Video: Nevada Cops Beat Man Who Was in Diabetic Shock
A Las Vegas man has won a lawsuit against police officers who beat him while he was in diabetic shock -- a beating captured on videotape.
The Daily Mail reports police pulled over Adam Greene early one morning in October 2010 because his car was weaving. Greene said he was driving that way because he was a diabetic and was in shock.
Nevada State Troopers and Henderson police dragged him out of the car at gunpoint and threw him to the ground. While four officers restrained him and yelled "stop resisting," a fifth walked over and kicked Greene in the head several times. Then they found the insulin in his pocket and realized what was going on.
"He's a diabetic. He's probably in shock, semi-conscious," an officer said on his radio.
One of the officers later realized the dashboard cam was one, "It's on camera," he said.
Another officer responded, "They don't know you. I wouldn't worry about it."
The Las Vegas Sun reports the city of Henderson will pay Greene $158,000, and Nevada will pay an additional $30,000.
Here is the video. Be advised there is some graphic language:
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Thank God for video cameras! Otherwise these low life scum bag sorry excuses for police officers would have lied their way out of this and probably have gotten away with it. I don't know how a civilian got ahold of a police video tape to post it on the internet, but I'm glad this was posted for the world to see. The victim stated in an interview that he has no ill will towards the officers involved. The poor man has obviously suffered brain damage to be so forgiving. I would not rest until each and every one of them were fired and never worked in law enforcement again. They thought the victim was drunk. Even drunks don't deserve that kind of abuse. It's rather pitiful that it takes six or seven police officers to arrest a semi conscious diabetic. One of them commented: "I could have taken him by myself" If that's the case, why did it take seven of them? It made me sick when I heard one officer ask "Anybody hurt?" Yeah you moron! The guy you just beat the hell out of for no legitimate reason is hurt! I believe in what goes around, comes around. I hope these cops get the living crap stomped out of them. They're just punk bullies hiding behind their badges! They seem to get a little too much enjoyment it performing their duties. To Protect And Serve" Yeah, right! PIGS!
THIS I WRONG WHY IS IT EVERY WHERE YOU LOOK ITS ALWAY A COP KICKING THE CRAP OUT OF SOME ONE. ITS HAPPENED TO ME ALSO.COPS ARE THE BIGGEST GANGS IN THIS COUNTRY ITS VERY TRUE THEY STICK TOGETHER NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY ARE WRONG!! COPS ARE GANGS!!!!!
Thank God my state allows secretly videotaping police officers.
Maybe it's a good thing that republicans want to remove collective bargaining rights from police officers.
Do you think their union could get the law changed in your state? Scary!
As I said, If you have to hide what you're doing or conceal your identity when doing it, maybe you're doing something wrong?
If freedom means anything, it is the liberty to tell others what they do not want to hear.
Actually, you out-of-towners should know that the guy was lucky- the usual M.O. of the Las Vegas police is to shoot first, then go to a ridiculous whitewash laughingly called a "coroner's inquest", where the police are NEVER found liable for killing a citizen. This fella got off with a little light head kicking. How fortunate for him!
If a citizen had videotaped this, since the videotaping would be embarrasing to the police, he would have been beaten and been arrested. Why the made up crime of filming police isn't more reported, I have no idea. It is the greatest constituitonal violation of the last 30 years, and that probably includes the drug war.
Jerome McCollom
Do you include the "Patriot" Act in that list? Why worry about the Constitution? "It's just a goddamned piece of paper" according to George W. Bush or Donald Rumsfeld, depending upon your source. Interestingly, neither have ever denied saying it, even though Rummy did come clean about the WMD in Iraq. He has admitted it was a lie.
But I digress. It is not a crime to video the police unless you are physically interfering with their duties.
When you have to hide what you're doing or conceal your identity, perhaps you already know what you're doing is wrong.
If freedom means anything, it is the liberty to tell others what they do not want to hear.
Just more proof that the police need to end their US v THEM attitude.
When are the police in this country going to learn that they need to serve us, not use us as a foil for their abuse, emotional and physical.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
History shows many examples that pervasive militarization of society by a "warrior caste" is generally irreversible. Once the warriors (or "praetorians") (often recruited from formerly powerless underclasses) take hold over society they will keep spreading and taking over responsibilities. They will eventually challenge those that appointed them - the elite/ownership caste - to protect their interests and they will treat all other sections of society with utter contempt.
Shogunate Japan, Ancient Rome, Ancient meso-american civilizations, 15th century spain, early to mid 20th century Germany, it always ends the same - overextended militarization, paranoia, divisionism, an unwillingness to renew and change, and finally the irreversible collapse of society.
Well put and the parallels are obvious. With law enforcement it has long been an "Us vs Them" mentality with them being anyone not a police officer.
They already treat "them" with contempt and have the "guilty until proven innocent, and probably not even then" attitude.
I have worked with training police from three different counties (USA, Mexico, and Brazil) and have had two close relatives that were police chiefs in different cities. I am sad to admit that exceptions to those attitudes are rare.
As bad as things are in Mexico, they are rapidly becoming worse in the USA. Surprisingly, they are improving in Brazil. Human rights is a serious consideration for most officers here.
If freedom means anything, it is the liberty to tell others what they do not want to hear.