Police Beating of Unconscious Trump Supporter Was 'Objectively Reasonable,' Department Rules
February 10, 2022
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Internal Affairs Bureau conducted probe in response to a police-brutality complaint
The beating of an unconscious Trump supporter by a DC Metropolitan Police Department officer on January 6 was deemed to be "objectively reasonable" after an investigation by the department's Internal Affairs Bureau... The Internal Affairs investigation was opened in September 2021 based on a complaint filed by a Texas man who assembled video evidence of the officer striking an unconscious Rosanne Boyland with a steel baton and a large wooden stick at the entrance to the West Terrace tunnel at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Ga., was pinned under a pile of protesters who fled the tunnel when police deployed a crowd-control gas. After several minutes of being crushed by the weight of other fallen protesters, Boyland lost consciousness and stopped breathing, witnesses have said....
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Bret Boyland with his wife Cheryl and daughter Rosanne
As Boyland lay unconscious on the ground DC Metro Police Officer Lila Morris repeatedly struck her with a steel baton and what appeared to be a wooden walking stick, according to a video recording. The sudden attack horrified Boyland's friend and traveling companion, Justin Winchell, who pleaded with police and protesters to provide first aid to Boyland. Police bodycam video shows Winchell's shock when he saw Morris strike Boyland in the head.
"She's gonna die! She's gonna die! ... During the 11 minutes after Boyland fell, protesters made repeated attempts at CPR—efforts that were
frustrated in part by the beating and police spraying pepper spray into the faces of those trying to help Boyland, video shows.
"The use of force within this investigation was determined to be objectively reasonable," wrote Capt. David K. Augustine, director of the Risk Management Division...
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Officer Morris... She raised the weapon over her head with both hands and struck Boyland at least four times in rapid succession. The stick broke at one point. Morris continued to strike at Boyland until other officers pulled her back.
"There is nothing reasonable about hitting a non-responsive woman lying on the ground over the head with a baton," ...
"The fact that they have been lying from the beginning is reason enough for investigation," Anderson said. "The only reason why anyone even knows this is because I barely survived and am here to now call out their blatant lies (about) the woman that they killed." McBride sent two videos as evidence along with his police-brutality complaint. One of the videos was removed from YouTube but is available on Rumble. The other video is still accessible on YouTube...
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