Houston police got caught beating down 16-year-old robbery suspect Chad Holley last March, and now a Houston television station is letting the world see just how bad the beating was.
A fleeing Holley is shown running from officers and then falling, after being clipped by a Houston police car.
While lying face down, officers are shown surrounding Holley. After a few seconds, things get interesting when one officer delivered several kicks to Holly's head and another punched him in the side before stomping the back of Holley's legs.
After the beating, the teen is led off to a waiting police cruiser.
Too bad no audio is provided, because it might've helped explain why the cops took such a violent tact in subduing Holley.
If Holley was mouthing off and otherwise making himself a pain in the neck when the handcuffs were being put on, I, and the public, could at least understand a little better why the situation spun out of control.
And it's true that Holley wouldn't have gotten beaten up in the first place if he and his three friends hadn't been robbing a local home.
But let's be clear: Nothing Holley might have said or done after he was surrounded could justify the cops' reaction. The police officer's actions were egregiously unprofessional, and the Houston police department should be ashamed by this incident.
Thankfully, the justice system actually seemed to work in the case of Chad Holley's beating: The four officers shown punching and kicking Holley were indicted on misdemeanor charges and fired; three other officers were fired without being charged and the remaining officers received suspensions, according to the Houston Chronicle.
In addition, city officials tried to block the release of the video but failed.
And now, with this video evidence, police in Houston and around the country can see how =many police officers hand out justice in poor communities.
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Channel 13 used freedom of the press. We are free only when wrongdoing of officials are reported. Thank you Channel 13 and BV for protecting the rights of this white/native American; Poor folk women. I also protect a few of the rights of the poor who find themselves homeless/heatless/ & foodless in Maine.
While I amnot black I serve the Blacks as well as the whites. In Maine non whites make up 95% which means I should get only one to three call from a black family or person a year.I have more than the average just in calls where I am told the caller is black. A black voice and a white voice usaually sound the same to this none biased ear.
It's ashame but I am becoming so immune to police brutality. Every since Rodney King...you would think things would have CHANGED by now but they have NOT! It's obvious it is not and we will ALWAYS get our @ss kick by the police!
Thank you channel 13, this is never acceptable. The federal government needs to prosecute these men/officers for civil rights violations, etc. If their is a march, I will be there with my banner. Oprah needs to show this video, so that true justice can be reached. You want us to be heartbroken and horrified when an officer is killed; you should feel the same for regular people when bad officers do things such as this. I won't cry a tear for an officer, is they are allowed to do acts like this without harsh punishment. It would be seen as karma. An eye for an eye.
Democracy, American Style! In your face, government sanction terrorism!
"If Holley was mouthing off"
...once again, Paul Shepard exhibits the vapid, repugnancy of his thinking! After being rammed by the pigs 6,000lb vehicle, the adolescent tumbled to the ground and immediately, stretched forth both his hands and put them behind his head!...no words could have possibly been exchanged in those few seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Needless to say, that wasn't good enough for Puss Shepard!
The nerve of this lesbian mayor! Trampling all over the First Amendment of the Constitution, trying to silence the media! See how these perverts act as soon as they become empowered???? She didn't want the world to see this homosexual bastion of America's fascist controlled police terrorist organizations!-freshly trained -Straight from Abu Garib, and other dungeons of torture, and special operations the U.S. military and the CIA operates!
I hope with the help of this Black community activist, Chad Holley parents will sue the perverted Mayor, that backstabbing sellout police chief, and the D.A.,for every dime they got!!!!!!!, and then sue the racist city of Houston enough to teeter on the brink of bankrupcy! Maybe it will wake up their dead city against rogue pigs, and government sanctioned coverups!!!!!!!!!
Well said we here in Canada are going thru some of the same here has north America turned into a police state we gave them the power now its time to take it back,police that we the citizens hire & pay to protect US have way to much power & get away with this kind of stuff with a slap On the hand so much for a civilized world,Even if this guy no matter what his age commited a crime thats up to the courts to deal with him no one desevers to have their rights stomped on like this
He is lucky he was caught by the police... because if I would have caught him breaking into my home I would have killed him. The police, by giving him this beating, were trying to teach him a lesson he would not forget. The next time he might not be so lucky. He might have to deal with some one like me. Not the police.
I pity any black person - door to door salesman or milkman or postal worker that knocks on your door cause you're itching to shoot dead a black man - cause you're a sick twisted coward. You're a complete zero without your gun.
@jamesfnbond: How cruel of u 2 even say something as stupid & silly as that. Ok, I know you've got 2 be white, right? I thought so. This is black voices, not racist white ppl voices. To say that the police was trying to teach that young man a lesson. That is just totally outragious. I bet if that was yo mama u wouldn't be saying that. That was just plain ignorant of you. Why is it that when the parents whip there kids it's child abuse. But when the police do it it's a ok. It's justified. they don't want the parents to do it, but yet when the police get ahold of them they'll bet the living daylights out them or worse. When the parents whip, spank, beat, or whatever you wanna call it, there doing it out of love. When the cops do it, it's out anger and sometimes hate. Now what kind of stuff is that. What a cruel and unusual world we live in. They all shouldv'e been FIRED. Even the ones who were just standing there doing nothing. That was very unneccesary. I sure hope like heck that that young mans parents sue the mess out of that police dept. I sure would.
