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All I say is she squeezing my hand. You quit movies. This is officer Ashlin Plough and she
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just punched this black woman in the face. What's worse is that this is a pattern for her and she's well known to
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use excessive force on people of color. Up to this point, she and her department
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have gone unpunished. But there are countless cases of racist officers who forget they're being recorded. Like when
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a cop repeatedly shouts slurs at an innocent black man for being. But first, let's look at a
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cop who did something so racist it got him fined $100,000 and fired from the police force entirely.
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Hey, I'm black out here. That's what the issue is. Yeah. The incident happened in San Diego when
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he approached Amari Johnson for smoking in a non-smoking area. The only problem,
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Johnson didn't have a lighter, cigarette, or vape on him. Even if he was smoking, do you think that warranted
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this treatment? Get the off me, bro. Is you grabbing me for, bro? I already told you it's coming
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straight. You look goofy as hell, bro. Stop touching me, bro. Obviously, nobody's
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going nowhere. Hey, hey, hey. What' I tell you? I told you I was waiting for somebody to come here. They right here,
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bro. OH MY GOD. YOU'RE TOUGH AS UP. HEY, you tough as Bro, you goofy as hell, bro. Hey, Mr.
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Dades, you making a big ass deal out of nothing, bro. You making a big ass out of nothing, bro. You real big, though,
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huh? Hey, you real big. Hey, you real big. Hey, you real tough. Okay. Thank you, bro. Thank you. I have no
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reason to be detained by you, bro. Sit down. Stop. Stay seated. What am I doing?
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Y'all are funny as hell, bro. Is funny as hell, bro. [laughter] Hey, that's fine, dude.
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You've already put my You've already put your hands on me, bro. I didn't put nothing on you, bro.
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It's on camera, so you can check me, bro. Y'all hella goofy, bro. I'm talking to you and you smacked me,
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bro. Nobody smacked you, bro. Where I smack you? You did it. Where I smack you? They just claims that
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this treatment was because Johnson slapped his hand away. A moment not clearly caught on his body cam.
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What the Bro, you don't know what's going on. I just got here, man. This fool is in the wrong. He tried to
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come up on him like he's not doing [ __ ] He's waiting for me to get back from the
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store, right? When I come back, instead of him just apologizing, being like, "Oh, you're right. I get it." He tries
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to grab him and choke him and put him on the thing. Obviously, the my friend is going to put his hands back. This fool's
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in the wrong and he could just say that and let it go. Instead, he's trying to I
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don't know what he's trying. I was just trying to figure out what's going on there,
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bro. He's being a whole lot of, bro. Oh, God. And you know you're wrong, bro. This guy would be an awful lot more
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helpful if he wasn't so aggressive. But he's exactly right. Johnson was simply waiting for him to arrive in this spot
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when he was approached by Dages and was exhibiting no suspicious behavior whatsoever. But in the conversation that
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followed, he accidentally reveals the true reason for this stop. He looked at my name like 30 minutes
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ago. Bro, why am I still here? I don't got nothing on me. I'm doing nothing wrong. I'm being a citizen. So, you know
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what I'm saying? That's why that's why I'm frustrated. It's sad as hell. I'm sitting outside for no reason. You know
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what I'm saying? You really don't get it, though. You don't get it. I feel like I understand you're being
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empathetic and I I appreciate that. You know what I'm saying? But you don't get it, bro. I already know what it is. Hey,
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I'm blacking out here. That's what the issue is. All good. I get it. A's agreeing to this almost seems like a
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joke. Even if this was a sarcastic comment, it speaks volumes that this is something he feels comfortable joking
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about. If the cops let it go at this point, all might have been forgiven. Johnson was understanding and the female
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officer was polite, but they just decides he's not finished and moves in to arrest him.
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Listen to me. You're being placed under arrest for 241C. Okay. Yep. All right. What's 241C?
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Assault on a peace officer. Assault on an officer. Hey. Okay. Bet. Hey, come on. Hey,
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bro. You are a whole ass, bro. HEY, HEY, CALL JERRY. HEY, CALL JERRY. HEY, NICK. CALL JERRY.
