Cop Beats Homeless Woman (VIDEO)

POLICE IN GEORGIA HAVE REOPENED AN INVESTIGATION AFTER A VIDEO
INVOLVING ALLEGED POLICE BRUTALITY WENT VIRAL, AND
PROVIDED SOME --
VIDEO BUFFERING ñ-
THE HOMELESS WOMAN IS IDENTIFIED AS KATIE MCCREARY, HOWEVER THE
POLICE OFFICER IN THIS VIDEO HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED.
HE IS ANONYMOUS.
BUT THIS TOOK PLACE ON JUNE 4,
AND APPARENTLY THE OFFICER HAD GONE TO A CHEVRON STATION
IN RESPONSE TO A COMPLAINT ABOUT A WOMAN BEGGING FOR MONEY.
SHE'S A HOMELESS WOMAN, SHE SET A CHEVRON STATION ASKING
FOR MONEY, WHICH I THINK ALL OF US HAVE EXPRESSED AT SOME
POINT, AND USUALLY THEY ARE NOT DANGEROUS PEOPLE, BUT
NONETHELESS THE OWNER OF THE CHEVRON STATION ENDED UP
CALLING THE COPS, AND THINGS GOT VIOLENT.
NOW, THE COP CLAIMS THAT THE WOMAN TRIED TO PUSH HIM OUT OF
THE WAY WHEN HE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE, AND THEN THAT WARRANTED
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE.
LET ME JUST GIVE A TINY BIT MORE DETAIL BEFORE WE GO TO THE
VIDEO.
SO, SHE SAYS THAT HE ATTEMPTED TO PUSH ME OUT OF THE WAY AND
WALK OUT THE DOOR, WHICH I WOULD THINK IS MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
THE GUY CALLED YOU TO GET RID OF HER, AND SHE'S LEAVING.
BOY THIS FEELS LIKE IT COULD HAVE BEEN RESOLVED A LOT EASIER.
AND ALL THESE CASES I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE, IS NOT AN EASY JOB,
YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH A HOMELESS PERSON THAT IS NOT LISTENING TO
YOU, THAT IS NOT EASY.
AND HE SAYS LATER THAT SHE TRIED TO REACH OUT AND GRAB HIS BADGE,
GRAB THE BEST AND THE RADIO, AND THAT'S WHAT HE PUT IN HIS
REPORT, BUT I'LL TELL YOU ONE LITTLE THING HE PUT IN HIS
REPORT AFTER HE ñ AFTER YOU WATCH THE VIDEO.
YEAH, LET'S WATCH THE VIDEO AND I WANT TO GIVE YOU HIS DETAILED
REPORT SO YOU KIND OF SEE SOME OF THE DETAILED CONSISTENCIES.
BY THE WAY, WARNING, THE VIDEO IS DIFFICULT TO WATCH SO IF
YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE YOU SHOULD LOOK AWAY NOW.
STOP RESISTING, STOP RESISTING, STOP RESISTING.
STOP IT, ARE YOU GOING TO STOP IT?
YOU WANT TO STOP IT?
BUT HER HANDS BEHIND HER BACK.
STOP!
GET YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK!
GOD DAMMIT!
STOP IT!
STOP.
STOP RESISTING KATIE, STOP RESISTING.
STOP RESISTING KATIE.
BUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK 80.
I WILL SHOOT YOU.
LET ME GO OR I WILL SHOOT YOU.
NO PLEASE, DON'T SHOOT HER.
YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK.
PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK KATIE.
STOP IT NOW.
BUT HER HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK.
WHAT DID I DO?
WHAT DID I DO?
ALL RIGHT.
SO, I SHOULD NOTE THAT SHE DOES HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS, IT'S
UNCLEAR WHAT THAT MENTAL ILLNESS IS EXACTLY, BUT A LOCAL
NEWS STATION SPOKE TO A DOZEN INDIVIDUALS IN THE AREA WHO
ARE FAMILIAR WITH HER, WHO KNOW HER.
