Oct 30, 2023
Cop CHARGED For Brutally Beating Bar Bouncer
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A Detroit cop has been charged for
beating up a bouncer.
Okay, let's go to the screenshots first.
And this is such an extreme action.
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I mean, this guy, this cop was
literally beating the bouncer,
the bouncer was not resisting,
not putting up a fight.
He literally said,
I was doing everything to make sure no one
could say I ever resisted anything,
the cop has now been charged with a crime.
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Let's go to DeAndre Williams,
the Detroit cop, put it up full mass.
He's the police,
he was involved in a brutal,
it was a brutal attack of
a bouncer caught on video.
He has been charged, it only took
the department a year and a half later.
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Williams was arraigned last Thursday,
finally charged officially
with assault and battery.
Michael Kennebrew is the man that was
physically assaulted in the video.
It happened at a Detroit bar during
a routine liquor license inspection.
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That's when this happened.
Liquor license inspection,
this was April 28th, 2022.
Kennebrew, the bouncer, was initially
arrested, jail for three days as
the Detroit Police Department sought
charges of assaulting an officer.
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However, charges didn't stick.
That means that when people looked at it,
they said, well,
how the hell are you gonna
charge him with anything?
You can't.
Let me give you background on the attack.
In the video, the bouncer, Mr. Kennebrew,
says this female officer asked
if he was armed, he said no.
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She then tries to grab him, and
Kennebrew, he pulls away like,
why are you grabbing me?
So he pulls away from the officer,
that set off the officer next to her.
I got to beat up a man now
because he pulled away from
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an officer who had no damn right
to physically assault him.
Unwanted contact is called battery.
That sent the officer off,
who decided to pounce on Mr.
Kennebrew, punching him repeatedly.
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When I say brutal, it was brutal.
Kennebrew says he was, quote,
careful not to resist and
careful not to defend himself.
And I got to say this.
Kennebrew could have
kicked that cop's ass,
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Kennebrew is three times this cop signed,
okay?
He never resisted,
the man did not even defend himself.
He allowed this cop, who was,
I don't know, showing out in front of
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his other officers,
he allowed this cop to assault him.
Put up those pictures.
In the statement to Fox 2 Detroit,
the bouncer said,
quote, I mean,
you kind of feel like your hands are tied,
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and it's a little
demoralizing just as a person
in general to go through
something like that.
Another officer had a taser that was in
front of me, coming towards my face area.
So I didn't wanna make any moves, so
I just rode it out until it was over.
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He let this man just pounce on him and
pounce on him, no defense, no nothing.
He had done nothing wrong, he could
have defended himself, he let it ride.
There's more.
Let's put him up.
Chief of police buck stops with him,
so the Detroit Police,
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alongside Detroit Police Chief James E
White, released a statement saying, quote,
the DPD expects and requires the highest
level of professionalism from its members.
Officer Williams actions on April 28th,
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2022 violated DPD's use of force
policy as well as our values.
There you go, Chief.
Once again, only took you a year and
a half to figure that out,
swift justice has its place.
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I will also say this.
There's another underlying issue
here that may seem minor, but
it's part of the culture.
What started this?
Another officer tried
to illegally grab and
search Mr. Kennebrew.
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He pulls back because he has the legal
right not to agree to an illegal search,
is codified in your constitution,
6th Amendment, etc.
So that sets the other office off.
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Well, why are your cops breaking
constitutional mandate in the first place?
Naturally, what the second cop did is
much more egregious based on statute and
adverse impact.
But what the first officer
did was also a constitutional
violation that was cause and
effect to the second action of the cop.
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My point is this.
How many times has an officer arrested
somebody for something big and
decided to charge them with everything,
not turning on the traffic signal,
not stopping at the stop sign, and
they committed vehicular homicide, okay?
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They charge you with everything, and
they allow a prosecutor to do the rest.
They can drop, they can add.
But in this case, there's no mention
of the first action of the officer
who decided to violate
the bouncer's constitutional right,
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which led to the additional actions
you saw that were wholly egregious.
This is a cultural issue
that has to be addressed.
We cannot simply look away from
the reality of the culture that permeates
inside of policing because there are good
cops obviously, we go after bad cops only.
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But the culture of policing is defined
by the bad cops who make the headlines.
All right, Ricky, thoughts here.
>> Speaker 2: Hey, Dr. Richey.
Again, you are on point for calling out,
talking about the culture of police.
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And one of the things within the culture
is a lot of times, I've seen a lot of
videos where police officers talk
to adults like they are kids.
You're telling your three year old,
come here, and you're dealing with adults.
And when you put your hands on somebody
now, I'm not mistaken, I'm not a lawyer or
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anything like that, but
if you put your hands on someone,
that means that they are under arrest.
If they are under arrest, Dr. Richey,
you're supposed to let them know that
they are under arrest or
they are being detained.
But to put your hands on somebody,
and then them to snatch away,
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that's what any adult would do if
anybody put their hands on them.
And that don't give you the authority
to put your hands on people or
whatever because he was not under arrest.
And stuff like this need
to be called out and
need to be seen because it
escalates all situations.
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And if the police officers
job is to de escalate,
putting your hands on someone,
a grown man that's in uniform and
at work is not de-escalating anything,
it's escalating.
And it should be some accountability and
some punishment,
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they just need to learn
how to de-escalate.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
And once again, this was over a routine
liquor license check, has nothing to do
with the bouncer, that has everything
to do the owner, not the bouncer.
This is a paperwork check situation.
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It ended up in a physical
assault against the citizen, and
now a cop has been charged
with criminal offenses.
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