California Highway Patrol Officer Beats Elderly Black Woman Senseless On Side Of Freeway
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July 6, 2014 (Forward from Keith Howe)Police Brutality: California Highway Patrol Officer Beats Black Woman Senseless On Side Of Freeway
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Published on Jul 4, 2014Police Brutality At Its Finest: California Highway Patrol Officer Beats A Black Woman Senseless On The Side Of The Freeway
Unnecessary and excessive: That's what one man is calling a fierce encounter he captured on video between a CHP officer and a woman two days ago. The video starts rolling right around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. A woman walking on the eastbound 10 Freeway near the La Brea onramp is tackled on the roadside shoulder by a CHP officer. The officer unleashes a barrage of punches to her face.
California Highway Patrol Officer Beats A Black Woman Senseless On The Side Of The Freeway
Police Officer Beats Black Woman On The Side Of The FreewayCHP Answers Excessive Force Charge In Beating Of Woman On Side Of Freeway
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The California Highway Patrol responded Thursday to a YouTube video showing an officer punching a woman along the side of the freeway.
The CHP officer is shown punching the woman on the ground more than 11 times in the face.
She doesn't appear in the video clip to resist.
On Thursday, the CHP issued a statement that said:"The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is aware of the video and we are looking into the incident. As a matter of policy, every time there is a use of force by our officers, there is a review conducted to determine whether the use of force was appropriate. That will be done in this case, however, since there is an ongoing investigation, it would be premature to comment on this specific video segment without reviewing the entire incident."
The confrontation was caught on cellphone video by a man driving by.
On the YouTube video, he seems shocked that the officer is hitting the woman. What started the confrontation and what triggered the rough takedown and arrest is unclear. The video was shot along the 10 Freeway near La Brea Avenue early Tuesday evening.
When the video starts, the officer is seen trying to detain the woman. She gets a few steps away from him, but he gets her to the ground.
He briefly struggles with her before repeatedly punching her in the face.
After a few moments, a plainclothes officer enters the picture and helps the CHP officer put the woman in handcuffs.
The man who shot the video identifies himself as a music producer who lives in Los Angeles.
David Diaz told CBS2's Rachel Kim he was horrified to have witnessed the confrontation.
He called it a definite case of police brutality.
Diaz said he saw the barefoot woman walking around the off-ramp when he noticed a CHP officer chase her around a truck.
He said the punches were "excessive and brutal."
"He just pounded her," Diaz said. "If you look at the video, there are 15 hits. To the head, and not just simple jabs. These are blows to the head. Blows. Really serious blows. And this is ridiculous to me."
He added, "I find it hard to believe there [was] no other remedy in this situation."Video shows California officer punching woman
The woman had been walking on Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles, endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was trying to restrain her, CHP Assistant Chief Chris O'Quinn said at a news conference. O'Quinn said the woman had begun walking off the freeway but returned when the confrontation occurred.The video shows the woman struggling and trying to sit up while the officer punches her in the face and head until an off-duty law enforcement officer appears and helps him handcuff her.
Passing Driver David Diaz recorded the Tuesday incident and provided it to media outlets including The Associated Press. He told the AP in a phone interview Friday that he arrived as the woman was walking off the freeway. He said she turned around only after the officer shouted something to her.
Lawyer Caree Harper, representing the woman's family, said they want authorities held accountable.Family want CHP cop held accountable
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/video-shows-officer-punching-woman-la-freeway-24433860Family Wants Officer Held Accountable in Beating
LOS ANGELES — Jul 4, 2014, 6:47 PM ET
By ANDREW DALTON Associated PressThe California Highway Patrol has vowed to carry out a thorough investigation after a video emerged of one of its officers repeatedly punching a woman he had pinned down on the side of a Los Angeles freeway.
The woman had been walking on Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles, endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was trying to restrain her, CHP Assistant Chief Chris O'Quinn said at a news conference. O'Quinn said the woman had begun walking off the freeway but returned when the confrontation occurred.
The video shows the woman struggling and trying to sit up while the officer punches her in the face and head until an off-duty law enforcement officer appears and helps him handcuff her.
Passing Driver David Diaz recorded the Tuesday incident and provided it to media outlets including The Associated Press. He told the AP in a phone interview Friday that he arrived as the woman was walking off the freeway. He said she turned around only after the officer shouted something to her.
"He agitated the situation more than helped it," said Diaz, who started filming soon after.
Los Angeles attorney Caree Harper said the woman's family wants authorities held accountable for "beating a great-grandmother in broad daylight." She declined to disclose the woman's name or answer questions about what the woman was doing along the edge of one of the city's busiest freeways.
She is undergoing psychiatric evaluation, authorities said.
"We want the focus to be what he was doing to her, not what she was doing" prior to the confrontation, said Harper, who said she is representing the family. "She was getting beat like an animal. No one should ever be beat like that."
The officer is on administrative leave while the patrol investigates. He has not been identified.
The video caught the attention of local civil rights leaders, who expressed shock and outrage at their own news conference.
"Speaking for the women of this community, we are angry, we are upset," said Lita Herron of the Youth Advocacy Coalition.
O'Quinn said the CHP would answer community concerns and that an investigative team already has been assembled and has begun its work.
"We are known as an agency that really polices itself," O'Quinn said.
Community activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, speaking at the local leaders' news conference, agreed.
"Over the years, CHP has had a very good track record in terms of community relations," Hutchinson said. "That's why this was so shocking."
O'Quinn said the incident report listed no injuries for the woman, who would not give her name.
O'Quinn said he could not say what prompted the officer to act as he did. But he noted California Highway Patrol officers have a heightened sense of the dangers of being on the freeway compared with a citizen "who is not accustomed to the speed and conditions," especially outside of a car.
"The most dangerous thing that we face is traffic," O'Quinn said.
Multiple videos about incident
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of police brutality?"
In what has quickly become viral as yet another example of extreme (and unchecked) police behavior against the people, California Highway Patrol says that it is investigating footage posted on YouTube that shows a policeman repeatedly punching the face and head of a prostrate woman. As the disturbing clip shows, "the policeman just pounded her," and described by a witness, "If you look at the video, there are 15 hits. To the head, and not just simple jabs. These are blows to the head. Blows. Really serious blows. And this is ridiculous to me... I find it hard to believe there [was] no other remedy in this situation."
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