THEY ALL SAID THAT SHE WASN'T A PROBLEM, SHE NEVER POSED ANY
TYPE OF RISK, AND SHE DID HAVE A HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
SHE IS HOMELESS.
IT'S SUPER DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH A MENTALLY OPEN AS IN,
NOBODY IS SAYING IT'S EASY, BUT YOU SAW THAT VIDEO.
I DON'T KNOW, COULD YOU BEAT A MENTALLY ILL WOMAN LIKE THAT?
SHE SAYS SHE WAS GOING TO LEAVE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE STATION MANAGER ASKED FOR HER ñ
ASKED FOR HIM TO DO.
DID HE ASK FOR HER TO BE ARRESTED?
I DON'T KNOW, BUT YOU WOULD THINK, SHE'S BOTHERING
PEOPLE ASKING FOR MONEY, SHE SAYS SHE'S LEAVING, GREAT,
WONDERFUL, COULD HAVE LEFT IT AT THAT.
I JUST, I CAN'T STOMACH DOING THAT TO SOMEBODY, LET ALONE
A MENTALLY ILL PERSON.
IF THEY WERE GOING TO CAUSE VIOLENCE ON OTHERS, I GET
IT, THAT'S WHAT THE COPS ARE THEREFORE, BUT A MENTALLY
OPERA'S AND WHO IS NOT LISTENING TO YOUR ORDERS, YOU
COULDN'T FIGURE OUT, YOU THOUGHT WHAT, SHE IS DISRESPECTING YOU?
NOT EVERYTHING IS DISRESPECT.
PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT.
AND IF THEY CALLED YOU BECAUSE SHE IS NOT ABLE TO WAS BOND
TO THOSE REQUESTS, THERE MIGHT BE A REASON FOR THAT.
DON'T WE DO ANY TRAINING IN THIS COUNTRY?
YES THERE ARE MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE, YES SOME PERCENTAGE
OF HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE MENTALLY ILL.
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS NOT BEATING THE LIVING HELL OUT
OF THEM.
SO, MAYBE I MISSED SOMETHING, BECAUSE I WAS UNDER THE
IMPRESSION THAT A COP CAN ONLY OPEN FIRE ON SOMEONE WHO
POSES AN IMMINENT THREAT, RIGHT?
AND HE SAID IN THAT VIDEO, VERY CLEARLY, AND HE GOT A
RESPONSE FROM THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE, PUT YOUR HANDS
BEHIND YOUR BACK OR I'M GOING TO SHOOT YOU, AND THEN TWO
PEOPLE WERE LIKE, PLEASE DON'T SHOOT HER.
WHY ARE YOU GOING TO SHOOT HER?
IS SHE POSING A THREAT TO YOU?
AND MAYBE I'M WRONG, MAYBE THAT'S NOT THE POLICY.
MAYBE THE NEW POLICY IS, IF SOMEBODY IS ANNOYING YOU,
AND SOMEBODY ISN'T LISTENING TO YOUR ORDERS IN THE FASHION
THAT YOU THINK IS APPROPRIATE, THEN YOU GET OPEN FIRE.
BY THE WAY, IF YOU SHOOT AND KILL SOMEONE, THAT COULD BE
MURDERED.
BUT IF YOU THREATEN TO SHOOT SOMEONE, THAT'S ALREADY A CRIME.
THAT'S ASSAULT.
NOT FOR A COP.
IF YOU SAID THAT TO A COP, YOU WOULD DEFINITELY BE ARRESTED.
HEY, DON'T DO X OR A SOMEWHAT TO SHOOT YOU.
THAT'S AN ASSAULT EVEN IF YOU DON'T PULL A GUN OR
ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
NOW, A COP HAS A JOB WHERE THEY HAVE TO THREATEN VIOLENCE AND
THINGS LIKE THAT, I KNOW IT IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT RULES,
BUT IT CAN'T BE THAT IF YOU ARE UNDER NO IMMINENT THREAT AT ALL.
NOBODY THOUGHT THAT WOMAN WAS SOMEHOW GOING TO MAGICALLY
KILL THAT COP, RIGHT?
