Brickbat: Drink It Up

The Miami-Dade, Florida, State Attorney's Office has charged Miami Beach Police Department Sgt. Jose Perez and Officer Kevin Perez with felony battery for taking down and handcuffing Khalid Vaughn, who was recording them arresting another man. Video shows Vaughn obeying the officers' command to back away, but police tackled him anyway. Video also shows them taunting a bloody, beaten Vaughn and ignoring his request for medical attention. And the video shows one of the officers taking Vaughn's Gatorade from him and loudly gulping it down. Officer Steven Cerrano has been charged one count of official misconduct. They and two other officers have also been charged with battery in the arrest of the first man.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Aggravated theft. If anyone without a badge assaulted someone, restrained them and then committed armed robbery.

In a hotel lobby with cameras everywhere and standing in a group amongst themselves shows you how comfortable they were that there would be no repercussions. And it is truly surprising that there might be here.

[Cyto]

Yeah, this is the kind of case that is not ambiguous. It isn't a mistake by police. It is a clear violation of their oath, if it happened as described.

They should be prosecuted for all of the illegal actions, just as you or I would be. If Tony and Ken had jumped Robby, bloodied him up, handcuffed him and stolen his Boba Tea, they would have been facing several felonies, including kidnapping.

[m4019597]

Felony hair disturbance.

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[m4019597]

Every asshole feels the need to record everything these days. Glad he got beaten and robbed.

Glad the cops got arrested, too.

[Longtobefree]

I don't think "official misconduct" is an arrestable offense.
Violation of Constitutional rights, assault, battery, theft, (technically) kidnapping, conspiracy added to all of those, and only one officer gets tagged for "official misconduct". (the battery charges were for the first guy)
If any of those had happened in a certain place in a certain district on a certain date in early January, the entire federal government collection of three letter agencies would have been all over it.

[Chumby]

Recording helps protect the officers that do everything properly. In addition to documenting the times when a citizen’s rights are being violated by police.

[markm23]

Good cops welcome recording. It not only protects them if a case goes to court, but usually it prevents there even being a case; unjustified complaints usually go away as soon as the complainant learns there is video. If a cop opposes recording him at work, he has something to hide.

[Chumby]

In the officer’s defense, he probably lost a lot of electrolytes while committing battery on Vaughn.

[Don't look at me!]

Current events can be shocking.

[Don't look at me!]

Say watt?

[Stuck in California]

That would explain why the charge wasn't greater.

[bobbyj]

Can't be too hard on them. Water sucks. It's really, really sucks.

[Chumby]

Water you talking about?

[markm23]

How the charges would be stacked up if the assailants weren't cops:

Aggravated assault.
Robbery (they stole something by force).
Armed robbery (they stole something by force while wearing guns).
Conspiracy (there were more than one committing the crime together).
Conspiracy to violate civil rights (they beat him for exercising a 1st Amendment right).
Hate crime (judging by the names, this was Latinos beating an Arab).
Plus sentence enhancements for having a gun while doing crimes.

The plea deal offer: 10 years if you plea guilty, possibly 100 years if you go to trial and lose on all counts - and you will lose, because it's on video.

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