Eyewitness video of police beating UMD student

[LuvLi04]

its alright to throw them down and handcuff them but its absolutely NEVER ok to beat up a unarmed civilian! ESPECIALLY if they ARE resisting... this is why ppl hate the police cause of dumb sh*t like this! ugh >:P

[shoechew]

What did he think would happen?

[Terps]

he deserved it, absolutely no respect for the law

[SuperDerrickG]

Fcukin pigs!!

[amrac0d]

shit im moving to egypt

[pudwhap]

Stupid swype keyboard puts random words into sentences

[pudwhap]

@jh0510 cops do have to go to college asshole. Not that I like can cops but do some research before you post stupid comments

[iig0tem]

@pudwhap cops do not have to go to college.

[1980PintoMan]

@pudwhap Maybe where you live, not where I live. In fact in a nearby town one is actually mentally challenged, and he carries a gun.

[sledge2k]

This is exactly why citizens should not be limited in their right to carry arms.

[walterhcarroll]

forget the crooked cops and their filthy fagot lies, this video shows the cowardice of amerikans as they just stand there while one of their fellow citizens is being violated by a gang of nazi fagots with badges.

amerikans are pussy cowards, every single one.

just stand there cowards while one of your own gets beat by fagot cops...pussies!

when are you fat lazy pigs gonna say enough is enough, those cops should have been jumped and beat into a coma

[glenn3cc]

@walterhcarroll Where are you from? If anyone in the crowd intervened, here in the U.S., police will shoot to kill. Easy for you to say that you would beat the cops; doubt you really would. What have you done to stand up to cops?

[1980PintoMan]

@walterhcarroll I agree with the sentiment, but you don't know Americans. I've already made up my mind, the next time I'm illegally arrested, the cop is dead.

[drinklime]

The police reports states that McKenna "struck those officers and their horses causing minor injuries"

No wonder the government doesnt want you videotaping public officials...

"land of the free"

[emerson24]

If I were a cop with ethics, I would be pissed and rising up because one day, they may be on the receiving end of being shot for no reason such as what has occurred in the state of Washington numerous times this year. Soon they may find themselves the target of some snipper coalition against cops.

[pennise]

Classic jack booted thugs. When they go to prison, they should be put in the general population and be made to act the bitches that they are.

[Raymond09871]

A good example of why NOT to trust police.

[greenthousands]

All public officials have to behave as if their actions are being recorded. If you're not fit to wear the uniform of a law enforcement officer, the truth will out. You're held to a higher standard of behavior and care since you're responsible for keeping the peace. No laws will stop citizens from recording your words and actions. These officers are a disgrace to their department and law enforcement in general. They should be shoveling shit in Louisiana.

[TheMIDIfiles]

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[VonArkesh]

Some guys wanna be cops & soldiers simply because they get off on that stuff.  Lame.

[zzman755]

When are we going to start locking up police for assault?

[narfman287]

WTF is Wrong With Cops, they should be required to go through extensive mental evaluations before even coming close to becoming an officer.

[Cilla235]

this is ridiculous, talk about excessive force! they should all lose their jobs.Esp. in this economy, there are plenty of upstanding citizens to take their place!

[sincristo]

By the way, anyone who is really interested in this issue as a long-term problem should read about the gradual militarization of police departments across the country. The only journalist I know of who is really covering this is Radley Balko at Reason-dot-com, who testified before the Senate a in 2007 on the subject (you'll have to search Reason's site, hyperlinks aren't allowed in the comment form). Really, the incident in this video is just the tip of the iceberg.

[Rhayader27510]

Yet another sad piece of proof that we now live in a totalitarian police state. I hope this kid sues the pants of this department of thugs and sociopaths.

[sincristo]

@Rhayader27510 I think "proof of a police state" is a little over the top. Talk to someone from North Korea sometime. But this was a clear violation of McKenna's rights. The three cops in riot gear should be held accountable. At the very least they should not be cops anymore, since they've proven their inability to make good decisions in a tense situation.

[Rhayader27510]

@sincristo Yeah fair enough, I don't disagree.

[screwtape]

The 3 police doing the beating should be fired right along with the other 20 or so that stood there, watched and did nothing.

[suebeewoods]

POLICE OUR POLICE

[justingarak]

lol that's partly why no one should ever have any sympathy when a cop gets killed. there are plenty of good human beings out there that deserve sympathy.

[stefunnyartsyou]

@justingarak your comment is just as disgusting as this video. just because someone wears a uniform doesn't mean they aren't a "good human being". death is always sad no matter what the circumstances.

[MrHillDo]

He should have been at the dorm studying.

