Isaac Ocak punched in the face by Seattle Police

1:03 - Audio on
6:24 - Ocak pressed to hood of car
7:10 - Officer hitting Ocak in the face

On December 29, 2010, 20 year old Isaac Ocak (pr. "O-jack") of Turkish descent was parked outside a private shopping center and ran in to return a Christmas gift. He left his car running but it was locked (he had a separate door key). He returned to find officers around it, and he explained he just ran in to return something. He apologized for doing this. Officers detained him on the hood of a patrol car for an excessive time after they'd already established he had a non-suspicious reason to park there and had no weapons on him. Although the officers said it was "wrong" to have left it running there, it is neither a crime nor a traffic infraction to do this at a private mall. Mr. Ocak complied with a demand to put his hands on the patrol car and continued doing so long after any potential threat to officers was negated.

The encounter went from strangely counting Mr. Ocak's house keys to repeatedly ordering his hands to remain on the hood, to violently grabbing him after 8 minutes of car hood detention, thrusting him down to the hood and handcuffing him, all where there was no probable cause to believe any crime was committed. Then after determining that Ocak's hands were under control, Officer Larry Longley grabbed and pulled the client's upper jaw with his left hand and started wailing on his face with a right fist, reportedly because Officer Longley was being bitten.

Mr. Ocak was booked in jail for two days, released, and later charged with "assault" for biting the officer's left pinkie. This assault charge was dismissed finally by prosecutors who watched the video.

To me, this video illustrates pure unnecessary escalation of what is not a crime or an infraction at all, but is a routine civilian encounter. Once the "suspicious vehicle" was determined not to be so suspicious, the officers should have let Mr. Ocak go at most with a warning or a trespass admonishment issued by the strip mall security, since this was not a public roadway. To me the encounter raises the specter of biased policing. The officer who hit Mr. Ocak is quite clearly being a bully, and appears keen on doing some damage to Isaac Ocak in one way or another, and ultimately succeeds. Any injury the officer received to his finger was a consequence of Officer Longley's own aggressive recklessness.

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[RedTulie1]

I hope he sues these lying self-important thugs in their individual capacities—this sh** has GOT to stop. He was NOT resisting them; he was trying to talk sense to those brainless brutes. ANYONE would have gotten royally impatient and disgusted being treated like he was. Those thugs are the type that rape, molest, kidnap, rob, beat and brutalize with impunity. They made an incident out of NOTHING. Bravo.

[David Kephart]

So the cop shoves his hand in the guys mouth then punches the guy for biting him? Bizarre.

[mars6433]

The Cops are TAUGHT to keep saying "STOP RESISTING". Maybe this Doner Cop wasn't out of his mind after all?

[milesbennetdyson5]

This country is ruined.

[shinobiification]

Oh fuck you pig supporter go die

[Loco4s]

The thing is he was no threat and if these cops were any good at their job they would have seen he was not making any threading gestures he was simply tryin to explain himself ... They just wanted to hit him cause they are rotten scum not law enforcement they break the laws they are supposed to be there to protect... Fire these assholes.... I hope they get shot!!!

[Loco4s]

That cop had no right to hit him or do any of this red!!! Hope this happens to you!!! Those guys need to be fired....

[jh1955ful]

THIS IS DOWNRIGHT POLICE BRUTALITY!!!!!

[Sandy Wilkins]

You have more keys than me im jealous im going to beat you up

[justinbeaulieu72]

I'm so sick and tired of seeing fucken police abuse their power people are not going to let this happen anymore better watch your back pigs

[rufiel6rahteih]

I see you come from the land of rules, not laws.

I wonder how many REAL criminals got away in this process of a arrest.

Yeah, a tough job ...

[spaggs111]

your comment has received too many negative votes. just FYI