[Illusion]

DENVER — Video taken by a witness during an arrest shows a Denver police officer punching a suspect in the face six times and then tripping the man’s girlfriend who is seven-and-a-half months pregnant, causing her to land on her belly and face.

The witness who took the video claims an officer then took the tablet he was using to record the arrest, deleted the video file, not realizing it had already been stored on the electronic cloud.

The limited-use video obtained by FOX 31 in Denver shows the suspect’s head bouncing off the pavement from the force of the punches.

According to police reports, the uniformed police officer, Charles “Chris” Jones IV made the arrest after undercover narcotics police officers say they saw the suspect, David Flores, a suspected drug user, stuff a white sock in his mouth that they suspected was full of heroin.

Police say Flores refused to respond to requests to show his hands.

While Jones and his partner Christopher Evans were holding and punching Flores, a woman can be heard screaming. A few seconds later, Mayra Lazos-Guerrero, 25, falls hard on her face when Jones sweeps her feet out from under her. Jones said he did it because he thought she was going to kick him. Jones also cited two reasons for why he punched Flores.

[commondenom]

string em up....more excessive force by more assholes.

dirty fucking pigs....keep on filming these lying cunts...

[zin0]

Pieces of shit

[Fr33dom]

I dont know how many here are from the US.
But as far as i have seen, pictures and videos, the whole fuking US police etc. are arming up like animals. They know the people will start a revolt or try a revolution soon, look at their gear and weapons. Most of them are more high equipped then they were in Iraq or are in Afghanistan. There will be a massacre soon in the US, but it is needed. The change has to begin in the country, that is the biggest problem to our whole world.

[nyazzip]

Guy is dealing heroin, obstructing justice, resisting, destroying evidence; screaming woman is assaulting officers and interfering with the arrest...no sympathy.

[commondenom]

Originally Posted by nyazzip ↗

Guy is dealing heroin, obstructing justice, resisting, destroying evidence; screaming ape woman is assaulting officers and interfering with the arrest...no sympathy.

awww poor cops... the guy was resisting how many officers?? are they really that pathetic and weak that three of them won't be able to arrest him.....

and just where did they think that huge sock of drugs was going to go if he did swallow it?? that's right....nice and safe, stashed inside the guys gut...

you're an idiot if you support this kind of behaviour...

[Illusion]

There's no doubt there's an issue with police brutality, but I also feel for the police because I think their jobs are almost impossible. To be a cop in a crime ridden area is very difficult to deal with.

[30564U]

Since I no longer need to deal with Mr. Poo's, Mr. Curvature's, and Mr. Condominimum's relentless harping and progressive agenda, I shall try to give my expert analysis of the video. First what totally inflammatory and biased reporting...check out the words used by the news readers...very biased.

Strangely, it isn't against the law or against general police policy to strike a suspect in the face when you are attempting to stop a suspect from destroying evidence, ingesting harmful drugs, and/or keep the suspect from chocking or causing harm to himself. Now, how hard and frequently you can strike a suspect in this circumstance is up for debate and will more than likely be the determining factor for future disciplinary action. Colorado's urban areas are quite liberal and anti-police, so it wouldn't surprise me that they lynch this officer no matter his justification.

As far as tripping the screaming pregnant idiot...no foul there. Officers are given very wide latitude in dealing with third parties interfering with an ongoing arrest. The pregnant idiot sure looked to me like she was going to kick the officer when he sweep her kankles out from under her. Her being pregnant will play no role or factor in this use of force investigation...only the media will harp on this aspect of the use of force. There is absolutely no excessive or unreasonable use of force on the pregnant chick...she's a non issue.

Now, for the real issue and the hinge pin for any criminal case and any future civil case...grabbing the camera device and intentionally erasing the video. This one act was by far the worst thing the officers could do or did during this entire incident. It leads even the most pro-police viewer (like me) to immediately think there was a conspiracy to destroy evidence. See, by trying to destroy video evidence they put out the idea that they did something wrong or illegal (whether they did or not). That those officers tried to do that indicates that even those officers thought what they did was illegal or wrong...they just sunk themselves. Regardless of how hard or frequently the officer hit the bad guy, no matter that he tripped an idiot screaming pregnant woman, no matter anything else that occurred during that incident, trying to erase the video was the worst and most inexcusable action those copper took.

There are rebutable issues of use of force in this incident, but those are overshadowed by the intentional illegal actions of officers to conceal their controversial activity. In other words, I could have gotten them off the hook with hitting the bad guy and tripping the pregnant idiot...but there's no way in Hell anyone can justify intentionally seizing a camera device from a third party and intentionally attempting to erase evidence and then engaging in an undocumented conspiracy to conceal their ham handed attempts at destroy evidence. These are criminal actions that will make a civil suit a cakewalk to win. It will probably never even go to court. What boobs. If only they hadn't tried to destroy the video.

[commondenom]

thank you captain obvious

[Shakey]

Did they get the drugs