Video released 05/21/09 shows a burly King County sheriff’s deputy slamming a man into a tiled wall earlier this month in what a sheriff’s spokesman said was “a tragic accident.” A lawyer for the family of 29-year-old Christopher Harris said the video and witness accounts show the Edmonds restaurant worker was a victim of excessive force by Deputy Matthew Paul, 26. As of late Thursday, Harris remained comatose and in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center, said Todd Keeling, his stepfather.
Why is it that cops are RARELY ever found at fault? Why is it whenever they are clearly abusing their power and brutalizing law abiding citizens, and an innocent gets killed, or in this case put into a coma, that police are never at fault? Their “investigations” seem to almost always clear cops of any wrong doing. There is no more justice in this country. it’s a police state….
How is the hell is this an accident? The cop accidentally didn’t follow protocol or what?
MAN SLAUGHTER. This is RIDICULOUS. This is why people HATE COPS. If anarchy ever comes, you scumbag policemen better be prepared as you will be the FIRST to be put to death. Good policemen will have nothing to worry about. I know that, personally, if there is anarchy there are two cops who I will torture and kill so they can get a taste of their own medicine. Torture by being locked in a cage for weeks and tazed daily, then I’ll shoot them repeatedly in the stomach and let them bleed out.
It’s a crime. A man’s life was unjustly ruined by a stupid scared cop. Fuck you Seattle Police. That deputy should be in jail.
Did he break his neck or something?
@MeyerDeservedArrest
“the suspect were mistakenly told by witnesses that Harris was the man they wanted”
this is why its a good idea for police to treat all people more carefully, even suspects
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a bit of restraint on behalf of the officer would have saved this man’s neck
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nice of you to recopy a whole page of whats said in the video. good to knw a TROLL who is obsessed with andrew meyer is attempting to help out the deaf youtubers out there who might miss the audio
find a new hobby loser
@ccr5
no harm done?? are u f***ing stupid? im pretty sure being still unable to move or talk or anything almost a year later is pretty f***ing harmful. go back to school dumba**
@MeyerDeservedArrest
yes TROLL, what youve written is in the video. are you concerned that some deaf people might be left out?
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“Bad things happen to stupid fucking people”
oh thats right, its just your little way of baiting arguments with people so you can get your jollies hurling insults
and you are right, MattPaul will surely be having nightmares about this for ages. not everyone actually kills another human being by mistake
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and you find it so amusing. get help loser
hope everyone notices the TROLL who has taken the name ‘meyerdeservedarrest’
see, unhappy with people knowing about his TROLL past on ‘dont taser me bro’ vids hes taken this hilarious new name to harass & spam
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see how under one of his other names ‘HumanShot’ hes been attacking some girl here & now with his ‘new’ name hes reprinting the whole of wiki[&the video] even tho everyone has access to google [hes really proud of his cut n paste prowess as you can tell]
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do not feed the deranged TROLL
Witnesses said the incident began when several men, some covered in blood, ran into a convenience store where Harris had been shopping. Deputies chasing down the suspect were mistakenly told by witnesses that Harris was the man they wanted. Harris had not been in the fight, but he ran.
The surveillance video shows the end of the chase as moviegoers are exiting from the Cinerama theater, about 2½ blocks from where the chase began.
“Our preliminary conclusion is that our deputy didn’t break any laws in the use of force,” he said. “The fact that he (Harris) was injured was a tragic accident.”
Christopher Harris, a 29-year-old Edmonds man is in a coma, with skull fractures after being pushed into a wall by a King County sheriff’s deputy working the Metro Transit overnight shift on foot patrol. Harris had started to run after deputies ordered him to ’stop,’ and sustained his injuries after deputies caught up with him near a Seattle ‘Cinerama.’ It remains unclear why Harris decided to run.
After Harris is slammed into the wall, the deputy then drags him away from the wall by one arm, and attempts to handcuff him before seeming to realize the seriousness of Harris’ injuries and calling for help.
A Metro Transit police officer appears to have acted lawfully when he plowed into an Edmonds man during a foot pursuit in Belltown this month and caused the man’s head to slam against a wall, the King County Sheriff’s Office reported Thursday.
Christopher Harris, 29, has been in a coma since May 10, the day that he inexplicably ran from two police officers who were incorrectly told that Harris was involved in a robbery at a convenience store at Second Avenue and Bell Street.
After announcing the investigation’s results, the Sheriff’s Office released video from three security cameras that captured the chase, including the final seconds when Deputy Matt Paul overtook Harris and shoved him into a wall at the Seattle Cinerama Theater at Fourth Avenue and Lenora Street.
A Sheriff’s Office spokesman said that upon a preliminary review, the deputy’s conduct appears to be lawful. The investigation, however, will be reviewed by the Prosecutor’s Office, Sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said during a news conference at the alley where the chase started.
It IS a tragedy that this idiot was too fucking stupid to stand there when ordered to stop by police. They were looking for a perp, and he decided to run from them when they told him to stop. It is pure Darwinism. Bad things happen to stupid fucking people.
Yeah cause running from the police when they tell you to halt is nothing wrong…. Durrr.
what i find hilarious about the guy is that he says hes black &has broken out/avoided the trap of being a ‘ni99er’ [his term not mine, dont even like writing it]. yet if you look below, he clearly holds contempt for “stoners like you” claiming they are only good for menial tasks
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to me, that is the EXACT attitude the old time racists held. before racial equality became a real thing, it was very common for people to say ” Whites don’t unblock toilets. We leave that to ‘Colour’ds like you”
@Reggieworth Once he said he was a doctor, he lost all credibility. I personally find it hard to believe someone with so little regard for human life could EVER become a doctor! I also suspected he was dual posting here too. I guess he likes to pat himself on the back when nobody else will.
“Doctors don’t unblock toilets”
thats right. you are a janitor, not a doctor
“stoners like you”
design microscopes
thanks for posting the very same drivel on your many different accounts so its easy to show they are all you!
must be pretty embarrassing for you to be cut down to size by a ’stoner’ huh?
find a new hobby loser
And they will just get away with putting an innocent person who did nothing wrong into a coma
And reggie. Doctors don’t unblock toilets. We leave that to stoners like you.
toilet I should be unblocking? Why you are talking… Obviously your cranial caudal inversion hasn’t prevented you spewing shit.