Felony Charges Announced For 2 Hialeah Officers Arrested For Allegedly Beating A Homeless Man 

How would that help in a case like this? This is criminal, these cops are going to jail for life. What money do they have in jail?

That's the answer!

@@kewlztertc5386 First of all they are not going to go to jail for life, they will do a few years at most or less. Second, when you're allowed to sue them directly, you can hurt them much longer than few years or few months in jail. When they have to pay back to their victims thousands If not hundreds of thousands of dollars. That will mean greater burden that is much more to bear than few years in jail. And that will create the deterrence to do better.

I say take away Bond licensing each time a officer violates citizens civil rights. That’ll put all of them in line.

@@yusuf6778 no, unless they drop the kidnap charge, they're going to jail for a very long time (life). They'd get less time for murder, because there's mandatory life for armed kidnapping. The judge nor the jury has any discretion in that sentence. I don't see how that charge can be lowered or dropped when it's the foundation of their actions. Suing the cops might hurt them longer, but the victim in this case wouldn't benefit from it. After attorney fees, the small amount of money he can squeeze out of the officers will leave him in debt.

You can say that again. He's about to get paid in full.

Yep. See how those cops are s-tupid...

Ah yeah the homeless. An officer could make a 30 year career out them without even breaking a sweat. The fruit of their labor is just laying there waiting to be picked up. Besides the homeless are nobody, won't be missed and nobody cares, or so they thought.

@@dwainmcwilliams2043 Nobody cares??? Those cops really cared about him and now... Who cares about bad cops? Do you care about Chauvin in his concrete wardrobe right now? He is just laying there waiting to be fed like an animal. He is an animal. AND SO DO YOU!

Apparently, $1,350 was merely a down payment for the formerly homeless man! The man is going to go from eating scraps on the streets to being able to eat steak every day, thanks to 2 bad & stupid cops!

Yeah like the white ones

Agreed.

EXACTLY!!!!

Totally backwards! You got it totally backwards!

You must be the ringleader of the dumb dumb circus.

IA was never intended to discipline an officer. By design, it protects the officer and the department. If you FOIA them and research, you'll see a basic template they follow. 1. Describe the complaint as per the complainants statement. 2. Dilute or dispel the complaint with the target's explanation, statement or rebuttal. 3. Elevate the target's image by manufacturing positive or saintly qualities exhibited or possessed. 4. Draw a favorable nexus between the complainant and target, as if an alliance existed or was being pursued. 5. Last but not least; find or contrive blame, and tilt the preponderance of any ill will or culpability toward the complainant. If even so very slightly, the IA conclusion will either plainly state clearly, or subtly infer, that the complainant was the real problem. Not exactly,..but kinda like that. By design.

No way

Police self investigation is a joke the World over.!!!!

@William Robinson AND, if the aforementioned template does not satisfy the intended outcome, leadership should hold a press conference with at least one black officer in a supporting role (the stand behind) who's sole duty is the lead in the reciting of the pledge of allegiance, before the conference begins (nothing more). The public should then be told what they saw wasn't what they saw and offensive strategy should be deployed if confronted with a narrative supporting the perp. As well, thoroughness and quality should be emphasized where investigative timeliness is in question as well as importance of supporting the rights of ALL citizens. (Geesh. I mean Rome wasn't built in a day.) PS Where minority officers are the implied wrongdoers, apologize and move toward closure. We don't need the media's anthropological recapture of the events or "THE DEPARTMENT" to be implicated in any failures it may assign and as always, the courts time should not be wasted.

I second the motion

I agree, and protests in major cities should focus on this topic of qualified immunity , and mandatory liability insurance for all law inforcement.

I third that motion!! And along with POLICE Unions!

They get none in these cases as any reasonable office would know it was wrong.

Yes!

Well said, I saw it the exact same way.

If they take away Qulified Immunity, about 80% of Police would have to quit or retire.

... And a very good start WOULD BE TO PUNISH THEM HEAVILY WHEN THEY TURN OFF OR DON'T TURN ON THEIR EXPENSIVE TAXPAYER SUPPLIED CAMERAS CONTRARY TO THEIR ORDERS!

Take a look at the movie “End of watch” this is the way bad police should be taken care of. This movie is based on real events.

​@@nnncnewsnownorcal4808 good movie

​@Babs Kaz absolutely and they are treated like they are criminals.

This time, anyway.

