Three Deputies Face Criminal Charges in Horseback Pursuit Takedown
Francis Jared Pusok was punched and kicked by deputies after a nearly three-hour pursuit in the high desert north of Los Angeles
Three Southern California sheriff’s
deputies will face criminal charges in the beating of a man after he
tried to escape on horseback in a high desert chase captured by
NewsChopper4, District Attorney Michael Ramos said on Tuesday.
Charges were filed against San
Bernardino County deputies Nicholas Downey, Michael Phelps and Charles
Foster in the takedown of Francis Jared Pusok about 90 miles northeast
of Los Angeles on April 9. Downey, Phelps and Foster were each charged
with one count of assault by a public officer.
“I believe the deputies that were
filed on today crossed the line under color of authority,” Ramos said.
“But their actions should not tarnish the badge of those that honorably
serve everyday.”
All three deputies are expected to
appear in court for arraignment on Sept. 8 at the San Bernardino Justice
Center. The charged deputies face anywhere from 16 months to 3 years in
prison if convicted, Ramos said.
1 comment:
Used to be if you are considered in the wrong, you can wait for the police and then have your day in court to prove your innocence.
Now?
You find out someone is calling the cops, you may live, or you may die.
If you run, you may live, and have your butt beat to a pulp, and they will act like it's your fault for running.
If you stay, you may die, because they may fear the fact that you stayed at the scene knowing they were coming, so they are on edge thinking you have a weapon and waiting on them to use it.
It's a situation they created, and they should not be in their jobs.
To see someone come to the scene minutes later and walk upon someone already on the ground and kick him, or as another did, walked up and appeared to have some stick and jabbed him from the right.
The men are heavy, they are already holding the man down, and have electricity in him, probably pushing the button making his muscles jump against his will and then telling him to stop moving.
If they had body camera, I'm sure most of them don't have it on when they get to the guy, and start kicking him and beating him.
Would probably fill out the report saying all his injuries came from falling off the stolen horse.
Any jury that says the police did nothing wrong, I don't care how slow they make the video, frame by frame, they deserve to be a jury if his peer and go through the same thing he went through and decide they were right, the cops did nothing wrong. It's no big deal to have that many men beat on someone.
That should be a criteria for the jury. Go through what he went through, and then make your decision as a peer, not as a distant observer who is a hive mind, or hybrid, or empty seater, or the walk-in who has something else to do than to be paid to serve as a juror for the man who has already served his sentence at the hands of servants not authority.
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