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libertyjam
07-29-2012, 01:35 PM
http://www.theluzernecountyrailroad.com/police-brutality.php
http://www.dailypaul.com/246705/video-police-brutality-worse-than-rodney-king
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj30lbc5_mI&list=UUiqRq2mT_bBPMRhHap684Ig&index=1&feature=plcp



This case involves a New York State resident operating his car just across the border from his New York home in Pennsylvania. His name is Robert Leone.

This case is worse that the Rodney King episode in many, many ways. Here are but a few:

Rodney King was involved in a high speed pursuit that involved at least 4 police cars, a helicopter, and exposed the general public to serious injuries or possible death. During this pursuit Rodney King committed innumerable traffic violations including attaining speeds approaching 100 MPH.

Other than not stopping when directed, this incident involved no serious traffic violations and was simply the low speed following of a car that would not pull over.

When finally stopped Rodney King acted in a very bizarre fashion. He did not follow police instructions to lay on the ground but rather pointed at the sky, patted the ground and was laughing and giggling while being ordered at gun point to lay on the ground. When Rodney King was finally “swarmed” by police and taken to the ground he resisted violently by kicking, punching, and flipping the arresting officers.

When finally stopped by the police Mr. Leone COULD NOT comply with the orders of the arresting officers to exit his vehicle with his hands up because one of the officers had blocked Mr. Leone’s door with his patrol car. Mr. Leone sat calmly in his driver’s seat with both hands on his steering wheel, smoking a cigarette. Mr. Leone was tasered multiple times through his sun roof even though he did not display ANY threatening behavior whatsoever. Mr. Leone was then forcibly removed through his passenger door and repeatedly beaten, kicked and tasered while not even attempting to defend himself. The Senior State Police Officer is clearly seen jumping from Mr. Leone’s car roof and intentionally stomping Mr. Leone with both of his feet and all of his weight while Mr. Leone is face down on the ground.

There has never been the claim that Rodney King was ever beaten by police AFTER he was taken into custody.

Mr. Leone was repeatedly beaten by out-of-control State Troopers before and after he was handcuffed and also after he was hog tied. Numerous non-authorized maneuvers were used against Mr. Leone by the arresting Officers including the punching in his face with a closed fist by one of the Troopers. This punch caused the Trooper to break his own hand on Mr. Leone’s face. Mr. Leone was subsequently charged with a felony charge of Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer for using his face to break the Troopers hand (I am not kidding).

There has been a high level cover up of this entire matter by the Pennsylvania State Police Office of Integrity and Professional Standards as well as the Prosecuting District Attorney of Bradford County Pennsylvania. The Judge who heard this case also appears to have a great deal of culpability as demonstrated by some very biased rulings during Mr. Leone’s trial as well as some other very questionable business connections within Bradford County. More on this will follow.
Please watch the entire video and then pass it along to everyone and anyone you know.
The FBI, US Attorney’s Office, and the Justice Department in Washington, DC all have copies of this documentary. But for the grace of God this could have been any one of our family members. I especially shudder to think about how we have instructed our spouses, children or grandchildren to never be pulled over by a police officer in an unlit or unpopulated area but rather to continue on to a well-lit gas station or parking lot. Exposure is our key to the correction of this atrocity.
Media contact information
Author of this documentary:
Larry Hohol
About Larry Hohol
larryhohol@live.com
Websites:

www.TheLuzerneCountyRailroad.com

www.LarryHohol.com

www.WorseThanRodneyKing.com
Phone:

(386) 530-3911
As a courtesy to the family I am available for interview as a family spokesman and can also arrange interviews of Robert Leone’s parents.
Robert is still incarcerated.

green73
07-29-2012, 02:20 PM
Just horrific.

cajuncocoa
07-29-2012, 02:48 PM
That was extremely hard to watch and listen to. God bless that young man.

kathy88
07-29-2012, 03:19 PM
This is local news for me. People are getting organized. Nice to see.

cajuncocoa
07-29-2012, 03:23 PM
This is local news for me. People are getting organized. Nice to see.Maybe you can answer a question (actually something my husband was wondering about after I told him the story). Here's a quote from a news article (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57467640-504083/pa-man-robert-leone-suing-state-police-for-alleged-brutality-during-arrest/) on the story:




Leone was convicted of four charges stemming from the incident, including assaulting a police officer, and is imprisoned in the Bradford County Correctional Facility. Bradford County District Attorney Dan Barrett said Leone had abusive levels of the stimulant drug Adderall in his system at the time of his arrest.


