Police Brutality: Woman Beaten Off Camera (graphic)

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GerbilHumper
March 03, 2008

The officer who beat the woman got fired, but no charges were filed! There is a petition online to press charges against him, we need 2000 votes but only have 720. Please post this link next to the video so people can sign!
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After Angela Garbarino was arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana last November on suspicion of drunk driving, she wound up lying on the police station floor in a pool of her own blood with two black eyes, a broken nose, two broken teeth, and other cuts and bruises.

Garbarino says that Officer Wiley Willis beat her up after turning off the police video camera. Willis's attorney insists that Garbarino slipped and fell when Willis tried to prevent her from leaving the room. However, Garbarino says that the extent of her injuries are proof that she was beaten.

The police video obtained by ABC News shows Garbarino demanding the right to make a phone call. "I have the right to call somebody right now and I know that," she yells. Officer Willis instead begins handcuffing her. She wiggles away, he pulls her back sharply by her wrists, and she hits the wall and falls on the floor.

Willis pushes her down into a chair three successive times as she repeatedly stands up again, increasingly distraught and screaming, "Get away from me!" Willis is finally shown leaning over her and asking, "Do you understand me?" to which she replies, "Yeah, I understand." Willis then walks over and turns off the camera.

When the video resumes, Garbarino is lying in the floor in a pool of her own blood. There is an apparent cut in what ABC aired, but according to KTBS in Shreveport, Willis turns Garbarino on her back, telling her, "Lay down, don't move," and she replies, "I can't believe you just did what you just did. I really can't."

Willis has since been dismissed from the police force. KTBS states that "Willis was fired by Police Chief Henry Whitehorn earlier this month for how he treated Garbarino during the whole episode, not for her injuries."

Willis is appealing his dismissal, and his attorney insists that his client was following procedures in turning off the camera. According to KTBS, "Authorities familiar with Shreveport police policy said a person is read their rights and gets an explanation of what's going to happen next. That is followed by a sobriety test. If the person refuses, the officer can turn off the tape and take them to an adjoining room, handcuff them to a bench, fill out the paperwork and charge them."

However, experts suggested to ABC that Willis should have called for female backup when Garbarino began resisting. One criminologist stated, "I think we have a situation where the arrested person is refusing to cooperate and the police officer apparently overreacted."

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fell my ass

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Sparkkle27 (3 hours ago) Show Hide

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does this lawyer really believes what hes saying those injuries came cause of the way she was acting boy oh boy money talks i wonder what he would say if that was his sister lol

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That lawyer near the end is awful.

You're telling me the only the only way the cop (holding a woman who's handcuffed and hysterical) could control her was to bash her against the floor, break her nose, and drain half her blood? And this required turning the camera off?
My god. This pig deserves to be burned.

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@3236144 Indeed the cop did rape her and then put her clothes back on, turned on the camera and left.

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@jack89128 I agree with Jack.

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damn... if she was whining like that to me i wouldve beat her up

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She fell then continued to hit her face against the floor until it looked as if she was smashed in the face a few times?

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I can't believe they only fired the retard! I would so like to represent her. I bet he has a real tiny dick...usually the case with these cops with inferiority comlpexes. So sad...unfortunately he is more the rule and not the exception. A shame!!!

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