Once again, dash cam evidence has brought police brutality to light. But this time, the victims are fellow officers.
In October, four Black parole officers from New York State filed a lawsuit against members of the Ramapo Police Department (as well as Rockland County, the village of Suffern, and the Suffern Police Department) after a horrific encounter that occurred last April in Airmont, New York.
The victims, officers Mario Alexandre, Sheila Penister, Annette Thomas-Prince and Samuel Washington, believe they were racially profiled. During a traffic stop, Officer Alexandre exited the vehicle with his hands in the air. But he was still shoved onto the car by one of the officers who pulled them over, he claims. All four parole officers identified themselves to the local police who stopped them, and they were all wearing bulletproof vests and badges of identification. But, as the video shows, they were still held at gunpoint for at least six minutes.
