Police Caught on Video Beating Two Brothers for What Appears to be No Reason
by Dr Boyce Watkins
A police department in Tukwila, Washington is under fire after an incident that appears to represent serious police brutality. The complaint charges that officers used unnecessary force against two brothers that they’d taken into custody. They were not only allegedly beaten, but then refused much-needed medical attention.
The incident involves two brothers, Charles Chappelle and Jahmez Amili. They’d been drinking and were walking down the street, when a police officer pulled up next to them. Police say that the men appeared to be behave erratically, which led them to throw them to the ground.
“I didn’t have an idea it was going on,” Amili said. “I couldn’t believe he just started punching me.
Chappelle was even seen with his arms in the air before being tackled and punched.
“I had my hands raised in the air, I was complying with the officer’s demands. I was pinned to the ground. I was getting hit continually.”
Both men were pepper sprayed, and when they were picked up, they both had blood pouring from their faces.
“I was just trying to make sure I stay alive, ’cause I was really, like, feeling like I was about to die ’cause I couldn’t breathe at all,” Amili said.
Perhaps they should go ahead and file that lawsuit. Someone might need to go to jail over this one.
One of the most interesting things about police brutality is that there has been a long understanding among some officers that they have the right to maintain a police state, and to keep control with whatever force they choose to use. I’ve seen good, law-abiding citizens faced with criminal charges after simply asking an officer a question or pulling their arm from an officer in order to understand why they are being detained.
It should not be expected that police can ruin the lives of citizens over situations that are otherwise negligible. Police should not be bullies or gang members, they are supposed to be here to protect us. The fact that these officers tried to conceal what they’d done by not taking the men to the hospital serves as damning evidence that they knew they’d broken the law. They both need to go to prison.
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Dr Boyce Watkins is a Professor at Syracuse University and founder of YourBlackWorld.net. He also stars in the Janks Morton film, “Hoodwinked,” with Steve Perry, Marc Lamont Hill and Jawanza Kunjufu. To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here.
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Some and I do mean some, police officers have short tempers and as soon as the fuse it lit they take advantage of situations knowing that they will get away with it. There is a need for more training and the training should be intense. Those two officers need to be investigated by the FBI and then if found guilty should be fired and then go to prison.
In KY I experienced an officer (female) that if she thought she could get away with it would be capable of stupid acts. She is really not qualified to be on the force and eventually her spots will show.
I do hope for those two brother justice will be served for the sake of human beings in the US.
When they took the job they were TRAINED! Y’all to d**n easy on these racist pigs! They beat those brothers because they were BLACK…plain and simple.
I get tired of people talking about more training! Do y’all ever hear or see them beat caucasoids, like they beat us? Do y’all ever hear or see them KILL or shoot their own kind? These dirty pigs are klanners with blue uniforms, and they don’t give a d**n bout us because they have ‘license’ to kill us, AND GET AWAY WITH IT. The court system is corrupt, so the only outlet we have is to do unto them, like they do unto us. The only thang these dirty pig bastards OVERstand is violence.
I GUARANTEE y’all, if these so-called gangsters in our neighborhoods would start shooting down these pigs, like they shoot down their own kind, this s**t would come to a halt!
But, these negroids too scared to shoot a cracker because they know they will die. If they’re so much of a man and a gangster, a REAL gangster ain’t scared to die! THESE LITTLE b*****s in our hood ain’t got the heart to blow away a racist pig!!!
I keep telling y’all this is just the beginning. Another pig story will be in the news in a few days, so all this talking and gonna solve a d**n thang until we ORGANIZE and UNITE! We need our own ‘secret service’ to take care of these faggit a*s pigs. When one of them is blown away by our ‘secret service’ men; we should keep it a SECRET! But, you have bootlickin’ snitches, who’ll run to the pigs and blow away our game, if we had our own army to put a halt to these murderers.
During the movement we were beaten with billy clubs, because back in the day, the Black Panthers would blow one of them b*****d pigs away like a bubble, if they shot one of us.
WE MUST PUT JUSTICE IN OUR OWN HANDS OR THIS SHYT WILL CONTINUE FOREVER!
These cops need to go to prison for a very long time. The majority of cops are unprofessional and egotistical maniacs. If and when this case goes to trial if their are any black jurors on this case make sure that you send a clear message to these racist cops that this behavior will not be tolerated from them by sending those responsible to prison and make the Police department pay dearly hit them in their pockets.
Convict those cops of, Abuse of Power in the first degree.
This state Hates you Blackman! Whitewomen are all over any Blackman they see! So these Whiteboys are p****d,so play at your own risk!
THE COPS NEED THERE a*s WHIPPED GOOD. THE BEHAVIOR BY OFFICIER ARE OUT OF CONTROL IN THE MAJORITY OF THE CASES.
THEY ARE REAL COWARDS WHEN THEY DON’T HAVE THE GUN AND BADGE.
ANGORILLA6
This is outrageous!. We see this happeing everyday and yet are powerless to do anything….or so it seems I guess….these freakin bullies with freakin badges need a freakin reality check..this is getting old and I for one am tired of it…….
THEY’RE JEALOUS OF YOU
“They don’t really hate us, what it is -they are jealous of YOU. They are angry with you because they are not YOU. And it really makes them hostile. So their envy of concerns will come across to you as hatred, when really they are just mad as
h**l cause they aint YOU.
And at the end of the day they have you thinking you’re inferior and they are superior and this, that, and the other. But if my people are inferior, and brothers in particular, they lead
you guys to believe that you are the least thing that anybody should try to be on Earth. But everywhere you go everybody tries to be just like you.
I don’t care what brothers start doin, they want to walk like you, play your music, they want to dance like you, rap like you, low ride like you do, if you turn your hats this way they turn their hats, if you start jive walking they start jive walking.
Whatever brothers are doing… Asians, Chinese, Japanese,
Koreans, Vietnamese, Spanish, white, I don’t care who they are, everybody is mocking you or copying you. Why? Because they want to be you. If you are an inferior creature, what oddity but a total r****d would run around and try to rock and emulate or mimic something inferior to them?” -Dr. Yaffa Bey
THEY DON’T HATE US BECAUSE WE ARE BLACK; THEY HATE THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY ARE PALE!!!!
What did Johnnie Cochran say before he got the legendary Geronimo Jejaba(Pratt) out of prison after 20 years unjustly? He said ” the criminal justice system is a card deck and the house has the trump card. I(Cochran) learned how to pull it.”That is why they hated him. He got a lot of brothas out of trouble that the white lawyers wouldn’t have gave a d**n about. My mom tells me all the time how prejudice a lot of judges are( Chicago is the place of the Infamous “Greylord Scandal” in the early eighties and we know how much Al Capone had them all in his back pocket). These pigs are a bunch of rednecks from the rural parts of the states( I know this from doing counseling work in the prisons) and ” frankly my dear, they just don;t give a d**n” because they know its your word against theirs, and who belives black folks? Ptah Ra!!
Correction-don’t
And Derrick you are right, the Jews have their own court for their people(Talmundic Law) and the People of Indios( Indians) in certain area like Alaska have their own court. We need that too like yesterday. Hotep