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.
Looks like the capitol hill police took Carlos down and had to restrain him since he was the bad guy.
Well, I WAS there. I’m the fat little lady who was helping Carlos up and trying to get him away from those thugs when they attacked BOTH of us. I’m 60 yrs old and no threat to anyone but they didn’t care. Carlos did NOT instigate this thing. He was walking silently along pulling his casket memorial to his son when one of the GOE ran out screaming at him and ripped the photo of his dead son off the casket.
Follow up to my previous postl. The Capitol police did not attack anyone. The crowd called for them to stop the beating. They were doing their job. When they got there, the thugs from GOE told them Carlos was the attacker and that’s why they jumped him. They did not tell the police that they had started the incident when they ripped the picture off the casket and screamed obscenities at Carlos and all Carlos did was try to retrieve his photo. W
I was there too, hence this movie clip that I uploaded. The police tackeled Carlos after he was already back up on his feet after he had been tackled to the ground and kicked. The GOEs stopped kicking Carlos and let him get up after a lone female police office arrived on the scene. Look at the video and you can see this sequence of events.
I’m not at all surprised. This is mild compared to some of the things I have seen on the web in the last month. Go up to the search box on the YouTube page and simply type the words “police brutality.” You will have enough videos to spend DAYS watching and never see the same one twice, that is if you can stomach it.
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.
A textbook case of provocatuers in action,good job bootlickers…
I will kill that fuckin police officer now
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.
Your observation is absolutely correct.
I will wish I was there with Alpha Company 1st Battalion 4th Marines the unit we all served with Alex and beat the shit out of whoever touches his father that man deserves to griep for his son my fallen brother
Not even sure whether it’s worth posting, given the obvious prejudice of many here… I was one of the officers there.
We arrived, established control (no force was used – we do not carry tazers), we investigated, notebooked information on everyone involved, asked Carlos (who had been restrained since he was the only one appearing aggressive WHEN WE arrived) if he wanted to press charges, he declined, everyone was sent on their way.
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.
So you think just because someone was put in cuffs we used force? You couldn’t be more wrong – the vast majority of people we restrain/detain/arrest cooperate enough to not require the use of force. We know how to do our job w/o hurting anyone. Before I joined up was ‘detained’ by officers on several occasions while they investigated whatever – even as a teenager I wasn’t juvenile enough to claim they used force against me.
Another point while reviewing comments: Carlos was not arrested.
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.
To claim that this clip clearly shows anything is a stretch.
Also, while I’m not going to argue your personal definition of ‘force’, it is clearly defined in law and dept. regs, and if you’re going to have dialog with anyone, you need to agree on what words mean.
When I say ‘no force’ I mean no striking, no use of weapons and no one was hurt or injured.
Now you’re free to believe that words are ‘weapons’ or that someone’s feelings were ‘injured’ but we’re gonna have a hard time communicating.
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.
protester got what he deserved.
shoulda tasered him too
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.
even in PORTUGAL (Europe), the people support this and all families that lost their loved ones… this war must end! PEACE!!! VOTE FOR BARACK!
you have NO idea what you are talking about
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.
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.
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.
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.