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police tried to frame and send this man away for 15+ years. Thank God a...
--------------------------------- police tried to frame and send this man away for 15+ years. Thank God a brave person filmed the whole police assault on him. News article here, covered under FAIR USE- non profit educational use. ---------------------------------------- - http://www.nypost.com/seven/02242009/...
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VID CLEARS COP VICTIM
By LAURA ITALIANO
February 24, 2009
All charges were dropped yesterday against a disabled truck driver whose severe beating at the hands of a baton-swinging cop on the Lower East Side was caught on video.
"I feel beautiful," said Michael Cephus, 47, as he left Manhattan criminal court talking with his lawyer on the phone about suing for malicious prosecution.
He sustained a cracked knee cap and multiple bruises last July 4, when Officer Maurice Harrington hit him 10 times with the metal baton on Delancey Street, the video shows.
Cephus, accused of assaulting the cop, had faced up to 15 years in prison. Harrington, under investigation, is on modified, no-gun work status, officials said.
"Without that video, it would have been a whole different story," Cephus said, thanking the two anonymous bystanders who slipped the film to his friend - before they, too, were arrested for disorderly conduct.
"We'd really like to talk to them," said Cephus' lawyer, Steven Orlow.
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fking pigs think they have all the power..thats the problem. There were 2 pigs there, they could of easily gotten his hands and picked his ass up. They decided to beat him up first because they ddint get any last night.
if the guy listened to what the cop said in the first place and not talk back he never would have gotten hit. What a moron. don't mess with da police they will getcha!
What would you have done if they are beating your legs. I would be resisting too. They guy was not a threat to both of them so the stick should not have been used at all!
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