SeanTX
04-07-2014, 05:38 PM
and, you can guess the rest. Article leaves out that he's been charged with resisting arrest and assaulting an officer.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/07/it-made-me-sick-video-captures-police-repeatedly-striking-mentally-ill-man-in-violent-encounter/#comment-7156335
‘It Made Me Sick’: Video Captures Police Repeatedly Striking Mentally Ill Man in Violent Encounter
Apr. 7, 2014 6:30pm Oliver Darcy
A video that shows two Missouri police officers beating a man believed to be mentally ill has sparked a police investigation.
According to St. Louis Public Radio, Mario Crump’s family had called police for assistance on March 21 after they say he began acting erratically.
Footage shows officers striking the man and telling him to put his “motherf***ing” hands behind his back. The individual, who appeared to initially resist the instructions in the video, appears to eventually comply.
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Mike Keller, the executive director of a center for individuals with mental illness, told the St. Loius Post-Dispatch that Crump ultimately suffered two broken hands, six broken fingers and a head wound that required five staples to close.
“I looked at it and it made me sick,” he said, upon seeing the video.
St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson said he is determined to get to the bottom of the incident.
Both officers had reportedly taken courses teaching them how to interact with the mentally ill.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/07/it-made-me-sick-video-captures-police-repeatedly-striking-mentally-ill-man-in-violent-encounter/#comment-7156335
‘It Made Me Sick’: Video Captures Police Repeatedly Striking Mentally Ill Man in Violent Encounter
Apr. 7, 2014 6:30pm Oliver Darcy
A video that shows two Missouri police officers beating a man believed to be mentally ill has sparked a police investigation.
According to St. Louis Public Radio, Mario Crump’s family had called police for assistance on March 21 after they say he began acting erratically.
Footage shows officers striking the man and telling him to put his “motherf***ing” hands behind his back. The individual, who appeared to initially resist the instructions in the video, appears to eventually comply.
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Mike Keller, the executive director of a center for individuals with mental illness, told the St. Loius Post-Dispatch that Crump ultimately suffered two broken hands, six broken fingers and a head wound that required five staples to close.
“I looked at it and it made me sick,” he said, upon seeing the video.
St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson said he is determined to get to the bottom of the incident.
Both officers had reportedly taken courses teaching them how to interact with the mentally ill.
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