There is the Cove and then there is the real world
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1430871780672086035?s=20
note that the video surfaces TWO YEAR LATER . . and it looks like the media uncovered it?
"Aaron Larry Bowman broke down in tears when he first saw body-camera video of the May 2019 traffic stop during which a Louisiana state trooper struck him 18 times with a flashlight.
For more than two years, it was unclear if footage of the beating existed. But on Wednesday, a recording of the incident emerged and was obtained by The Washington Post.
The footage, first published Wednesday morning by the Associated Press, shows Jacob Brown, a state trooper with Louisiana State Police, run toward a scene where multiple police officers had piled on top of Bowman, attempting to arrest him. Brown then repeatedly beat Bowman with a large flashlight, yelling, “Stop resisting!”
“I’m not resisting!” Bowman said multiple times. In the video, Bowman can be heard telling officers he was on dialysis.
Bowman, 46, ended up in the hospital with three broken ribs, a broken wrist and deep cuts to his head that required as many as nine staples, his civil attorney, Donecia Banks-Miley, told The Post. The AP reported that state police did not investigate the beating until more than a year after it took place.
State police did not respond to a request for comment from The Post late on Wednesday. But the agency told the AP that Brown, the trooper who is shown on camera beating Bowman, “intentionally mislabeled” his body-camera video and did not properly report his use of force against Bowman. The agency added that Brown “engaged in excessive and unjustifiable actions.”
Brown, who resigned in March, has been involved in 23 use-of-force incidents since 2015, with 19 of them involving Black people, the AP reported, citing state police records. In Bowman’s beating, he has been charged with second-degree battery and malfeasance, according to the wire service. Brown’s attorney did not immediately respond to questions from The Post.
Brown has been charged in two other incidents involving traffic stops of Black men, according to the Advocate. Following one of the incidents, which took place in May 2020, Brown reportedly joked with other troopers about beating the man, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Advocate."
SO . . JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:
1) the actual officer hid the video BUT it was from an event WHERE MULTIPLE OFFIFCERS WERE PRESENT ("run toward a scene where multiple police officers had piled on top of Bowman") @JBear, that is the SYSTEM working against the black victim
2) NOTE THE NUMBERS - "involved in 23 use-of-force incidents since 2015, with 19 of them involving Black people." (82% . . 82%)
