Tag: Calls to end torment remained unheeded

J., 24.02.2025. Batonned and pepper-sprayed – Copenhagen

Post author By POLadminOBS
Post date 24/02/2025

February 24, 2025 – Cut Ties with Genocide, blockading Maersk Headquarters for Palestine – Copenhagen

31 to 50 years old. Batonned and pepper-sprayed

Cut Ties with Genocide, action in front of Maersk offices, Copenhagen – February 24, 2025

J.: “The beatings of crowd members continued even as they shouted back “I am here peacefully”, “I have not hurt anyone”, “I am leaving, I’m leaving, stop” etc.”

“Protesters marched in formation and broke nonviolently through police lines before occupying an entryway, front lawn, etc. Protesters climbed buildings, trees etc. and hung banners before peacefully sitting and chanting for several hours. Police cleared the crowd with tear gas, pepper spray, and dogs before moving in to disperse the crowd with beatings.
I received a large (approx. 15×8 cm) bruise from being struck with a police baton while trying to shield smaller members of the crowd from the beatings. I feel like I remember the police officer stepping back to line up a particularly hard strike when he realised I was preventing him from hitting the small woman I was wrapping myself around.
The beatings of crowd members continued even as they shouted back “I am here peacefully”, “I have not hurt anyone”, “I am leaving, I’m leaving, stop” etc. The police continued to hunt members of the crowd for several days throughout the city, targeting people wearing keffiyehs and anyone who looked like they might own one. When the police caught people, even hours after the action, they treated them with intimidating force and rough manhandling. Journalists were also chased away with dogs and tea-gassed.”

Physical violence

X	Kicks, punches, slaps
	Feet / knees on the nape of the neck, chest or face
X	Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground
	Blows to the ears
	Strangulation / chokehold
	Painful armlock
	Fingers forced backwards
	Spraying with water
	Dog bites
	Hair pulling
	Painfully pulling by colson ties or handcuffs
	Use of gloves
	Use of firearm
	Use of “Bean bags” (a coton sack containing tiny lead bullets)
	Use of FlashBall weapon
	Use of sound grenade
	Use of dispersal grenade
	Use of teargas grenade
	Use of rubber bullets weapon (LBD40 type)
X	Use of batons
X	Use of Pepper Spray
	Use of Taser gun

Psychological violence

	Charge of disturbing public order
	Charge of rebellion
	Accusation of beatings to officer
	Charge of threatening officer
	Charge of insulting an officer
	Threat with a weapon
X	Aggressive behaviour, disrespect, insults
X	Calls to end torment remained unheeded
	Sexist remarks
	Homophobic remarks
	Racist comments
	Violence by fellow police officers
	Passivity of police colleagues
	Lack or refusal of the police officer to identify him or herself
X	Vexing or intimidating identity check
X	Intimidation or arrest of witnesses
X	Prevented from taking photographs or from filming the scene
	Refusal to notify someone or to telephone
	Refusal to administer a breathalyzer
	Refusal to fasten the seatbelt during transport
	Refusal to file a complaint
	Refusal to allow medical care or medication
	Lies, cover-ups, disappearance of evidence
	Undress before witnesses of the opposite sex
	Bend down naked in front of witnesses
	Lack of surveillance or monitoring during detention
	Lack of signature in the Personal Effects Register during detention
	Confiscation, deterioration, destruction of personal effects
	Pressure to sign documents
	Absence of a report
	Deprivation during detention (water, food)
	Inappropriate sanitary conditions during detention (temperature, hygiene, light)
	Complacency of doctors
	Kettling (corraling protestors to isolate them from the rest of the demonstration)
	Prolonged uncomfortable position

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Tags 31 to 50 years old, Activist, Aggressive behaviour / disrespect / insults, Baton, Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground, Calls to end torment remained unheeded, Cut Ties With Genocide, DNK, Intimidation or arrest of witnesses, Kicks / punches / slaps, Pepper Spray, Prevented from taking photographs or from filming the scene, Queer, Stand up for Palestine, Testimony with ObsPol, Vexing or intimidating identity check

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O., 24.02.2025. Batonned, pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed – Copenhagen

Post author By POLadminOBS
Post date 24/02/2025

February 24, 2025 – Cut Ties with Genocide, blockading Maersk Headquarters for Palestine – Copenhaguen

18 to 30 years old. Batonned, pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed

Cut Ties with Genocide, action in front of Maersk offices, Copenhagen – February 24, 2025

O. : “Worst of all was the way they beat me repeatedly”

“While blockading the main entrance 3-4 police officers tried to pull me with them. I held fast to my comrades and being between two bollards my body was twisted and squeezed painfully. They also used a pain grip on my right hand.
Worst of all was the way they beat me repeatedly. They hit me mostly in my head as my backpack shielded my back. They also pressed down on my head and slammed it to the concrete underneath me. In the end they gave up and I was left curled up on the ground gasping for air.
Later in the protest, without provocation, they started to use pepper-spray and later tear gas. I was mostly victim to the tear gas. This happened while they beat and pushed protestors around us causing people to fall on each other and people being buried by the mass of people, myself included.
When I got free I fumbled through the pepper spray and barely dodged one that tried to spray me point blank. After that I got wet wipes from medics and escaped the area.
After the protest my whole body, especially my head hurt. The day after my neck is excruciatingly painful.”

