Seattle area cops responsible for (innocent) man's brain injury

[freeplessinseattle]

I saw the security camera footage, it is just sickening. The video is available at the link below.


...Harris, now 31, suffered a catastrophic brain injury early on May 10, 2009, after his head hit the wall outside the Cinerama Theater in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. Since then, he's been confined to bed, unable to walk, talk or do anything for himself, his wife told The Seattle Times in May.

A surveillance camera outside the movie theater captured footage of the incident.

It was later determined that Harris was wrongly identified as a suspect in an assault outside a Belltown convenience store.

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"I heard the man in front of them yell: 'I don't have anything,' " Dahlberg said, raising her hands to her shoulders, mimicking Harris' movements.

Perry and Cody later made the same gesture during their testimony.

"I wasn't sure who they were," Dahlberg said, testifying that she never heard the deputies identify themselves as law-enforcement officers. The deputies were wearing black fatigues, and Dahlberg said she didn't recognize them as the uniforms worn by Metro Transit police.

Harris slowed to a walk as he crossed Fourth Avenue on Lenora Street, Dahlberg said. She said Paul didn't slow his pace as he delivered a hard shove to Harris' chest.

"Before I knew it, he was just smashed into the wall," Dahlberg said of Harris.

Moments later, Dahlberg said, her eyes met Paul's and she heard him whisper to a colleague: "She saw." She described the deputy's expression as "surprised and worried."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013992310_harris21m.html

[freeplessinseattle]

1. kicking so the daytime people see it n/t

[Missy Vixen]

2. I was born in Seattle. I've lived here my entire life.

Best advice I can give to anyone considering a visit: Don't. Stay out of downtown Seattle, especially after dark. The police have already shown there are NO consequences for their actions towards citizens.

This is not the city I remember, and as long as police assaults and shootings continue, it won't be.