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Buffalo, NY Police officer Dennis Gilbert \is Football Head Coach at St. Joe's |
By Davy V.
As Corporate-America run mainstream media continues to refer to a disturbing 1 minute, 21 second video which shows Buffalo, NY cops kneeing, kicking, and slapping a handcuffed African-American man laying face first on a sidewalk, as he pleads for them to stop, as an "alleged case of police brutality", two of the officers in the video have been identified.
One of those officers is John Cirulli, he is believed to be the one seen doing most of the kneeing, kicking, and striking of the man, who has been identified as John Willet.
Cirulli has been suspended without pay.
The second officer has been identified as Buffalo, NY Police officer Dennis Gilbert.
Gilbert has been placed on administrative leave, which basically means he will still get paid for doing nothing, but waiting for the 'investigation' to be completed.
Apparently officer Dennis Gilbert has a side job.
Gilbert is the head football coach for the St. Joseph Collegiate Institute, a catholic college located in Tonawanda, NY.
The incident took place on Saturday April 19th around 10:30 p.m. on Philadelphia and Ontario Streets.
Note:
I am the first to publish Buffalo, NY Police officer Dennis Gilbert's photo.
Contact St. Joseph's Catholic Institute (716) 874-4024
BUFFALO, NY POLICE OFFICER JOHN CERULLI ORDERED MAN WHO RECORDED VIDEO TO DELETE FOOTAGE!
By Davy V.
Click the link below to read my original piece and watch video of beating.
Contact St. Joseph's Catholic Institute (716) 874-4024
BUFFALO, NY POLICE OFFICER JOHN CERULLI ORDERED MAN WHO RECORDED VIDEO TO DELETE FOOTAGE!
By Davy V.
The man who recorded Buffalo, NY cops beating a handcuffed African-American man lying face down on a city sidewalk says that Buffalo, NY Police officer John Cerulli asked him to delete incriminating footage showing him and other officers beating the man.
The man, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation by Buffalo Police, says that as soon as he saw Buffalo Police officers push the man, who has been identified as John Willet, to the ground, he began recording with his cell phone.
And that's when officers saw him recording.
The man says that one of the officers in the video tapped a fellow officer on the shoulder, when he saw the man recording them.
And according to the man, that's when a Buffalo, NY Police officer, the same one seen in the video kneeing, kicking, and striking the handcuffed man, walked over to him.
That officer is John Cerulli.
The man says Buffalo Police officer John Cerulli gave him an ultimatum.
"Give me your phone, or delete the video, or I'm going to take your phone as evidence," the man says Cerulli told him.
The man, thinking ahead, had already switched phones with a friend who was with him.
He then told officer Cerulli that he had deleted the video.
Officer Cerulli then grabbed the phone checked it, and thanked the man.
Thanks to the man's quick thinking, a video of Buffalo, NY Police officers beating an innocent, handcuffed man is now going viral.
Unfortunately what Buffalo Police officer John Cerulli did, intimidating the man, in essence threatening him if he didn't delete the video, is a very common practice among law enforcement officers.
Especially when the cop knows he of she has just been captured on video, beating someone.
Perhaps more disturbing than the typical, well known police intimidation tactics, is that many people don't realize that not only is it perfectly legal to photograph and video record law enforcement officers, protected under the first amendment, and many folks don't know that a police officer can't just take your phone away, especially without a warrant.
Not only is a police officer ordering a citizen to let them see their phone, or asking that citizen to delete photos or videos improper, but it's in clear violation of the first amendment, but also the fourth amendment, which protects against illegal search and seizures, as well as the fourteenth amendment, because that police officer would be taking someone's property without due process.
So, like I always say... COPS LIE. RECORD EVERYTHING.
Click the link below to read my original piece and watch video of beating.
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