With the video showing that he clearly did NOT assault these police officers, on what evidence did they convict him? Why is he still in prison?

I'm also wondering why they pulled him over in the first place. (Not that it justifies the beating at all...it does not, but I'm curious)

donnay
07-29-2012, 03:31 PM
This is an absolute horrendous story--I do not care what he did or didn't do, the cops have no right, whatsoever, to beat a man down like this. These cops should ALL be behind bars today!!

cajuncocoa
07-29-2012, 03:33 PM
This is an absolute horrendous story--I do not care what he did or didn't do, the cops have no right, whatsoever, to beat a man down like this. These cops should ALL be behind bars today!!Just to clarify, I agree. I just wonder if they fabricated some evidence in order to lock him up.

donnay
07-29-2012, 03:37 PM
Just to clarify, I agree. I just wonder if they fabricated some evidence in order to lock him up.

I'm sorry I was not talking about what you said, it just made me mad that the cops can do this and get away with it. Even if he had a smoking gun in his hand, and standing over a dead body he has his right to his day in court, not to have the cops be--judge, jury and executioners!

cajuncocoa
07-29-2012, 03:45 PM
I'm sorry I was not talking about what you said, it just made me mad that the cops can do this and get away with it. Even if he had a smoking gun in his hand, and standing over a dead body he has his right to his day in court, not to have the cops be--judge, jury and executioners!No problem, donnay...I didn't take your comment personally. I knew what you meant, and I completely agree with you. NOTHING justifies what they did.

The police have one duty: to make an arrest of a suspect. Once he was subdued (immediately in his case, because he never fought back!) their obligation was to cuff him, put him in the back of the squad car, take him downtown and let the court system take over.

kathy88
07-29-2012, 03:48 PM
Bradford County is uber rural, their news comes either from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton or Elmira New York. I did my own research when I first heard about it, and found these articles most helpful.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57467640-504083/pa-man-robert-leone-suing-state-police-for-alleged-brutality-during-arrest/


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/robert-leone_n_1651829.html

http://www.wetmtv.com/news/local/story/Protesters-Call-for-Justice-for-Robert-Leone/Oo19FMWxzEahW0uU4BoCIw.cspx

Austrian Econ Disciple
07-29-2012, 03:49 PM
Solzhenitsyn.

cajuncocoa
07-29-2012, 03:58 PM
Bradford County is uber rural, their news comes either from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton or Elmira New York. I did my own research when I first heard about it, and found these articles most helpful.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57467640-504083/pa-man-robert-leone-suing-state-police-for-alleged-brutality-during-arrest/


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/robert-leone_n_1651829.html

http://www.wetmtv.com/news/local/story/Protesters-Call-for-Justice-for-Robert-Leone/Oo19FMWxzEahW0uU4BoCIw.cspxThanks!

heavenlyboy34
07-29-2012, 04:06 PM
Solzhenitsyn.
Indeed. :(

PaulConventionWV
07-29-2012, 05:59 PM
http://www.theluzernecountyrailroad.com/police-brutality.php
http://www.dailypaul.com/246705/video-police-brutality-worse-than-rodney-king
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj30lbc5_mI&list=UUiqRq2mT_bBPMRhHap684Ig&index=1&feature=plcp

The same thing would probably happen to me if I took the article's advice and went to a well-lit location to be pulled over. I would have to travel about 10 miles to get there most of the time.