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.
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."
So my theory is how this can or cannot be legal. Can it be legal for police to act this way? Can it be illegal? I think the request for him to zip up his sweatshirt is evidence of a loophole. A police officer can arrest anyone who does not obey. If you fail to follow the exact orders of law enforcement to their liking, it can be grounds to legally hurt you.I don't think this is a far fetched theory. Take a look at this unrelated video:
That's the pastor who got tazed in Arizona by border patrol (50 miles north of the border). So the "peace officer" ordered the pastor out of the car. That was the order he didn't follow. But why was he being ordered out of his car? Because he was being arrested. Why was he being arrested? Because he didn't follow the order to get out of his car. Why was he being given an order to get out of his car? Because he was being arrested.
The coversation in the video was not with border patrol. It was with the "peace officer" who was called out to the scene. It seems that the officer did not witness the dog alert. Supposedly a dog indicated the presense of some kind of situation that caused the border patrol to want to invesitgate further but border patrol could not extract the pastor from he vehicle. But I question the idea that a dog could be reliable when there's someone in the car.
Anyway, that's where we are. If you don't follow all orders issued by cops, no matter how nonsenseical, incoherent, or illogical the order is to you, expect to get hurt if you don't obey.
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