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CableZL
03/28/18 11:58:28 AM
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https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Videos-Show-Indicted-Fort-Worth-Officer-Punching-Man-in-Face-477570473.html

Officer Jon Romer has been charged with official oppression, making a false report to police and lying to a grand jury, after the November 2016 arrest of Henry Newson.

Several videos obtained by NBC 5 show security officers at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital tracking Newson with surveillance cameras.

Newson, who was 20 at the time, had just spent two days in the hospital after being treated for a stomach ailment and was waiting in the lobby for his mother to pick him up.

"I'm just trying to figure out what you're doing," a security officer asked him.

Newson said he was waiting for a ride from his mother.

The conversation escalated as the officer continued to question him.

Romer, who was working private security for the hospital at the time, approached moments later and immediately confronted Newson, video shows.

"Hey get off the phone. Shut up. Get off the phone. Let's go," Romer is heard saying in the video.

The officer then places his hand on Newson's chest and pushes him backward, seeming to take offense when Newson called him "bro."

"Bro?" Romer asks before he punches Newson in the face, grabs him around the neck, and forces him to the ground.


Hospital security officers can then be seen piling on, surveillance video shows.

Newson was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and trespassing. He spent two days in jail.

He is now suing the city and the hospital.

"He doesn't resist, he doesn't fight back," said Newson's attorney, Matthew Bobo. "It was fast. It was violent and there was nothing that would have indicated that that should have happened or was going to happen. But it happened immediately. And there was no provocation by Mr. Newson."

Prosecutors dropped the case against Newson in March 2017, according to court records.


God damn, man... Gotta wonder what the officer's deal was here. The dude just got discharged from the hospital and was waiting on his mom to pick him up. If the hospital security guard was really "just trying to figure out what he was doing," that should have been sufficient. That information would have been easily verifiable, and it's not like he was doing anything but talking to his mom on the phone at the time.

Then the police officer just comes up to him, tells him to shut up and get off the phone, then punches him in the face and arrests him.

That's nuts. The guy can't even wait for a ride after being discharged from the hospital.
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drunkmuggle
03/28/18 12:01:30 PM
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jesus christ

fuck this officer, glad he's getting indicted
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Zikten
03/28/18 12:02:27 PM
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The cop could have asked a doctor to prove he was just discharged. In America you can't even be a customer at a hospital anymore. Lobbies are for waiting in. But in 2018 cops will arrest you for using them
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FrisbeeDude
03/28/18 12:04:17 PM
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Being black in Texas? Couldn't pay me to do it
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davyheinz
03/28/18 12:06:47 PM
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Holy shit, what a fucking trash human being that officer is.
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MKScorpion
03/28/18 12:07:01 PM
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A lot of these guys are insecure and power tripping. Not a good combo. If you don't blindly rim their a** holes they feel disrespected which leads to nonsense like this. There are so many good police out here, so it really bums me out when we have all of these scum bags (of which there are plenty as well) making the rest look bad.
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spudger
03/28/18 12:09:20 PM
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Pigs gonna pigs

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__aCEr__
03/28/18 12:11:49 PM
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Well if I was going to be beaten up by security I guess I'd want to already be at a hospital.
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CableZL
03/28/18 12:12:19 PM
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I'm just glad there's actual video of the incident. Dude would have likely had a criminal charge on his record just for waiting for a ride in the hotel lobby.
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halomonkey1_3_5
03/28/18 12:15:46 PM
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maybe you shouldn't go to the hospital if you don't want cops to punch you in the face

just a thought
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Patchwork
03/28/18 12:16:00 PM
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Zikten posted...
The cop could have asked a doctor to prove he was just discharged. In America you can't even be a customer at a hospital anymore. Lobbies are for waiting in. But in 2018 cops will arrest you for using them


One = all in Zikten world.
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spudger
03/28/18 12:20:55 PM
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shockthemonkey posted...
CableZL posted...
I'm just glad there's actual video of the incident. Dude would have likely had a criminal charge on his record just for waiting for a ride in the hotel lobby.

Yeah thank god, otherwise the cop would make up some bullshit and people would believe him for no god damn reason

This
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C7D
03/28/18 12:35:30 PM
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In patient treatment usually comes with discharge paperwork. Officer, here is my discharge paperwork. I couldnt drive myself to the hospital and Im waiting on my mom to pick me up. This would have led to a completely different ending.
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CableZL
03/28/18 1:08:10 PM
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C7D posted...
In patient treatment usually comes with discharge paperwork. Officer, here is my discharge paperwork. I couldnt drive myself to the hospital and Im waiting on my mom to pick me up. This would have led to a completely different ending.


Or the security staff could have looked at their own footage and likely seen him going through the discharge process and leaving the patient care area and heading into the lobby without asking him anything at all.

I really don't get why some people in positions of authority feel the need to escalate every god damn thing. He got punched in the face and choked after calling the officer "bro." I don't think trying to hand him paperwork would have ended up any better.
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Zikten
03/28/18 8:35:15 PM
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Patchwork posted...
Zikten posted...
The cop could have asked a doctor to prove he was just discharged. In America you can't even be a customer at a hospital anymore. Lobbies are for waiting in. But in 2018 cops will arrest you for using them


One = all in Zikten world.

