This is for all the “if you would just comply” people.
The people who wrongly assuming that black people are only harrassed by cops if they provoke them. We know that is false, but we have to keep putting videos out like this so people can see.
Antonio Arnelo Smith was minding his own business when a cop approached him. He didn’t run, he didn’t resist and did everything the cop asked.
He told him what he had been doing and presented IDed to verify who he was.
It was then another cop comes and without any warning body slams him to the ground for no reason at all.
In the incident a male officer was out searching for a suspect allegedly heading south from the parking lot of the pharmacy, but he was given no description of the man involved.
The officer found a man walking south near a hotel, about 100 yards away. The officer then talked to the man, identified as Smith.
Smith said he had been at a business just up the road waiting for his sister to wire him money and that there were cameras at the site that would verify he was there.
When cops asked for identification, Smith complied.
A police sergeant and two other cops then arrived on the scene.
The sergeant’s body camera footage shows him swiftly exiting his vehicle and beelining for Smith, grabbing his wrist then reaching for his left arm from behind, without stating he was under arrest.
The cop wrapped his arms around Smith and instructed him to put his hands behind his back three times.
Smith was caught off guard and is heard exclaiming: ‘Oh my God! What are you doing? What are you doing? Jesus!’
What they were doing was traumatizing another black man in this country.
It is clear as day.
The sergeant behind the camera then asks the officer who had initially stopped Smith: ‘That’s him?’
‘No. They pointed out two different people. They got a guy with a warrant, this guy I had just stopped talking to him,’ the officer replies.
‘I thought this was the one with the warrant,’ the sergeant behind the camera repeats, realizing the mishap.
The officers then scan Smith license and said it was ‘good’.
‘I was getting ready to put my hands behind my back,’ Smith said in the video. ‘He forcibly picked me up.’
This is when the cover up takes place.
They lied about him resisting and were never punished.
He is suing for $700k and I hope he gets even more.
Flip the pages for the disgusting cop videos.
