In this Aug. 24, 2013, photo made from a police dash camera video and released by the Dover Police Department, Dover Police Cpl. Thomas Webster, center, kicks Lateef Dickerson. (Dover Police Department)
DOVER, Del. –A police dashcam video shows a black suspect being kicked in the face by a white Dover police officer who was charged this week with assault.
The video released Thursday by police is part of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union over the August 2013 incident. The video shows Cpl. Thomas Webster IV, who was responding to a disturbance at a gas station, kicking Lateef Dickerson. Dickerson, responding to commands to get on the ground, is on his hands and knees. Webster was arrested Monday after a grand jury indicted him for second-degree assault. A previous grand jury declined to indict Webster last year, and the U.S. attorney’s office found no civil rights violation. The ACLU subsequently sued police on Dickerson’s behalf.
The video released Thursday by police is part of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union over the August 2013 incident. The video shows Cpl. Thomas Webster IV, who was responding to a disturbance at a gas station, kicking Lateef Dickerson. Dickerson, responding to commands to get on the ground, is on his hands and knees. Webster was arrested Monday after a grand jury indicted him for second-degree assault. A previous grand jury declined to indict Webster last year, and the U.S. attorney’s office found no civil rights violation. The ACLU subsequently sued police on Dickerson’s behalf.
Publisher’s note:
I watched this video several times because I wanted to make sure that what I saw was real.
I watched this video several times because I wanted to make sure that what I saw was real.
Having being a police officer myself in Kingston Jamaica one of the world’s most violent cities.
I was dumbfounded at the level of barbarism and utter depravity, the total disregard for human life and dignity.
I was totally enraged at what that Savage disguised as a police officer did.
That savage did what he did yet the system refused to indict him, which allowed him come to continue on as a police officer, giving him the opportunity to continue to abuse citizens with impunity.
Additionally I find it stunning that this Animal was not prosecuted the first time>
A previous grand jury declined to indict Webster last year, and the U.S. attorney’s office found no civil rights violation.
What evidence were these morally bankrupt cretins looking at?
How could anyone with decision making power look at this and walk away without indicting that savage?
Then they wonder why people hate their guts .
What we see on this video is not policing.
Police and their apologists are making a terrible mistake if the believe this level of brutal assault on people’s person and dignity will stand !
I was dumbfounded at the level of barbarism and utter depravity, the total disregard for human life and dignity.
I was totally enraged at what that Savage disguised as a police officer did.
That savage did what he did yet the system refused to indict him, which allowed him come to continue on as a police officer, giving him the opportunity to continue to abuse citizens with impunity.
Additionally I find it stunning that this Animal was not prosecuted the first time>
A previous grand jury declined to indict Webster last year, and the U.S. attorney’s office found no civil rights violation.
What evidence were these morally bankrupt cretins looking at?
How could anyone with decision making power look at this and walk away without indicting that savage?
Then they wonder why people hate their guts .
What we see on this video is not policing.
Police and their apologists are making a terrible mistake if the believe this level of brutal assault on people’s person and dignity will stand !