Physical violence

X	Kicks, punches, slaps
X	Feet / knees on the nape of the neck, chest or face
X	Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground
	Blows to the ears
X	Strangulation / chokehold
X	Painful armlock
	Fingers forced backwards
	Spraying with water
	Dog bites
	Hair pulling
	Tirage par les cheveux
	Painful tightening of colson ties or handcuffs
	Painfully pulling by colson ties or handcuffs
	Use of gloves
	Use of firearm
	Use of “Bean bags” (a coton sack containing tiny lead bullets)
	Use of FlashBall weapon
	Use of sound grenade
	Use of dispersal grenade
X	Use of teargas grenade
	Use of rubber bullets weapon (LBD40 type)
X	Use of batons
X	Use of Pepper Spray
	Use of Taser gun

Psychological violence

X	Charge of disturbing public order
	Charge of rebellion
	Accusation of beatings to officer
	Charge of threatening officer
	Charge of insulting an officer
	Threat with a weapon
X	Aggressive behaviour, disrespect, insults
X	Calls to end torment remained unheeded
	Sexist remarks
	Homophobic remarks
	Racist comments
	Violence by fellow police officers
X	Passivity of police colleagues
	Lack or refusal of the police officer to identify him or herself
	Vexing or intimidating identity check
	Intimidation or arrest of witnesses
	Prevented from taking photographs or from filming the scene
	Refusal to notify someone or to telephone
	Refusal to administer a breathalyzer
	Refusal to fasten the seatbelt during transport
	Refusal to file a complaint
	Refusal to allow medical care or medication
	Lies, cover-ups, disappearance of evidence
	Undress before witnesses of the opposite sex
	Bend down naked in front of witnesses
	Lack of surveillance or monitoring during detention
	Lack of signature in the Personal Effects Register during detention
	Confiscation, deterioration, destruction of personal effects
	Pressure to sign documents
	Absence of a report
	Deprivation during detention (water, food)
	Inappropriate sanitary conditions during detention (temperature, hygiene, light)
	Complacency of doctors
	Kettling (corraling protestors to isolate them from the rest of the demonstration)
	Prolonged uncomfortable position

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Tags 18 to 30 years old, Accusation of public disorder, Activist, Aggressive behaviour / disrespect / insults, Baton, Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground, Calls to end torment remained unheeded, Cut Ties With Genocide, DNK, Feet / knees on the nape of the neck / chest or face, Kicks / punches / slaps, Painful armlock, Passivity of police colleagues, Pepper Spray, Stand up for Palestine, Strangulation / chokehold, Tear Gas, Testimony with ObsPol

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William Anthony McNeil Jr., 19.02.2025. Beaten up – Jacksonville (FL)

Post author By POLadminOBS
Post date 19/02/2025

February 19, 2025 – Jacksonville (FL)

22-year-old. Car window bshattered, Beaten up : a chipped tooth that pierced his cheek, requiring stitches, a concussion and short-term memory loss

Last update: 15:12 - First published February 19, 2025

The beating occurred on February 19 after Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office deputies pulled 22-year-old Black motorist William Anthony McNeil Jr. over for driving without his headlights on — even though it was daytime and not even raining.

Now-viral cellphone video shows McNeil posing no threat to officers as he questioned why they had pulled him over. An officer then breaks McNeil’s window and punches him in the face, before officers drag him from the car, throw him to the ground and begin pummeling him.

Police officer 1: “Exit the vehicle now! Exit the vehicle! Show me your hands!”

William Anthony McNeil Jr.: “Here. I’m here. What is your reason, sir?”

Police officer 2: “Step out! Step out!”

William Anthony McNeil Jr.: “What is your reason?”

Police officer 3: “Step out now!”

Police officer 2: “All right, get on the ground!”

William Anthony McNeil Jr.: “No! No, don’t! Don’t touch!”

Police officer 2: “Get on the ground!”

McNeil says he suffered a chipped tooth that pierced his cheek, requiring stitches; a concussion; and short-term memory loss. Jacksonville’s branch of the NAACP called the video “disturbing,” adding, “This troubling behavior from law enforcement highlights the very reasons why many African Americans, especially African American men, feel fear during traffic stops.”

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said on Monday July 21 that none of the officers involved in the violent arrest and beating will face criminal charges.

Physical violence

X	Arrest
	Detention / Custody
	Hustle / Projection
	Prone position / lying flat on the stomach / ventral decubitus
	“Folding” (holding a person in a seated position with their head resting on their knees)
X	Painful armlock
X	Kicks, punches, slaps
	Feet / knees on the nape of the neck, chest or face
	Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground
	Blows to the ears
X	Strangulation / chokehold
	Fingers forced backwards
	Spraying with water
	Dog bites
X	Hair pulling
	Painful tightening of colson ties or handcuffs
	Painfully pulling by colson ties or handcuffs
	Sexual abuse
	Striking with a police vehicle
	Use of gloves
	Use of firearm
	Use of “Bean bags” (a coton sack containing tiny lead bullets)
	Use of FlashBall weapon
	Use of sound grenade
	Use of dispersal grenade
	Use of teargas grenade
	Use of rubber bullets weapon (LBD40 type)
	Use of batons
	Use of Pepper Spray
	Use of Taser gun
	Use of tranquillisers
	Disappearance

