Here is a sto­ry from NBC news that speaks for itself. It is just anoth­er iter­a­tion of the pat­terns and prac­tices that con­tin­ue to go on unabat­ed across the length and breadth of America as peo­ple who are sworn to pro­tect demon­strate that when they took the oath all they want­ed was the gun and pow­er but none of the respon­si­bil­i­ties that come with being a respectable police office, which is a noble profession.
They are race sol­diers and gang­sters in uni­form with full pow­ers to take life and that is what makes police vio­lence in America so dangerous.
“THIS IS NOT POLICE WORK,” said the Aurora Police chief. I con­cur, this is what I have said for a decade-plus as a for­mer police offi­cer, “this is not police work”.

Two Colorado officers arrested after arrest in which man was struck with gun, choked

By Tim Fitzsimons and The Associated Press

One offi­cer is accused of fail­ing to stop a fel­low offi­cer as required by a new police account­abil­i­ty law

A Colorado police offi­cer has been arrest­ed after video showed him using his pis­tol to beat a man he was try­ing to take into cus­tody, chok­ing him and threat­en­ing to kill him, police said Tuesday. Another offi­cer was accused of fail­ing to stop her col­league as required by a new police account­abil­i­ty law passed dur­ing racial injus­tice protests last year.

In a vio­lent and dis­turb­ing body-worn cam­era clip released Tuesday by the Aurora Police Department, Officer John Haubert is seen pis­tol-whip­ping and chok­ing the man.

“We’re dis­gust­ed. We’re angry. This is not police work,” Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said Tuesday at a news con­fer­ence announc­ing the charges. “We don’t train this. It is not acceptable.”

Haubert was charged with attempt­ed first-degree assault, sec­ond-degree assault, oppres­sion, felony men­ac­ing and first-degree offi­cial mis­con­duct, police said. He post­ed bail and was released after he turned him­self in Monday.

Officer Francine Martinez is accused of fail­ing to inter­vene and report use of force by a peace officer.

Police pub­lic infor­ma­tion offi­cer Chris Amsler said Martinez turned her­self in Tuesday morn­ing to the Glendale, Colorado, Police Department, post­ed a $1,000 bond and was released.

Attempts to reach Haubert at phone num­bers list­ed in pub­lic records that may be linked to him weren’t suc­cess­ful Tuesday evening. His attor­ney, Reid Elkus, said he could­n’t com­ment because it is ear­ly in the case. He said, “We will be zeal­ous­ly defend­ing Officer Haubert.”

Attempts to reach Martinez at phone num­bers list­ed in pub­lic records that may be linked to her weren’t suc­cess­ful Tuesday evening. It was­n’t clear whether she has an attorney.

Haubert and Martinez were sent to inves­ti­gate a tres­pass­ing report Thursday when they encoun­tered three peo­ple who had out­stand­ing felony war­rants and tried to arrest them, accord­ing to offi­cial doc­u­ments. Two ran away and haven’t been arrest­ed, Wilson said.

The vic­tim, Kyle Vinson, did­n’t suf­fer seri­ous injury in the inci­dent but was tak­en to a hos­pi­tal for welts and a cut on his head that required six stitch­es, police said. Authorities did­n’t say whether he will face charges for an out­stand­ing war­rant on a pro­ba­tion violation.

“We don’t believe he knew that he actu­al­ly had an exist­ing war­rant,” Wilson said.

Haubert used his “duty pis­tol to strike Mr. Vinson,” the affi­davit stat­ed, and Martinez was “involved in the use of force, but there was no knowl­edge of her using any weapons.”

“It does not appear … that Mr. Vinson had used any force against Officer Haubert or Officer Martinez,” an inves­ti­gat­ing offi­cer wrote in the affi­davit, adding that “Mr. Vinson com­plied with Officer Haubert’s orders.”

During the attempt­ed arrest, Haubert “pressed the muz­zle of his gun” into Vinson’s head and right neck area before pis­tol-whip­ping him mul­ti­ple times, the affi­davit says.

In the video, blood can be seen run­ning down Vinson’s face while he cries out and tells the offi­cer “you’re killing me” and tries to swat the gun away from his face.

Haubert’s body cam­era “was dis­lodged in the process” of the offi­cer’s grab­bing Vinson “by the neck” and forc­ing him “back­ward to the ground,” the affi­davit says

“If you move I will shoot you,” Haubert can be heard say­ing in the video as he begins to squeeze his hands around Vinson’s throat.

“Mr. Vinson appeared to be los­ing con­scious­ness. His mouth was open, and his eyes began to close,” the inves­ti­gat­ing offi­cer wrote in the affidavit,

About 39 sec­onds lat­er, Haubert “began to remove his hand from Mr. Vinson’s throat/​neck area” and anoth­er scuf­fle ensues, in which, the inves­ti­ga­tor said, author­i­ties “did not observe any punch­es, kicks or strikes being made by anyone.”

Vinson was thrown back onto the ground by Haubert and Martinez, and anoth­er arriv­ing offi­cer used a Taser on the man, who was then final­ly handcuffed.

“I did­n’t even run,” Vinson said as he “made a labored groan­ing sound,” the affi­davit states.

The Aurora Police Association did­n’t imme­di­ate­ly respond to a request for com­ment Tuesday evening.

Last year, the Colorado attor­ney gen­er­al opened an inves­ti­ga­tion into whether the Aurora Police Department per­mits “pat­terns and prac­tices … that might deprive indi­vid­u­als of their con­sti­tu­tion­al rights” after Elijah McClain, a young Black man, died in offi­cers’ custody.

Officers on Aug. 24, 2019, placed him in a choke­hold and para­medics inject­ed him with a large dose of ket­a­mine, a pow­er­ful seda­tive. McClain, 23, died days later.

A year lat­er, the police depart­ment drew addi­tion­al scruti­ny after a viral video showed offi­cers with guns drawn on a group of Black women and girls who had been ordered to lie face down in a park­ing lot while some of them were hand­cuffed. The group cried and screamed, with one young girl yelling, “I want my mother!”

The offi­cers had stopped their car on the belief that it was stolen because it shared the plate num­ber of a stolen motor­cy­cle, a police spokes­woman said. But after they deter­mined that the car had­n’t been stolen, police “unhand­cuffed every­one involved, made efforts to explain what hap­pened, and apol­o­gized,” offi­cials said.

Last year, Colorado leg­is­la­tors passed a bill that, among oth­er things, requires all offi­cers to use body cam­eras by July 2023, bans choke­holds, lim­its poten­tial­ly lethal uses of force, and removes qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty from police, poten­tial­ly expos­ing offi­cers to law­suits for their actions in use-of-force cases.

The law also requires offi­cers to inter­vene when they see col­leagues use exces­sive force and to report it to superiors.

Legislators strength­ened the law this year to encour­age more offi­cers to use their body cam­eras and pro­mote “de-esca­la­tion tech­niques” in police encounters.(Watch cop beat nbc news)