there's an online petition calling for an investigation into
the New York Police Department specifically police officers from the
Bronx
that stopped a man who got of a bus now according to
a witness on the scene he alleges that the cops asked them to prove that he
paid for the pair
on the bus well he pulled out a receipt show that yes he did in fact a port
but the cops did not let him go and here's what happened
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saudi riyal radius is the person at the witness who caught that all on camera
and I'm really happy that he posted that on Facebook immediately went viral got
about 40,000
abuse almost immediately and that's how the petition came about
so a one of our viewers sent this to me I
and then I watched 05 at minute video on Facebook
and Daily News picked it up and saw recovery and in New York
and it's interesting because it's not a story that involves
extreme police files obviously the guy puts a neon is had an obvious he's in a
lot of pain there then
and then if you notice as he was getting up a cop kicked him a little bit in the
Hat
right now but there's no details are a nobody got shot nobody got killed so
it's not a big story
but as you watch the whole video
for some reason to me it was more gut-wrenching
this on the worst abuses that we'll show right
because the guy clearly didn't do anything wrong
clearly from the beginning to the end they say hey give me your to take it
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ID he does he has a ticket and ID did exactly what you asked them
they still won't let him go why it won't be long ago it's maddening
but maybe they have reason but they don't tell them they don't tell anybody
they just said no you look like a perfectly legal citizen for a whole year
against your will
a and then eventually he understandably so to lose patience is right you gotta
let me go
and then when they put him down any screaming like that
you feel like it's such an injustice like here's a guy
who got off a bus did everything right right works
my you know I don't know anything about the guy body you know probably came open
war games on a bus ride to give them some day
his going home and then they just pull you down like that Ni
it's not just the matter disrespect for its a matter of like the crime
its question your soul I salute Lee I mean they're
harassing someone who did nothing wrong but lets a worst-case scenario the cops
discovered that he didn't actually pay his bus fare
but not arrest double offense worst case scenario you give him a citation and he
have to go on his way
and that's it but be allowed to escalate to that point now the cops
started getting physical with him as soon as he got up to walk away from them
he'd been sitting there asking that what they're doing and why they are holding
him down
for a while a few minutes ago on by funny about it not so we decided to get
up and walk away
what I find so interesting about this video is it's another example of cops
attacking someone that they feel is probably powerless and in the grand
scheme of things he probably is powerless
but when we have technology on our side and we can record what these cops are
doing
while the Sun and we can actually defend the powerless which is why I'm a 100
percent against cops
they try to lobby to make sure that we a bad people from filming them when
they're all on duty
its absolutely wrong they're paid public employees we should hold them
accountable
and they should be investigated for what happened in that video so
let's say in a best-case scenario for the cops they're looking for somebody is
specific and they have to call in the headquarters to see if that was the guy
what's the harm in saying that to the guy right so that
look because remember it's very likely that he's just an
public citizen like that in US will be protecting him
right from whoever you're looking for right that's very likely
rate so why would you hate listen I understand but we gotta keep you here
for a couple minutes
but no other know you sit down right and the minute he understandably gets up and
says i cant you know any didn't hit them he didn't play well as arms
he just got up right and their egos the heart lol that's it you for resisting
it but you are you won't even getting arrested so what now all the sudden you
are going to get arrested
and you understandably get past the more peace you get
the more they abuse you and then other cops come in and then they think okay
all here's a guy down he must've done something wrong
and they put the knee to the head and then they kick you while you're down
it's just when you see a normal guy like that get abuse like that
hook obviously you think you can happen anybody right
and it's maddening man it's frustrating those guys are supposed to serve us
not attack us I feel like we come across
police brutality stories so often
on the show and I feel bad because they know their number really great cops out
there that
that do protect does the are ethical and have real morals when it comes to
society in and serving us but at the same time
there has to be something fundamentally wrong
within local police departments if they think that this type of behavior is
acceptable
i mean they're doing it knowing that radius is filming that while there the
process is this
and be just don't care they continue on with its unbelievable to me
a classy on this is that I it I put myself in his shoes I kept thinking
what would I do pay and there's no good answer that
you going to eat their shit right or
you get pounded on and then you get arrested and then they blame you
right and then you got an arrest record they say immediately what are they gonna
say
resisting arrest right a it the minute you moved there to say assaulting a
police officer
great so what the what are you supposed to do
I don't know I don't know the answer to that is