Oct 19, 2023
Handcuffed Black Man Brutalized During Traffic Stop Arrest
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Alabama cop beats a handcuffed man.
Here's the video.
>> Speaker 2: Record
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him sir,
record
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him sir,
[INAUDIBLE].
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>> Speaker 1: The man was in handcuffs.
This was initially a traffic stop.
Put up the picture full mass.
Let me give you the background
to what you just saw.
Officer Callegari,
a Mobile Alabama police officer,
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has now been placed on administrative
leave, and an investigation is underway.
At the video shows the officer
brutalizing a handcuffed man.
This was during an arrest last
week according to the report.
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The incident began as a traffic stop
last Thursday when the officer and
his partner stopped a vehicle driven by
a 36 year old named Beezer Earl Dubose Jr,
which the officers allege he was speeding.
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Officers on the scene,
according to their report,
detected the smell of marijuana and
told both the driver and
the passenger to exit the vehicle.
Although police have not confirmed,
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it's presumed Mr Dubose is the man
seen in the video with the officer,
since the unidentified passenger
was not taken into custody.
Initial court filings say
that as he was being placed
under arrest by Mobile
officer Paul Callegari,
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Dubose grabbed the officer's testicles and
penis and
twisted them,
causing serious physical pain, end quote.
Dubose was taken to
a Mobile Metro Jail and
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later released after posting a bond for
16,800 bucks.
Let's put up leadership here.
So you have the Mobile Chief
of Staff James Barber told
the City Council Tuesday,
the Department of Justice and
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the FBI have been both
notified of an incident.
A statement from Mobile Police Chief,
police said,
the Office of Professional Responsibility
is conducting a thorough
examination from all aspects of the case.
So the cop was placed on
administrative leave as the FBI,
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Department of Justice and the Office of
Professional Responsibility conduct their
investigations of the incident.
Paul Prine is the chief of police.
Now I got to tell you,
this happened when, last Thursday.
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They said,
this is what the spokesperson said.
We have informed the Department of
Justice, we have informed the FBI.
Now for them, for those individuals
to do so, well, that's a rarity.
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Typically, one, it takes longer.
Number two, there's usually a prying by
the DoJ before there's this acceptance or
before they acquiesce to the federal
intrusion, as they typically call it.
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But this is different.
Now, what is the spin here?
The spin is, well,
the officer did it because the suspect
grabbed him in the private parts.
Come on, man.
Come on.
That's justification for
beating a man while he's handcuffed.
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I don't understand why that was even
presented as a possible defense here,
but that's what's on the record so far.
The cop has been suspended.
Obviously, we believe that
cops should be arrested,
should have been arrested on the spot.
The individual was handcuffed.
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I don't give a damn why
you pulled him over.
I don't give a damn how much marijuana
he had in the car, if he had any at all.
It doesn't matter to me.
What matters is the individual is not
treated with the decency, respect and
constitutional rights he already has.
He has them.
They belong to him.
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For you to take them away is illegal.
You cannot be the enforcer of law and
be the breaker of it at the same time.
We should hold you to a higher
standard of responsibility.
Here's what we know for sure.
The individual you had handcuffed,
he took no oath to protect and serve.
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He takes no taxpayer dollar to
protect the community at large.
But you do, all right.
Jordan, thoughts here?
>> Speaker 3: Yeah,
I think this is interesting,
that a police department
would preemptively flag this.
Usually there's, like you're saying, an
investigation, the Civil Rights Division
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will get involved, but that a police
department did this on their own and
like you pointed out, within that
shortened time frame is shocking.
We've seen over the years
how police departments and
police unions specifically,
will obfuscate and
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obstruct investigations into
bad behavior by police.
That's one of the biggest problems in the
police accountability movement, because
they try to take extended timelines
to get everyone on the same page,
get their story straight, and then provide
a report for their internal investigation.
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I don't know what the incentive to
create a culture where more police
departments do this.
I don't know what that incentive would be,
but identifying one and
employing one, maybe through
the DoJ could be a good start.
Obviously, there's still many, many
problems that remain in police culture.
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But that we're seeing this, I think,
as a byproduct of people speaking up,
demonstrating over the years and depending
on which presidential administration,
tough actions by the DoJ and
especially the Civil Rights Division.
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So, it looks like maybe some
progress is being made.
Not saying we're in a perfect
utopian world yet, but this is new.
I was surprised by this.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, same here.
Very surprised by the swift action,
surprised by the invitation for
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the FBI to investigate.
And we shall see what three agencies
investigate, where all three agencies come
to the same conclusion about what I
see as criminal action via the police.
We will update as the story develops.
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