Video: Philly Pigs charged with brutality after video shows man being struck, beaten...

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philly.com/philly/news/20150206_Two_more_Philly_cops_face_charges.html

The day after Najee Rivera was arrested a year and a half ago, his girlfriend went to North Philadelphia's 25th Police District and saw his bloodied and broken face - his orbital bone fractured, an eye swollen shut, his face sewn up with stitches and staples.

Sitting next to him Thursday night, Dina Scannapieco of South Philadelphia said she had asked the dazed, 23-year-old Rivera where he had been arrested.

"As soon as I picked him up, we went right over there," Scannapieco said. He was in a hospital gown covered in blood.

Eventually the couple made it to the 2700 block of North Sixth Street, where he had been arrested the night before - and where two officers were saying Rivera had thrown one of them into a brick wall.

The two, she said, saw where he was arrested.

"You seen all his blood all over the pavement," she said.

It was an aftermath of an arrest on May 29, 2013, that was allegedly so violent that District Attorney Seth Williams on Thursday charged two Philadelphia police officers with aggravated assault, conspiracy and related crimes.

After seeing the blood, Scannapieco began asking questions.

She eventually found surveillance video, at a barber shop-auto detailing business on the block, that would exonerate Rivera and lead to the arrest of the officers who prosecutors say beat him without provocation and then falsely arrested him.

Damn.. His girl had to do the police work for those corrupt pigs.. Smh.. Side note.. That Riveria nigga better wife that broad.. she handle that nigga down w/ tall hat detective work she did for the nigga...

 

[R0mp]

Strong everything.

"While running towards my partner I saw the Hispanic male grab my partner with both his hands by his chest upper vest area and slammed him into a brick wall of the building. The Hispanic male held my partner up against the wall and began throwing elbows towards my partner’s face and head area," McKnight said in a signed statement, echoing the account given by Robinson, according to the charging documents.

 

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Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey suspended the officers with intent to dismiss. Before the video of their arrest of Rivera surfaced, the officers' account of what happened had been accepted as fact, Ramsey said.

In hindsight, Ramsey said, the department should have canvassed the area - a step typically taken only when an Internal Affairs complaint has been filed. The department may now review whether it should further investigate arrests that result in injuries, he said.

Ramsey said he pulled Robinson and McKnight from the street after the video was brought to his attention.

Ramsey said McKnight and Robinson "do not represent the majority" of the 6,500 officers on the force.

"But I cannot stand here and say I've got 6,500 police officers that always operate within the framework of the law, within the framework of department policy," he said. "We've got to root them out."

Additional charges against the officers include recklessly endangering another person, tampering with public records or information, false reports to law enforcement authorities, obstructing administration of law, and official oppression.

Ramsey told reporters Thursday that the incident was "a bad case - no doubt about it," but he said the officers' conduct did not mean "every case is tainted."

The charges against Robinson and McKnight come one day after two former police officers were sentenced to prison for corruption, one of them for 17 years.

"It has not been easy for our department this week," Ramsey said.

Still, he said, "every one of these people who get removed from our department brings us a step closer to having the kind of police department that people in this city deserves."

 

[D. Morgan]

The dude girl deserves a got damn fairy tale wedding for the shit she did for him.

Don't know her but she seems(key word) like a keeper.

 

[p-tavern]

I actually know one of them from playing sports growing up

Just checked on facebook and of course theres a bunch of whites supporting him smmfh

 

[not_osirus_jenkins]

I actually know one of them from playing sports growing up

Just checked on facebook and of course theres a bunch of whites supporting him smmfh

How though? what the fuck could possibly justify this. Post those up..

Also id sue for 1 billion dollars.

 

[Shizlansky]

They should have more charges brought up on them

 

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[p-tavern]

I actually know one of them from playing sports growing up

Just checked on facebook and of course theres a bunch of whites supporting him smmfh

How though? what the fuck could possibly justify this. Post those up..

Also id sue for 1 billion dollars.

One guy made a post saying he supports the cop, last I checked it had 103 likes and a bunch of people echoing the sentiment. Two separate people called it "a disgrace." Not what the cops did or that people were behind them, but rather the fact that they were actually being charged for beating the shit out of an innocent person. Its almost satire.

Basically all the whites up here think that the police can literally do no wrong. Anything that happens to a brown skinned person at the hands of the cops "must have done something to deserve it."

Read in the paper that dude already sued and got 200k. This all happened it July '13 apparently but they didn't get indicted til this week so the general public didnt know

 

[Shizlansky]

200k

Not bad

I want half a million.