Monday, July 07, 2014

CHP Officer's Videotaped Beating of Woman Sparks Calls For Federal Investigation

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Black leaders in Los Angeles are calling for a federal Civil Rights investigation of a California Highway Patrol officer's beating of a homeless African American woman at the side of the 10 freeway in Mid-City.

The cop's barrage of fists July 1 was caught on video (below). Author Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable told reporters that the officer's actions that day constituted "a civil rights violation."

Complete article can be viewed here


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