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In reply to the discussion: Memorial Wall for Victims of Law Enforcement Violence [View all]GitRDun
(1,846 posts)Inglewood, CA police officer Jeremy Morse is seen repeatedly punching Jackson, and then picking him up and slamming him down on the back of a police car.
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=donovan+jackson+videos+youtube+beating&pvid=o9iVxDk4LjGrl3oOUs72rgbvMTYyLgAAAADPKIi2&fr2=sb-top-search&hspart=att&hsimp=yhs-att_001&type=sbc_dial
Officer Jeremy Morse was fired, but escaped criminal charges, undisclosed settlement amount.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/06/inglewood.police.trial/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/09/usa.garyyounge1
In a sick opportunistic, manner, the two officers involved, (Jeremy Morse and his partner Bijan Darvish won $2.4 million in a reverse racism suit, claiming a 3rd officer involved was treated differently because he was black.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/121339.php
The pattern that seems to be emerging for me in these cases is two fold:
1). No criminal charges / jail time if charged.
2). Case settled with civil damages.
No one goes to jail, money buys silence. We'll see if this pattern holds true in the Michael Brown case.