Los Angeles police officer accused of repeatedly punching man is charged

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A Los Angeles Police Dept. officer who was seen on video repeatedly punching a man in an encounter in April has been charged with felony assault, the county prosecutor says.

A spokesman for the district attorney's office said no charges are being filed against the victim.

"The Department has taken this matter very seriously from day-one and he will be held accountable for his actions," LAPD Chief Michel Moore said in a statement. In video that went viral, two officers can be seen appearing to order a man to turn around near a fence outside a church. The lawsuit filed by Castillo says the officer used closed fists to repeatedly strike Castillo for 20 or more seconds while the other officer"failed to intervene."An attorney for Hernandez in May after video was releasedThe complaint and use of force investigations of the April incident, that captured disturbing video of a confrontation with a trespassing suspect, are nearing completion.

 

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rolandsmartin Good . These men of DEATH always wants to beat them when their handcuffed. COWARDS!!!

It's ok the guy he was beating up was white

BarneysNose The money spent on these lawsuits could be better spent elsewhere. This is what “defunding” the police means. Let them do their jobs and let other professionals have the money to do theirs. Homelessness, mental health, school issues, are not police issues. They are not trained.

The authoritarian police overstepping boundaries are always in democrat cities cause they know their democrat leaders won't reprimand them. Too busy virtue signaling

basically it seems that a lot of black people are complaining about cops beating them while they are committing crimes, however the solution does not seems to be stopping committing crimes!!!

Fuckin right!!!

DillardVicki It's a start, but I am glad

The brutality of this police officer is outrageous. He belongs in prison.

Pig

Charge them up

Police are not allowed to do their jobs anymore.

Act like a animal, cage him like a animal.

Expose em all

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I wish every police officer in LA would walk the job today.....

Good!!

I thought that they were allowed to punch in order to gain compliance.

Pedos are attracted to the Catholic Church and sadists like the police force so it seems.

Good because this was disgusting

Send a news crew to cover may be they will get their asses kicked again.

Good. Cops have to be held to a higher standard..they are role models to the community...this behavior is unacceptable and he deserved to be charged. You reap what you sow.

Never any stories about cops killed by rioters. You have a narrative to push on the sheeple.

Blk cop.

That's a good signal.

There must be real change.all colleges all universites must set aside real quotas for blacks, harvard stanford and all the osdalnye 50\\50.on want let them bring down Mexico.

He needs to be FIRED...RestructureThePolice Restructure the funding allocated to police.

The second officer needs to be reprimanded/ punished too for not intervening. Police officers need to be stronger (and supported more) in stopping their own when this happens. De-escalating training rather than gun-ho, brute force techniques required too

nice

Why did it take so long?

Come on Y'all It's a gang beat-down. Learned in the barrio. After, they take his sneakers an throw them over a telephone wire. So U remember where he got beat down. Typical gang behavior.

The police are the biggest scapegoats and whipping boys in this saga. Essentially a bunch of numb-skull rioters, media, celebrities, city officials and politicians have tarnished a mostly proud and honest group of public servants due to the actions of a few. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Good!

I remember this one, cop was way outta line.

It is a shame for mankind to sell slaves and racism, it is also a shame for mankind to launch colonial wars and rob cultural relics by the British Empire.

According to the story, its mighty nice of them not to charge the Victim! WTF

Justice will be serverd to those who deserve it! Let us work to better the Justice and Police Department and not defund it all.

All officers defending themselves are being charged with something which is why nobody cares until the convictions. Stop spreading police hate. They’re all quitting anyway.

Time for a full release of videos across the country. Time to weed out the bad cops. Time to reform policing.

The cop is completely in the right! The guy shouldn't have had a face that could be punched.

The Union will protect him. If liberals want justice eliminate unions that protect these criminals

Are they really trained to torture civilian on during arrest? Or did they develop the act out of wickedness

DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR

Good

Happy2BNana Thank god for small blessings, at least we get to see a bit of justice here and there. Should be more but it's a start.

FyreFlyWhispr remember though charged doesnt mean convicted, so don't celebrate early

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DefundThePolice DefundPolice DefundMPD DefundBBC DefundCPD DefundSACPD DefundNYPD DefundPhxPD DefundBoscops DefundMagacops...

NewBlue

🙄🙄🙄.. god's 👀 are everywhere!!!

There needs to be a new law in every state making things like this a special circumstance crime which makes it aggravated - just like it would be if the victim had brutalized the cop.

The problem is that Hamilton assigned policing to the states, and now there are 18,000 p.d.s spread around the country with no uniform ethics training or candidate screening for qualities like being helpful, or empathetic.

Took them long enough

Fire him !!!! Then lock him up!

It’s crazy that we need video proof to charge cops with crimes now. Stress the word “charge”. Side note: Rodney King.

RosserClark This has to stop! We need to ban filming the police doing its job.

There will be so many more arrests as soon as people have time to heal and figure which cop(s) (in these more than 450 videos) assaulted them. There were so many videos of brutality from this week, they had to make a spreadsheet to keep track of them!

MSM just keep spreading hatred and discrimination against certain groups.

They should start paying these lawsuit awards out of the police pension plans. Maybe then the good cops will help take care of the problem. There’s no reason taxpayers should be paying for these lawsuits.

Good. They should bring more charges. All humans are equal.

AngeleOutWest Good. Keep them coming because there are lots more video evidence of dozens and dozens of police committing crimes during the protests.

let's hope they'll also get all the LAPD thugs captured on videos this past week off the street

No one gave him the right to punch the guy .i got beat up bya lady cop florida and paybacks a b tch!

So the Los Angeles Police Dept. officer who was seen on video has been charged with felony assault, the county prosecutor says... am i correct?...why the policemen are so brutal in arresting the people and also trigger happy, they all becoming thugs and killer in uniform..why?

Policebrutality

Are you in the country as well, only after media publicity, do the authorities begin to do something?

How come you never show all the good things that happen between people? Your focus is always on the bad and for that reason you suck! FakeNews

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