Alexander Landau got pulled over for an illegal left turn -- and ended up beaten bloody

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The question were all missing here is... Why do the cops have the right to pull him over in the first place? What constitutes an "illegal left turn"? The answer to that is it's completely arbitrary! The only substantive justification for pulling someone over is if his actions damaged someones property or damaged someones life and I think neither of these two happened when he made said "illegal left turn"... So in my estimation the police pulling him over in the first place is wrong and unjust, let alone beating him afterwards for invoking his fourth amendment right. Which I believe is entitled to every American citizen is it not? Oh wait I forgot we live in the Soviet States of America we no longer have "rights". All that aside the real problem here in America is not the police brutality or the crime rate going up... Those are just symptoms of a much larger problem and that is that the law itself is perverted. So what do you expect those to enforce it to be... Gentle and Kind? No quite the contrary we in our infinite wisdom have legislated ourselves into decadence and depravity of a kind we have not seen since the days of Rome or Babylon. What needs to be discussed here is really the polar opposites of Natural Law and Administrative Law. If Natural Law is disregarded like for example using tax dollars to bailout private companies... Which is akin to theft, or the Federal Reserve printing money to there hearts content which if we were to do the same we more likely would be sitting in a jail cell for twenty years on charges of "counterfeit", which is also theft of an even higher order and yet these Natural Laws are completely ignored and not enforced. In the above case however Administrative Law or arbitrary ones like "illegal left turns" are enforced to the teeth ending up with this man getting beaten almost to the point of death, the pictures seem to show. Anyhow that is just my observation and anyone interested in a more detailed discussion on Natural Law read Cicero's "The Republic and The Laws". Side note: Ben Bernanke is getting an Honorary Degree at Harvard University I believe its called the John Keynes Magician of Economics Award.

This espouses why I absolutely DO NOT trust the police in the slightest. I just don't anymore.

I've seen more instances of the police abusing their power than I ever have seen of them using their power to 'protect' someone.

ya had over four ounces in the car and his friend only had weed case he sold it to him....Do you know how many peoples rights he violates on a regular basis..100's..quite paying out want be thugs and buy some fing schools..

yo this kid is no saint hell jack you in half a second..Hes a drug dealing piece of work just playing the black card to get money..He deserved all of it...

yeah this really pisses me off!!!cops like this ought to lose their job and be charged,tho i was not there i believe what i just read and think that these cops are GUILTY AS HELL. WE experience a lot of the same police brutality here in SC,But due to the GOOD OLE BOY system here it seems like they(the cops) always get by with the abuse,i think its time that they start gettin what they deserve in return.YEAH I CANT TELL YOU HOW MAD THIS MAKES ME.May the landau family get what they ask for and more!!

In case you haven't noticed, across America, we now live in a brutal police state, with thug cops on the loose. They have the the support and complicity of prosecutors, judges and a passive public. All of this is brought to us at taxpayer expense. We have allowed freedom to evaporate and there is no getting it back.

COPs are being trained to be National Police... The police force will be nationalized, if we don't stop it...they will be working for the White House and homeland security.

I hate cops like them that take something good and manipulate it to their cause! Go fuck yourselves!! I swear!! Watch your back!! One day you will be the helpless ones!!

Lets All Be Renegades N Take Over The World... FUCK THE GOVERNMENT!!

You sound like one of the cops that beat him, "he's black, he must be no good, he's stated his constitutional right to have a warrant before his trunk is searched, that's a good enough reason for him to die today, let's beat the live out of him"! I know Alex personally, he is one of my daughter's best friends...and of all her friends he's the most polite, the most motivated, goes to college, buses to get there and to work, never misses a day! Don't read shit into the story that's not there, the cops tried that and had to recant their lies! Accept that some cops abuse their power and abuse citizens like some parents do. All their actions are NOT justified, you can't always blame the victim of their abuse! Sooner or later some one has to pay, and one of these cops was involved with the other beating caught on video...did you see that???? Did you see any provocation in that video???? Stop making excuses for bad cops before you get beat by one and we're all reading about your story in the Westword!

We should be more afraid of our police than the criminals - oh wait, they are both the same. I have lost respect for the LE community. Their primary goal is to boost revenue with bogus charges.

The type of police brutality that goes on today would've invoked city-wide riots and a war on cops with many deaths if this type of cop violence had been tried back during the 1960's. People back then had more guts, and there was indeed a lot of major rioting during the 60's, and people today just have too much cowardice, but also, 40+ yrs ago more people banded together against social injustice.Remember this, we outnumber 500-to-1 ,all law enforcement and military combined. If a civil war broke out, they would lose, and lose BAD.

Beating citizens to an inch of their life helps law enforcement "bond" and increases the cohesion and esprit de corps. And besides, if you are not doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear. Nothing hear to see.

Just joshing of course.

Has anybody been charged or removed from the force yet? I used to live in some of the worst parts of Denver and would walk through some of the worst parts of Denver gang land 24/7, but I was never worried about them, at all, but I was worried that DPD would stop me on the street, after I had been drinking , and pound the living shit out of me, because they felt like it or thought I was gang-affiliated because I was in a particular gang’s turf. And if you’ve been out at the bars and are intoxicated, you become extremely vulnerable to police brutality. Staying in groups when you go out in Denver is wise -- to avoid being attacked by Denver Police, not by gangs.

Really.

Most likely, the gangs generally wouldn’t attack an innocent person because it is bad for business -- despite all the urban legends -- but the DPD is so unpredictable and so prone to excessive force that Denver is a scary place for anybody who clearly isn’t loaded with money (if the cops see you walking all over Denver, they can guess you probably cannot afford a good attorney) and is out late at night enjoying themselves. My guess this type of stuff doesn’t happen at Whole Foods (whole paycheck) in Cherry Creek.

Mayor Hickenlooper was too nice of a guy -- spineless really -- to make a stand out of the DPD beating everybody to a pulp. So, he did absolutely NOTHING to curb DPD’s brutal beatings of innocent citizens. The blood of all the innocent citizens pounded by the DPD -- for absolutely no good reason -- is all over Governor Hickenlooper. The big question is what did he do to help end police brutality while he was Mayor? Emboldening them to ignore the public’s will about marijuana may have also emboldened them to ignore general rules of conduct. Now as governor, will Hickenlooper continue to look the other way, or will he put an end to this tyranny by firing all involved, especially administration, who have allowed Denver’s Police to become the most violent police force in the nation?

Wow, I feel safer with gang members roaming the streets then I do with the Denver Police Department out on patrol now days.

It should be standard operating procedure for suspects to be fully photographed upon being brought in for treatment of injuries. And if there are injuries, police officers should automatically be debriefed utilizing recording equipment and a lie detector.

It should also be S.O.P. for police and firemen to be routinely required to undergo urinalysis, simply to prove the forces are clean of drugs and steroids.

Lets get this STRAIGHT. This Man had a MEDICAL problem, maybe SCHIZOPHENIC, CNN reports, Jared Lee Loughner, could NOT be on his Parents Medical because of PRE EXSITING. And JARED LEE LOUGHNER could NOT afford his own medical health care QUESTION:; Now would all THESE people be ALIVE if we had Obama's PUBLIC OPTION? And been able to AFFORD his OWN? Thanks john boehner, joe lieberman.

These police officers should and will be punished for this crime. Once they go to jail they will quickly realize that they can't hide behind a badge any longer. Justice, in the form of a stretched ass hole as the result of an Alabama black snake,will ultimately prevail.

I wonder if ALL involved in this henious crime against this kid will ALL go to prison for a LONG time.

Where is the homeland head, since these cops are terorists.

The terrorists are a LOT closer than you think, including EVERY CHEMTRAIL PILOT AND AIRFORCE TERRORIST POISONING US WITH CHEMTRAILS DAY AND NIGHT, and also including the military, military brass, and pentagon who have made the middle east radioactive with depleted uranium. THEY ARE THE TERRORISTS.

Here's a recent Westword article, "Police misconduct: Denver ranks number one in terms of excessive force complaints," that the Denver Police Department decision makers and their superiors apparently didn't take too seriously:

http://blogs.westword.com/late...

This ongoing, sadistic, police brutality besmirches the whole Denver Police Department and all law enforcement; destroys the public’s trust of law enforcement, and tears apart the law enforcement and citizen cooperation that is essential to solving all crimes (like this horrific crime committed by the DPD).

All workers on the front lines, whether they’re cops, social workers or emergency room medical personnel, are all subject to burn-out and all have a “breaking point,” where they become ineffective and sometimes abusive. And of course some people are simply not suited for this type of work.

This is a fact. But it doesn’t make it OK to smash peoples’ faces in because a cop or cops are having a bad day and enjoy hurting others. And when the front line enforcer, server, or PROTECTOR attacks the people they are supposed to protect, they should be immediately fired and “charged double like ‘people in trust’ cases,” as Rquezada suggests.

And the cops who look the other way -- when their co-workers are beating innocent citizens mercilessly -- also should be charged and pulled off the streets, until they’ve been “cleared” by objective psychiatric professionals.

If anyone says not all kops are bad they are fucked in the head!! If these so called few "good" kops existed they would check their co-workers!! Where are the news stories of an officer fighting off an aggressive officer? Sure hope those cartel dudes take out all their rivals( pigs ) and fast!!!!! Wait he had weed? BFD!!!!! Ya since when's the last time you've heard of a stoner mugging an old lady??????? My tax dollars are paying for cops to bust up stoners!!! Give me my shit back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a total abuse of the Authority we have empowered these people with. Why are they STILL on the force?

Pigs will be pigs.