I watch videos like this all the time. This is one out of thousands of cases
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frozenshock
03/28/18 8:37:29 PM
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CableZL posted...
charged with resisting arrest


Why does it feel like many times resisting arrest doesn't actually mean resisting arrest?
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ItsYourFault
03/28/18 8:37:39 PM
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spudger posted...
shockthemonkey posted...
CableZL posted...
I'm just glad there's actual video of the incident. Dude would have likely had a criminal charge on his record just for waiting for a ride in the hotel lobby.

Yeah thank god, otherwise the cop would make up some bullshit and people would believe him for no god damn reason

This
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Paper_Okami
03/28/18 8:38:29 PM
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Patchwork posted...
Zikten posted...
The cop could have asked a doctor to prove he was just discharged. In America you can't even be a customer at a hospital anymore. Lobbies are for waiting in. But in 2018 cops will arrest you for using them


One = all in Zikten world.


All cops are complicit in their awful, broken system.
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iPhone_7
03/28/18 8:44:05 PM
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No video would have meant it happened according to how the officer said it happened.
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Patchwork
03/29/18 1:03:15 AM
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Paper_Okami posted...
Patchwork posted...
Zikten posted...
The cop could have asked a doctor to prove he was just discharged. In America you can't even be a customer at a hospital anymore. Lobbies are for waiting in. But in 2018 cops will arrest you for using them


One = all in Zikten world.


All cops are complicit in their awful, broken system.


Yeah, no, that's not how it works.
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thronedfire2
03/29/18 1:08:42 AM
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frozenshock posted...
CableZL posted...
charged with resisting arrest


Why does it feel like many times resisting arrest doesn't actually mean resisting arrest?


because even if you know you're being falsely arrested they just count trying to dispute it as resisting arrest
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dave_is_slick
03/29/18 1:11:46 AM
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Patchwork posted...

Yeah, no, that's not how it works.

Why not?
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008Zulu
03/29/18 1:19:27 AM
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Paper_Okami posted...
All cops are complicit in their awful, broken system.

If they were, then divisions such as Internal Affairs wouldn't exist.
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ultimate reaver
03/29/18 1:25:01 AM
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let the boys be boys
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Paper_Okami
03/29/18 1:26:40 AM
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Patchwork posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Patchwork posted...
Zikten posted...
The cop could have asked a doctor to prove he was just discharged. In America you can't even be a customer at a hospital anymore. Lobbies are for waiting in. But in 2018 cops will arrest you for using them


One = all in Zikten world.


All cops are complicit in their awful, broken system.


Yeah, no, that's not how it works.


it is, when they bend over backwards to help bail out the bad cops time and time again.

008Zulu posted...
then divisions such as Internal Affairs wouldn't exist.


Yeah cops investigating cops works out, of course. That's why bad cops that are called out by other cops are rarely if ever threatened.

https://www.thenation.com/article/why-its-impossible-indict-cop/
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Sonic23004
03/29/18 1:31:46 AM
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008Zulu posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
All cops are complicit in their awful, broken system.

If they were, then divisions such as Internal Affairs wouldn't exist.


Weve investigated ourselves, and cleared ourselves of any wrongdoing.
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sktgamer_13dude
03/29/18 1:33:46 AM
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Zikten posted...
The cop could have asked a doctor to prove he was just discharged. In America you can't even be a customer at a hospital anymore. Lobbies are for waiting in. But in 2018 cops will arrest you for using them

Thats a HIPAA violaton waiting to happen.
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_Near_
03/29/18 1:40:21 AM
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Here's an idea, the cop could've not singled out a person of color for literally standing there doing nothing and this could've all been avoided.

Literally just looking to start shit.
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008Zulu
03/29/18 2:40:54 AM
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Paper_Okami posted...
Yeah cops investigating cops works out, of course. That's why bad cops that are called out by other cops are rarely if ever threatened.

https://www.thenation.com/article/why-its-impossible-indict-cop/

That is a very nice opinion piece. Very light on the reasons why it is "impossible" considering that many bad cops have been fully prosecuted.
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Bishop9800
03/29/18 2:47:45 AM
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I wonder who will defend this? Addy? Capn_Circus? Mal? 987?
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Patchwork
03/29/18 4:09:02 AM
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Paper_Okami posted...
Patchwork posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Patchwork posted...
Zikten posted...
The cop could have asked a doctor to prove he was just discharged. In America you can't even be a customer at a hospital anymore. Lobbies are for waiting in. But in 2018 cops will arrest you for using them


One = all in Zikten world.


All cops are complicit in their awful, broken system.


Yeah, no, that's not how it works.


it is, when they bend over backwards to help bail out the bad cops time and time again.

008Zulu posted...
then divisions such as Internal Affairs wouldn't exist.


Yeah cops investigating cops works out, of course. That's why bad cops that are called out by other cops are rarely if ever threatened.

https://www.thenation.com/article/why-its-impossible-indict-cop/


Do you know how the criminal justice system works?

You do understand that, for example, the officer in the Mesa shooting beat the charges in court.

No cops bent over backwards to save him.

Same with all of the officers involved in the Freddie Gray incident.

You're blaming cops for the court system letting cops off.

Refocus your energy that way.
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