This is the only known footage of University of Florida police shooting Ghanan graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong in the face at his on-campus apartment in Corey Village. For more information on the shooting: www.gainesville.com www.gainesville.com www.gainesville.com For more information on the five officers involved in the shooting: www.gainesville.com The footage in this video is completely unedited. The audio is muted at parts because one of the two people making the video didn’t want her voice publicly revealed for the time being. The Coalition for Justice Against Police Brutality formed in the wake of this act of brutality. We have held three successful protests and are planning future actions directed at pressuring State Attorney Bill Cervone into dropping the charges on Kofi and empaneling a Grand Jury investigation. Cervone’s office is withholding the Florida Department of Law Enforcement report that was released a week ago. Join the facebook group ‘Justice for Kofi Adu-Brempong’ and get involved in the fight for justice.
this makes me think of the missing parts of a puzzle, where is the missing audio? why are there so many gaps? what do you NOT want the public to hear?
The missing audio was omitted at the request of a second person next to the one taping the incident.
ok…if you say so…I guess that makes it the gospel truth….but I would hesitate to believe anything that has that many holes in it…sorry, that’s just my nature I suppose. Thanks for the prompt reply.
seriously fucked up.
The description was updated with a brief explanation for the short audio gaps. Anacronico08 is correct that one of the two filmmakers didn’t want her voice publicly available through the video for the time being and as per her request, we agreed to edit it out.
@travelerwendell
I agree with you. From what you do see you must admit it looks damming. I have seen the unedited video and there is nothing relevant in the muted parts. I know the anonymous response on the internet is not the best reassurance though.
@travelerwendell You can see UFPD surrounding a mans house who was afraid people where going to kidnap him. You see UFPD telling a man that he cannot try to talk with Kofi anymore. In short, you see UFPD acting inappropriately.
@travelerwendell Whatever he said wasn’t bad enough to get him shot lol. Police aren’t allowed to open fire until a weapon is drawn, even if verbally threatened. Even if he was being obscene towards said officers, it still doesn’t give them the right to shoot him. If anyone could just shoot at someone because they got their feeling hurt, then it will be complete anarchy.
The actions taken by police that night are not justifiable by any means.
Why the hell was officer Keith Smith literally running away after having shot someone two times. Is this guy seriously a police officer? I have never heard of this tactic…Get so scared of a metal rod that you shoot someone in the face and then run away and hide. Sounds like bravery at its most impressive. Thank god the entire group didn’t go running after their own gunshots scared them, because nobody would have remembered to check the victim for a pulse….he might have bled to death
@detroitr
off course, the most reasonable thing to do with someone that, as you allege, destroys school property and verbally threatens an official is to be shot on the face… sounds very reasonable to me. You seem more concerned about making this issue about liberals than about the issue at hand…
The guy was mentally ill. Even if there were clear comands from the police, he was not in a state of mind to take them, and police new as they were in his apartment the day before.
Nice tactic UPD… too afraid to use a taser from the backlash it caused last time?
5 seconds……….5 seconds between the first shot till the last rifle shot. The UF Police department should be dismantled immediately and all police involved in this indecent should be charged with attempted murder or conspiracy to commit murder.
Not only should they have left him alone, their “entry” and brutality are unconscionable.
This whole incident is a SLAP IN THE FACE to the people that “trust” the UFPD and a mockery of the so-called “changes” they made after the TAZING incident.
@yelowflowermo There was another person who did not want their voice heard.
I am hungry for justice. I give two thumbs up for the coalition that is making sure Kofi get the justice he deserves. I am glad that a group is fighting for something that is right even though you guys have alot of opposition. I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST