Garbarino says officer assaulted her while camera was off

[LiberalNation]

If you've seen this video and her face it's pretty bad. They left her laying in all that blood for quite awile before even calling an ambulance.

http://www.ktbs.com/news/Garbarino-says-officer-assaulted-her-while-camera-was-off-8944/

Angie Garbarino, the woman injured while in Shreveport police custody, said today that the officer shoved her against a door before slamming her to the floor during the time a video camera of her sobriety test was turned off.

Garbarino suffered a broken nose, assorted bruises and two broken teeth in the Police Department's DWI unit last November. Garbarino said the officer abused her; now-fired officer Wiley Willis said she fell down while handcuffed and busted her face.

Garbarino had tried to leave the room twice and had to be restrained by the officer. The camera used to record sobriety tests was turned off as the officer prepared to book her.

Central to the Garbarino case is what happened after that: The camera was turned off, and when it was turned back on Garbarino was lying in a pool of blood.

Garbarino said she was roughed up and shoved against a door.

"Slaps me against that black file locker. That's where this big gash you see," Garbarino said today in breaking her public silence. "Then he slams me to the floor."

Garbarino was argumentative that night, insisting repeatedly she wanted to make a phone call. Willis kept reading her rights and kept her from leaving.

Garbarino today explained why she acted like she did.

"He goes to get an intoxilyzer package and starts walking toward me and says, 'Take a deep breath, ma'am. I'm thinking, this guy is going to force this on me, what am I going to do? Then you see him walk over to the video and turn it off."

Police said Willis was turning the camera off because he was going to book Garbarino. When he turns it back on to document her injuries, she is lying in a pool of blood.

The videotape shows the officer checking his hands.

"He looks down at both of his hands, I guess, to see if there's any blood on his hands," Garbarino said. "Then he looks again and he exits the door and he looks down again at his hand."

Willis' lawyer, Eron Brainard, said the officer was dealing with an "intoxicated and extremely belligerent" woman. Garbarino was trying to leave the room a third time when she fell and hurt herself, he said.

"Although unfortunate, her injuries were caused by her own erratic behavior and her failure to comply with lawful, reasonable, standard instructions for persons under arrest," Brainard said. "Officer Willis followed training and policies regarding use of force at all times and did not mistreat this criminal suspect nor intend her any harm."

Police called the Fire Department to take Garbarino to the hospital. During the seven minutes she lay on the floor, one officer squatted down beside her and then walked off, appearing to smirk at one point.

"They're chuckling and laughing at me. Not coming anywhere near me," Garbarino said.

Garbarino was initially arrested for hitting two parked cars in a casino garage, police said. She kept going and hit a pole. Police were called by a citizen and Garbarino was taken into custody three miles down the street. She suffered a cut lip before police ever came in contact with her.

[LiberalNation]

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She wasn't very cooperative but looks like overkill to me.

[Dilloduck]

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She was so drunk she doesnt know what the hell happened.

[actsnoblemartin]

She should sue, and give a nice big check.

Police, god bless them, must act with morals, and character, or they are no better then thugs


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She wasn't very cooperative but looks like overkill to me.

[LiberalNation]

She was so drunk she doesnt know what the hell happened.
and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see she's beat up all to hell. He may not have beat her per say but slamming her around till she is that fucked up....

[Dilloduck]

and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see she's beat up all to hell. He may not have beat her per say but slamming her around till she is that fucked up....

it takes one good fall on you face to get bruising like that

[LiberalNation]

Too bad he turned the camera off, we'll never know if it was just a fall now.

[Dilloduck]

Too bad he turned the camera off, we'll never know if it was just a fall now.

right---we can let justice happen instead of making biased accusations.

[LiberalNation]

Feds to probe police brutality charge

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_re_us/brutality_complaint_video;_ylt=Aorj3zHd2_58.s0RFM1 aToxvzwcF

SHREVEPORT, La. - Police chief Henry Whitehorn said Wednesday the district attorney and the Justice Department will investigate the case of a woman who is seen in a police department video lying in a pool of blood in an interrogation room. Angela Garbarino, 42, said she was beaten after her Nov. 17 arrest on a drunk driving charge.


Wiley Willis, the the police officer who was fired Feb. 5 in connection with the case, said through his attorney that Garbarino fell.

Excerpts from a police video tape show Garbarino struggling with an officer in the interrogation room. But the camera was turned off for a time. When it was turned back on, Garbarino is seen on the floor in a pool of blood.

"I had an opportunity to view the tape. I was outraged at what I observed," Whitehorn said at a news conference at police headquarters. "I immediately ordered an internal affairs investigation. That investigation determined that numerous policy violations had occurred."

Garbarino said Willis, 30, tried to force her to take a breath test against her will and that he beat her after turning off the camera.

Willis' lawyer, Eron Brainard, was not immediately available for comment when called Wednesday by The Associated Press. He told The (Shreveport) Times that Willis did not beat Garbarino.

"After her refusal to take the breath test, officer Willis turned off and saved the videotape in accordance with normal practice," Brainard said in a story published Wednesday. "The suspect again tried to leave the room. In the process of (Willis) stopping her, she fell and injured herself."

Paramedics took her to LSU Hospital in Shreveport, where she was treated for a broken nose, a fractured cheek bone and bruises on various parts of her body. Two of her teeth were knocked out.

[Dilloduck]

Feds to probe police brutality charge

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_re_us/brutality_complaint_video;_ylt=Aorj3zHd2_58.s0RFM1 aToxvzwcF

SHREVEPORT, La. - Police chief Henry Whitehorn said Wednesday the district attorney and the Justice Department will investigate the case of a woman who is seen in a police department video lying in a pool of blood in an interrogation room. Angela Garbarino, 42, said she was beaten after her Nov. 17 arrest on a drunk driving charge.


Wiley Willis, the the police officer who was fired Feb. 5 in connection with the case, said through his attorney that Garbarino fell.

Excerpts from a police video tape show Garbarino struggling with an officer in the interrogation room. But the camera was turned off for a time. When it was turned back on, Garbarino is seen on the floor in a pool of blood.

"I had an opportunity to view the tape. I was outraged at what I observed," Whitehorn said at a news conference at police headquarters. "I immediately ordered an internal affairs investigation. That investigation determined that numerous policy violations had occurred."

Garbarino said Willis, 30, tried to force her to take a breath test against her will and that he beat her after turning off the camera.

Willis' lawyer, Eron Brainard, was not immediately available for comment when called Wednesday by The Associated Press. He told The (Shreveport) Times that Willis did not beat Garbarino.

"After her refusal to take the breath test, officer Willis turned off and saved the videotape in accordance with normal practice," Brainard said in a story published Wednesday. "The suspect again tried to leave the room. In the process of (Willis) stopping her, she fell and injured herself."

Paramedics took her to LSU Hospital in Shreveport, where she was treated for a broken nose, a fractured cheek bone and bruises on various parts of her body. Two of her teeth were knocked out.

I have a friend who passed out from a heart arythmia and landed on her face--the pictures of her taken after the fall look remarakbly similar to the photos posted and she suffered the same fractures. It's hardly out of the question to assume that a fall--partularly while cuffed--could cause similar injuries.

[Gaffer]

They can determine if the injuries are consistance with a single blow to the face or from multiple directions. They can also check the officers knuckles and hands for injuries. Someone hitting with their fists will have marks and bruises on their knuckles. Especially if they hit them hard enough to break bones.

If he's already been fired then they have something on him.

[glockmail]

Feds to probe police brutality charge

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_re_us/brutality_complaint_video;_ylt=Aorj3zHd2_58.s0RFM1 aToxvzwcF

SHREVEPORT, La. - Police chief Henry Whitehorn said Wednesday the district attorney and the Justice Department will investigate the case of a woman who is seen in a police department video lying in a pool of blood in an interrogation room. Angela Garbarino, 42, said she was beaten after her Nov. 17 arrest on a drunk driving charge.


Wiley Willis, the the police officer who was fired Feb. 5 in connection with the case, said through his attorney that Garbarino fell.

Excerpts from a police video tape show Garbarino struggling with an officer in the interrogation room. But the camera was turned off for a time. When it was turned back on, Garbarino is seen on the floor in a pool of blood.

"I had an opportunity to view the tape. I was outraged at what I observed," Whitehorn said at a news conference at police headquarters. "I immediately ordered an internal affairs investigation. That investigation determined that numerous policy violations had occurred."

