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The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Daily Beast
Posted: September 2nd, 2014
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/the-day-fer...
The officers got the wrong man, but charged him anywaywith getting his blood on their uniforms. Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him. [A] 52-year-old welder named Henry Davis ... had been arrested for an outstanding warrant that proved to actually be for another man of the same surname, but a different middle name and Social Security number. The booking officer had no other reason to hold Davis, who ended up in Ferguson only because he missed the exit for St. Charles and then pulled off the highway because the rain was so heavy he could not see to drive. The cop who had pulled up behind him must have run his license plate and assumed he was that other Henry Davis. Davis said the cop approached his vehicle, grabbed his cellphone from his hand, cuffed him and placed him in the back seat of the patrol car, without a word of explanation. The booking officer ... proceeded to escort him to a one-man cell that already had a man in it asleep on the lone bunk. Davis balked at being a second man in a one-man cell. The booking officer summoned a number of fellow cops. One opened the cell door while another suddenly charged, propelling Davis inside and slamming him against the back wall. [A] female officer allegedly lifted Davis head as the cop who had initially pushed him into the cell reappeared. He ran in and kicked me in the head, Davis recalled. Paramedics came. They said it was too much blood. I had to go to the hospital. A federal magistrate ruled that the [police] perjury about the property damage charges was too minor to constitute a violation of due process and that Davis injuries were ... too minor to warrant a finding of excessive force. Never mind that a CAT scan taken after the incident confirmed that he had suffered a concussion.
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