It was a leg sweep not a body slam. He was not cuffed until after he went down. He was resisting arrest. Police should sue this site and every other media who is reporting misinformation for libel.

Huh…wow. So, it turns out white folks steal stuff.

AMERICA… FUCK YEAH!

Animal Farm

What appalls me the most about this video is the cops continuing to cuff him. The very moment he became unconscious and began bleeding they should have started administering first aid. A blow to the head against the floor like that, so severe as to knock him out, can cause serious bleeding in the brain, concussion, or could have even broken his neck. This was completely unnecessary force for something as trivial as a man “potentially” shoplifting a video game.

Okay, now post one where they don't fuck up. Wait, that wouldn't be fun to flame… Down with the police! Anarchy for everyone!

you know what, you can make the “good cops, bad cops” argument until the cows come home, but I am absolutely done defending the police when shit like this is so commonplace. This kind of behavior is INEXCUSABLE. Yeah, there are good individuals, whatever, I'm not accepting that as a defense for an ORGANIZATION that so frequently resorts to UNNECESSARY BRUTALITY against the people it is employed to PROTECT. I mean, these officers were so incompetent it took a civilian to step in and save this man's life after they so recklessly endangered it. How messed up is that?

Prison and police form a twin mechanism; together they assure in the whole field of illegalities the differentiation, isolation, and use of delinquency. In the illegalities, the police-prison system segments a manipulable delinquency. This delinquency, with specificity, is the result of the system; but it also becomes a part and an instrument of it. So that one should speak of an ensemble of whose three terms (police-prison-delinquency) support one another and form a circuit that is never interrupted. Police surveillance provides the prison with offenders, which the prison transforms into delinquents, the targets and auxiliaries of police supervisions, which regularly send back a certain number of them to prison. And far from being mere administrative bodies that enforce the law, kept the peace and served the public, police departments are policy-making agencies that help to decide which laws are enforced, whose peace is kept, and which public is served.

sick sad world

USA has been a Police State for 10 years now, and americans don't even see it.

From the Youtube description: Man put two games under his shirt because his grandson got knocked down and hurt in the rush and he needed his hands to help his grandson. A cop saw and immediately arrested him for shoplifting. The man was cooperating while the cop was putting on the handcuffs. The cop out of no where tripped the man and bashed his head nose first into the ground knocking him out and there is blood everywhere. The cop did not know how to care for the man so someone that was there shopping had to help get blood out the mans airways. This was a K-9 cop already in a bad mood before this happened. “I got the walmart shift” The video starts after he is already knocked out.

What is up with the sandals and socks!

Regardless of what happened here and what you see in the news, there are bad and good cops. Who knows of he was being violent or they were? I've seen and known some good cops and I've seen some bad ones too. They're humans just like the rest of us. That means they're going to do the same things that other people do. They could get power trips, or just the opposite. It all depends on the individual.

Jostle his neck a bit more.

Based on this video alone, you can't fault the officers for their actions. We have NO IDEA what happened leading up to this. Furthermore, they were rightfully arresting a shoplifter.

SOLUTION: don't shoplift.

complied?  You know there is a high probability that there is video in the store. And if they did slam a “compliant” suspect, the local news would love to show that. And they'd rush to get it if the story was true. So if anybody sees the video on the local news, it would be great to post it here. I, for one, would love to see his level of compliance. Sorry, but when I see a video start after the action has occurred my bullshit alarms go off. And if you blindly accept information like that, then you either have an agenda, or you are gullible.

this is fucked up..what happened to protect and serve?

pigs gonna pig