< Police brutality worse than Rodney King(link) (video at link)
I wanted to blog about this beacause there is a serious injustice here and not many people heard about this brutal beatings. Yes beatings, one while hogtied by the penn state troopers, another in the hospitals custody and yet another while in transition to the county corrections. His rights weren't read to him he took multiple beatings however he still reamains in prison. His story needs to be heard. Please comment and share this. Justice needs to be served
This case involves a New York State resident operating his car just across the border from his New York home in Pennsylvania. His name is Robert Leone. This case is worse that the Rodney King episode in many, many ways. Here are but a few: Rodney King was involved in a high speed pursuit that involved at least 4 police cars, a helicopter, and exposed the general public to serious injuries or possible death. During this pursuit Rodney King committed innumerable traffic violations including attaining speeds approaching 100 MPH. Other than not stopping when directed, this incident involved no serious traffic violations and was simply the low speed following of a car that would not pull over. When finally stopped Rodney King acted in a very bizarre fashion. He did not follow police instructions to lay on the ground but rather pointed at the sky, patted the ground and was laughing and giggling while being ordered at gun point to lay on the ground. When Rodney King was finally “swarmed” by police and taken to the ground he resisted violently by kicking, punching, and flipping the arresting officers. When finally stopped by the police Mr. Leone COULD NOT comply with the orders of the arresting officers to exit his vehicle with his hands up because one of the officers had blocked Mr. Leone’s door with his patrol car. Mr. Leone sat calmly in his driver’s seat with both hands on his steering wheel, smoking a cigarette. Mr. Leone was tasered multiple times through his sun roof even though he did not display ANY threatening behavior whatsoever.
