Astro's arrest leads to Galveston PD internal probe
Link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6044243.html
Witnesses described dozens of police storming a shocked and unresisting wedding party, shouting profanity and roughly shoving men and women. Michael McMillan, 36, of Houston, said he and Backe walked up to see what the commotion was about and saw O'Balle on the ground bleeding, being shocked with a Taser and handcuffed. Police began shouting at them to back up and they complied, he said. After they backed up as far as they could, McMillan said, officers continued shouting, "and Brandon Backe said, 'Sir, be cool, we're backed up as far as we can go.'" As soon as Backe spoke, several officers wrestled him to the ground, punching him as he went down, McMillan said. "A police officer kicks him right in the face," he said. Backe never used profanity, insults or resisted the officers, McMillan said. McMillan said he moved away and began walking down the hill with his wife when an officer ran at him and struck him with an elbow, knocking him to the ground. Several officers piled on and one put a foot in his back, he said. He was put in a police car with Backe, he said. When they complained about their handcuffs being painfully tight, officers increased the pain by cornering at high speeds and forcing them to slide along the seat, he said. He said officers laughed as they cried out in pain. Describing the experience, McMillan said, "You will feel the most helpless, humiliated, betrayed, that you will ever feel." Chris Cornwell, 26, of Galveston, said police threw him to the ground when he asked them to stop shoving his pregnant wife. An officer put his foot on Cornwell's head until he stopped talking, he said. Matt Goodson, 26, of Galveston, said he was taken down next to Cornwell. One of the officers picked up his head and pepper-sprayed him in the face for no reason, he said. Video showing the brutal and senseless taser torture of the wedding guests. The compliant father of the bride lays prone on the floor screaming in agony as the Texas police officers stand over him tasering him again and again. As He writhes in terrible pain from the electro torture one police officer puts a foot on his spine.
n we are hearing about this case is because Brandon Backe is a famous baseball player. Every year in America some 460 innocent men and women are shot, tasered, beaten, and abused to death, die accidentally, or die from unknown causes while in police custody. Every day in America innocent people are brutalized, stripped naked, tortured, and beaten by the police. America’s government and prison system do not recognize the Geneva Conventions. America’s version of freedom and democracy resembles tyranny and police state.
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