Step out of the car. You're being detained. Oh, face away. Turn that way. Face away. I put my phone in my hand. In Jacksonville, Florida, police officers brutally beat a deaf man for not listening to them. His legs. Ow. Put your hands behind your back. Hey. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. I can't do anything. Can I get my hearing aid? I can't hear. I don't have my hearing aid. I can't hear. You'd have it if you just listen. It's easier to just listen. Were they just mocking him or were they being serious? Well, sadly, probably both. He can hear it. He's got to talk loud to me. The deaf man reached out to me. He gave me all of the story. He gave me all of the body cam. And the footage captures everything. And it shows exactly how cops are able to beat people up and get away with it pretty much every time. 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Joe and his longtime significant other both tell me that it was actually a dispute between Joe and his adult son. Either way, it's undisputed that there was some sort of domestic disturbance at this home and that the police were called to it. After the argument occurred, but before the police were called, Joe ended up leaving the house in a car with his mother. Joe's mother was contacted. She was ordered by the police to return Joe to the house. The cops were already at Joe's house and they were waiting on Joe to arrive along with his mother. Officers had not yet spoken with Joe about what happened and what did not happen. He was not yet under arrest. There was no warrant for his arrest. It was still under investigation. But the officers had decided that the first thing they were going to do, even before they questioned Joe, was to put him in handcuffs. Ma'am, can you lock the door? Ma'am, can you unlock the door? Hey, I'm I'm trying. Just a minute. Just a minute. Hey. The officers were aware that Joe was deaf. As the vehicle came to a stop in the driveway, Joe put his hands on the dashboard of the car. He knew that the officers would want to see his hands. At this point, he's wearing his hearing aid and he's able to see the officer's lips. So, he understands at this point what they want him to do. They want him to get out of the car. So, he gets out of the car. But that's where things end up going completely sideways. Step out of the car. You're being detained. Oh, face away. Turn that way. Face away. I put my phone in my hand. Piece of [ __ ] So, did you hear what Joe just said? Piece of [ __ ] I believe that this was the police officer's motive in beating Joe that night. Joe insulted them and they didn't like it, so they did what they did. Why did Joe say that? Remember, he can't hear what they're telling him at this point. He's looking the other direction. He says that a police officer that you can't see out of frame shined a flashlight right into his face. And that's when Joe reacted, calling him what he called him. Piece of [ __ ] It was almost immediately after that when the police officers turned violent on Joe. So far, even though he was deaf, Joe has been completely compliant. He's totally surrounded by police officers. There are at least three right behind him in the process of handcuffing him. So, what goes wrong here? This is what the arresting officer wrote in his police report. This is Officer Isaac. He's the one who is right behind Joe. Officers approached the suspect and instructed him to step out of the vehicle. The suspect stepped out eventually and was told he is being detained for a criminal investigation. As officer Hill and I attempted to detain the suspect in handcuffs, he grabbed my hand, preventing me from placing him in handcuffs. The suspect then started actively resisting by pulling away. Therefore, he was taken down to the ground. For some reason, officer Isaac, who you will see knows very well that Joe is deaf. He can hear it. He's got to talk loud to me. Neglects to mention that there were actually three officers putting him in handcuffs. Why does he only mention two and not three? Well, perhaps it's less believable that three officers could not handcuff this guy as opposed to two. I don't know. He claims that Joe grabbed his hand and then he claims that Joe then began actively pulling away from him and that it became necessary to take him to the ground. We don't see any pulling away from him. Certainly not actively pulling away. Do you see Joe actively pulling away from him at all prior to Joe being taken down to the ground? Because I don't. Stop [ __ ] grabbing my [ __ ] What are you doing? [ __ ] your hands behind your back. Okay. In fact, what we see is the officer with the body cam that they're going to hand over step backwards so that you can't see the hands. You can't see behind the car door. You can't see the handcuffing. You have three police officers gang up on this guy all behind him. The main one of which knows that he's deaf, that he can't hear what he's saying, that he can't read his lips to understand what he's saying. That's when they pretend there's some sort of active resistance there. Boom. All three of these police officers violently take this guy to the ground. Not only did they not give him a chance to comply with any orders, they knew very well that he couldn't hear their orders, which weren't really orders anyways, were they? They were just sort of acting. The suspect continued to actively resist, tensing and pulling away. While on the ground there, Officer Hill and I had to use physical force to gain control of him. Again, the report pretends that only two officers were involved when it was actually a gang of three. We see one officer kneeling on his legs, holding Joe's legs down, while another officer, I believe it was Isaac, begins pummeling and punching Joe in the face, while the third officer pummel and punches Joe in the abdomen, in the back, in the kidneys. Got his legs. Ow. Put your hands behind your back. Hey, put your [ __ ] hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. Put your [ __ ] back. Put your hands behind your back. I didn't do anything. And cops know that when one of them begins punching the face, what is the instinctual reflex of somebody to attempt to cover their face? So, they threw Joe on his chest with his arms underneath him. They begin to punch him in the face as he attempts ineffectually to cover his face and shield his face from the blows. They order him to give them his hands. Put your hands behind your back. [ __ ] hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. And not only is this man deaf and can't hear them in order to comply with those orders, but they're punching him in the face and physically preventing him from being able to put his hands behind his back. But that's not the point. Again, this is acting. This is theater. And the female officer wants to jump in, but there's no room because there's literally so many cops on