SO, THREATENING TO KILL HER, OR SHOOT HER, WHICH WOULD KILL HER,
CERTAINLY COULD, IS ASSAULT, LET ALONE THE OTHER OBVIOUS
ASSAULT THAT IS HAPPENING ON THE TAPE.
SO, THIS VIDEO IS NEW, WHICH IS WHY OFFICIALS HAVE DECIDED TO
REOPEN THE INVESTIGATION INTO THIS CASE.
THEY HAD ALREADY DECIDED THAT HE HAD DONE NO WRONG DOING,
AND THEY WANTED TO MOVE ON, BUT THIS VIDEO WENT VIRAL AND
THEY WERE LIKE, OKAY WELL WE HAVE NEW EVIDENCE, WE HAVE
TO LOOK AT THIS AGAIN.
I HAVE TO GIVE YOU THE DETAILS OF THE POLICE REPORT THAT
THIS UNIDENTIFIED COP HAD FILED, SO YOU KIND OF HAVE THE
SENSE OF HIS KIND OF THE SIDE ñ
HIS SIDE OF THE STORY AND WHAT HE BELIEVED HAPPENED.
SO, IN THE INCIDENT REPORT, DATED JUNE 5 ñ THE DAY AFTER
THIS TOOK PLACE ñ THE OFFICER SAID, WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE GAS
STATION, "MCCRARY IDENTITY PUSHING OUT OF THE WAY AND WALK
OUT THE DOOR.
MORE WORDS WERE EXCHANGED, AND SHE REACHED OUT AND GOT MY
BADGE, AND AFTER BEING WARNED NOT TO TOUCH HIM SHE GRABBED
MY VEST AND RADIO, ACCORDING TO HIS INCIDENT REPORT.
HE SAID HE USED HIS BATON ON HER LEGS, FOREARMS, AND ONE STRIKE
INADVERTENTLY STRUCK THE SIDE OF HER HEAD AS SHE WAS MOVING
AROUND."
SO, THAT WAS HIS TAKE.
I THINK IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE SAW IN THE VIDEO,
BUT AGAIN, I MEAN IT'S BEING INVESTIGATED, WE'LL SEE HOW IT
TURNS OUT, BUT IT IS AN INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATION AND
WE HAVE PRECEDENT ON HOW THINGS LIKE THAT TURNOUT.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A QUOTE FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THEY SAID
AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO IN A STATEMENT, THE BEHAVIOR OF THE
OFFICER SEEMS TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE VIDEO.
TO BE FAIR HE DIDN'T SAY HE INADVERTENTLY STRUCK HER, HE
SAID HE AND IMPORTANTLY STRUCK HER HEAD, BUT THE REST OF IT WAS
NOT INADVERTENT, IT WAS VERY CLEAR WHAT HE WAS DOING.
AND LOOK, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THAT THIS GUY IS A BAD GUY,
THAT IS TOO EASY AND I SPLIT NATION, AND I DON'T EVEN
KNOW THAT HE IS A BAD GUY, I KNOW THAT THIS WAS A BAD ACT.
I DO KNOW THAT THE TRAINING IS, DON'T EVER LET ANYONE DISRESPECT
YOU, AND SO IN REALITY WHAT THEY NEED TO DO, SOME ñ
AND SOME POLICE DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE
DOING THIS, IS BRINGING MENTAL HEALTH EXPERTS.
SO YES, IT'S ONE TAKE A BIGGER PART OF YOUR DAY, BUT HEY,
I NEED BACKUP IN THIS CASE, AND THE BACKUP IS NOT MORE
FORCES TO GET EVEN MORE VIOLENT, I NEED SOMEONE WHO IS A
TRAINED PROFESSIONAL WHO CAN COME AND HELP ME DEAL WITH
THIS PERSON WHO IS MENTALLY ILL.
THE SOLUTION IS TO TAKE A BATON AND BE THE CRAP OUT OF THEM
UNTIL THEY LISTEN TO YOU.

Cop Beats Homeless Woman (VIDEO)

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