We need serious police reform here in Florida abolish qualified immunity and abolish police unions to convict them for their wrong doings to the full extend of the law

@@Beaheadoeverybody I understand the purpose behind immunity but we have to be realistic about how this lead to a total lack of accountability. When police investigate themselves? They find themselves not guilty. This oversight team in Florida hopefully will be followed nationally. We need law enforcement reform. It's gotten so bad that the good cops are demoralized by the bad cops. The rotten apple behaviors are affecting all one way or another.

@@mtaylor7307 I get it but police unions and qualified immunity both have to be abolish first as they both shield the police and sheriffs from getting held accountable to the full extend of the law also this community oversight of the police and sheriffs need's to be done all over Florida not just in some parts of Florida

@@Beaheadoeverybody I agree we need LEO reformation that is nationalized and centralized. It's going to steps to get there but we won't make it unless citizens make the demands, vote the change, and hold elected and appointed accountable. These mayors and sheriffs are elected and have much to say about what goes on during their watch. DAs depending on your area are either elected or appointed and they decide what cases move forward. LEO cannot be trusted to self regulated so we have to put teams like this one in place because internal affairs as a department has dropped the ball across the national. LEO for black and brown communities and poor white have become modern day lynch men. LEO act like the occupying forces against the enemy of we citizens. We must have accountability and qualified immunity does not work. As for unions? Do they need them? Most of the time a bad just transfers with recommendation from his superiors. No problem. They just shuffle them. Especially true for cops that use the badge to sexual assault.

1930 Germany

Criminals

Everything

FOLLOW MY PAGE AN U CAN SEE WHATS WRONG WITH THESE PIGS

"Hell" IS what is up / Wrong with them! They are drunk, tripping off the power they hold. Badge n gun!

THESE COPS HAVE A SUPERIORITY COMPLEX. TREAT WHITE COPS THE SAME WAY...NOT JUST MINORITY COPS.

My thoughts exactly, as well. The culture in that police department made these criminal cops feel confident enough to commit such an egregious assault on that man. Then, to blatantly attempt to buy that man's silence, knowing he was already in a desperate situation? Yeah, there's a reason they think they're invincible. In a well run police department, cops would actually fear the consequences of their actions. Unfortunately, there aren't too many well run departments across this country. And with so many more cameras around to catch the many crimes & constitutional violations committed by cops these days, it shows. It'll take forever, but I do hope eventually we'll see qualified immunity abolished in the future. That's our only real hope that this nonsense will ever end.

IT TOOK UNBY SURPRISED HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED..PUBLIX IS RAN BY THE MAFIA AN THAT MAFIA FAMILY RUNS KATHRYN FERNANDEZ RUNDLE...THE EVIL CRIMINALS

Hidden bad mindset blended with few more bad seeds

Some people are just evil with a facade of looking like decent human beings

Power corrupts, and with a low IQ it corrupts even more.

I totally agree 🥺🤬.

I beg the differ she's one out of many who is on point!!!!

This district attorney has done many press conferences about the arrests of corrupts cops. The problem is that there are not more that are doing this.

I think the local government should pay the amount in full, but they should then sue the ex officers to recover the amount.

We hope they get there, not just a suspended sentence

It's a start but in my opinion this situation doesn't occur enough...there's a whole lotta corruption that's undocumented..

Plea bargain and probation. They are cops.

Thanks white man

Because they prove time and time again that they are pretty stupid. Nothing makes cops look stupider than themselves

And teachers.

Amen

How do you charge a 5 yr with witness tampering?🤔

That sounds about right.

I am sorry this abuse happened to You, You had to endure abuse, by the ones who took an Oath to protect You. Peace&Respect, Shelley

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Not really

You are so right! The Supreme Court ruled Officers are NOT here for citizens safety! Uvalde even proved that one! Cowardice in the name of Officer safety!

That's what I thought I heard.. I'm like "What!"

Yes because the Blue Line Gangs are thick!

Contact a news outlet and tell your story first!

I am white American & back in the 60s, I had an aunt dating a Hialeah police officer named Al Smith & his parents had a barber shop on E 4th Ave & E 9th Street. One night my aunt & this cop were arguing in her car & she side swapped some cars parked on Hialeah Drive. This cop did something to cover it up &my aunt got away Scott free!!

Yeah, I think she meant 5 year veteran. 5 years old on the force. I noted that too. 😆

Yep

17th--22nd. Same thing!

Cops would just twist that and say the man was drunk off of Christmas spirits🤷🏼‍♀️

I thought I was the only one heard that, she definitely said it.

I too had to scroll through SEVERAL comments to find yours and yours only about the 5-YEAR OLD. WTF!?! How is this possible? For witness tampering?