Get used to this America, gangs are running the streets and we pay them to.
This article is called "Cell phone video shows police beating of student" and it's taken from [here], read it and understand who the gangsters are these days...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers' conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said.
The video, posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its Web site late Saturday, shows one officer hitting 20-year-old Phuong Ho with a metal baton more than 10 times, including once on the head. Another officer is seen using his Taser gun on the San Jose State math major.
The final baton strike in last month's incident appears to take place after handcuffs have been attached to Ho's wrists.
"It takes me back to the day I saw the Rodney King video on TV," said Roger Clark, a police expert and a retired lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
The last baton strike ought to bring a felony charge, Clark said.
Officers arrested Ho on suspicion of assaulting one of his roommates. He was not armed when police arrived and he told the newspaper he didn't resist arrest.
The confrontation began Sept. 3 when Ho's roommate, Jeremy Suftin, put soap on Ho's steak. The two scuffled, and Ho — from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — picked up a steak knife, saying that in his home country he would have killed Suftin for doing what he did.
Suftin called police, and four officers responded.
Officer Kenneth Siegel encountered Ho in the hallway, but couldn't understand the student's accent, police reports said. Ho then ignored a police command to stand still, reports said.
When Ho tried to follow Siegel into his room, officer Steven Payne Jr. moved to handcuff Ho. Payne wrote in his report that he pushed Ho into a wall and then forced him to the floor when Ho resisted being handcuffed.
Ho said his glasses fell off, and as he went to pick them up, the officers struck him.
Another one of Ho's roommates, Dimitri Masouris, captured the events on his cell phone. Ho can be heard on the video moaning and crying as he's struck.
Masouris said he considered the police response excessive. He sold the tape to San Jose lawyer Duyen Hoang Nguyen, who is representing Ho.
The Mercury News showed the video to Daniel Katz, San Jose's assistant police chief. The department is taking the matter very seriously, Katz said.
Several other police experts said the video raises serious concerns.
"Once he is handcuffed, then he is helpless," said Frank Jordan, a former San Francisco police chief and mayor. "If you can show that his hands are behind his back, and he is handcuffed, that is where you get brutality. That would be excessive force."
Siegel and Payne didn't respond to written requests for comment sent through department officials and their union.
"Bad math boy, bad-bad-bad!"
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