Thank god for that evidence: Vikings fan acquitted after video shows cops lied about violent arres

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story


Travis Gettys
10 AUG 2017 AT 11:41 ET

A Minnesota Vikings fan was acquitted of criminal charges after video showed police officers lied about his actions during an arrest last year.

Anastacio Lopez traveled from Texas to Minneapolis in December to watch the Vikings play the Dallas Cowboys, but he admits to getting drunk and becoming unruly, reported KSTP-TV.

Security guards escorted Lopez from his seat and was met beneath the stadium by two Minneapolis police officers — who shocked him with a Taser and beat him.

Officers Russell Cragin and Anthony Rodin later claimed they were forced to use physical force after Lopez reached for one of their Tasers — and he was charged with attempted disarming of a police officer.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/thank-god-for-that-evidence-vikings-fan-acquitted-after-video-shows-cops-lied-about-violent-arrest/

[lunasun]

1. Hope he sues the shit out of these racist asshole violent cops

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Lopez has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit after speaking with others in the Minneapolis area who reported similar police mistreatment.

“I met a lot of people that said this happens to them,” Lopez told the TV station. “But they told me, if you have it on video or something, you need to do something about it, because it happens to a lot of people here. I want the voice of those people heard.”

[woundedkarma]

2. I'm curious...

What is gained by repeatedly pointing out that this person is a vikings fan? Was he persecuted because he was a fan? Is that why he was beaten up?

Or is it just to give him an identity?

[cab67]

5. maybe it provides some context? explains why he'd travelled all the way from Texas to see a game?

don't really know.

[geek tragedy]

7. I'm guessing--just guessing--it's to show he wasn't beaten for being a Cowboys fan nt

[7962]

11. Which would be a good reason...

[geek tragedy]

12. Chris Christie ... nt

[OriginalGeek]

13. :

my face is plain at you.






















(lol)

[LudwigPastorius]

8. Maybe because a couple of Minnesota cops wailing on a Cowboys fan...

would be deemed understandable by some.

[Midnight Writer]

16. Narrative value. Makes it a "story" more attractive and appealing to readers.

[Iggo]

3. Cops. That's who they are. That's what they do.

[geek tragedy]

6. Minneapolis PD next move might be to hire the Mooch as their spokesman

What a shitshow that group is.

[jb5150]

9. Said it before, and I'll say it again ....

There are 2 kinds of cops .. the bad ones, and the ones who look the other way; there are NO good cops.

[Dawson Leery]

10. There is a reason the porkers fight against civilian led review boards.

[Blue_Tires]

14. I'm just glad he wasn't shot before he was vindicated

[dflprincess]

15. Yet we have to wonder why,

after seeing the tape, the County Attorney didn't drop the charges rather than waste everyone's time and money by proceeding to trial.