A grandfather accused of shoplifting videogames during a Black Friday shopping spree got a smashed face and a throat full of blood after cops sent him sprawling to the floor. Stories as to what happened in the Buckeye Walmart are conflicting, but the result is a same -- an old man almost drowned in his own juices over a couple of games.
The commonly accepted story is that the man's grandson was being trampled by violently rioting shoppers, so he put some games in his waistband to help the boy. Cops accused the man of trying to steal the games and arrested him. At some point, a police officer tripped the man and sent him face-first into the ground. His face was then thrust in a puddle of his own blood while the cops cuffed him.
"They grabbed the guy, body planted him into the ground -- face shatters on concrete. That's a hard concrete floor inside Walmart," said one witness. "All of a sudden, you see this little boy run up and wailing and yelling, ‘Grandpa, Grandpa,’ and crying his eyes out."
The man needed first aid but the arresting cops had no idea how to administer it. A Youtube video shows another shopper having to clear the grandfather's airways of blood while asking the cops, "What did you do to him?" Though witnesses say no theft took place, the cops have a different story -- they claim he was stealing and resisting arrest, which seems to be an increasingly popular excuse with police officers these days.
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10:00 PM on 11.25.2011 | 
"Video games are warping the minds of today's police."
FOR AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE
AND I WON'T FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED
TO GIVE THAT RIGHT TO ME
AND I'LL GLADLY STAND UP
NEXT TO YOU AND DEFEND HER STILL TODAY
CAUSE THERE A'INT NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAAAAAND
GOD BLESS THE USAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
IT'S NOT FUCKING WORTH IT, PEOPLE.
I have a buddy thats a cop, and let me tell ya, the shit you don't hear about is even more juicy than the shit you do.
In America, when the police pull crap like this the media has a field day and the local PD tends to get the crap sued out of them.
Most people live in places where you have zero recourse against corrupt law enforcement (unless you're rich enough to pay them off).
It’s the flat out denial that makes people angry, not the chance that it was human error.
However, as lastdual said, police brutality is not even remotely unique to America, and the U.S. is not worse than most countries on this issue by any means.
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face it, he fucked up. people dont just do things without a reason. old or not.
Does anyone else find it ironic that within the weekend we have had police brutality headlines from both the occupy camps and black Friday shopping? Tell us what you want police state! Should we embrace our corporate overlords or protest them!? I don't wanna get pepped!
I still want to participate in Black Friday one day in my life though, I never have and I feel it's something I should to one day. Just not at Walmart.
FUCK YEAH!
COMING AGAIN TO KILL YOUR MUTHAFUCKIN' GRANDPA!
We're a god damned police state run by corporations and WE DON'T GIVE A GOD DAMN FUCK. In fact, conservative ASSHOLES are actually BACKING the police and companies that FUCK OUR ASSES DRY and demand fucking BLOOD should a man put a few video games in his waistband to help his grandson.
FUCK THE CONSERVATIVES AND FUCK AMERICA. If the video games industry wasn't here...I would move in a goddamned heartbeat.
you should move anyways, you dont seem to be much use to us as a whole anyways.
Black Friday brings out the absolute worst in people, and if you ask me, it should be an outlawed practice because people all across the country die that day for 30% off. Almost none of those deaths are due to cops either.
You're an idiot. What kind of sick person hopes to see someone die like that? Do you seriously think everyone who becomes a cop is corrupt? I happen to know a few on a personal level and they are great people who potentially put their bodies and lives on the line for our protection. What's ironic is I guarantee if someone steals from you or threatens to harm you or anything else, you would be singing a much different tune.
You must have read the first sentence of my comment, then decided to comment.
I'd change my username if I were you, since you're obviously not able to think. At all.
Seriously you're a fucking horrible human being. (And I use that term extremely loosely.)
I thought the whining and bitching was your job on this site? Are you getting lazy?
Hell yeah! *plays Fuck tha police by NWA*
Right, guys?
Also, if you criticize the US, it means you hate the US. A true patriot knows that you should ignore any problems that happen. An ignored problem? Why, that's no problem at all!
A bald eagle sweeps majestically over a fuckup. It doesn't acknowledge a fuckup. Unless that fuckup has carrion, in which case it may be all over it. Therefore, the analogy doesn't always apply.
In conclusion: Stay patriotic! Stay perfect!
No, wait.
This entire world is pathetic.