Recently there was an incident in housing establishment in Greensboro where someone videoed the Greensboro PD trying to arrest a male who had a gun. The people that live in this housing development are screaming police brutality. Now, If you look at the video and you have not cast judgement prior to looking at it and you look at th entire video, you will see that there are several things wrong with this video including but not limited to questions as to why the GPD waited so long to put this guy on the ground and in cuffs. Setting that aside, this guy who says he's the leader of a coalition against police brutality has gone on camera voicing his opinion which he has all rights to do.
The problem is that once a couple of more officers get there, the suspect is quickly taken to the car and cuffed and then moved to a cruiser and placed in the back.
The thing that bothers me is that while SOMEONE called the police because he had a gun and supposedly had discharged the gun, after the police get there, they are all of a sudden against the police. What is the deal here people. You call when you need help but when they show up to take care of business, you are the FIRST to scream police brutatlity, excessive force OR they didn't do anything or enough.
My suggestion is for the officers to get retrained on arrest techniques and the public to back the hell off.
If you would like to see the video, click on the link below.
Greensboro Police Video
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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