DURING SXSW, AND AUSTIN POLICE OFFICER WAS CAUGHT
ON CAMERA PEPPER SPRAYING A MAN WHO WAS ALREADY IN
HANDCUFFS, AND ALREADY SEATED IN A CUP CAR WITH THE DOOR CLOSED.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO.
YOU ASSHOLE!
I SAW THAT, I GOT THAT ON FILM YOU ABUSIVE
ASSHOLE.
WHY DON'T YOU LET HIM OUT SO HE CAN BRIEF?
QUAKING UNDER ARREST MAN.
GRACE I KNOW, CAN YOU KEEP HIM UNDER ARREST TWENTY DEGREES?
YOU SPRAYED PEPPER ñ OH YOU POOR BABY GOT BACK I PEPPER SPRAY
THEM AT CLOSE RANGE AND CLOSE THE DOOR.
FUCK THE POLICE!
THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION INTO
CAMERON CALDWELL, THE POLICE OFFICER FEATURED IN A VIDEO.
TO GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S CODE LISTS A NUMBER OF CASES IN WHICH
CHEMICAL AGENTS SUCH AS PEPPER SPRAY SHOULD NOT BE USED,
INCLUDING THE SUBJECT IS UNDER RESTRAINT UNLESS THE SUBJECT IS
STILL AGGRESSIVELY RESISTING AND
LESSER MEANS OF CONTROLLING HAVE FAILED.
DECODE ALSO REQUIRES THAT THE PERSON WHO HAS BEEN SPRAYED
WITH AN UPGRADE WITH A CLEAR AIRWAY TO AVOID POSSIBLE
POSITIONAL ASPHYXIATION DOT IN THAT VIDEO, AS YOU SAW, THE
PERSON WAS ALREADY HANDCUFFED, HE WAS RESTRAINED,
PERSUADED WITH PEPPER SPRAY, AND HE FELL OVER BACKWARDS.
TOTALLY AGAINST THE CODE, I HOPE THIS OFFICER FACES SEVERE
PUNISHMENT FOR WHAT HE DID.
THE GUY SEEMED TO GET BACK UP.
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE EFFECT OF PEPPER SPRAY IS WHEN
THERE ARE NO WINDOWS AND YOU JUST LOCKED SOMEBODY IN THERE.
I'M NOT AT ALL CONVINCED THAT THOSE COPS HAD STUDIED THAT.
I WOULD BE A LITTLE CONCERNED IF I WAS THE COP, BUT THEN I
CARE ABOUT PEOPLE, SO I DON'T KNOW.
WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH THIS GUY FOR TWENTY MINUTES.
ACTUALLY, IF YOU WEREN'T ABUSIVE TO HIM, WE WOULD BE ON YOUR
SIDE.
THAT IS A PAIN TO DEAL WITH SOMEONE FOR TWENTY MINUTES,
HE IS STILL KICKING THE DOOR, SO WE ARE NOT UNAWARE OF THAT.
I'M POSITIVE IT WILL MAKE THE ARGUMENT THAT, WELL HE WAS
UNDER PHYSICAL RESTRAINT BUT HE WAS STILL AGGRESSIVELY WITH
THIS THING BECAUSE HE WAS TAKING ñ HE WAS STILL AGGRESSIVELY
RESISTING BECAUSE HE WAS TAKING THE DOOR.
WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEONE HANDCUFFS, DON'T PEPPER SPRAY THEM.
HE'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE, HE'S IN THE BACK OF YOUR POLICE VAN.
YOU ARE UNDER IT WITH HIM, THAT IS WHAT YOU PEPPER SPRAYED
HIM, NOT BECAUSE YOU NEED TO GET HIM FURTHER UNDER CONTROL.
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT.
BUT THEY ARE GOING TO DENY, DENY.
I DON'T KNOW HOW OFTEN IS, WE HAVE COVERED SOME STORIES OUT OF
AUSTIN THAT WERE NOT GOOD IN THE PAST, AND MAYBE THAT IS WHY THEY
HAVE THESE FOLKS WHO ARE TAKING THE POLICE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
YOU WILL HAVE THE RIGHT WINGERS YOU WILL PROBABLY GET MORE MAD
AT THE CHAD AT THE END THAN THEY WILL AT THE ABUSE IN THE FIRST
PLACE, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS, IF YOU HAVE THE GUY
HANDCUFFED DON'T GO TO OTHER EXTREME MEASURES, YOU KNOW
ñ YOU KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
I WAS AT SXSW LAST YEAR, YOU WERE THERE THIS YEAR, IT IS
TOTAL MAYHEM.
I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THE POLICE ARE PROBABLY UNDER A LOT OF
STRESS AT THIS TIME, THEY ARE PROBABLY ANNOYED, AS YOU
MENTIONED.
BUT ONCE YOU ALREADY HAVE . HANDCUFFS, AND THE DOOR IS
CLOSED, I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS KICKING THE DOOR, BUT EVEN IF HE
WAS, THAT IS NOT A REASON TO PEPPER SPRAY SOMEBODY.
RESTRAIN HIS FEET, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS TO GO THROUGH.
SHE EVEN CALLED HIM ON THAT RESPONSE.
GRACE THAT IT LOOKS PRETTY SOLID.
AND IF YOU WANT TO CHARGE HIM WITH ANOTHER CRIME IF HE BREAKS
THE DOOR, THE STRUCTURE OF PROPERTY, I GET IT, HE IS TAKING
THE DOOR, IF YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THAT, BUT YOU DON'T GET TO
ABUSE THE PERSON YOU ARE YOU ALREADY HAVE UNDER RESTRAINT.
JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE ANNOYED, THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS.
I WAS THERE IN AUSTIN REALLY RECENTLY, AND I WAS ON FACE TIME
WITH MY FAMILY AND I WAS SHOWING THEM ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS,
AND THEN THERE WAS SOME COPS NEARBY, JUST NORMAL, MAKING SURE
EVERYBODY WAS ALL RIGHT, AND I HAD A COP ON CAMERA, AND IT
LOOKED LIKE I WAS TAPING HIM,
BUT I WAS FACE TIMING, AND HE LOOKED AT ME AND I WAS
THINKING I WAS GOING TO BE IN TROUBLE, AND HE WAS LIKE OH
MAN I LOVE YOUR SHOW.
THAT MADE ME PARTIAL TO THE AUSTIN COPS.
BUT DON'T PEPPER SPRAY SOMEONE IF YOU GOT THEM HANDCUFFED,
IT'S AN EASY RULE.