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By: Jan of Maine on 2/03/2011 4:57PM
Channel 13 used freedom of the press. We are free only when wrongdoing of officials are reported. Thank you Channel 13 and BV for protecting the rights of this white/native American; Poor folk women. I also protect a few of the rights of the poor who find themselves homeless/heatless/
& foodless in Maine.
While I amnot black I serve the Blacks as well as the whites. In Maine non whites make up 95% which means I should get only one to three call from a black family or person a year.I have more than the average just in calls where I am told the caller is black. A black voice and a white voice usaually sound the same to this none biased ear.
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By: Jamel on 2/03/2011 6:02PM
Thank you for your self-less service Jan. More Americans should follow your lead.
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By: ARNEADER on 2/04/2011 3:37PM
It's ashame but I am becoming so immune to police brutality. Every since Rodney King...you would think things would have CHANGED by now but they have NOT! It's obvious it is not and we will ALWAYS get our @ss kick by the police!
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By: john1 on 2/04/2011 5:27PM
Thank you channel 13, this is never acceptable. The federal government needs to prosecute these men/officers for civil rights violations, etc. If their is a march, I will be there with my banner. Oprah needs to show this video, so that true justice can be reached. You want us to be heartbroken and horrified when an officer is killed; you should feel the same for regular people when bad officers do things such as this. I won't cry a tear for an officer, is they are allowed to do acts like this without harsh punishment. It would be seen as karma. An eye for an eye.
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By: bugs hunter on 2/03/2011 6:37PM
Democracy, American Style!
In your face, government sanction terrorism!
"If Holley was mouthing off"
...once again, Paul Shepard exhibits the vapid, repugnancy of his thinking!
After being rammed by the pigs 6,000lb vehicle, the adolescent tumbled to the ground and immediately, stretched forth both his hands and put them behind his head!...no words could have possibly been exchanged in those few seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Needless to say, that wasn't good enough for Puss Shepard!
The nerve of this lesbian mayor! Trampling all over the First Amendment of the Constitution, trying to silence the media! See how these perverts act as soon as they become empowered???? She didn't want the world to see this homosexual bastion of America's fascist controlled police terrorist organizations!-freshly trained -Straight from Abu Garib, and other dungeons of torture, and special operations the U.S. military and the CIA operates!
I hope with the help of this Black community activist, Chad Holley parents will sue the perverted Mayor, that backstabbing sellout police chief, and the D.A.,for every dime they got!!!!!!!, and then sue the racist city of Houston enough to teeter on the brink of bankrupcy! Maybe it will wake up their dead city against rogue pigs, and government sanctioned coverups!!!!!!!!!
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By: Richard on 2/04/2011 11:54AM
Well said we here in Canada are going thru some of the same here has north America turned into a police state we gave them the power now its time to take it back,police that we the citizens hire & pay to protect US have way to much power & get away with this kind of stuff with a slap On the hand so much for a civilized world,Even if this guy no matter what his age commited a crime thats up to the courts to deal with him no one desevers to have their rights stomped on like this
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By: lvalentine on 2/04/2011 12:53PM
Thanks for speaking the truth and not caring if it isn't "politically correct" or not.
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By: jamesfnbond on 2/03/2011 7:43PM
He is lucky he was caught by the police... because if I would have caught him breaking into my home I would have killed him. The police, by giving him this beating, were trying to teach him a lesson he would not forget. The next time he might not be so lucky. He might have to deal with some one like me. Not the police.
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By: Michael on 2/03/2011 8:13PM
I pity any black person - door to door salesman or milkman or postal worker that knocks on your door cause you're itching to shoot dead a black man - cause you're a sick twisted coward. You're a complete zero without your gun.
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By: HONEY CHIL on 2/04/2011 2:35AM
@jamesfnbond: How cruel of u 2 even say something as stupid & silly as that. Ok, I know you've got 2 be white, right? I thought so. This is black voices, not racist white ppl voices. To say that the police was trying to teach that young man a lesson. That is just totally outragious. I bet if that was yo mama u wouldn't be saying that. That was just plain ignorant of you. Why is it that when the parents whip there kids it's child abuse. But when the police do it it's a ok. It's justified. they don't want the parents to do it, but yet when the police get ahold of them they'll bet the living daylights out them or worse. When the parents whip, spank, beat, or whatever you wanna call it, there doing it out of love. When the cops do it, it's out anger and sometimes hate. Now what kind of stuff is that. What a cruel and unusual world we live in. They all shouldv'e been FIRED. Even the ones who were just standing there doing nothing. That was very unneccesary. I sure hope like heck that that young mans parents sue the mess out of that police dept. I sure would.
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