Psychological violence

	Charge of disturbing public order
	Charge of rebellion
	Accusation of beatings to officer
	Charge of threatening officer
	Charge of insulting an officer
	Charge of disrespect
X	Charge of resisting arrest
	Aggressive behaviour, disrespect, insults
	Intimidation, blackmail, threats
	Vexing or intimidating identity check
	Intimidation or arrest of witnesses
	Prevented from taking photographs or from filming the scene
X	Calls to end torment remained unheeded
	Prolonged uncomfortable position
	Failure to assist a person in danger
	Photographs, fingerprints, DNA
	Threat with a weapon
	Shooting in the back
	Charging without warning
	Kettling (corraling protestors to isolate them from the rest of the demonstration)
	Car chase
	Sexist remarks
	Homophobic remarks
	Racist comments
	Intervention in a private place
	Mental health issues
	Harassment
X	Body search
	Home search
	Violence by fellow police officers
	Passivity of police colleagues
	Lack or refusal of the police officer to identify him or herself
	Refusal to notify someone or to telephone
	Refusal to administer a breathalyzer
	Refusal to fasten the seatbelt during transport
	Refusal to file a complaint
	Refusal to allow medical care or medication
	Lies, cover-ups, disappearance of evidence
	Undress before witnesses of the opposite sex
	Bend down naked in front of witnesses
	Lack of surveillance or monitoring during detention
	Lack of signature in the Personal Effects Register during detention
	Deprivation during detention (water, food)
	Inappropriate sanitary conditions during detention (temperature, hygiene, light)
	Confiscation, deterioration, destruction of personal effects
	Pressure to sign documents
	Absence of a report
	Complacency of doctors

21.07.2025 – Declaration by Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters sthat none of the officers involved will face criminal charges
19.02.2025 – Agression of William

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[Source: McNeil’s Cell Phone Footage, editing by Spanish Revolution on Telegram]

On Monday, July 21, 2025, Sheriff T.K. Waters held a news conference announcing the release of information regarding the circumstances of William Anthony McNeil, Jr.‘s arrest on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.

On Sunday, July 20, 2025, JSO was made aware that cell phone camera footage represented to be from this arrest was circulating on social media. The agency immediately began both a criminal and administrative review of the officers’ actions. These administrative reviews are ongoing, but the State Attorney’s Office has determined that none of the involved officers violated criminal law.

Even though the administrative review has yet to be completed, JSO released the body worn camera footage because Officer Bowers consented to its release and waived his Officers’ Bill of Rights pertaining to that discreet piece of evidence. Due to the ongoing internal review, no further information will be released at this time, as it is confidential under Florida law. Sheriff T.K. Waters, who has vowed to be open and transparent with the public, had this to say at Monday evening’s news conference:

“In this case, the cell phone camera footage that began viral circulation over the weekend does not comprehensively capture the circumstances surrounding the incident. And that is to be expected.
Part of that stems from the distance and perspective of the recording cell phone camera. Another part of it stems from the fact that the cell phone camera did not capture the events that preceded Officer Bowers’s decision to arrest McNeil. Moreover, cameras can only capture what can be seen and heard. So much context and depth are absent from recorded footage because a camera simply cannot capture what is known to the people depicted in it.”

[Source: LRHNCash on YouTube]

Tags 18 to 30 years old, Aggressive behaviour / disrespect / insults, Arrest, Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground, Body search, Calls to end torment remained unheeded, Charge of resisting arrest, Charging without warning, Hair pulling, kick, Kicks / punches / slaps, Man, Painful armlock, Racialized person, Strangulation / chokehold, USA

Victims

Angelo Quinto, 26.12.2020. Asphyxiated – Antioch

Post author By POLadminOBS
Post date 26/12/2020

December 26, 2020 – Antioch (CA)

30-year old. Asphyxiated : deceased

Last update: 15:13 - First published December 26, 2020

Officially died in a hospital, though his family says the Navy veteran, honorably discharged from the navy in 2019, was killed three days earlier in his Antioch, California, home, after cops took turns kneeling on his neck until he lost consciousness.

Angelo sometimes struggled with anxiety and depression, following a head injury in 2020. On December 23, had been gripped by one of his “episodes,” as the Quinto-Collins family had labelled them. He’d been having these episodes since the beginning of the year—bursts of extreme paranoia that were never violent, according to his sister, Isabella Collins. During previous episodes, he would ask questions: What’s happening? What are you doing? Can you stay with me? “He just needed reassurance,” his sister Isabella says.

It was his sister who called the police. This episode had started to feel different, unpredictable—her brother was being physical with them in a way he had never been. She and her mother became concerned; Isabella threatened to call the police. Angelo didn’t seem to understand. He kept asking, “What’s going on?” But he was gripping his mother’s shoulders too tightly and ignoring her cries of pain. “My brother is hurting my mom,” she told the police.

Antioch police officers arrived to find Angelo and his mother on the floor. She had him in a bear hug—as much to comfort him as to restrain him, Isabella says. They pulled Angelo from his mother, folded him up, handcuffed him, and soon one of them was kneeling on his neck, then switching off so the other cop could kneel on his neck. Angelo had two fears: death and the police. He always told his mother to comply with the cops—don’t say anything, just follow along. So when the police extricated him from his mother’s arms, his only words were: “Please don’t kill me. Please don’t kill me.”. By the family’s estimate, the police kneeled on his neck for more than four minutes in all, even after he’d gone silent and stopped responding. They left him brain-dead before he got to the hospital, according to his family.

In a cellphone video recorded by his mother, Cassandra Quinto-Collins, her son is seen lying limp and unresponsive on the floor with blood on his face and on the floor beneath him. She is heard saying: “What happened? Does he have a pulse?”, as officers begin pumping his chest in an attempt to resuscitate him.