[andrewsss122]

the masses forget that we run the world. if ten cops bash one guy we should get 100 guys to beat that one cop. some police officers use their power to their advantage. they are fucking criminals

[TheKevinkev1]

what he do wrong?

[EagleSheep09]

FUCK THA POLICE!!!

[0mrme0]

I'm sitting here in front of my computer, pondering how this shit just happens. It's quite obvious that pigs are more of a problem than anything else. Anyone who disagrees I'd have to ask is this the only police brutality tape you've ever seen? Or are you a cop? oink oink:)

[agenthelios]

Look at those faggot kids running, they saw their fellow citizen being terrorized by these PIGS....so why didnt they get in and help out.....they should have RIOTED...STICKS, BATS, PIPES..ROCKS....knock those cops teeth out. What are 10 cops gonna do against 100 angry people!

[siguc]

@agenthelios Disagree. I think it's much more effective to FULLY obey the police orders and then bring the matter to the court. Obedience makes it easier to win the case, as it clearly proves that the police had no reason to go brutal. The police would have to change its practices after the ruling against it.

[EnricoGiampi]

what the hell!

[wReCktangle]

'Beat his white ass!'

[geiuy]

he was as innocent as the horses

[Paladin601]

Why did he advance on the Police Line? What did he say or do to the Mounted Officer? Jack McKenna acts were STUPID!!!!!

[Mikidy]

@Paladin601 If you didnt see he was backing away from them, odds are he was going to run or walk away before the cops attacked him.

[Paladin601]

@Mikidy I admitt they got a little heavy handed, but who told him it's ok to advance on a police line, especially with bottles being thrown. he should of walked the other way.

[patreidies]

'Paladin601 "advance on a police line"? give me a break. If those guys felt threatened by his "advance", or couldn't distinguish it from an actual attack, they are grossly incompetent and shouldn't be cops, period. Nothing shown in this video even remotely resembles and "advance on a police line". If mere proximity to police is grounds for this kind of beating, this county is in even worse danger than most of the commenters here seem to think.

[Paladin601]

@patreidies the police officer does not know his intent and will treat him as a threat, since he is failing to disperse. He was given a lawful order to dispears and he failed to do it, he was arrested. the officers were heavy hand I admitted. but McKenna was stupid

[osgeek]

@Paladin601 What possible reason is there to treat an unarmed college student walking along "as a threat" simply because they'd like to disperse the crowd? How can you even see that the kid was given a lawful order to disperse or knew in which direction he was allowed to disperse? He'd need to disperse to somewhere. I'm a big believer in the law and personal responsibility, but I can't believe that someone would so casually side with this kind of flagrant abuse of power.

[osgeek]

@Paladin601 Even worse, the officers completely fabricated the charges in the police report and claimed that he hit the horse and that the horse kicked him. Keep defending these thugs.

[Paladin601]

@Mikidy The way I look at things is I don't want it said I took my rights with me to the grave.

[dragonlance1121]

@Paladin601 So you think dying for your rights and freedoms is worse than living as a slave. The banner of a true coward. You should rethink your user-name. Sorry, if this comment was to harsh for you. I tried to keep it within your ability to endure.

[Paladin601]

@dragonlance1121 I have no problem with the comments. I think one should pick their battles wisely, and realize when you are outnumbered and your "buddies" are not backing you up ( and have been drinking, this is a guess), that is not the time to stage a indepent act of defience. I you die for your rights and freedoms, what do you have, niether. The idea is to make the opposion die for your rights or freedoms.

[TheBeppez]

cop = neo-nazi

fuck off NWO

[RHODOAN]

Anybody mention jack-booted thugs?

[Robygol89]

his friends all run away without helping him...

[SuperBellies]

I know where that cop lives!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Hey pig, can you suck my cockinhimer!??. Can you beat me through the internet.... NOPE. Can I beat you like you beat that innocent dancing man.... YUP!!

[roughcoat09]

From what I can see the spoiled bitch deserved it.

[IonicStormFront]

@roughcoat09 ....So you're a blind man

[rk92559]

Douchebag deserved to get his ass kicked.

[acadialidia102938]

@rk92559 fuck you

[roleram]

I can hear the people in the crowd yelling but I dont hear the police yelling any verbal commands or orders, so the guys laying on the sidewalk and they just keep wailing on him until what... until they get off their power trip, not until he obeys an order etc.

[BlueHen123]

Police that act like this should be sent to Afghanistan or Iraq

[shalcall]

I have to say, this kid is lucky he isn't black. He might not have been able to walk away.

[ephenderson]

The PG polic fuckin suck... There jsut, at most , a half step up from DC police--- Die first call them later...

[lucasdimedio]

maybe you guys didnt check the G8 in genova(italy) few years ago...this is nothing in compared to....

