Philadelphia police, in shock over Saturday's murder of one of their own, are facing a probe over the violent beating of three shooting suspects by up to 15 officers - an arrest captured on video by a news helicopter hovering overhead. The beating, Monday night in North Philadelphia, is seen on roughly one minute of an 11-minute video that Fox29 broadcast early today and streamed over its Web site. Mayor Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey today promised a full investigation of the beating, which the commissioner said might be related to the stress police personnel are under as they hunt for the fugitive wanted in Saturday's murder of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. Ramsey said the officers in the Fox29 video would be taken off street duty as soon as they were identified. Although police did not identify the three suspects in the video, Center City lawyer D. Scott Perrine announced today that he would represent all three at their bail hearings on charges to be lodged against them. Perrine identified one suspect as one of his long-standing clients, Dwayne Dyches, 24, and Brian Hall and Pete Hopkins. Perrine said they had been chased and apprehended without probable cause and called the beating "police conduct that should have stopped in the 1970s." "This was one of the most reprehensible displays of police brutality I have ever seen," he said. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said officers had been on edge since Liczbinski was shot. In an incident two days later, video taken by a television news helicopter showed three suspects being kicked, punched and beaten after they were pulled out of a car following an unrelated shooting.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Police Beating in Philadelphia Caught on Video - Suspects had no weapons!!!!!!!!!!!
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