When the paramedics arrived and he was finally rolled over, his mother Cassandra saw her son’s bloody face, and his eyes in the back of his head. “That’s the vision I want to take out of my mind,” she says, her daughter comforting her. “I knew, [at] that time, he was dead.”

The cops seemed determined to prove that Angelo or perhaps a family member had done something wrong? They asked questions about drugs, medications, whether Angelo ate. “Did you hit him?” they asked Cassandra. The Quinto-Collinses were confused by the questions. All they got when they pushed back was resistance. “No matter what you said, they came back with the same questions over and over,” says Robert Collins, Angelo’s stepfather. Cassandra and Isabella were then carted off to the police station, where they waited nearly two hours for the officers to question them. Angelo’s younger brother and Robert were made to wait outside the house on the driveway, not allowed back into their home for hours.

Meanwhile, the police searched the house and collected, among other things, two cellphones, several photographs, and five vials of Angelo’s blood. “That really was to try and find evidence…he was a bad person, that he was operating in illegal activity, that he had some drugs in his room, he had weapons in his room—whatever they could find that would be illegal, to somehow muddy him up, to project him in a negative light,” says the family lawyer John Burris.

The following morning, the doctor called Cassandra while the family was at the station, asking for her by name. A police officer rushed her off the phone. She never got to speak to the doctor. At 6:30 a.m., Robert spoke to a doctor who expressed surprise that Angelo was alive. When he hung up, he says, a detective immediately started trying to reassure him that Angelo was in good shape. Not until December 25, after a day of trying, were the Quinto-Collinses able to see Angelo. “It was heartbreaking,” Cassandra says. He was in a weak state. Medical personnel had had to tape his eyes shut, and he was on a breathing machine. He was unresponsive except for a faint heartbeat.

The family lawyer John Burris filed a wrongful-death claim accusing police of having carried out an illegal chokehold, stating : “At no time while being restrained did Mr. Quinto resist physically or verbally After being restrained for almost five minutes, Mr. Quinto became lifeless.”. Burris said the officers that responded that night didn’t attempt to de-escalate the situation, but instead immediately grabbed Angelo from his mother’s arms and pushed him to the ground. “These Antioch police officers had already handcuffed Angelo but did not stop their assault on the young man and inexplicably began using the ‘George Floyd‘ technique of placing a knee on the back and side of his neck, ignoring Mr. Quinto pleas of ‘please don’t kill me.’ […] This horrific incident provides a haunting reminder that a seemingly minor call for help from the police can have deadly consequences for the person in need of help when the police use force first without verbally assessing the situation.” Burris also noted that the officers didn’t appear to turn on their body cameras.

Although the family claims he died of asphyxiation, Antioch police say pathologists found no evidence of strangulation or a crushed airway. While Angelo did incur some injuries during the encounter, Police Chief Tammany Brooks said none of them were fatal, adding that toxicology testing is underway due to his past drug use.

The family also want to know why the officers reacted to Angelo so abruptly in taking him from his mother’s arms, even though they had been forewarned that he was having mental health difficulties.

Antioch Police, who didn’t disclose Angelo’s death until nearly a month after the incident, when the Mercury News began reporting the story in January. denied claims that use of force led to the death. “At no point did any officer use a knee or other body parts to gain leverage or apply pressure to Angelo’s head, neck, or throat, which is outside of our policy and training,” Police Chief Tammany Brooks said during a news conference, adding that the investigation is still ongoing.

Physical violence

	Hustle / Projection
	Kicks, punches, slaps
X	Feet / knees on the nape of the neck, chest or face
	Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground
	Blows to the ears
	Strangulation / chokehold
	Painful armlock
	Fingers forced backwards
	Spraying with water
	Dog bites
	Hair pulling
	Painfully pulling by colson ties or handcuffs
	Sexual abuse
	Use of gloves
	Use of firearm
	Use of “Bean bags” (a coton sack containing tiny lead bullets)
	Use of FlashBall weapon
	Use of sound grenade
	Use of dispersal grenade
	Use of teargas grenade
	Use of rubber bullets weapon (LBD40 type)
	Use of batons
	Use of Pepper Spray
	Use of Taser gun
	Use of tranquillisers

Psychological violence

	Charge of disturbing public order
	Charge of rebellion
	Accusation of beatings to officer
	Charge of threatening officer
	Charge of insulting an officer
	Charge of disrespect
	Charge of resisting arrest
	Photographs, fingerprints, DNA
	Threat with a weapon
	Aggressive behaviour, disrespect, insults
	Charging without warning
	Car chase
	Calls to end torment remained unheeded
	Sexist remarks
	Homophobic remarks
	Racist comments
	Violence by fellow police officers
	Passivity of police colleagues
	Lack or refusal of the police officer to identify him or herself
	Vexing or intimidating identity check
	Intimidation or arrest of witnesses
	Prevented from taking photographs or from filming the scene
	Refusal to notify someone or to telephone
	Refusal to administer a breathalyzer
	Refusal to fasten the seatbelt during transport
	Refusal to file a complaint
	Refusal to allow medical care or medication
	Lies, cover-ups, disappearance of evidence
	Undress before witnesses of the opposite sex
	Bend down naked in front of witnesses
	Lack of surveillance or monitoring during detention
	Lack of signature in the Personal Effects Register during detention
	Confiscation, deterioration, destruction of personal effects
	Pressure to sign documents
	Absence of a report
	Deprivation during detention (water, food)
	Inappropriate sanitary conditions during detention (temperature, hygiene, light)
	Complacency of doctors
	Kettling (corraling protestors to isolate them from the rest of the demonstration)
	Prolonged uncomfortable position