[kittu3]

dont mess with police hahahahah.... they beat u break ur arm and move forward..

[billbounce]

I was stopped by a P. G. (PIG) Cop just for going to a public airport a number of times without being a pilot. This pig didn't even ask for ID (for his protection, too). He forced me to listen to his lecture about defaming a police officer. What an AZE!!

This cop had nothing else better to do, like fighting crime than harrasing law abiding citizens?

Watch out PIG county police are dangerous. I

[personzorz]

@billbounce Even better was a decade or two ago when a mafia hitman contracted out a hit to a PG county police officer... who proceeded to try to kill the guy IN HIS SQUAD CAR in uniform. The target survived... and managed to identify the dude no sweat in court.

[nandansho]

I'm an articulate Blackman, I'm pretty sure the kid was white I'm no racist but Damn they fucked that nigga up!

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[14ALL41OK]

take away the uniforms and the weapons... then you have the biggest gang of violent power freaks in the USA

[wdcsucks1]

this is what the NWO is going to look like on a daily bases!!!

[jjrglobal]

What kind of people do we have protecting, and I use the term loosely, our streets? Who would think this is OK?

[czubspenx]

Goes to show you how stupid cops are. Underneath, they are just paid goons.

[internate]

Notice the other officer to the right how goes chasing after the other guy with the camera on the corner. He knows he just caught that. He knows his ass is grass.

[internate]

The video camera is more powerful than the police.

[internate]

Hey cops. FYI. You're not above the law you try to enforce. Justice will be yours.

[xetlive]

2 rogue cops have been suspended:

From the Washington Post:

The video shows the two officers in riot gear rushing John J. McKenna, 21, and pinning him against a wall before at least one repeatedly strikes him. As McKenna crumples to the ground, a third officer is shown hitting his legs and torso with a baton.

FBI agents and county internal affairs officers met Wednesday and are working together on the investigation.

Cops investigating cops... that should be against the law!

[MrMick73]

wow , shits getting pretty rough over their in "New Germany"

[xetlive]

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[patomin]

Yeah, so talking crap to the cops...and you could see he was just a dum#### running up to a horse cop, deserves a beating until you're unconscious. These cops need to go to jail for a long time. Maybe someone will beat their fascist a**es in the shower for rinsing too loud. What a crock.

[nedmorlef]

these are your kids america. what are you gonna do about it?!

[FightTheCollapse]

FastMG42, you are what you hate. I'm so sick of people equating all cops with bad cops. I've never beat anyone. I've never framed anyone. I know the constitution and swore an oath to uphold it. I understand what that oath means. I'm not gonna quit bring a cop because everyone hates us. I'm not gonna violate rights because lots of cops do it. We're not all bad!!!!

[internate]

@FightTheCollapse I'm glad to hear you speak up. I hope there are many more like you. You are the ones who have given police the reputation they had, that others sometimes tarnish. Keep up the good fight.

[BubbleKushAcab]

A.C.A.B

[billbounce]

@BubbleKushAcab

No not all are bad. But, none (no not one) of you dudes will turn against a cop you know damn well is bad or over zealous. Therefore you are all azewholz!

[TheOpenmynded]

ban sports sense people don't know how to fucking act......do it like this : anybody can play sports. but not for anything but fun. and no watching allowed unless your waiting to be subbed in. it makes sense right? just like people wanna ban guns? and free speech? and freedom of the press? why not sports it's getting people hurt? note: ^sarcasm^

[evoval]

Skipping around like a fairy is forbidden.

[Warrgasmm]

these arnt police, they are thugs and should be sent to prison or hung.

[Death2theNWO777]

"Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him."

Isaiah 3:11

Pigs!

[coffeenuts44]

Send these lying sack of shits to prison. That's not a felony assault, that's attempted murder.

[FastMg42]

Either way, a tow cloth wrapped around the bottle is lit, then thrown, in the hopes of shattering the bottle and spreading the contents. Against tanks, the targets are the engine compartment and the gap between the turret and hull, in hopes of spreading the flame into and igniting either the ammunition or fuel reserve. This sounds much easier than it is, and often resulted in the soldier attempting this with a bottle shot out of his hand, turned into a human torch.

[FastMg42]

The molotov cocktail was named after a Soviet foreign minister during World War 2, and is technically defined as simply any inflammable liquid in a glass bottle. The device was first used during the Spanish Civil War.

[FastMg42]

We are back to Germany 1939 however there are ways to fuck this pig up

[Darkcosmicnoise]

look at those bastards rioters runnig scared, the beating worked

[Minionuup]

The kid confronted police pushing back. Instead of turning the fuck around and walking away he instigated. Now his ass is broke. Waaaaah!

