smile for the camera, officer!! wait, wait, OUCH!!!

[Cooter]

[Sean88gt]

What a cocksucker.

[Steve]

Wow. Both were in the wrong in my opinion. The camera guy provoked the situation by being antagonistic and the cop was just an asshole.

[matts5.0]

He could have got his Id before he body slammed him and broke his nose.. That's fucked up in every way, the cop had no right.

[TorchRedStang]

Las Vegas officer in videotaped beating suspended
The Associated Press
Posted: 04/24/2011 05:45:59 PM PDT
Updated: 04/24/2011 06:16:58 PM PDT


LAS VEGAS—A Las Vegas police officer under investigation in the videotaped beating of a man has been suspended with pay pending completion of an internal investigation.
Officer Derek Colling was suspended April 1, two days after the Clark County district attorney's office dropped all charges against videographer Mitchell Crooks, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Crooks was standing in his driveway videotaping police March 20 as they investigated a burglary report across the street. When Crooks refused to stop recording, Colling allegedly attacked and beat him, with much of the altercation recorded by the camera.

Crooks said he initially told the officer he didn't live there and now regrets not telling Colling that he was in fact standing in his own driveway. After Crooks repeatedly ignored Colling's orders to turn off the camera, the officer is accused of grabbing him by the shoulder and throwing him down. The officer also is accused of kicking and punching Crooks, and breaking his nose.

In his arrest report, Colling wrote that Crooks grabbed his shoulders "and attempted to take me to the ground. I in turn took him to the ground."

Crooks was booked into jail for investigation of battery on a police officer and obstruction of justice.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Christopher Laurent said he later dismissed the charges because the police report was vague.

Colling has been involved in two fatal shootings in his more


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than five years as a Las Vegas police officer. County coroner's juries ruled that both shootings were justified.
Crooks, 36, gained attention in 2002 when he videotaped two Inglewood, Calif., police officers beating a 16-year-old boy.

Crooks first tried to sell that tape, then refused to give it to prosecutors. He then was jailed on old warrants from unrelated drunken driving and petty theft charges. Civil rights advocates branded it as retribution.

Since 2003, he has lived in Las Vegas, where he shoots video for nightclubs.

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Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal

[jtm98snake]

General douchebag cop imho.

[TorchRedStang]

This cop deserves to be fired at the very least for his actions. Yes, the guy initially said that he didn't live there but before any physical altercation happened he said, "I do live here" multiple times. If the guy is holding a camera how is he going to put up a fight against the officer. That video is gonna seal his fate.

[Whiteboy]

What a prick of a cop

[564826]

What a fu@king dick!

[VaderTT]

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[LaserSVT]

What a piece of shit!

[Broncojohnny]

It is the Las Vegas PD, the cameraman is lucky the cop didn't just shoot him and make up some bullshit.

"He was reaching for mah gun!!!"

[bcoop]

Hold on guys, we don't know the whole story...

[ARIX]

That guy was a dumbass for lying that he did not live there. Regardless he was within his right to shoot from the sidewalk as that is public property. He could have kept rolling and handed his ID over and avoided the ass whooping. The cop was a dumbass for taking him out with a rolling camera.

[Vertnut]

"Do you live here?" "No". Probably would have never happened, if he had answered with the truth.