Good Cops and Bad Cops - Bad Georgia Cops Assault a Man in Public

What do we do when two police officers beat a man right out in public, in broad daylight, with no excuse?

Unfortunately, that's what we are going to have to find out in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

This barbaric incident occurred about 4:00 PM on Wednesday 12 April 2017 when Sergeant Michael Bongiovanni pulled over 21 year old Demetrius Hollins in Lawrenceville, just outside Atlanta.

According to the sources below Hollis was pulled over for a broken taillight and a missing license plate.

What should have been a simple, and non-violent, stop quickly spiraled out of control.

Bongiovanni ended up arresting Hollis and according to one of the sources below Hollis was tasered multiple times in the course of that arrest.

Master Police Officer Robert McDonald showed up to "help" his supervisor Bongiovanni and a witness got him on video running up to Hollis and stomping or kicking his head while the young man lay handcuffed on the ground.

To give credit to the Gwinnett County Police Department this video led to the firing of McDonald less than 24 hours after the incident.

Then a second video showed up and revealed what had happened a little earlier: Hollis came out of his car, with both hands in the air, and Bongiovanni punched him in the face!

Bongiovanni had never mentioned this punch in his report, and had claimed Hollis resisted arrest, so he was fired for lying.

The department quickly issued a statement: "We are fortunate that this second video was found and we were able to move swiftly to terminate a supervisor who lied and stepped outside of his training and state law."

The statement also says that the video: "...shows the man getting out of the car with both hands up. As he stands with his hands up, [Sergeant] Michael Bongiovanni strikes the man in the face."

Police Chief Butch Ayers added: "...there is literally no excuse for behavior like this" and "...that punch was unreasonable and unnecessary."

The department has now launched criminal investigations on both McDonald and Bongiovanni - and good for them! - that's exactly what they should do!

Bad cops cause pain and suffering and they need to be punished for that. Hollis described his encounter as "the scariest moment of my life."

Hollis's lawyer said "We want them to have to stand before a Gwinnett County judge in a courtroom full of Gwinnett County citizens, with their legs shackled and their hands cuffed behind their back."

There are so many good cops risking their lives to protect us. When we find bad cops like McDonald and Bongiovanni they need to be punished and made into examples.

This link has video of the attack:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-officials-dismiss-89-cases-linked-fired-officers/story?id=46819260

The video is also available here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/second-georgia-cop-canned-after-violence-caught-on-video-during-arrest/

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/us/georgia-gwinnett-county-officers-fired-video-trnd/index.html

http://theinsidekorea.com/2017/04/16/georgia-cop-fired-for-stomping-handcuffed-black-man-in-the/

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Copyright © 2017 by Joseph Wayne Gadway

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