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YOU'RE A BRO. You a straight [ __ ] bro. Yeah. Hey, except for you're the one that hit me,
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bro. I didn't hit you, bro. You started grabbing me, bro. I told you to stop touching me, bro. You know what I'm
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saying? Assault the police officer. You know this on film, right? It's how far you think this going to go. I hope you
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don't shoot me in his back car or some [ __ ] cuz you guys are corrupt officers.
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You're for sure corrupt as cuz I'm not supposed to be in a backup car in the first place.
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Zas searches Johnson, then sits him in the back of his patrol car before taking him away to be charged. He also
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allegedly lied on his police report, saying that he observed Johnson smoking and that he took a fighting stance when
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he was approached. But Johnson wouldn't stand for this and decided to sue the city of Lame Mesa and Dejis himself,
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citing excessive force and wrongful arrest. Around a month into the lawsuit, Laame Mesa agreed to pay a sum of
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$125,000 to Johnson. None of this money would come out of Deja's pocket, but he was swiftly fired from the La Mesa
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Police Department just 2 years after he joined. Ashlin Pluff, however, punched a
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black woman in the face and her entire police department were just as bad and were all caught clearly on camera.
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You know, before there was by cameras, I wonder how many sergeants would just light this thing up, like empty this
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tank. Ashlin's police department were dispatched to a house party in Toledo, Ohio, guests at the house weren't
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causing a disturbance, and they didn't seem violent or rowdy whatsoever. So, when the cops decided to move in to
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arrest them seemingly at random, it raised serious alarm bells. Hey, who lives here? Who's the owner I
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can talk to? Who lives here? This ain't got nothing to do with us. I'm asking who lives here. You do.
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All right. Arrest him. Him. Him. And that too. You can't go in my house. Don't touch.
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Don't touch ME. I AIN'T DO NOTHING FOR YOU. Why you pushing me OFF THE GROUND? GO. Stay back. Don't stay back. Fail to
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disperse. Fail to disperse. Everybody, the cop tells them that they're getting charges of failure to disperse. And in
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the state of Ohio, this charge can only be given out when the suspect's presence
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creates a high likelihood of physical harm or public inconvenience. In this scenario, the cop is clearly just
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looking for a way to get the guests in coughs. All right, let's in the back of cars.
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Okay, I'll explain to you. I stood here and I told everybody to go in the house.
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Listen, are you going to let me explain or you going to talk over me? I stood here. I told everybody in here either go
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in the house or or leave. After I said that, nobody moved. I said, "You're going to jail if you don't move." Nobody
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moved. The precise reason that nobody moved might be difficult for this cop to comprehend, but it's actually because he
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never asked anyone to go inside the house. He simply asked who lived there and then started arresting people. It
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should also be noted that if this call was for public disturbance, the commotion has increased dramatically
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since the police arrived. And it almost seems like they're the ones that caused it. But if you think the cops are about
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to stop there, you're dead wrong. as this officer decides to take out his weapon to threaten the residents.
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Guys, let's go. TIME TO MOVE. LET'S GO. WHO ELSE WANTS TO GO TO JAIL? CUZ YOU'RE
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ABOUT to go. Go. Go. Why don't you listen and just go home? I don't have patience. People
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don't go to jail when I'm around. You know, before there was cameras, I wonder how many sergeants would just light this
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thing like empty this tank. These snarky remarks from the cop are frankly terrifying as he's essentially
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admitting he'd open fire on everyone here if he had the opportunity. He's drunk on power and he's not the only
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one. Ashlin Pluff is also on the scene doing exactly the same thing. Only her story ends in an even more violent
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manner. You're not walking BACK UP TO THAT HOUSE. TURN BACK AROUND. I DON'T CARE.
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NO. NO. GO. Go then. Hey, you made I can take your ass to jail. I don't give a FAILURE TO DISPERSE. GET THE OUT NOW.
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GO. Tensions are clearly extremely high right now. However, what makes the following footage even crazier is that
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the girl we're about to meet is professional boxer O'Shea Jones, an Olympic level athlete who should be
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respected and admired for her talents. But instead, she was assaulted. Plain and simple.