There is total impunity when pigs terrorize and beat people of color. The fact that Mehserle was even CHARGED with a crime for executing Oscar Grant in Oakland is historic. Of course he only got a few months for an execution (convicted of involuntary manslaughter). He undoubtedly wouldn't have been charged if there weren't hundreds of witnesses and videos of the execution.

For years I have seen Randy Murr working as a bicycle cop on the 16th Street Mall. I have had casual conversations with Randy. I considered Randy just a regular guy. I don't know the other cops. What could motivate to beat someone's face like that? I'm pretty sure Randy did not have it in him to beat someone's face like that.

Just shows you why nobody likes or trusts cops. I'll never call 911 again. It will just bring more criminals to my house.

Cops are punks with badges. Look at their fruits.

The attorneys and Mr. Landau should consult Norm Stamper's (former Seattle Chief of Police) 2005 book entitled, "Breaking Rank. A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark side of American Policing." It addresses the epidemic of Police Racism, The Blue Wall of Silence, Insincere IAB reports, Internal Discipline as a joke. Former Chief Stamper would make an excellent expert witness for the prosecution.

They should be charged double like "people in trust" cases, like teachers, priest etc..This charge would be assult with deadly weapons, which by the way is right below attempted murder on the C.R.S. crime scale. They are sworn to uphold the law, not bend it or break at any point. There are some good fair police out there I'm sure, but even they have to turn a blind eye to whats really going on in the blue mafia. I grew up in west Denver and the cops would give you a choice back then "take an alley ride" or get arrested. Many people just got alley rides with no choice. I have seen it many times and so did the neighborhood. If the cops were too out of line the neighborhood would retaliate on their own and put a mark on those cops and they would get transferred to another district. This guy Alex Landau surely did not deserve what those police gave him that night and should be in fuckin prision for this kind of shit. They work the clubs pick up on chicks and make more money on the side then compared to their salary. Just a bunch of egotistical motherfuckers that make over a hundred grand a year if they have a good side job that pays cash every night and no taxes with union benefits even though they are not on the clock, thats right folks over 100,000 a year. Well you figure they go to work on their regular job get a little rest and go and work their night gigs 4 nights a week and get really tired and irratable when they have to go back to their regular job that requires all the paperwork, court, and the idiodic general public makes for a ticking timebomb. On the other hand the pigs that work the night shifts don't have senority and are stuck with just dealing with the night crazies and can't get the good side jobs at night so they become disgruntle about their fellow mafia members making all that untaxed dough and taking out on the poor guy who made an alleged illegal left turn and now his life is changed forever. Look at those pictures no fucking respect. With all the rambling on, I really just want everyone to get an idea of where the pigs get their mentallity from and I hope it don't get worse with all the troops that are battle hardened joining the police forces and making it worse out there for people that meet up with the blue mafia doing their dirty deeds and getting away with it.Please people if you see something be a witness to their bullshit in court for someone that has their rights violated, don't say in your mind he probably deserved it. Let a judge or jury decide that, this has to be attended to at all cost to protect our rights. Like N.W.A used to say fuck the police!

Corrupt cops, do they come any other way? I also find it interesting that the police get to investigate themselves. Is it any wonder they never find themselves guilty?

What part of "submit" do these douchbags not understand? Where do you think you live? This is America and YOU WILL SUBMIT to unwarranted search and seizure. YOU WILL SUBMIT to The Police. YOU WILL SUBMIT to your Governmental Betters. OR YOU WILL BE BEATEN BLOODY. America is dead. Long live the Tyranny! All hail Police Brutality! A Black Boot stomping a face for eternity. Americans, it is your birth right to be stopped, searched, harassed, molested, felt up, irradiated, spat upon, beaten, tortured, arrested, held in contempt, and imprisoned. Just open your mouth. Make one wrong move. Get uppity for just one moment, and your day of inheritance shall be at hand. People are saying the cops are pigs? WRONG! Americans are pigs. Pigs tolerate their shit-stained existence. Cops sit above it, indeed, they are the pig herders. WE ARE THE PIGS! We are worms to be taxed and down trodden. Don't believe me? Think I'm too harsh? Then you just try your own luck. Get out there and try it yourself. Get pulled over and squeak about your "rights," see how long your precious face lasts. You'll get the boot of tyranny, just as you deserve.

I'm a white woman, law abiding, etc. The Denver police scare the **** out of me! Sad that they are not our communities cival servants. In general they seem like control freaks with major anger and aggression issues. I hope this young man and his friend get a fair hearing and that these officers are incarcerated for their crimes.

If this has never happened to you personally, it's hard to believe it's true. But it's all too common for cops to beat a suspect and then days later add statements or charges to justify their assault. It's sad and tragic.

We need a list of all the abusive officers returned to the force and their duties. Where is Cordova?

gotta love Denver police! Let's see how they handle this!

Randy Murr, mental note taken.

fuck the police!