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Mr. Leone was charged with a felony for using his face to break the Troopers hand
When finally stopped by the police Mr. Leone COULD NOT comply with the orders of the arresting officers to exit his vehicle with his hands up because one of the officers had blocked Mr. Leone’s door with his patrol car. Mr. Leone sat calmly in his driver’s seat with both hands on his steering wheel, smoking a cigarette. Mr. Leone was tasered multiple times through his sun roof even though he did not display ANY threatening behavior whatsoever. Mr. Leone was then forcibly removed through his passenger door and repeatedly beaten, kicked and tasered while not even attempting to defend himself. The Senior State Police Officer is clearly seen jumping from Mr. Leone’s car roof and intentionally stomping Mr. Leone with both of his feet and all of his weight while Mr. Leone is face down on the ground.
Mr. Leone was repeatedly beaten by out-of-control State Troopers before and after he was handcuffed and also after he was hog tied. Numerous non-authorized maneuvers were used against Mr. Leone by the arresting Officers including the punching in his face with a closed fist by one of the Troopers.
This punch caused the Trooper to break his own hand on Mr. Leone’s face. Mr. Leone was subsequently charged with a felony charge of Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer for using his face to break the Troopers hand (I am not kidding). LINK
Originally posted by InnerTruths
I did a quick search and did not find this posted on the boards yet. This caught my attention browsing through youtube. This story NEEDS to go viral to help the victim, Mr. Robert Leon, who is currently incarcerated. Watching this video, I was simply flabbergasted as so many emotions were running through me at once.
This video is about 30 mins long explaining Mr. Leon's situation.
Exercise caution watching this video.
Too bad he doesn't have a million dollars to fight the police in court.
Originally posted by nightstalker78
That dude nearly put me to sleep.Clearly he's reading from some kind of script and poorly at that.Not to mention he's doing nothing but making excuses for the guy.I'm not going to let you anti-police ATS posters influence me so I'm off to do my own research before commenting further.
Originally posted by nightstalker78
That dude nearly put me to sleep.Clearly he's reading from some kind of script and poorly at that.Not to mention he's doing nothing but making excuses for the guy.I'm not going to let you anti-police ATS posters influence me so I'm off to do my own research before commenting further.
Originally posted by nightstalker78
I'm not going to let you anti-police ATS posters influence me so I'm off to do my own research before commenting further.
Originally posted by Laokin
Originally posted by nightstalker78
That dude nearly put me to sleep.Clearly he's reading from some kind of script and poorly at that.Not to mention he's doing nothing but making excuses for the guy.I'm not going to let you anti-police ATS posters influence me so I'm off to do my own research before commenting further.
As I said, yeah, the guy should have pulled over, but there are many people who don't pull over and don't receive beat downs.
Total hypocrisy.edit on 30-6-2012 by Laokin because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by nightstalker78
Originally posted by Laokin
Originally posted by nightstalker78
That dude nearly put me to sleep.Clearly he's reading from some kind of script and poorly at that.Not to mention he's doing nothing but making excuses for the guy.I'm not going to let you anti-police ATS posters influence me so I'm off to do my own research before commenting further.
As I said, yeah, the guy should have pulled over, but there are many people who don't pull over and don't receive beat downs.
Total hypocrisy.edit on 30-6-2012 by Laokin because: (no reason given)
Doesn't that say it all though? He ran FOR A REASON.You don't just randomly have 5 police cars following you for a minor traffic infraction.It doesn't happen.You do something to draw that attention.And as I'm learning now,he was involved in some kind of hit and run.And oh,may have been drunk.I'm still researching.
Now,that does not justify being beat,as you said,once you're in cuffs.And,in the video in the op,it wasn't because he was bipolar and not taking his meds and didn't understand why the cops weren't passing him.That's propaganda at it's finest.You know it and I know it.
Originally posted by HumanCondition
Originally posted by nightstalker78
Originally posted by Laokin
Originally posted by nightstalker78
That dude nearly put me to sleep.Clearly he's reading from some kind of script and poorly at that.Not to mention he's doing nothing but making excuses for the guy.I'm not going to let you anti-police ATS posters influence me so I'm off to do my own research before commenting further.
As I said, yeah, the guy should have pulled over, but there are many people who don't pull over and don't receive beat downs.
Total hypocrisy.edit on 30-6-2012 by Laokin because: (no reason given)
Doesn't that say it all though? He ran FOR A REASON.You don't just randomly have 5 police cars following you for a minor traffic infraction.It doesn't happen.You do something to draw that attention.And as I'm learning now,he was involved in some kind of hit and run.And oh,may have been drunk.I'm still researching.
Now,that does not justify being beat,as you said,once you're in cuffs.And,in the video in the op,it wasn't because he was bipolar and not taking his meds and didn't understand why the cops weren't passing him.That's propaganda at it's finest.You know it and I know it.
People like you really do disgust me.
Originally posted by nightstalker78
reply to post by Murgatroid
I'm not in denial about anything,pal.I'm not naive.I know police brutality is real.It does happen.And it's wrong SOMEtimes. Excuse me if I don't by some criminals version of how things went down.
Originally posted by HumanCondition
Originally posted by nightstalker78
reply to post by Murgatroid
I'm not in denial about anything,pal.I'm not naive.I know police brutality is real.It does happen.And it's wrong SOMEtimes. Excuse me if I don't by some criminals version of how things went down.
Hahahaha
It feels bad to say but I really do hope that you may experience it first hand like this guy did.
You are disgusting.
Originally posted by nightstalker78
Originally posted by HumanCondition
Originally posted by nightstalker78
reply to post by Murgatroid
I'm not in denial about anything,pal.I'm not naive.I know police brutality is real.It does happen.And it's wrong SOMEtimes. Excuse me if I don't by some criminals version of how things went down.
Hahahaha
It feels bad to say but I really do hope that you may experience it first hand like this guy did.
You are disgusting.
That's lovely.
Guess what? I won't experience it because get this..........................................................................................................
I'm not a criminal. I can tell you're a real stand up guy.
If you were genuinely pro-police you would want crimes like this to be exposed so that bad police do not put the lives of good police at risk due to people being marginalized, assaulted and dehumanized.
All I can say is reserve the same rights for others as you would want for yourself. Police brutality does not have prejudice, it could have happened to you, your family or friends.
Originally posted by nightstalker78
reply to post by HumanCondition
I don't dispute that it happens to innocent people.We can agree on that point.It happens to both.But some people here make it seem like everyone in this situation is innocent when that's clearly not the case.
Let's just agree that in SOME situations it is a excessive.I don't know enough about this case to say whether or not it is.As I pointed out in an earlier post,I'm still reading about this particular case.edit on 30-6-2012 by nightstalker78 because: (no reason given)