By Carlos Miller
After tazing a suspect into submission, Florida City police officer Auris Leza looked around as if to see who was watching, then plowed his knee at least two times into the suspect’s back, who was already lying motionless on the ground.
At least that how it looks on the video shot by a witness.
According to the witness:
“He looked around. He looked up and obviously thought no one was looking, then he just grabbed the kid. I saw his hands were behind. He was already in a submissive position. And he just got down and just kneed him, probably two or three times,” said the witness, who did not want to be identified.
The witness turned the video over to Local 10, who showed it to Internal Affairs Officer Jermaine Brodie.
Local 10 asked if the man was not resisting arrest, would that mean the officer acted against department policy?
“Yeah, if there was no need to put any force down due to the subject cooperating and not resisting,” Brodie said.
The suspect was charged with battery on a police officer, even though that part wasn’t caught on video.
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1 George Donnelly // May 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Wow. When will this idiocy end. Thanks for covering this.
2 ClintJCL // May 10, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Let’s see: Douchebag tries to run into a concert. Douchebag gets stopped by police, and tased.
But then the cop becomes the douchebag, looking around to make sure nobody is watching, and kneeing the suspect — shown in the video already laying on the ground — multiple times.
Of course, internal affairs “doesn’t even know which officer this is” (it’s officer Auris Leza, according to the article), but plans an investigation.
But what will ultimately happen to douchebag Auris Leza here? Will internal affairs officer Jermaine Brodie find what he did to be okay?
Remember in the 80s when they would only blur people’s faces who were afraid of criminal retribution? Nowadays, people are having their faces blurred because they are scared of the police. A testament of the times.
And the guy who was kneed while down? Charged with assaulting an officer, of course!
3 ClintJCL // May 10, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Anyway, I would love to hear how this ultimately turns out.
4 Jay // May 10, 2009 at 6:21 PM
The hell with department policy here. How about the law? Looks pretty cut and dry here: the “officer” gets FIRED, not suspended or censured, and charged with multiple counts: abuse of authority under color of law, assault and battery…how about impersonating a law enforcement official since this “officer” was only acting as a thug.
5 Kol.Klink // May 10, 2009 at 7:36 PM
The officer will be suspended with pay for 2 days, max. lol
Why?
Because he’s an “only one” – this time the only ones internally investigated enough.
All the rest of us must obey laws, of course.
6 Anton Lee // May 10, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I got money that the police find that the incident was “proper” and “according to the law”
7 Vidiot // May 11, 2009 at 12:26 AM
I think that whenever I’m within fifty feet of an officer, I should constantly yell “I am not resisting!” over and over again.
Actually, since that might include plainclothes officers, I should just repeat it constantly whenever I’m outside my apartment.
8 genewitch // May 11, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Vidiot: if this sort of thing isn’t put in check soon, we all might have to do that as part of being a citizen.
9 Miamian // May 14, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Why don’t they play the whole tape? The suspect struck a police officer, this is by the suspect’s own admission.
Many things could have happened before and after the clip that is being played.
10 Rusty Carr // Apr 22, 2010 at 1:46 PM
Miamian wrote: “Why don’t they play the whole tape? The suspect struck a police officer, this is by the suspect’s own admission.”
Look Miamian, if the guy had kicked the officer in the gonads, spit in his face and called his mother a whore, the cop is STILL expected to maintain professionalism. The same principle applies to you or I if we are attacked by a thug on the street. If the thug breaks off the attack and starts to leave then we cannot go after him and retaliate, at that point we become the criminal. And when an officer has a suspect cuffed and/or face down on the sidewalk then he becomes a criminal when he assaults the suspect. This ain’t rocket science.
11 Dodge Ball // Apr 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Once a subject is in the control of an officer (which the kid apparently was) and is subjected to any unwarranted physical contact or force, that officer is subject to a civil rights violation investigation. If it can be proven that this is the case, this embarassment to the profession should be drawn and quartered in federal court.
12 Dodge Ball // Apr 22, 2010 at 2:34 PM
Not only a color of the law violation, but official misconduct as well. The s.o.b. deserves an eight digit i.d. number.
13 Dodge Ball // Apr 22, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Let’s just hope that it goes beyond the police. I think it will.
14 Dodge Ball // Apr 22, 2010 at 2:38 PM
Hello, Miamian. It doesn’t matter. The cop should be charged with violating U.S.C. Do you know what that is, dummy?
15 Dodge Ball // Apr 22, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Miamian obviously doesn’t work for NASA or the JPL. That kind of self-made barristering or lawman type of thinking is a little unsettling. Jeez.
16 Dodge Ball // Apr 22, 2010 at 2:47 PM
But entertaining!!!!! I love it when they leave their lone position in their village and try to bumble their way into normal logic.
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