Officers caught on video brutally beating Floyd Dent for traffic violation (and lawyer claims one planted drugs in his car)

Mar 26, 2015 - 03:37
Mar 26, 2015 - 03:42
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Officers caught on video brutally beating Floyd Dent for traffic violation (and lawyer claims one planted drugs in his car)
Floyd Dent, 57, was pulled over after police claimed he ignored a stop sign in Inkster, Michigan in January

A Michigan man is speaking out against police officers he claim not only used excessive force on him during a traffic stop but also planted drugs in his car.

Floyd Dent was pulled over in Inkster in January after rolling through a stop sign, at which point police ripped him out of his car, threw him to the group, put him in a choke hold, punched him 16 times, kicked him, stun gunned him three times and then handcuffed him, claiming they then found drugs in his car.

Dent, 57, who has no previous arrests and was unarmed at the time, spent three days in the hospital with broken ribs, blood on his brain and other injuries.

He also claims that he tested negative for drugs while at the hospital.

Now, Dent's lawyer, Greg Rohl, is saying that a previously unseen video from the scene shows the officer, William Melendez, removing a small plastic bag from his pocket that he claims to be the drugs that were planted in the car.

Officers claim he bit one of them on the arm and screamed at one point 'I'll kill you,' though there is no evidence for either claim

 

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