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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYg7aBSpopI

There has to be more to this story.

Waiting for all the facts...

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I'm sure the cops told him "You better not be on that corner when whe come by here again."

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Not knowing what it must be like for a cop to see someone with an unzipped jacket I will reserve judgement. For all we know the officer had been seeing unzipped jackets all day and this was just the last straw.

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Not knowing what it must be like for a cop to see someone with an unzipped jacket I will reserve judgement. For all we know the officer had been seeing unzipped jackets all day and this was just the last straw.

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Not knowing what it must be like for a cop to see someone with an unzipped jacket I will reserve judgement. For all we know the officer had been seeing unzipped jackets all day and this was just the last straw.

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Isolated incident.

Fucker had it coming, standing on that god damn corner, being all black an schizophrenic an shit with an UNZIPPED coat? Just asking for it.

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Something don't smell right since when do cops tell you how to wear your clothes....

Police Beating of Schizophrenic Caught on Tape
Bar Video for Criminal Activity Catches Alleged Police Brutality
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
June 6, 2009  
 Ronnie Holloway's eyes were still black and blue one week after he was allegedly beaten by a Passaic, N.J., police officer –– an attack that was inadvertently caught on a video surveillance camera.

A police confrontation with a New Jersey man is caught on video tape.Holloway, who is on medication for schizophrenia, joined more than 80 others outside that community's city hall Saturday to demand that Officer Joseph R. Rios III be fired.

The tape shows Holloway, 49, waiting outside Lawrence's Grill and Bar restaurant in Passaic when a police cruiser pulled up and a female officer asked him to zip up his sweatshirt. Holloway appears to comply, but Rios jumps out and begins hitting him with his fists and a baton.

The scene shows baby strollers and other pedestrians walk by in the downtown retail section of this community of immigrants and working poor.

Holloway does not appear to resist, and at one point, Rios seems to stand him back up and then slam him into the police cruiser.

"These cops know him," said Holloway's lawyer Nancy Lucianna of Fort Lee, N.J. "He's lived in the town for 25 years, does the same routine every night. He goes out after dinner, takes a walk, and paces back and forth."


Soft-Spoken Man Now Confused by Police
Lucianna said Holloway, who is a "soft-spoken, almost childlike" man who lives with his mother, has never had a police record of any kind.

"He is compliant and calm with medication," she told ABCNews.com.


His mother, Betty Holloway, said that without the surveillance tape, the truth about what happened would never have been revealed.

She said the female officer at the scene never tried to stop the officer as her son was beaten to the ground. Both Holloways deny he had a drug problem.

Betty Holloway said her son had always respected police before this incident.

"Now, he is confused and doesn't know what to think," she told ABC reporter Stacey Sager of New York affiliate WABC.

Passaic police refused to comment for ABCNews.com. Rios, a 7-year veteran of the police department is still on active duty, according to local police reports.

The Holloways have filed a complaint with the police's internal affairs department demanding an investigation. They are also asking for the state country prosecutor's office to bring criminal charges against Rios and are filing a suit against the department for police brutality.  

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Can't wait to see someone try and rationalize this.

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Or maybe he was simply a douchebag that shouldn't be able to legally carry a firearm with a temper like that? jumping the gun like that when the video clearly shows the guy laying there, hardly trying to defend himself whilst getting the snot pounded out of him. The officer (and I use that title loosely in this fucksticks case) needs to a) lose his job, b) be financially sodomized in a civil suit or c) be brought up on charges of abusing power, and assault. Assholes like this give LEO's a bad rep for this very reason, they need to be weeded out and treated like the criminals they are.

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No way it can be to the point of saying the cop was right in his actions.

All I can come up with is maybe he made some kind of outright crude remark to the police WOMAN, and the other officer went bat shit crazy over it. Notice the police woman didn't do anything at all. She stood there like a GF would while you pounded the face of someone that insulted her.

I don't think it had anything to do with the jacket or where he was standing.

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Still wouldn't be justified.

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I wonder what really happened?

It sure looks bad for that officer.

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It was a members only jacket.

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Something don't smell right since when do cops tell you how to wear your clothes....

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I'm guessing that words were exchanged.  Video won't show that.

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Something don't smell right since when do cops tell you how to wear your clothes....

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Passaic NJ is NOT someplace you want to fuck around.

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Isolated incident #89 for the month.

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Passaic NJ is NOT someplace you want to fuck around.

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According to the article, he was asked to "zip up his sweatshirt"....by the female officer....then the other officer proceeds to beat him down for whatever reason.