As if the Memphis Police Department beating death of Tyre Nichols wasn’t enough, now Florida police have registered a beating of their own.
Current Events :
Two Florida police officers face felony charges — including armed kidnapping and battery — after detaining a homeless man outside a shopping center in Hialeah, driving several miles to an isolated location, then beating him unconscious.
According to The New York Times, Lorenzo Orfila, 22, and Rafael Otano, 27, responded to a call regarding a disturbance at a bakery in a shopping center near Hialeah. Despite surveillance cameras showing that he was not at all part of any disturbance, the officers immediately targeted and handcuffed 50-year-old Jose Ortega Gutierrez, who is homeless. However, instead of transporting him to the police station for official booking, the former officers drove about 6 miles to a remote location (blasting their emergency lights and sirens along the way) where they decided to serve as judge, jury, and executioner.
Once they were in a secluded location, they threw Gutierrez to the ground and beat him until he blacked out. The homeless man later woke up without cuffs and no one else around — but bleeding from his head. He eventually received help from an off-duty police officer who stumbled upon him while walking his dog and called 911.
“Excessive force and abusive power will always, always undermine the fundamental goals of good policing in any community anywhere,” Katherine Fernandez Rundle, the Miami-Dade County state attorney, said during a news conference. “Officers who forget that do a great disservice to the people they have sworn to serve.”
Following an internal investigation, officials discovered that the global positioning system on the officers’ police cars showed them outside their assigned patrol area that day. It was also revealed that Orfila asked another officer in the department to break protocol and list the incident as a “no report.”
“Officers Otano and Orfila both failed to turn on their body-worn cameras during their entire encounter with Ortega Gutierrez,” Ms. Fernandez Rundle said while acknowledging the former officers’ attempts to keep their rogue actions a secret.
The Florida police officers have since been fired and await a court appearance for their actions. Additionally, a third man, 45-year-old Ali Amin Saleh (a civilian) was also arrested and charged with witness tampering after he attempted “to cover up the actions of the officers,” Ms. Fernandez Rundle said.
“It’s a sad and disappointing day when any officer betrays a badge,” Police Chief George Fuente said at the news conference, “and it’s extremely disappointing to me it being an officer that wore the Hialeah patch.”
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Florida police officers beat homeless man.
The similarities of these stories aren’t just coincidence. The most significant difference being – in this case, the man wasn’t beaten to death. He was beaten to unconsciousness.
It’s pretty clear now that the Culture of Law Enforcement in today’s America is a Corrupt and depraved Culture. A highly toxic and deadly Culture. Poisonous at the root, throughout that “Tree,” from top to bottom.
I would posit that most of the people working in Law Enforcement in America are sociopathic predators who realized a long time ago that the easiest way to carry out their madness is to have a career in law enforcement.
Reminds me of the gay pedophiles (predators) who realized a long time ago that the easiest way to carry out their madness was to become a priest in the Catholic Church.