Five police officers turned themselves in on Monday after being charged with misdemeanor battery for an incident in which they beat up two men in a hotel elevator bank.
It started on the previous Monday when a policeman approached Dalonta Crudup about an illegally parked motorbike. Crudup jumped on the motorbike and took off, colliding with a second police officer as he tried to flee (and putting the officer on crutches).
Shortly afterward, Crudup ditched the motorbike and fled into the Royal Palms Hotel, where he almost escaped into an elevator. With a police officer holding him at gunpoint, Crudup followed instructions to come out and kneel, and he was arrested and handcuffed. The charges included aggravated battery and assault on a police officer, fleeing, and resisting arrest with violence.
By then, there were 21 policemen in the lobby, several of whom began kicking Crudup in the head. Close by, Khalid Vaughn of New York was videotaping the event on his phone, and several officers turned their attention to slamming him into a column and pummeling him. The police arrested him for interfering in a police investigation and resisting arrest with violence.
High-resolution security cameras caught the whole thing on tape. The Miami Beach police chief alerted the Miami-Dade state attorney, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, to the videotape. She dropped the charges against Vaughn.
By Miami-Dade standards, the officers' arrest in a single week was lightning fast. The charges could be upgraded. The head of the police union said “They deserve their day in court, just as everyone else does.”
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How do you feel about 21 officers crowding in and kicking a handcuffed man?
Does it matter that Crudup had injured a police officer?
Should more than five officers be charged?
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