HPD Assaults Man, Pulls and Cocks Shotgun on Crowd.wmv
Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
February 8, 2012
Shocking video shows that a crazed member of the Houston Police Department pulled a shotgun on a peaceful but vocal crowd as it tried to shut down a free event with more than one hundred people in attendance at a private residence on the premise of a noise complaint. The officer drew the weapon and put a round in the chamber to intimidate the crowd just after forcibly pulling out one Micah Jackson from the crowd, who was later cuffed but released without charge during the January 27 incident caught on cell phone cameras.
The crowd denounced the police’s love of ‘authority’ over ‘freedom.’ An officer can even be heard in the video stating “your freedom ends tonight.” Excess force in policing is the kind of abuse that led to the 1776 revolution against tyranny.
Houston’s Police Chief Charles McClelland has issued a statement promising a thorough investigation of the officer’s conduct, as well as the detainment of Jackson.
Derrick Broze, who was leader of the Houston Free Thinkers group putting on the event, says he spoke to police about the complaint and agreed to shut down one of the three stages. “They brought excessive force for a sound complaint. They could have just brought an officer or two and talked it out,” KHOU quoted Broze as stating.
Instead, Broze was harassed over not having an ID card and later arrested. Initially, he says, police tried to charge him with felony count for inciting a riot, but in the end booked him on a Class C Misdemeanor for ‘failure to obey an order.’ Broze told Infowars that order was never made clear to him; however, he plead guilty to the Class C charge and was released from jail some 15 hours later after time served.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Broze and the Houston Free Thinkers have formally requested a meeting with the city’s mayor, police chief and officer involved to discuss the issue, but are currently awaiting a response.
Coverage at KHOU includes several neighbors who approved of the officer’s pulling a shotgun, as well as a former FBI official who said he observed no misconduct and even condoned the officer’s “muzzle discipline”:
This video was taken at the Houston Free Thinkers Free Show. The police showed up at 10:15 with the stated purpose of addressing a noise complaint. Derrick Broze spoke to the police about the noise and agreed to shut down one of the three stages. While Derrick spoke to the officer another officer began poking around The Compound (which is not a public venue). Derrick asked these police if they had a warrant. They asked for his ID. He told them he was not in public and that he was not driving a car and was not therefore required to have one but was happy to identify himself as Derrick Broze and provided his birth date as well. The officer then grabbed Derrick and took him out into the street and put him against the car and searched him. All without charging him or telling him anything. As more friends came around and asked what was going on. Some were unwilling to remain silent and exercised their first amendment rights and spoke their mind. One of these individuals was forcibly grabbed from behind and threatened, “your freedom ends tonight” (can be heard in the video). This individual breaks loose from his unknown assailant and is grabbed by multiple officers and slammed into the car. When the crowd of unarmed civilians demonstrates their shock and outrage at this a shotgun is pulled and cocked. Unfortunately, this went this way. We must learn to somehow reach out effectively to militarized police so that we may win their hearts and minds over to peace, liberty, and the Bill of Rights.
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