Sep 15 2007 March on Washington--Police Attack

During the protest, Carlos Arredondo was pulling a casket, which was in honor of his son, Alex, who was killed in Iraq. Suddenly, a neo-com counter-protester ran up and took the photo of Alex that was on the casket. Carlos ran after the neo-con to get the picture back. The neo-con attacked Carlos. Then another neo-con tackled Carlos to the ground, whereupon several other neo-cons punched and kicked Carlos. When a female police officer arrived on the scene, the neo-cons got off of Carlos. While Carlso was dusting himself off, and while the female officer was talking to the neo-cons, a gang of male police officers rushed Carlos and tackled him to the ground. There was no reason for the policemen to tackle Carlos to the ground. Watch the clip.

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[zuzukachoo]

I love how the thug who started it tried to back off into the crowd once the police were called. Once it was obvious he'd been ID'd (see the people pointing and saying he's the instigator?) ... he realized he had to stay. 'Course that didn't stop him from making up a Freeper-licious story.

[jhberry2]

Your observation is absolutely correct.

[starcannon]

The problem is our "mighty fuggin leaders" are choosing thugs as police officers. I know no one who now has admiration and respect for cops, its all fear and anger now, and as this crap and the tazers keep coming, I'm afraid of hearing about another Ohio State incident on the news again.

[jhberry2]

I was there and saw the whole thing. The clip shows Carlos dusting off himself after getting up from being kicked and punched while on the ground. The clip shows Carlos talking calmly with one of his attackers and while doing so being tackled to the ground by the police. The bad guys falsely told the police that Carlos had started the incident and that's when they tackled him, which was the use of unnecessary force.

[glenellen]

The arriving police may not have known what was going on, but all of the people close to the incident tried to tell them what had happened and how it happened. To my knowledge all of the people shouting were claming Carlos wasn't at fault. The police didn't seem to lend any credence to what was being said by bystanders. For some unknown reason they were determined to arrest Carlos.

[michaeljobson72]

protester got what he deserved.

shoulda tasered him too

[STARZFAN31]

Too many folks did,, now what do we have? A president who is going to spend us into the ground. Hell, already has. Typical democrat tho. Already making new governmental agencies, as if there arent already enough, handing out billions of our tax dollars to companies that declare bankruptcies anyway, and to bail out banks who then come and take peoples homes even tho those homeowners tax money is what bailed out the bank. This nation is going to crumble under Obama, totally.

[STARZFAN31]

Perhaps he was still standing there running his mouth while the female officer was talking. Or, perhaps, as they usually do.. all the participants are arrested since it is not the officers job to decide innocence or guilt. Who's story are they to believe in a situation like this? They did their jobs,, get over it.

[dane415]

I would never ever send my children to die for the american government. Suck as much as you possibly can from the government and never let it kill your family members. Would you entrust your children's fate to be decided by a republican politician.

[tkdwarior]

all cops are bitches. Watch every video on police and protest they are the ones hitting and swinging and tackling and beating. Shit they roll and fight better then any gang I've ever seen in my life. I can't wait until the day we rise up as americans against this police state and WE beat the police in the streets and then drag them away in cuffs.

[jhberry2]

Not a stretch at all. The stretch is in denying the obvious. Look at the clip again. And hiding behind the play of words and their definitions doesn't change the reality of what force is. Just because no one was physically hurt, doesn't mean force wasn't used. By any disinterested person's definition, rushing and tackling a person to the ground is the use of force; I think that your training has allowed you to accept that it is not; it's a rationalization that allows you to do what you do.

[jhberry2]

No, I think that 5 cops rushing and tackling Carlos to the ground is using force. When the 5 cops do it to a non-aggressive Carlos, as the clip clearly shows, I think that's unnecessary force. Of course Carlos wasn't arrested; he was the victim. Your unnecessary use of force demonstrates a frame of mind that is usually associated with a dictatorship country.

[jhberry2]

You seem to contradict yourself and the video. First you say, "no force was used," then you say that Carlos was aggressive and was, therefore, restrained. Which one is it? Neither Carlos nor his attacker were being aggressive after the female cop stopped his being beaten. The clip clearly shows that both men were talking to each other after the female cop arrived when, suddenly, around 5 male cops simultaneously tackled Carlos to the ground. That seems rather forceful to me.