Law enforcement plays an integral role in any
society. While there are good cops out there, who do indeed
protect and serve, there are a few who are engaging in brutality
and it needs to stop. As such the Judiciary Report is
highlighting another case of police brutality. 36-year-old
Baltimore woman, Kianga Mwamba, was tased by a police officer
for filming the arrest of a man, who was being brutalized.
Mwamba was driving by and witnessed as a police
officer kicked a man during the arrest. The officer ordered her
to drive away and she responded, "You telling me I can't
record." The officer then approached her demanding she get "out
of the car." He yanked her out and tased her so severely she
thought she was being burned. The story gets even worse as he
falsely stated, "You a dumb b***h, you know that? You just tried
to run over an officer." The officer erased the video of what
transpired from Mwamba's phone, but the back up copy was on her
cloud account online and easily retrieved.
Kianga Mwamba
This is unquestionable police brutality and
corruption. It's disheartening reading such stories. Mwamba has filed a $7,000,000 lawsuit
against the Baltimore City Police Department for the offense.
Ars Technica reported, "The suit, filed last week, said the police
'attacked' the woman, 'dragged' her from her vehicle, and 'threw her
onto the street, handcuffed her, tasered her, called her a 'dumb
b***h,' and kept her restrained. The suit says the officers arrested Mwamba and
"threw her face-down on the street" to "prevent the disclosure of
the video taken of them beating a handcuffed man."
The video evidence certainly bolsters her case.
It was convincing enough to have the fraudulent charges of
trying to run over the officer and his partner dropped. Under
the law, people are allowed to film items outdoors with their
mobile phones.
STORY SOURCE
Cops use taser on woman while she recorded arrest of another man
Dec 11 2014, 1:45pm EST - A 36-year-old Baltimore
woman claims she was tased by police and arrested while filming the
arrest of a man with her mobile phone, according to a lawsuit to be
served on the Baltimore City Police Department as early as Thursday. Video of the March 30 melee surfaced online this
week.
Police erased the 135-second recording from the woman's phone,
but it was recovered from her cloud account, according to the
Circuit Court for Baltimore City lawsuit (PDF), which seeks $7
million.
Kianga Mwamba was driving home from a family
gathering in March. Stopped in traffic, she began filming the nearby
arrest of a man who she says was kicked by police. "You telling me I can't record," the woman says on
the video as police tell her to move on. "I'll park. I'll park. I'll park," the woman is
heard saying in her own recording. All of a sudden an officer says, "Out of the car.
Out of the car." She was yanked out. "He burning me. He burning me,"
the woman is heard screaming...
Mwamba was arrested on charges of assault for
allegedly trying to run over two officers. Charges were dropped, and
she suffered cuts and bruises. At the end of the tape, an officer says, "You a dumb
b***h, you know that?" "What did I do?" she asks. "You just tried to run over an officer," the officer
responds...
