Beer Steak Bullshit

Police brutality video from New York City documents an NYPD cop Maurice Harrington delivering extremely horrific, painful beating to Michael Cephus using his a collapsible metal baton in full swings.

The video has caused much controversy pointing out that extreme police brutality is reality. Maurice Harrington - a four year NYPD veteran has been since relieved from duty and had to give up his badge and gun while the case is under investigation. 46 year old Michael Cephus, the victim of the beating says the cop just started hitting him and the video seems to prove it, however Maurice Harrington claims Michael Cephus was drunk and tried to attack him with his fists and umbrella.

I don’t know about that claim, but from te video it looks like Maurice Harrington was mercilessly beating Michael Cephus with the baton while he was on the ground as another police officer is trying to put hand cuffs on him. I see no reason why Maurice Harrington would start to hit Michael Cephus’ leg with full power while he was down other than he wanted to show him ho the boss is and that he’s not to mess with a cop on duty. That pretty much means it WAS police brutality at its finest. Clear abuse of power. The case is still under investigation (makes you wander what excuse will be used to swipe t under the rug) but the video seems to depict Maurice Harrington as cop on power trip. What a pig!

Former NFL running back and a Pittsburgh Steelers star Timothy Worley was tasered and arrested by Smyrna police for “becoming confrontational”. The whole incident was caught on police cruiser camera.

Timothy Worley was pulled over for speeding and lane violation (lane violation? WTF???). He told the police officer he had no ID, which was obviously just a lame excuse at trying to get himself out of this (not like it would work).

There is no denying that Timothy Worley acted like an ass. You don’t use foul language and you obey instruction of a police officer, but in this case it does seem like the cop was needlessly aggregated and very trigger happy. Timothy Worley was not confrontational to begin with, he seems to have been pushed to the limit until he flipped.

I’m not a cop so I don’t know what proper procedures are, but it is possible this is what cops need to do in order to conduct their job properly. Imagine you are a cop, you pull over a huge guy who has no IDs. It may be a safe practice to handcuff a guy until he can verify his identity, but I’m only guessing here.

From the video it appears as though Timothy Worley was swearing and using all other forms of rude language. That may be enough to get a person detained. Add to it speeding and lane violation (I believe there was also a DUI which came to light later) and you have a good reason to detain a person. Timothy Worley then says at some point - “do what you gotta do, officer” and he did. But when asked to put his hand behind his back, Timothy Worley responded with violence and yelled at the cop to get his hands off him, which prompted the cop to use a taser. Sounds like a fair use of taser to me.