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Two cops fired over horrific video which shows them beating up suspect - then CELEBRATINGBy Daniel BatesThe Daily Mail Nov. 17, 2011 |
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 Two cops have been fired after being filmed brutally beating a suspect then doing a celebratory chest bump. The shocking footage shows the officers holding the man down, punching him and kicking him in the head more than a dozen times. As he lies motionless on the concrete the officers move away - and bump each other in the sick celebration. Suspect Nicholas Blume had only been stopped for a traffic violation at the time in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he was beaten up. [...] In an apparent attempt to cover his tracks, Doyle later wrote in his notebook that he was afraid Blume had a gun on him and needed to be restrained. The footage was only released after a Freedom of Information request by the Albuquerque Journal - but the first version did not include the chest bump. Instead it finished after the kicking and did not show the end, where the cops congratulate each other. Read More |
