, I'M NOT
GOING TO LEAVE.
I'M GOING TO STAY AND MAKE SURE HE'S OKAY.
I
DON'T BLAME HER FOR NOT LEAVING.
THE COPS ARE RIGHT, WE DON'T SEE
TOO MUCH OF WHAT HAPPENED PRIOR TO THE VIDEO --
THEY SAY SHE SHOULDER CHECKED A BOUNCER.
OH, DID SHE SHOULDER CHECKED THE COP?
AND WAS THE COP FACING
AN IMMINENT THREAT TO THE POINT WHERE HE HAD TO SLAM HER TO THE
FLOOR?
IS HER SHOULDER CHECKING IMMINENT THREAT TO YOUR LIFE?
NO, SHE'S A VERY THIN YOUNG WOMAN, AND EVEN IN THAT
SITUATION WITH THE COP WHERE THERE IS A LITTLE
BACK-AND-FORTH, THE COP ISN'T EVEN REALLY STRUGGLING WITH HER,
THAT'S THE AMAZING PART.
HE LOST HIS TEMPER REAL QUICK.
I'M
FURIOUS AT WHOEVER IS IN THE BACKGROUND LAUGHING AT IT AS IF
IT'S SOME ENTERTAINMENT FOR THAT PERSON.
THAT IS A HUMAN BEING
WHO COULD HAVE REALLY GOTTEN SERIOUSLY AND PERMANENTLY HURT
AS A RESULT OF THAT, AND I'M ALSO ANGRY AT THE WAY THE COP
HANDLE IT.
I CAN'T EVEN WATCH IT TO BE HONEST WITH YOU --
IT'S BRUTAL.
I CAN'T WATCH IT ANYMORE.
BUT EVERY TIME I LOOK AT IT, I'M
LIKE, WHAT MADE THAT COP THINK THAT THAT NEEDED TO BE THE END
RESULT?
IF SHE'S BEING DIFFICULT --
APPARENTLY THAT IS THE CULTURE.
THAT COULD'VE BEEN HANDLED SO ANY OTHER WAYS, HE COULD HAVE
RESTRAINED HER IN SO MANY OTHER WAYS.
I'M SO HAPPY SHE'S NOT
PARALYZED FROM MAYBE BREAKING HER NECK --
SHE COULD HAVE DIED FROM THAT.
EXACTLY.
WE HAVE A STATEMENT FROM THE FORT COLLINS POLICE CHIEF --
BLAH BLAH -- THAT IS TRUE, WE MIGHT DISAGREE FROM TIME TO
TIME, I THINK EVERY HUMAN BEING ON EARTH CAN AGREE THERE IS NO
WAY THAT THAT'S APPROPRIATE.
IF SHE HAD JUST WHISPERED INTO HIS
EAR I AM A CHEMICAL BOMB ABOUT TO EXPLODE, OKAY, SLAM HER.
ASIDE FROM THAT, ANYTHING IN THE BOUNDS OF REALITY, THAT WAS NOT
APPROPRIATE.
HE ALSO SAID THIS -- THEY HAVE BODY CAMERAS,
APPARENTLY, YOU CAN GET MORE CONTEXT, BUT THE CHIEF SAID --
THEN SPARE US THE YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE ALL THE CONTEXT, YOU
HAVEN'T SEEN EVERYTHING.
IF YOU HAVE THE VIDEO AND YOU COULD
SHOW IT TO US AND IT MAKES YOUR COP LOOK BETTER AS A RESULT, THE
FACT YOU ARE HIDING IT SEEMS A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS AT THIS POINT.
AND THAT'S A QUICK REMINDER THAT WHILE I THINK THE SPREAD OF BODY
CAMERAS IS A GOOD THING AND IT WILL LEAD TO SLIGHTLY MORE
JUSTICE, IT IS BY NO MEANS A SOLUTION TO ALL THE PROBLEMS WE
HAVE WITH POLICE, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE POLICE ALL TOO
OFTEN EITHER DON'T RELEASE THE FOOTAGE OR THE CAMERAS
ACCIDENTALLY TURN OFF OR IT BREAKS, APPARENTLY IF IT JOSTLES
IT BREAKS EASILY.
BUT THAT WAS UNCONSCIONABLE, WHAT HAPPENED
TO THAT WOMAN.

Cops: Smashing Your Face Into Pavement Is "Standard Arrest Technique" (VIDEO)

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