Police Brutality: Cop points gun in girls face for being rear ended by his son. Philly July 09

Police Brutality: WHEN AGNES LAWLESS and three friends were inside a Lukoil convenience store in the Northeast at 3 a.m. last August, they'd all but forgotten the fender-bender in which they'd been involved moments earlier.

There was little damage, and the other driver had left the scene, near Northeast Philadelphia Airport.

What they didn't know was that they'd been rear-ended by the son of a police officer who was on duty, and dad was about to get involved.

Lawless was standing at the counter of the store, at Comly Road and Roosevelt Boulevard, smiling and chatting with the clerk, when she was grabbed from behind and violently pushed back with a police officer's gun in her face.

"He hit me with his left hand, and he had his gun in his right hand," Lawless said. "He pushed his gun into the left side of my neck. It caused a scrape-type bruise on my neck."

After a chaotic struggle, Lawless was arrested and charged with assaulting the officer.

Lawless and her three friends, all in their early 20s, filed complaints with the Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau. But in cases in which it's a defendant's word against a police officer's, the benefit of doubt often falls to the cop.

Except when there's video.

Once surveillance video from the store's four security cameras was released, the case against Lawless collapsed, and disciplinary action commenced against the officer, Alberto Lopez Sr. A lawsuit against the city is likely.

The incident provides a vivid example of how the countless video recordings generated today by security cameras and cell phones are affecting police work.

Drexel Law School professor Donald Tibbs said that video recordings are capturing more criminal activity and assisting prosecutions, but they're also monitoring police conduct.

"Police are now aware they're more accountable for their actions, because these tapes may be used against them in misconduct cases or civil-rights lawsuits," Tibbs said.
And Tibbs said that there are numerous cases of police seeking to confiscate and destroy tapes that may have captured a police action.

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[PlaidPocketPro]

they believe they can get away with it because they FUCKING GET AWAY WITH IT!

[PhillyCopsAreCorrupt]

Only in Philadelphia could a pig get away with smashing an innocent woman in the head with a loaded gun, threatening to shoot her with it, falsely arresting her for the crimes which he perpetrated, and then trying to destroying the videotape proof of his aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, possession of an instrument of crime, conspiracy, and false arrest. Is it any wonder why good people like me celebrate the deaths of Philadelphia pig trash? They are felons with badges.

[MultiKevdogg]

fucking  pigs

[ladyfeind]

continued, the only person that should have gotten sponsored for the academy and promised work over myself should have been the better man. this has been happening on a large scale across the country now for years and viola this is what you get.

so a big 'ol fat fuck you can go out to the state of new jersey for that shit as far as i'm concerned. jobs in le are a fucking joke they can be had if you know someone or if your complexion meets their "needs" and the public suffers for stupidity.

[ladyfeind]

police get away with this type of behavior everyday. this time a camera just happened to be present all the personality testing they make applicants take needs to be seriously looked at does affirmative action imo.

around 10 years ago i took the entry level le test scored 99 percent thats top 2% in the country for those that don't know. and around 3 months later i received a letter from nj stating who they would take before me to sponsor. ie hispanic m/f african m/f the list was staggering.

[Sccuba182]

Ahh, no big deal guys just wait the NDAA act is here now and soon so will a Police state...

[sheldordaworrior]

why is the title hidden?

[mryellow123]

@dubbman61 Have to say, the other guy is right. If you allow cop culture to work it's magic and don't hold your fellow officers to account in the workplace then it's all just a pointless comment on youtube.

[DojangRat]

@PhillyCopsAreCorrupt I had a friend in Philly years ago whos father was a cop and said that he was racist and most Philly cops are racist.

[venusbrain]

@dubbman61 I'd like to see you arrest another cop for breaking the law. The majority have committed serious crimes recorded by their own dash-cams in the past year, so you have plenty to choose. Until you do, you don't get to claim to be a "good" cop.

[venusbrain]

@MrImHome If there was one good guy, he'd be out arresting the savages like this guy.

[venusbrain]

@PhillyCopsAreCorrupt That's exactly what I've been saying. People have to be delusional to say that only a few cops are bad and most are good after watching a video of all 12 cops in a room joining in on a savage beating.