VIDEO: Gang Of 14 Cops Take Down One-Legged Homeless Man 'Armed' With Crutches

by M. David and Reagan Ali
Counter Current News
Aug. 19, 2015

Police in San Francisco were recently caught swarming a homeless African American man, who only had one leg. The man’s only “weapon”? His set of crutches.

Author Chaédria LaBouvier says that she witnessed 14 San Francisco police officers attacking the homeless man, right outside Twitter headquarters (video below).

LaBouvier explains in a column for Medium, that the incident was filmed on August 4th when she was at the Twitter headquarters for a visit.

She asked witnesses what was going on, and was told that officers had been called because of reports that the man was waving "sticks," around. But it turned out these “sticks” were simply his “crutches.”

As she hits record on the video, we see the homeless man buried under a pile of cops who are abusing him.

The man is clearly wearing a prosthetic leg. LaBouvier notes that, "it is often twisted and backwards in the video. An officer can be seen at the 5 second time-mark stomping on the man's prosthetic leg. In further efforts to subdue a man already on the ground with four people on top of him, they stood on his leg, held it, and twisted it around even after they had cuffed him and pinned him to the piss-stained concrete."

"These incidents are so quotidian, so mundane, that they do not merit a mention in even passing on the local news. Which is to say, this is everyday harassment," she continued, adding that, "yes, it's racial profiling. Yes, it's racism. Yes, it's inequality. This is an American heritage."

LaBouvier notes that no one at the Twitter HQ came out to object to the obvious and overt physical abuse of the man with disabilities.

"This happened in the heart of one of America's most affluent cities, literally outside the headquarters of Twitter. One block away are the headquarters of Uber, which is on pace to be the fastest-growing company in history," she explained. "And not to my knowledge, did any of their employees or representatives come out to look at what the police were doing."

"Perhaps they were looking from their lofts and skyscrapers, on their way to the coffee machines or the in-house catered lunch and did see, but they too have normalized this mundane, quotidian and brutal American heritage. Whatever the internal struggles were, no one came."

Watch the disturbing video of this incident below…














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