[10ms2]

@Minionuup

I agree that rioting is stupid and those causing damage should be arrested. However, the law must apply equally to everyone including the police or we will live in a state ruled through violence. The beating was violent in in gross excess of the situation. Their commanding officer even admitted so. The officers should do hard time.

[10ms2]

These officers will likely lose their job (only because they were caught on tape). It is completly unlikely that they will the sentence they deserve and will likely get off very lightly. Every officer swinging a baton in this video should be charged with aggrevated assualt .

[B18N]

What kind of idiot is going to taunt mounted police?

[deej7]

not really sure what that kid in the white pants did besides cross the street very homosexually. hate crime?

[christmas254]

@deej7 I have always heard that Maryland cops hate gay's so they made this one rich

[cramerdude]

The cops could've just obtained the kid and told him to STFU. Beating him with a stick doesn't uphold order, it pretty much accelerates disorder. The police are a role model and they should try to hold the peace, especially against a drunk with only words against weaponry.

[junior00bacon00chee]

hahaha i love how people can't help but defend the cops. if they didn't have on costumes and badges these same people would be outraged....but, oh no, once they are clad in govt gang colors, then their actions and authority are beyond question!

i hate liberals, but sometimes i think i hate conservatives even more. their entire ideology is based on acting tough, yet the coward diaper babies always put their tail between their legs for the big cops. "oh protect me great god in blue!"

[chimpuman]

The kid is a dumbass. Needs common sense. It's not worth taunting paramilitary law enforcement armed with weapons over them telling you to GTFO.

The kid deserved it. He's probably drunk and threatening. Cops have guns and batons. They are outnumbered and human.Angry mobs are scary.

Cop acts to protect cop on horse. Is this guy going to try and startle the horse? Does he have his hands in his pockets. Guy in range to pepper spray the horse.

[3goals4bonzai]

@chimpuman - "paramilitary" law enforcement. that in itself, is questionable. "startle the horse".... the get off the nag if you can't control it. horse in crowds = dangerous either way. there was excessive force here. period. cops should be fired and the county/state should settle with the kid ASAP. there goes your tax dollars!

[acadialidia102938]

@chimpuman you are an idiot aswell. he didnt taunt the horse you guys obviously did not follow this story at all. and yes he was drunk but that means he deserves it? he is 22 years old he is legally allowed to drink and even if he was to threaten them, which he did not, they would easily be able to take him down another way seeing as he was drunk

[pmm3498]

Kid clearly appears to be taunting the officers. One should know not to approach riot police during a riot, especially when other kids are chucking projectiles.

Why are we surprised about this? Police are called in during riots to maintain order, that kid had it coming. Jeez he was rioting a SPORTS VICTORY for crying out loud, not like it was some noble political gathering. Commend the officers for having some balls.

[acadialidia102938]

@pmm3498 having some balls? are you serious? they beat an unarmed guy giving him a concussion 8 staples to the head and two broken wrists and then tried to charge him of a felony and took him to prison and gave him no medical care

[siggid27]

The victim stopped far enough from the horse.. the policeman on the horse was the one who got closer and then police on foot and no one deserves a beating like this!!!! they didn´t even stop when he fell... this is not a pretty picture of law enforcemnent in the states....

[mmerx]

seriously, who riots anyway? Why are these drunken losers on the streets? "Celebration" my butt!

[txplantman]

@ualthxdia

So, you're advocating the murder of Police Officers?

[ualthxdia]

@txplantman no I was referring to video cameras, obviously!

[acadialidia102938]

@ShepherdsStaff you really have no fucking idea about what actually happend do you. fuck you

[akdraw1]

Remember the 2001 UMD basketball loss riot.

Or the 2002 UMD basketball win riot.

The 2006 UMD womens basketball win riot.

Now the UMD basketball win riot of 2010.

Go UMD! Win or lose we know how to riot and destroy some sh*t. Not many people get hurt and taxes cover all the damage.

[c0dekill]

There were bottles and rocks being thrown at officers. You do not approach a police animal the way that guy did. Regardless, the reaction from the officers on foot did appear excessive, but another camera angle could show differently. I doubt it, however, since one suspension has already been made.

[ordotrajanus]

Thank God it was a white punk instead of a black punk...We will all be spared Sharpton talking about police brutality and racism. Walking up and knocking the kid out is completely justified (in my opinion). What appears to be the officers continuing to beat him on the ground looks bad for the department and that officer in particular. I have great sympathy for the police officers because rowdy crowds like this are dangerous as exemplified by the bottle thrown at the police from above.

[1donagin]

Appears highly excessive, but hardly unprovoked.

[WeAreGeo]

Wow. Sure doesn't look like that kid deserved what he got.