Saturday, July 30, 2011

Darrin Ring: FBI Investigates Taped Beating By Tennessee Police

The FBI has launched a criminal probe into a January incident where Tennessee police stripped a man naked, then kicked and beat him while he lay handcuffed in the snow.

The incident, recorded by a patrol car's dashboard camera, also reveals police repeatedly shocking the man, Darrin T. Ring, of New Johnsonville, Tenn., with a Taser and spraying him with pepper spray.

For nearly ten minutes, the video shows Ring writhing and screaming in pain as a gaggle of officers shout contradictory demands at him.

"If he even flinches, shoot his ass," one officer declares on the tape.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/25/darrin-ring-beating_n_908986.html#s316288&title=Rodney_King_Beating