Cop Assaults Cameraman For Filming Him - Mitchell Crooks, Officer Derek Colling - April 2011

Las Vegas, Nevada -- The Clark County District Attorney's Office has dropped all charges against Mitchell Crooks, the professional videographer who was attacked on his own front lawn by Officer Derek Colling on March 20, 2011. Notice that Colling did not even establish if Crooks was truly trespassing, a necessary precursor to arresting Crooks, much less physically attacking him. Note also that Crooks did identify himself as the property owner immediately BEFORE Collings charged him. The Metropolitan Police Department has opened an internal investigation into the incident which will most likely be deemed unfounded, as nearly all valid complaints about police corruption are. In 2009, Colling fatally shot a 15-year-old bipolar boy in the head under questionable circumstances. Colling also shot and killed a man at a gas station, another controversial incident involving deadly force. In addition, Collings has been the recipient of dozens of other brutality complaints. How many more people will this animal be allowed to kill and permanently injure before he gets fired? Crooks is disliked by cops because he videotaped two white cops beating a 16-year-old black boy in 2002, which led to the cops being criminally charged. Police officers are allegedly trained to avoid escalating situations, but Colling clearly provoked Crooks in this encounter. As this video graphically evidences, police officers are brainwashed into dehumanizing civilians and viewing them as the enemy. As there is little if any accountability in any police department, even with videos like this one proving their felonious assaults, there is no incentive for cops to follow any laws except their own. Power with no accountability breeds crime and arrogance. This incident screams volumes about the contempt which cops have for the taxpaying citizens who pay their salaries. Police officers routinely torture and even murder their enemies, many of whom are not even criminals, in ways which cannot be proven. Cops are sanctimonious%uFEFF frauds who hide behind a facade of law and order. They are lying cowards who never admit to their crimes, yet self-righteously criticize, assault, and otherwise torment anyone who will not confess to crimes which they did not commit. For%uFEFF every police crime recorded on%uFEFF video, there are%uFEFF thousands of others which have not been so memorialized. Millions of innocent, taxpaying%uFEFF%uFEFF%uFEFF citizens%uFEFF have been robbed, framed, beaten, tortured, and otherwise victimized by arrogant, racist, inept, political-hack%uFEFF cops. Most policemen do not give%uFEFF a rat's ass about%uFEFF%uFEFF upholding the law;%uFEFF their sole concern is to massage their unjustifiably inflated egos, blue-collar hero vanities, and unwarranted god%uFEFF complexes. Cops are not better than anyone else is. If police officers would just perform their duties in accordance with the law, there would not be such hostility towards them. If all cops were honest, even the lowest%uFEFF sociopathic thugs would%uFEFF respect them.

• 2011-04-26T23:04:13+00:00
• Duration: 04:25

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