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BACK UP. GO. I'M ASKING GO. [screaming] I'M ASKING FOR YOUR BACK. BACK UP. I'M ASKING FOR HIS. OKAY. GIVE ME your
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N. I'm not even here. You can't do that to her phone. Back the up. WHAT IS WRONG WITH Y'ALL? YOU CAN'T DO
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THAT TO HER PHONE. BACK UP. OKAY. GIVE ME HER PHONE. OKAY, THAT'S HER PHONE. SO, we just got
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to keep it. NO, YOU'RE NOT GIVING your phone to anyone. BREAKING MY WRIST. AND STOP MOVING.
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ANGRY. CALM DOWN. You angry. Stop twisting. Angry. All I see she squeezing my twisted turn.
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Will you quit moving? Stop touching that. She just hit me. Y'ALL JUST SEE THAT? ANNA. SHE JUST HIT ME. ANNA hit
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me. You're supposed to be an Olympic. I AM. I ASKED for your badge number. Oh, mine. You were talking about mine. It's
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355. There's no way to justify this attack. O'Shea was surrounded by officers and
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restrained and Ashlin punched her for no reason other than anger and hatred. However, unlike the officer from before,
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it seems that Ashlin had completely failed to consider the fact that every cop here was equipped with a body cam
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and she was in plain view of all of them. But in a tragic twist of fate, prosecutors found this use of force to
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be justified. They posit that O'Shea was resisting arrest and the punch was a compliance technique. Instead, she was
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verbally reprimanded for her use of profanity in the incident, but received no criminal charges. But there's no
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better example of racism than yelling racial slurs at a suspect. And that's what officer Tim Garcia was caught doing
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on July 14th, 2018. for being up. The suspect, Dwayne Robinson, was allegedly getting aggressive and
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confrontational with mall patrons, using vulgar language and threatening them. After Robinson was asked to leave, he
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complied, but the guards continued to follow him and eventually detained him. They were like, "You understand?" I
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said, "Look, man." I went like that. I said, "Look, y'all already told me what it was." I was like, "I'm already
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walking off." So, I I tried to go back that way. I was like, I thought it was the exit and they grabbed my bag. I
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said, "Look, man, don't grab my bag like that." All they had to tell me was like,
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"Look, sir, there's not an exit over here." Yeah. And they was like, "All right, we want you to exit tomorrow." I
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was like, "Look, man. I'm not about to exit tomorrow, bro." I said, "Look, I want the cops to come here to let y'all
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know the dumb y'all doing, but look, I ain't even did nothing." To recap, Robinson has basically said
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that he was confused why security asked him to leave, but he complied until they
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started to get physical with him. He then asked them to alert police to try and work everything out. But, as it
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turns out, this would be a huge mistake. The cop would soon turn out to be not just rude, but derogatory and insulting.
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Now, my question to you is, if they they tell you to leave the mall, you going to
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leave the mall? No, I don't want to. That's okay. Well, I understand you don't want
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to. But if they tell you, are you going to leave the mall? I'm not asking for what.
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Okay. They don't have to tell you. If they don't want you here, you're not here. Okay.
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That makes no sense. Okay. Here's the deal. Now, you're going to get argumentative with me. They won't
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put you in jail. I'll put you in jail. We cool on that. Yeah. Okay, cool. You have your ID. Let me
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just get your information. I can get their information and then we'll be up. Y'all take my information. So like
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they talking about they want to give me for criminal trespass. Yeah, they might give you a criminal
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trespass. I ain't even did. Why give me criminal trespass? What you mean? What you mean they can't?
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No. Hold up. What you mean? Okay, here's the deal. I'm going to ask you to do something. I'm going to tell
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you that I'm going to make you Let me go. Go ahead and let go ahead and let it go.
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Stop tensing up. Yes, sir. You know what? Now you're under arrest. What? Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down.
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Sit down. Sit down. Now you're under arrest for criminal trespass. After Robinson allegedly refused to hand
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over his ID, the cops decided to arrest him. At this point, they have decent reason for this. Robinson did refuse to
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leave the property when asked. And if Garcia is to be believed, he even took up an aggressive stance when he was
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asked to hand over his ID. But that's not the important part. That comes when Robinson is on the ground cuffed and
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helpless as the cops start to become more blunt and abusive. You say, "Look, give me your ID." So I
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want to give it to you. But you did. No, no, no. You took it back. What do you mean, bro?
