Two Philadelphia cops has been suspended from the force for beaten this man down.
The two officers faces criminal charges when the victims girlfriend uncovered a surveillance video camera from a nearby store.
Officers Sean McKnight and Kevin Robinson was jailed on Thursday and charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, conspiracy and other offenses.
The two policeman pulled over 23-year-old Najee Rivera for running a stop sign, but he fled on his scooter scared when McKnight and Robinson got out of their patrol car with batons in hand.
The arrest report claims the officers located Rivera several blocks away after he lost control of his scooter and fell. Rivera then allegedly threw Robinson into a brick wall and tried to grab McKnight’s baton.
Video from a nearby store — obtained by Rivera’s girlfriend, and submitted to authorities one month later — showed McKnight and Robinson knocked Rivera off his bike, then pummeled him with their fists and batons.
Rivera suffered an orbital bone fracture, his right eye was swollen shut and he needed several stitches to close multiple open wounds.
“You seen all his blood all over the pavement,” Scannapieco told The Inquirer.
Charges against Rivera were dropped and an investigation was launched against the arresting officers.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said McKnight and Robinson will be fired once their 30-day suspension ends.
The district attorney was withering in his criticism of the disgraced cops.
“Even if (Rivera) had been the devil himself, they could not have done what they did to him,” Williams said.
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