Two Seattle police officers are under investigation after a bystander recorded them beating a man with their batons at a bus stop last week.

In the video, which was posted online and first reported by NBC affiliate KING 5-TV, two officers can be seen hitting a man with their batons last Friday afternoon. In the 40-second clip, one of the officers appears to grab the man’s hair before he uses a knee to pin him down.

The video does not show what occurred before the officers started beating the man.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Threatening to detonate a bomb would not justify what they did. I can’t imagine a scenario that would justify grabbing someone’s hair and pinning them down with a knee and beating them with batons.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah I’m being an incredibly facetious devil’s advocate saying the only way to save the city is to beat the absolute shit of of a dude.