03.02.2021 – Antioch Police denies claims that use of force led to the death
02.18.2021 – Wrongful-death claim filed against the City by the family’s lawyer. Family helds a press conference
12.26.2020 – Death of Angelo Quinto
12.23.2020 – Police intervention at Angelo‘s Home

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Caron Nazario, 05.12.2020. Gassed and pushed to the ground at gun point – Windsor (VA)

Post author By POLadminOBS
Post date 05/12/2020

December 5, 2020 – Windsor (VA)

27-year old. Pepper-sprayed repeatedly at point blank and forced to the ground at gun point

Last update: 15:13 - First published December 5, 2020

The Black and Latino lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps was driving to Petersburg, Va, and was wearing his Army uniform at the time, when he saw police lights flashing behind him. He drove to the gas station about a mile away to avoid pulling over on a dark road after he noticed a police car flashing its lights at him, so that he could be somewhere public and well lit while he interacted with them. He pulled over and placed his cellphone on his dashboard, as shown on the video.

Officer Daniel Crocker initiated the traffic stop because he believed that Caron’s SUV lacked a rear license plate, though a temporary tag is visible in officers’ body camera footage, according to the complaint. A police narrative filed as an exhibit in the lawsuit filed by Caron alleges that since the vehicle lacked plates, had dark tinted windows, and took a long time to stop after it traveled a short distance to a well-lit BP gas station before pulling over, the encounter was treated as a high-risk traffic stop.

Immediately, Windsor police officers Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker can be heard yelling orders at him, while Caron remains calm and unthreatening:

Off. Guttierez: Keep your hands outside the window!
Caron Nazario: My hands are right here. What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Off. Crocker: Get out of the car!
Off. Guttierez: Now!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Crocker: Get out the car!
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now! Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: I’m serving this country, and this is how I’m treated?
Off. Guttierez: You know what? Guess what. I’m a veteran, too. I learned how to obey!
Caron Nazario: That’s —
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: What’s going on? You’re fixin’ to ride the lightning, son.
Caron Nazario: I’m sorry. What?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now! Get out of the car!
Off. Crocker: Sir, just get out the car. Work with us, and we’ll talk to you. Get out the car.
Off. Guttierez: You received an order. Obey it!
Caron Nazario: I’m — I’m honestly afraid to get out. Can I ask you what’s going —
Off. Guttierez: Yeah, you should be! Get out!
Caron Nazario: What’s going on?
Off. Guttierez: Get out!
Caron Nazario: What did I do?
Off. Crocker: Get out the car.
Off. Guttierez: Get out now!
Caron Nazario: I have not committed any crimes.
Off. Guttierez: You’re being stopped for a traffic violation. You’re not cooperating. At this point right now you’re under arrest for —
Caron Nazario: For a traffic —
Off. Guttierez: You’re being detained, OK? You’re being detained for obstruction of justice.
Caron Nazario: For a traffic violation, I do not have to be out the vehicle.
Off. Guttierez: Really?
Caron Nazario: You haven’t even told me why I’m being stopped.
Off. Guttierez: Really?
Caron Nazario: Get your hands —
Off. Guttierez: Get out! Get out of the car now! Get out of the car!
Caron Nazario: Get your hands off of me, please.
Off. Guttierez: Get out.
Caron Nazario: Get your hands off me.
Off. Guttierez: You know what?
Caron Nazario: Get your hands off me.
Off. Guttierez: Not a problem.
Caron Nazario: Get your hands off me.
Off. Guttierez: Back up, Daniel.
Caron Nazario: I didn’t do anything. Don’t do that.
Off. Crocker: Sir!
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: Don’t do that.
Off. Crocker: Hey! Stop.
Caron Nazario: Don’t do that.
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Off. Crocker: Sir, look.
Caron Nazario: Don’t do — I’m trying to talk to you.
Off. Guttierez: Get out!
Off. Crocker: OK.
Caron Nazario: I’m trying to talk to you.
Off. Crocker: I’m going to talk to you.
Off. Guttierez: Get out!
Off. Crocker: Just get out of the car.
Caron Nazario: Relax. Can you please relax?
Off. Guttierez: Get out!
Caron Nazario: Can you please relax?
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car right now! Now!
Caron Nazario: This is not how you treat a vet. I’m actively serving this country, and this is how you’re going to treat me?
Off. Guttierez: Back up, Daniel.
Caron Nazario: I didn’t do anything.
Off. Guttierez: I got him.
Caron Nazario: Whoa! Hold on! What’s going — hold on. Watch it.
Off. Crocker: [inaudible] deployed.
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car! Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: That’s [bleep] up. That’s [bleep] up.
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Off. Crocker: Sir, just get out of the car!
Caron Nazario: I’m trying to breathe.
Off. Guttierez: Get out of the car now!
Caron Nazario: That’s [bleep] up. That’s really [bleep] up.
Off. Guttierez: Get — open — get out of the car and get on the ground now, or you’re going to get it again!
Caron Nazario: I don’t even want to reach for my seat belt.

Caron was then pepper-sprayed at point-blank range by officer Guttierez, then forced to the ground and handcuffed. Caron’s hands remained up as he coughed and pleaded with the officers to undo his seatbelt and make sure his dog, Smoke, was not choking in the back. Liquid from the spray dripped down his hands and face. Once Caron was in handcuffs, the officers pulled him up and began to interrogate him. Medics also responded to provide assistance to him, who said his eyes were burning.

