Two white cops beating a black female
 

i dont think its about race. there was some kind of heat between her and the first cop hmm keep in mind this happened in jasper,texas :helpme :2 cents:

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A southeast Texas town with a history of racial unrest on Monday fired two white police officers recently captured on video slamming a black woman?s head into a countertop and wrestling her to the ground.

?The amount of force used was abominable,? the woman's attorney, Cade Bernsen, told Yahoo News.

The incident was captured by security cameras at the Jasper, Texas, police headquarters.

Keyarika "Shea" Diggles, 25, was brought to the jail on May 5 for an unpaid fine, according to Bernsen. He said she was was on the phone with her mother trying to arrange to get the $100 owed when Officer Ricky Grissom cut off the call.

There?s no audio on the video, but Diggles and Grissom were apparently arguing when Officer Ryan Cunningham comes in behind Diggles and attempts to handcuff her. When she appears to raise her hand, Cunningham grabs Diggles by the hair and slams her head into a countertop. The officers wrestle Diggles to the ground before dragging her by her ankles into a jail cell.

?She got her hair pulled out, broke a tooth, braces got knocked off ? it was brutal,? Bernsen said.

Diggles was charged with resisting arrest for arguing with the officers, a charge dropped on Monday, according to Bernsen.

Cunningham, reached by phone Monday afternoon, hung up on a Yahoo News reporter. A message left for Grissom was not immediately returned.

The officers? firing comes 15 years to the week after an infamous hate crime in Jasper, a town of about 8,000 people two hours northeast of Houston. James Byrd Jr., a black man, was tied to the back of a pickup by three white men and dragged for several miles until he was decapitated. The high-profile case triggered marches by the New Black Panthers and Ku Klux Klan.

Last year, a majority-white Jasper City Council fired the town's first black chief after 16 months on the job. Rodney Pearson is now suing, claiming his civil rights were violated.

?It?s a different part of the world, man, it?s crazy,? said Bernsen, who's also representing the fired police chief.

Jasper's interim city manager confirmed the terminations, but referred questions about the Diggles case to the interim police chief, who was unreachable Monday afternoon.

?The more things change, the more they remain the same,? Jasper City Council Member Alton Scott said of the city's racial troubles.

Scott obtained the video in the Diggles? incident and turned it over to a local TV station after he heard that her written complaint against the officers was apparently being ignored.

?There?s nothing she said that could have justified what they did,? Scott said. ?They are supposed to be trained professionals. They are supposed to be above that. It was inexcusable.?

After terminating the officers on Monday, the council requested that the pair be investigated for possible criminal charges. Bernsen said he hopes that probe is done by the FBI or state police.

?I don?t trust the Police Department as far as you can throw them,? he said.

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Shank Whitey!

:1orglaugh no need to :) getting hit in the wallet is more effective and non violent

I'm about as liberal as they come, but that didn't seem that bad. Comply with cops and most of the time things will go smoothly for you. You''l never win resisting.

kind of weird he just hung up on her call attempting to get the $100 fine. all this shit over 100 bucks?? :helpme :helpme :1orglaugh it will cost them more than that now

You need to have the Benny Hill theme song playing in the background while watching this. Makes it infinitely better.

it didn't seem too bad to me either but she deserved it for having one of the daftest names I've heard in god knows how long.

she was asking for it

cops were fired so they made her case :2 cents: also seems like a partial video. id like to know how long her phone call was. how much time is allowed for a call. :helpme

Note to self! Make sure the cameras "malfunction" before and during the prisoner beating!

you do that you will be joining the inmates. :1orglaugh

nobody told her that black ppl werent allowed to be mouthy with the po po?

i remember that case with those fuckwads dragging that guy around behind their pickup truck in jasper, that was seriously fucked-up.

arguing with a police officer is resisting arrest now?

the 2nd angle on that vid shows the 2nd cop way out of control.

So why mention it so clearly in the thread title?

