NYPD Officer Loses Badge and Gun After Stomping on a Man's Head

Earlier this week, NYPD chief Bill Bratton said that Eric Garner's death could lead him to order that all New York City cops be receive new training on the use of force. A new video of the violent arrest of a man in Bed-Stuy shows that changes can't come soon enough. The footage, which was recorded on Tuesday evening, shows several officers taking 32-year-old Jahmiel Cuffee down on a sidewalk after catching him with a small amount of weed. The police say that Cuffee had provided them with his ID but resisted when they moved to take him into custody. Whatever happened, nothing seems to justify the part where one cop walks away from the scene and then returns to stomp on Cuffee's head, even though he was already handcuffed and pinned to the ground.

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on July 27, 2014 at 1:27pm

There is an accelerating trend in policy brutality starting after 911 terrorist acts. Did you ever wonder how did the police become like this?

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Permalink Reply by DTOM on July 29, 2014 at 2:19pm

Who was harmed by Cuffee's alleged and previous posession of marihuana? Who were the victims? But it's ok for a uniformed gang of thugs to assault him...'just doing their jobs' ...grow up humanity.

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on July 30, 2014 at 7:15am

Where are the protests against police brutality?

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Permalink Reply by Ragnarok on July 30, 2014 at 9:41am

Very good question indeed. Seems like most cops are not humans theyre just mindless careless killling machines.

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on July 30, 2014 at 6:51pm

It wasn't like that when the police was there to protect and not to harass. There has been an enormous "education" program going on for more than a decade, see the training examples on top.

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Permalink Reply by Ragnarok on July 30, 2014 at 7:20pm

From personal experience and from whats ive read cops has always been kicking peoples asses and protecting the real criminals only difference now is that they have been handed more authority and become more militarized. But thats my opinion. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Ragnarok on July 30, 2014 at 7:42pm

Good cops are like good people they just dont hang on trees.

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on July 30, 2014 at 7:46pm

I don't have such experience. I believe there have always been officers who have abused their power, but today they seem to be trained to do that, which makes a big difference.

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Permalink Reply by Ragnarok on July 30, 2014 at 8:08pm

I mean just going back to the civil rights movement, anti-war movement and incidents like Harlan county just to take a few older stories the last person you would like to run into was a cop so its still the same in many ways.