The video was released nearly four months after the actual incident and became viral with millions of views.

Later, Caron was threatened with charges that could have destroyed his military career if he tried to seek redress, according to the lawsuit. The officers allegedly told him he could leave without charges if he would just “chill and let this go.”

“He was terrified that if he was going to move his hands below where Officer Gutierrez could have seen them to undo that seatbelt, they would have murdered him,” said Jonathan Arthur, attorney for Caron Nazario. Arthur said that Caron had good reason to fear for his life: guns were drawn when police approached his car, and officers gave him conflicting demands, he said. In body camera footage, Gutierrez is heard telling him he was “fixin’ to ride the lightning, son,” which the lawsuit describes as a “colloquial expression for an execution,” particularly in reference to the electric chair.

He’s seeking $1 million in compensatory damages, claiming the two officers violated his rights guaranteed under the First and Fourth Amendments. The suit, filed in US District Court and first reported by the Virginian-Pilot, claims the officers used excessive force during the stop in December. Caron also accused the officers of threatening to destroy his military career by charging him with multiple crimes if he complained about their conduct.

Physical violence

X	Hustle / Projection
	Kicks, punches, slaps
	Feet / knees on the nape of the neck, chest or face
	Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground
	Blows to the ears
	Strangulation / chokehold
	Painful armlock
	Fingers forced backwards
	Spraying with water
	Dog bites
	Hair pulling
	Painfully pulling by colson ties or handcuffs
	Sexual abuse
	Use of gloves
	Use of firearm
	Use of “Bean bags” (a coton sack containing tiny lead bullets)
	Use of FlashBall weapon
	Use of sound grenade
	Use of dispersal grenade
	Use of teargas grenade
	Use of rubber bullets weapon (LBD40 type)
	Use of batons
X	Use of Pepper Spray
	Use of Taser gun
	Use of tranquillisers

Psychological violence

	Charge of disturbing public order
	Charge of rebellion
	Accusation of beatings to officer
	Charge of threatening officer
	Charge of insulting an officer
	Charge of disrespect
X	Charge of resisting arrest
	Photographs, fingerprints, DNA
X	Threat with a weapon
	Aggressive behaviour, disrespect, insults
	Charging without warning
	Car chase
X	Calls to end torment remained unheeded
	Sexist remarks
	Homophobic remarks
	Racist comments
	Violence by fellow police officers
X	Passivity of police colleagues
	Lack or refusal of the police officer to identify him or herself
	Vexing or intimidating identity check
	Intimidation or arrest of witnesses
	Prevented from taking photographs or from filming the scene
	Refusal to notify someone or to telephone
	Refusal to administer a breathalyzer
	Refusal to fasten the seatbelt during transport
	Refusal to file a complaint
	Refusal to allow medical care or medication
	Lies, cover-ups, disappearance of evidence
	Undress before witnesses of the opposite sex
	Bend down naked in front of witnesses
	Lack of surveillance or monitoring during detention
	Lack of signature in the Personal Effects Register during detention
	Confiscation, deterioration, destruction of personal effects
	Pressure to sign documents
	Absence of a report
	Deprivation during detention (water, food)
	Inappropriate sanitary conditions during detention (temperature, hygiene, light)
	Complacency of doctors
	Kettling (corraling protestors to isolate them from the rest of the demonstration)
	Prolonged uncomfortable position

04.12.2021 – Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring sends a request for information to the Windsor Police Department (WPD), calling the manner in which the officers conducted themselves “dangerous, unnecessary, unacceptable and avoidable.”
04.11.2021 – Officer Joe Guttierez terminated following a Windsor City Police Department investigation that determined Windsor Police Department policy was not followed.
04.08.2021 – Bodycam footage released on YouTube.
04.02.2021 – Lawsuit filed against the two Officers for violating Caron Nazario’s constitutionnal rights.
12.05.2020 – Aggression

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Tags 18 to 30 years old, Aggressive behaviour / disrespect / insults, Arrest, Calls to end torment remained unheeded, Charge of resisting arrest, Hustle / Projection, Man, Passivity of police colleagues, Pepper Spray, Racialized person, Road check, Threat with a weapon, USA

Victims

Javier Humberto Ordóñez, 09.09.2020. Tasered and suffocated – Bogotá

Post author By POLadminOBS
Post date 09/09/2020

September 9, 2020, Bogotá

46-year-old. Restrain with knees on his back and repeatedly tased : deceased

Javier Humberto Ordóñez, a 46-year-old lawyer and father of two was allegedly violating coronavirus social distancing rules (Colombia had a six-month coronavirus pandemic lockdown that began in late March, with the harsh restrictions eased two weeks ago) when he became involved in an altercation with police in the early hours of Wednesday Sept. 9 morning.

In a video posted on social media by friends who were with him, Javier can be heard shouting, “Please, no more, I’m suffocating” as two police officers continued to restrain him with their knees on his back and repeatedly tasing him. Javier was taken into police custody early on Wednesday where family members have alleged he faced more police abuse.

He died in hospital soon after.

Bogota’s Mayor Claudia Lopez called the police brutality “unacceptable“, but also condemned the violence in Bogota that resulted in deaths. Colombia’s defence minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, said rioting had killed seven people in Bogota with more than 150 civilians and police injured across Colombia.