A southeast Texas town with a history of racial unrest on Monday fired two white police officers recently captured on video slamming a black woman?s head into a countertop and wrestling her to the ground.


its part of the article

I agree. If you took the color issue away as an excuse, would it made news or been an issue at all?

it's easy to see they are out of control and should be fired. if they were in control they would have taken her to an area not monitored by camera and sorted out her issue.

too bad, she's gonna get a shit ton of cash and she doesn't really deserve to get that either.

stop resisting!

They're supposed to be above that? Since when? Where have people been that someone writing an article thinks police are above that? Doesn't anyone remember "don't tase me bro" when 700 pounds of cop apparently wasn't enough to restrain a thin goofball guy so they tossed him down and then shocked the shit out of him? lol, come on with this "supposed to be above that" shit. Listen, their job is not "to protect and serve" and never has been. That was just a slogan that got repeated a lot. Their primary job is to collect evidence while enforcing laws.

They are not above that. That is what they have evolved into. You accidentally trip getting out of your vehicle and you could be gunned down and they say it's justified because they "felt" threatened. You raise your hand at the wrong time and you can get slammed against a counter top for "resisting." This is normal. There is no "above" that.

news is a business :2 cents: they want you to read it and click some ads along the way

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if they beat your ass on camera would you sue?

Getting arrested for a fine is much easier in my town.. I got pulled over and then a ride to the police station, they let my friend walk over and drive my car there so it wouldn't be towed (After they found a bag of weed and didn't care or take it..) and I sat in a chair in the lobby for about 2 minutes and left. I got to use my own phone, too, and took a pic of the cop from the back seat in cuffs to prove it. :upsidedow

ROFL @ the shoe thingy when the cop falls down ... ROFL

Its funny how idiots would post a title like this whenever both parties are not of the same race :1orglaugh
This african gentleman is racist number 2 on gfy after pastorsinalot :)

well, not necc., if they beat my ass and were fired for it, yes. if some cop came up from behind like that and grabbed by the hair and slammed my face into a counter, yes. even if i was talking shit.

its in the article you buffoon :clown i didnt think it was based on race!! it started because he hung up the phone. comprehension you do not have it

why is that??? they have been fired

she didn't deserve to get hair grabbed and head banged, tooth loose, and she certainly doesn't deserve what could potentially be millions of dollars.

huh? what makes you think i'm mad?

I must admit that I did not read full article and based my post on you being racist on GFY all the time before. Thanks for not being racist in this thread :thumbsup
I pass my judgement as him/her being an idiot to author of this title.

To me the force seems a little excessive, but I find myself really wondering if we don't have the full story here. She was arrested and brought in for not paying a $100 fine? Really? Is that it? Assuming everything went great and she was brought in, arrested, booked and processed then eventually either paid the fine and was let go or made arrangements after going before a judge to be let go how much money did the city just spend to collect their $100?

There has to be a better, more cost effective way to collect the money then to spend potentially hundreds of dollars in man hours arresting and dealing with the person.

As we see here, things didn't go smoothly and now the city is going to spend a hell of a lot more than $100 to hire two new cops and by firing those two they are basically admitting guilt so there is no telling how much it is going to cost them to settle the lawsuits.

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:1orglaugh funny thing is there are two white men beating a black female!! if you post it. its racist behavior! :error whats racist about posting the article? :helpme

all this because she didn't pay a fine?

this has gone beyond debtor prisons.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I think mineistaken's point was that you straight out said in your post "i dont think its about race." The article you link to is titled, "Video captures Jasper, Texas, police officers beating woman." So why did you title the thread "Two white cops beating a black female?"

You don't think it was a race issue, yet you clearly invoke the thought of it being a race issue by your thread title.

I know, I know, it gets the thread more views than "Overzealous cops beat non-compliant perp." :winkwink:

its not in the title i never said it was. read the fucking article the author based it on race because of where it happened. also the video proof. so the title is false??