Garbarino said Willis, 30, tried to force her to take a breath test against her will and that he beat her after turning off the camera.

Willis' lawyer, Eron Brainard, was not immediately available for comment when called Wednesday by The Associated Press. He told The (Shreveport) Times that Willis did not beat Garbarino.

"After her refusal to take the breath test, officer Willis turned off and saved the videotape in accordance with normal practice," Brainard said in a story published Wednesday. "The suspect again tried to leave the room. In the process of (Willis) stopping her, she fell and injured herself."

Paramedics took her to LSU Hospital in Shreveport, where she was treated for a broken nose, a fractured cheek bone and bruises on various parts of her body. Two of her teeth were knocked out.


Isn't that a Blue city in a Blue state? Where's all the liberal compassion?

[Gaffer]

Isn't that a Blue city in a Blue state? Where's all the liberal compassion?

She's not black.

[Dilloduck]

Isn't that a Blue city in a Blue state? Where's all the liberal compassion?

They still have an establishment to rave against---victims galore !!

[glockmail]

She's not black. Was the officer? That would make it a hate crime, no?

[glockmail]

....victims galore !! My favorite Bond girl. :cheers2:

[diuretic]

"I had an opportunity to view the tape. I was outraged at what I observed," Whitehorn said at a news conference at police headquarters. "I immediately ordered an internal affairs investigation. That investigation determined that numerous policy violations had occurred."

Way to go Chief, nice assumption of guilt there.

Medical evidence will hopefully work out if this woman fell or if she was beaten. If she was beaten then, aside from the civil action, the beater deserves to be punished, naturally.

[Dilloduck]

Way to go Chief, nice assumption of guilt there.

Medical evidence will hopefully work out if this woman fell or if she was beaten. If she was beaten then, aside from the civil action, the beater deserves to be punished, naturally.

I figured that comment was politically motivated but he should didn't cut that cop a fair break, did he ?---It'll be easy to sort out what really happened. Proving it in a court of law may be another ballgame.

[Mr. P]

That place may have some problems. I just saw three videos of what I can only call abuse. On one they dumped a paraplegic out of his wheel chair to the floor.

[diuretic]

I figured that comment was politically motivated but he should didn't cut that cop a fair break, did he ?---It'll be easy to sort out what really happened. Proving it in a court of law may be another ballgame.

True enough. I suppose I'm used to administrators keeping a very neutral line when commenting about issues like this, but as you say, politically motivated in all probability.

[Missileman]

Way to go Chief, nice assumption of guilt there.

Medical evidence will hopefully work out if this woman fell or if she was beaten. If she was beaten then, aside from the civil action, the beater deserves to be punished, naturally.

He didn't have to beat her to cause her injuries. He could have thrown her to the floor and since her hands were cuffed behind her back, she woulcn't have been able to protect her face. It will come down to her word against his.

[Missileman]

That place may have some problems. I just saw three videos of what I can only call abuse. On one they dumped a paraplegic out of his wheel chair to the floor.

Did they show the one where the cop walked up behind a guy and stun-gunned him for no reason? That dirtbag got away with a 45-day suspension. He conveniently avoided criminal assault charges because he had made statements to internal affairs and such without being mirandized.

[Mr. P]

Did they show the one where the cop walked up behind a guy and stun-gunned him for no reason? That dirtbag got away with a 45-day suspension. He conveniently avoided criminal assault charges because he had made statements to internal affairs and such without being mirandized.

No they didn't show that one...was that at the same jail?

[diuretic]

He didn't have to beat her to cause her injuries. He could have thrown her to the floor and since her hands were cuffed behind her back, she woulcn't have been able to protect her face. It will come down to her word against his.

I hope it doesn't come down to that. I hope a medical examination can explain what happened. If those injuries are proven (beyond a reasonable doubt) to have been caused by a single blow (such as her falling and striking her face on the ground and, as you say, not being able to break her fall with her hands and arms) then the benefit of the doubt has to be given to the cop. However, if a medical examination shows multiple impacts then that's a very different matter.

[Missileman]

No they didn't show that one...was that at the same jail?

Shreveport police...it happened outside a concert and was caught by a surveillance camera.