top of Joe. And we can see that it's absolute lies that there are only two officers there attempting to gain control of this man. No. Three cops were on top of him, beating him to a pulp. Give me your [ __ ] hand, dude. Got him. Got him. Got him. I got this one. I got this one. Cuffs. You need some? Yep. I got my honey. What's wrong with you? Did I get my honey? What is wrong with you? I didn't do anything. Can I get my herinade? Holy [ __ ] Imagine imagine what ow do anything. Stand up. Ow. Stand up. The suspect was eventually detained in handcuffs and placed in the back of my patrol vehicle. We know the police officers like context, right? Well, another important piece of context that is missing from the officer's police report is the fact that the guy that they are arresting and recording themselves punching, etc. Well, he's deaf and they took him down so violently that his hearing aid flew off into the grass somewhere and he's basically begging for his hearing aid. And that's when the officers began to mock him, saying, "Well, you should have listened. You'd still have your hearing aid if you had listened. None of this would have happened if you had listened." So, not only are they mocking him, but they're also sort of sending the message that you were beaten because you didn't do what you were told because you couldn't listen. And haha, isn't that funny? Can you get my herinade, please? Isabella. Can you please hear me? Can I get my hear? Can I get my honeyade? Clark, can I get my herinade? You got him. You got him. Cook, do you have them? He's asking if you have control. Oh my god. It's easier to just listen. My herinade. I can't hear him. Maybe we'll go look for it. You'd have it if you just listen. But wait, there's more. They weren't actually done mocking and torturing Joe here. Despite the fact that there was no allegation in this video that Joe ever attempted to spit on the officers, knowing full well that he relied on his eyes and lipreing in order to communicate with them, they put a spit mask on Joe, covering his head, covering his face, perhaps for no reason other than just yet another layer of retaliation against Joe based on what he had said to them earlier. Why you putting that on me? I didn't do anything. You like to spit. That's why I didn't spit. Yeah, I'm happier with you spitting. So that's why you don't have any weapons on you, do you? I can't hear. I don't have my hearing aid. He asked you. Do you have any weapons? I think she she is going to be a quick detain. Shortly afterwards, the arresting officer, Officer Isaac, is talking to this female officer whose body cam we have been watching. And in that conversation, he admits that he's aware of Joe's disability. Yet, he claims for some reason that to my knowledge is completely false. He thinks that Joe can hear, but you just have to talk really loud. Can I get my herinade, please? I'm glad we were all here. He can hear it if you got to talk loud to me. Why you putting a spit mask on me? I didn't spit. Cuz you like to spit, buddy. Mom, look at me. Mom. Awesome. Oh, no. They got That's good. Yeah. No. What? No. What did you do to use necessary force to restraint? That's what we did. Okay. Our body cams also watched it. Thank you. Thank you. Joe actually thinks that they put the spit mask on him to hide the injuries to his face. And if we look at the booking information that he was able to obtain from when he was taken to jail, you can see that he has substantial injuries on his body following the use of force that occurred. He was taken to the emergency room that night there locally. They found that no fractures had occurred. He was charged with simple assault from the domestic and also resisting arrest with violence. His bail was $25,000 which he had posted with a bondsman immediately. Apparently, somebody must have found out that he had posted bond, perhaps the arresting officer. Somebody went after he posted bond and added another charge of assault on a law enforcement officer. His original bond was then revoked and then he had to sit in jail for 58 days until his current attorney was able to argue in court that he should be out on bond. So after sitting in jail for 58 days, he bonded out and as soon as he was released from jail, the first thing he did was go to a different hospital. They ran tests on him and they found that he did have an old rib fracture. Now this is 58 days later that was in the process of healing. His criminal charges are still currently pending. I'll update you if I hear anything else. Also, to avoid any defenses of allegations of deceptive editing, things of that nature, I will upload the unedited raw body cam footage to my raw body cam footage channel so that you can go through it yourself and see what I cut and what I did not cut and also see it without any of the blurring, etc. that I'm required to do. Here we see something that police officers do all the time across the country. In situations like this, they can decide that they want to beat somebody up. Police officers converge on the individual. They begin the process of handcuffing the person, but very importantly, they don't finish that process because you can't really beat a handcuffed person and get away with it very easily. So, in the process of handcuffing, the person starts resisting. They start tensing up. All of a sudden, you hear, "Give me your hands. Give me your hands. Stop resisting." Things like that. Then you have this violent use of force and there's a gang of cops involved in it. They would have no problem controlling this person or handcuffing this person if that's what they wanted to do. But it's theatrics. They pretend that the person is resisting. We don't see any attempted punches or kicks or rolling around or attempting to flee or anything like that. We just sort of have to take the officer's word for it that they're refusing to give their hands. made all the more difficult by the fact that the individual's getting punched in the face and punched in the ribs. This is a setup. I've seen it many times before. At the end of the day, leadership and prosecutors, they are going to support this. They're going to take the officer's word for it, and it may be up to a jury at the end of the day to decide whether or not they saw any active resistance creating some sort of necessity to do what they did. This was clearly excessive, and I think a jury would agree with that actually here. But let me know what you think in a comment. Did you see any active resistance on behalf of Joe in this video? Do you think that the violence that these officers engaged in was justified? Let me know. And if I hear any updates, I'll let you know. So, you can follow along by subscribing both here and at the blog at the civil rightsawyer.com. You can follow me on Twitter, JohnBrian Essq. Our rights don't end where your fear begins. Freedom is scary. Deal with it.