A video has emerged from the affluent seaside resort city of Carlsbad in California, United States where an unarmed woman is seen suffering physical abuse from two officers while a third officer just stands by.
According to the Free Thought Project, Cindy Hahn was returning from a birthday party with her two kids when she stopped her vehicle to use a nearby washroom.
But Hahn saw an officer standing in front of a car whose alarm was sounding. And when she decided to ask why the officer is doing nothing about the alarm which was making extreme noise, the officer told her to mind her own business.
This rude response from the officer however did not go down well with Hahn who then decided to report the incident to the police department. She called a non-emergency to lodge a complaint about the officer’s language and the car sounding the alarm.
The officer then started assaulting Hahn and moments later; he was joined by two other officers. One officer joined in the beating of Hahn while the third stood aside just ‘watching’.
Bystanders pleaded with the cops to stop their assault. One woman is seen trying to intervene to stop the beating but the third officer stopped her. Hahn is heard yelling and crying for help. The beating happened in front of her two children.
After assaulting her that way, the officers handcuffed her and escorted her into their patrol car and drove her to the station and booked her. The officer never knew the incident was captured by a bystander.
They later charged Hahn for battery and resisting arrest. But interestingly, after Hahn’s attorney, Mark Geragos showed the video of the attack to the District Attorney, prosecutors immediately dropped the charges.
“If this goes on with an unarmed mother of two, God forbid what happens when there is somebody who’s perceived to be a threat”, attorney Geragos said about the incident.
Hahn has since filed a lawsuit at the San Diego federal court, asking for a jury trial and unspecified damages against the officers. The lawsuit asserts that Hahn was humiliated by the officers and that she suffered physical injuries on her face, abdomen, chest and memory as a result of the reckless behavior of the officers.
The police department has not yet released the identity of the officers nor taken any disciplinary action against them.
Carlsbad Police Chief, Neil Gallucci said in a statement the department will cooperate with investigators to get to the bottom of the incident which has put the department in the spotlight.
He said “I want to assure the public that we are prepared to provide a complete and detailed account of the facts of this incident in a courtroom, including what is not shown on the video released by the plaintiff’s attorney.” He also added that he department will “immediately investigate any allegation of misconduct.”
Local residents have complained in the past that the Carlsbad police have a behavior of retaliating against people who make complaints. The case is therefore expected to be a test one and an end to misconduct by officers in the city.
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The problem is that even if she didn’t do anything, she resisted arrest. If she didn’t try to fight, I am sure the Officer wouldn´t of struck her and at the Police Station she could of put things right and complain directly to the Officers Boss. If a Police Officer tells me to get down on the floor with my hands up, I will do that even if I havn´t done anything. To resist arrest is one of the main reasons why people get shot. However what they did was beyond the rights of the Police
You must be American… zzZzzZZzz
Weak
Sheep.
good point
So what you’re saying is, despite any shred of probable cause, you would submit to an unconstitutional arrest? That’s a very sad state of affairs.
And despite what you might think about resisting arrest, getting punched in the face and kneed while being pinned on the ground by two overly aggressive power-hungry cops–who the woman coincidentally complained about only moments earlier–it is not resisting arrest; it is asserting one’s constitutionally afforded rights as a citizen of a once-free republic.
Not really. You have your rights and they can only ask you to do that if your behavior suspicious of something that you aren’t supposed to do , so if you didn’t break the law, why should be treated like that and questioned? And even if you did, police exist to keep the “peace” on the streets, not to make more violence. And beating up a mom in front of her children it’s just an situation of stupid ass people, like those cops. If you want to exculpate what this cops did, you’re an dumbass, sorry.
She was in panic, who wouldnt resist when in panic?
“even if she didn’t do anything, she resisted arrest”
Think about what you just said for a minute. Even if she resisted arrest, she didn’t do anything, so why was she being arrested? Regardless of whether she engaged in any sort of misconduct, the cops’ behavior is what is in question here, and whether she resisted at all has no bearing on whether the cops misbehaved.
If there is no crime to arrest her for,than there can be no resisting arrest… That would be resisting false arrest which is her right.
Fucking boot licker! I smell a Tory!
Your name suits you
If there is no charge to arrest her on there is only her resisting false arrest which is her right
As a citizen you have the right to resist an unlawful arrest by any means, up to and including using deadly force. Not a smart thing to do, but legal.
When an officer ask you to exit you vehicle they suspect you of more than just a traffic violation, exit your vehicle ask for a supervisor and assert your 5th amendment right.
When a police officer ask you to exit your vehicle they suspect more than just a traffic violation, you should ask what you are suspected of while exiting your vehicle ask for the supervisor and then assert your 5th amendment right!
Suspicion laws allow cops to do as they please so beware when you give someone authority it will be abused, unless you record it you are considered guilty until proven innocent.