RAW: Police Officers beating, mocking Latino driver

Police dash cam:The department has released police dash cam video that apparently shows officers John Wynkoop and Scott Wilson beating and pepper-spraying a Latino driver last October. The officers can also be heard mocking the driver's accent on the tape.

Wynkoop said they pulled over 30-year-old Rafael Rodriguez because he had blue-tinted lights on his car, which are illegal. They ended up ch More..arging Rodriguez with assault, but those charges were dropped Friday.

Police Chief Roberto Hylton said Wynkoop and Wilson have been suspended from the force with pay pending an internal investigation.

"Our officers need to understand that a person's accent does not dictate the level of service that's provided to any individual [in] this community," said Hylton. "This police department is a very professional police department. We're going to deliver service in a very professional manner [...] and address everyone with dignity and respect."

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[djm2516]

Look pieces of shit dressed as cops.

[daverin69]

@BREW343812 that stop resisting shit is what they holla when they are beating you so it will seem like you are resisting that is a tactic police use in case people are watching or they think they are on camera.You can be handcuffed and they will beat you and say u was resisting but if someone is beating you it is in your nature to survive unless you are not human like yourself who would like to get beat and just sit there taking it or maybe your mom would love to be beat like that!

[muesxa25]

Racist people....SMH

[Treblinka2012]

Crack that coconut

[BikerBry]

@CDVMRFIST - Germany is NOT free as far as speech and opinions are concerned. You have laws against positive speech against Nazis or Hitler (not that I would have anything good to say about the guy either) but you have laws against it. That is NOT freedom of opinion.

[CDVMRFIST]

hi, in Germany there is freedom of opinion

[willi2209]

@CDVMRFIST i dont know where to begin, this may be the single dumbest comment ever posted on youtube.

[dpimpchris]

@daverin69 Or maybe he should have just let them cuff him and if they continue he can sue. Doing this just shows the judge that this guy was resisting because the cops yelled several time to stop resisting and get on the ground which he didnt do. So he can be charged fully for this with no penalty to the officers. It's not what you can say but what you can prove, and this is proof that the driver was acting stupid using that I dont understand english crap.

[GUMMYBEAYUH]

Dumb border jumpers need to stay out of this country anyways.

[CDVMRFIST]

70% of american cops

are criminal

[beEasy2011]

"mocking" where? the guy was resisting. they can use whatever force necessary to gain compliance. Im not saying cops don't beat people(i despise most cops).

but in this video, IN MY OPINION, there is no police brutality. this video makes light of the REAL cases of brutality.