Protesters took to the streets on Wednesday night not only in Bogota, but also in the cities of Medellin, Pereida and Ibague, attacking police stations and public transport infrastructure.

The government announced the two officers involved have been suspended pending an investigation, and an autopsy on Javier would be carried out.

Physical violence

	Kicks, punches, slaps
X	Feet / knees on the nape of the neck, chest or face
X	Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground
	Blows to the ears
	Strangulation / chokehold
	Painful armlock
	Fingers forced backwards
	Spraying with water
	Dog bites
	Hair pulling
	Painful tightening of colson ties or handcuffs
	Painfully pulling by colson ties or handcuffs
	Use of gloves
	Use of firearm
	Use of “Bean bags” (a coton sack containing tiny lead bullets)
	Use of FlashBall weapon
	Use of sound grenade
	Use of dispersal grenade
	Use of teargas grenade
	Use of rubber bullets weapon (LBD40 type)
	Use of batons
	Use of Pepper Spray
X	Use of Taser gun

Psychological violence

	Charge of disturbing public order
	Charge of rebellion
	Accusation of beatings to officer
	Charge of threatening officer
	Charge of insulting an officer
	Threat with a weapon
X	Aggressive behaviour, disrespect, insults
X	Calls to end torment remained unheeded
	Sexist remarks
	Homophobic remarks
	Racist comments
	Violence by fellow police officers
	Passivity of police colleagues
	Lack or refusal of the police officer to identify him or herself
	Vexing or intimidating identity check
	Intimidation or arrest of witnesses
	Prevented from taking photographs or from filming the scene
	Refusal to notify someone or to telephone
	Refusal to administer a breathalyzer
	Refusal to fasten the seatbelt during transport
	Refusal to file a complaint
	Refusal to allow medical care or medication
	Lies, cover-ups, disappearance of evidence
	Undress before witnesses of the opposite sex
	Bend down naked in front of witnesses
	Lack of surveillance or monitoring during detention
	Lack of signature in the Personal Effects Register during detention
	Confiscation, deterioration, destruction of personal effects
	Pressure to sign documents
	Absence of a report
	Deprivation during detention (water, food)
	Inappropriate sanitary conditions during detention (temperature, hygiene, light)
	Complacency of doctors
	Kettling (corraling protestors to isolate them from the rest of the demonstration)
	Prolonged uncomfortable position

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Victims

Elijah McClain, 24.08.2019. Suffocated and drugged – Aurora (CO)

Post author By POLadminOBS
Post date 24/08/2019

August 24, 2019 – Billings Street, Aurora (CO)

23-year old. Chokehold and injection of ketamine inducing a heart attack and a coma: deceased

Last update: 15:13 - First published August 24, 2019

Elijah McClain was a massage therapist, a keen musician and a runner. He went into a coma after he was stopped by police in Aurora, Colorado, in August as he walked home from a convenience store where he was buying iced teas.

Elijah McClain was stopped by three officers after a 911 caller reported a suspicious person wearing a ski mask walking along Billings Street in Aurora, according to a police news release. That report says that he “resisted contact” with officers before a struggle ensued. “I’m an introvert,” McClain is heard saying in police bodycam footage after officers confront him. “Please respect the boundaries that I am speaking.” Before an officer wrestles him to the ground, Elijah McClain is heard telling the officers he was trying to stop his music so that he could listen to them. A letter from the Adams County District Attorney said an officer placed him in a carotid hold, which restricts blood flow to the brain. He briefly lost consciousness, the letter said, but continued struggling after officers released the hold. The DA’s letter said paramedics arrived and administered ketamine, a powerful anesthetic. Elijah McClain was taken to a hospital but had a heart attack on the way. He was declared brain dead three days later, on August 27, the letter says.

The autopsy conducted by the county coroner did not determine the cause of death but noted “intense physical exertion and a narrow left coronary artery” were contributing factors. The report noted Elijah McClain‘s history of asthma and the carotid hold, though the autopsy did not determine whether it contributed to his death. The concentration of ketamine in his system was at a “therapeutic level,” the report said. Ultimately, his death could have been an accident, the result of natural causes or a homicide, the autopsy concluded.

Three officers involved, Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt, and Randy Roedema, were initially placed on administrative leave, but they were later reinstated when prosecutors declined to file criminal charges. In a November 2019 letter to Aurora’s then-police chief, District Attorney Dave Young wrote that his office did not find enough evidence to prove the officers violated Colorado law or that their use of force was unjustified. A police review board said in February that the use of force, including the carotid hold, “was within policy and consistent with training.”

Body-cam footage of the arrest does exist, although the ADP did not release it to the public until late November, months after his death. In the footage, an officer can be heard admitting Elijah McClain had done nothing illegal prior to his arrest; another accuses him of reaching for one of their guns. He, meanwhile, can be heard asking the officers to stop, explaining that they started to arrest him as he was “stopping [his] music to listen.” He gasps that he cannot breathe. He tells them his name, says he has ID but no gun, and pleads that his house is “right there.” He sobs, and vomits, and apologizes: “I wasn’t trying to do that,” he says. “I just can’t breathe correctly.” One of the officers can also be heard threatening to set his dog on hm if he “keep[s] messing around,” and claiming he exhibited an extreme show of strength when officers tried to pin back his arms.

Very little of the officers’ protocol can be seen, however, because all of their body cams allegedly fell off during the arrest. But if you watch the video from about the 15-minute mark (warning: the footage contains violent and upsetting content), you’ll see someone pick up the body camera and point it toward Elijah McClain and one of the officers, before dropping it back into the grass. Around 15:34, one of the officers seems to say, “Leave your camera there.”