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It's all on camera, bro. I didn't do nothing, dude. Look how old I am. You think I act
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back? I listen to all your stupid for like 5 minutes. Look, bro. Man, I said you said I said
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look I said look before I give y'all my ID can y'all tell me like why would I get a criminal trespass
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and I told you they if you're not shopping here they don't HAVE YOU ALL RIGHT LOOK AND THEY didn't even tell
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I don't even have criminal trespass you do now now you're going to jail tensing up like that just resist
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he had my own I bro I'm not your fool I'm nothing like that already all I did was ask question
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right and we asked for your ID and you refused to give it to us look I said look can y'all tell me I
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give you for disturbing peace. It's serving the peace. Yeah, this is peaceful. You don't want
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to give us your arms, man. We just The way you were raised is bull. Tell me how I'm telling you how you raised.
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Well, you got me. Yeah, you areed up. Police officers are supposed to do nothing other than protect the public
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and deescalate tense situations. But it seems that Garcia has absolutely no concern for his image whatsoever as he
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decides to take it up a notch by using slurs and acting blatantly racist. Hey, here here look this is police the
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police you how do you like that police said it right back to you I I obviously I don't on camera I'll say
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it do I look like you well I'm only 3.4% African I'm 3.4% 4% subsaharan African.
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There you go. Say it right. Put a R at the end. If you're going to say it, don't don't
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call me uh Not only did the cop just say all of that completely unapologetically. He did
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it all right after acknowledging that he's happy to do it on camera just to prove a point. But he wasn't done yet.
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Why am I doing for being y'all trying to speak? No, man. I'm just trying to get it right. I'm
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trying to get it right. My mother with you, boy. Where you want me to go, man? That way.
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Everything was going good. We had a You and I had a good rapport. Yes, we did. Man, y'all y'all didn't
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talk about kids trying to your life. I think you I think you your life up when you do that.
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I don't think you will. The verbal abuse should have been far more than enough. But once the cops got
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outside and close to their patrol cars, they decided it was also time to throw some physical abuse into the mix, too.
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Completely unwarranted. What are you doing? Stop. I'm trying to take your seat off. Just stop. Quit
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acting like you trying to take my because I have to search you. All you have to do is behave. Why can't
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you just behave, dude? Dude, you keep tensing up. You keep getting it. There you go.
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You because we got to make sure you ain't got nothing in there. If you think it's unusual that the cops
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are taking Robinson's shoes off, you'd be completely right. is being arrested for trespassing. Not a drug charge, not
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a weapons charge and nothing dangerous whatsoever. Especially when you realize that the cops didn't even search his
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shoes and forced him to walk on a hot pavement in the middle of July barefoot. Hey, bro. Can you stop harassing me?
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Dude, this all would have been over if you would have just handed me your ID. You had You pulled it out of your
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wallet. You were fixing fixing to hand it to me and then you pulled it back and you just
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didn't want to cooperate, man. You had it. You were there. All you had to do is give me your ID. Get you up.
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We're gonna stand up. Ready? Yeah. One, two, three. Hey, look. Y They're going to go with you. Watch your
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head. Watch your head. Watch your head. Robinson was brought back to jail on charges of trespassing and resisting.
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But it's what happened to the officers after the event that was so interesting and gives us a clear window into the
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corrupt insides of a police department. An investigation was of course launched into Garcia and Garcia's sergeant wrote
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that he thought a written reprimand would be the appropriate punishment. According to him, Garcia didn't use the
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word in a racist manner or directed at anyone. He simply repeated the word back to Robinson. Two lieutenants also
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reviewed the incident and they concurred with the recommendation of a letter of reprimand. Thankfully though, the deputy
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chief saw the footage and believed that the banter, escalation, and use of profanity was extremely unprofessional
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and forwarded the incident to internal affairs for a formal investigation. Eventually, the video made its way to
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the San Antonio police chief, who recommended an indefinite suspension for Garcia. He said it was by no means
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reprimandable conduct. This whole thing was as wrong as it can be. In a lastditch effort to defend himself,
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Garcia topped all his actions off with a final derogatory and insulting statement, claiming that all he did was
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use a similar language as a means of communicating his point, repeating his language back in order to speak a
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vernacular he would understand. In January of 2019, Garcia was indefinitely suspended from his role with the San
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Antonio Police