Nearly a year after the fatal incident, none of the officers involved have been fired and are yet to face any criminal charges. Following public outcry – especially after the police killing of George Floyd in May – the Colorado governor, Jared Polis, announced that the appointment of the state attorney general, Phil Weiser, to investigate. On August 24, 2020, Weiser confirmed he was conducting a separate investigation into the police department and whether its “patterns and practices” are unconstitutional. Additionally, the city of Aurora has commissioned its own investigation of the police department, hiring an outside consultant to conduct a “comprehensive review.”

The family lawsuit filed by their attorney Mari Newman on August 11, 2020 listed nine claims for relief, including excessive force; denial of equal protection; failure to ensure basic safety and provide adequate medical care and treatment; substantive due process — deprivation of liberty — forcible administration of medication; battery causing wrongful death; and negligence causing wrongful death.

Physical violence

	Arrest
	Detention / Custody
	Hustle / Projection
	Prone position / lying flat on the stomach / ventral decubitus
	“Folding” (holding a person in a seated position with their head resting on their knees)
	Painful armlock
	Kicks, punches, slaps
	Feet / knees on the nape of the neck, chest or face
	Blows to the victim while under control and/or on the ground
	Blows to the ears
X	Strangulation / chokehold
	Fingers forced backwards
	Spraying with water
	Dog bites
	Hair pulling
	Painful tightening of colson ties or handcuffs
	Painfully pulling by colson ties or handcuffs
	Sexual abuse
	Striking with a police vehicle
	Electric shocks
	Use of gloves
	Use of firearm
	Use of “Bean bags” (a coton sack containing tiny lead bullets)
	Use of FlashBall weapon
	Use of sound grenade
	Use of dispersal grenade
	Use of teargas grenade
	Use of rubber bullets weapon (LBD40 type)
	Use of batons
	Use of Pepper Spray
	Use of Taser gun
X	Use of tranquillisers
	Execution
	Kidnapping
	Disappearance

Psychological violence

	Charge of disturbing public order
	Charge of rebellion
	Accusation of beatings to officer
	Charge of threatening officer
	Charge of insulting an officer
	Charge of disrespect
	Charge of resisting arrest
X	Aggressive behaviour, disrespect, insults
X	Intimidation, blackmail, threats
	Vexing or intimidating identity check
	Mock execution
	Intimidation or arrest of witnesses
X	Prevented from taking photographs or from filming the scene
X	Calls to end torment remained unheeded
	Prolonged uncomfortable position
X	Failure to assist a person in danger
	Photographs, fingerprints, DNA
	Threat with a weapon
	Shooting in the back
	Charging without warning
	Kettling (corraling protestors to isolate them from the rest of the demonstration)
	Car chase
	Sexist remarks
	Homophobic remarks
	Racist comments
	Intervention in a private place
	Mental health issues
	Harassment
	Body search
	Home search
	Violence by fellow police officers
	Passivity of police colleagues
	Lack or refusal of the police officer to identify him or herself
	Refusal to notify someone or to telephone
	Refusal to administer a breathalyzer
	Refusal to fasten the seatbelt during transport
	Refusal to file a complaint
	Refusal to allow medical care or medication
	Lies, cover-ups, disappearance of evidence
	Undress before witnesses of the opposite sex
	Bend down naked in front of witnesses
	Lack of surveillance or monitoring during detention
	Lack of signature in the Personal Effects Register during detention
	Deprivation during detention (water, food)
	Inappropriate sanitary conditions during detention (temperature, hygiene, light)
	Sleep deprivation
	Confiscation, deterioration, destruction of personal effects
	Pressure to sign documents
	Absence of a report
	Complacency of doctors

08.11.2020 – Lawsuit filed by his family
07.28.2020 – Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is reopening an investigation into how a paramedic came to inject McClain with 500 milligrams of ketamine during his violent arrest, and its connection to his subsequent death.
07.26.2020 – Interim police chief Wilson announced that she had fired Rosenblatt and two other officers over their connection to photos taken at a memorial for McClain last October. Another officer, Jaron Jones, resigned. In the images, Jones poses with his arm wrapped around officer Kyle Dittrich’s neck, a mocking imitation of the hold used on McClain. Both officers are smiling, while officer Erica Marrero grins over their shoulders.
06.25.2020 – Appointment of State attorney general Phil Weser as investigator
06.13.2020 – Three Colorado police officers reinstated and reassigned to “nonenforcement” duties
06.09.2020 – City Manager Jim Twombly agrees to undertake an independent investigation
06.09.2020 – Aurora interim police chief Vanessa Wilson announced that officers would be banned from using carotid holds, and obligated to intervene when they see another officer use excessive force. They will also have to declare their intention to shoot before firing their guns
00.11.2019 – Release of the bodycam footage
11.22.2019 – Adams County prosecutors announced that they would not bring charges against the trio, who then returned to normal duty
08.27.2019 – Death of Elijah McClain after a coma
08.25.2020 – 3 officers placed on paid administrative leave
08.24.2019 – Agression and arrest of Elijah

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Tags 18 to 30 years old, Aggressive behaviour / disrespect / insults, Calls to end torment remained unheeded, Deceased, Failure to assist a person in danger, Intimidation / blackmail / threats, Man, Prevented from taking photographs or from filming the scene, Racialized person, Strangulation / chokehold, USA, Use of tranquillisers