Demand Justice for Victim of Police Brutality

Demand Justice for Victim of Police Brutality

Excerpt: A woman walking along a highway was accosted and brutalized by a police officer in California. Demand that action be taken against the officer in question and that the police force be required to take responsibility for this action. Police officers wielding violence against non-violent citizens is a despicable crime that cannot be tolerated.

Target: California Highway Patrol Commissioner Joseph A. Farrow

Goal: Demand that charges be pressed against a police officer who brutalized a non-violent woman for walking along a highway.

Multiple news sources report that early in July, 2014, a woman was walking on interstate I-10 near Los Angeles when a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer accosted her. According to CHP officials, the officer had responded to information that a woman was wandering the highway, endangering both herself also many other people driving on the highway.

However, a bystander with a camera was also present and caught nearly the entire incident, which shows the police officer brutally, repeatedly punching the woman, who was elderly. The Associated Press reports that the man who caught the incident on film, David Diaz, says that the officer "…just pounded her. If you look at the video, there are 15 hits. To the head, and not just simple jabs… He agitated the situation more than helped it."

_Business Insider_ reports that, according to the Center for Research on Globalization, about 500 innocent Americans are murdered by uniformed officers each year. Further, more Americans have been killed by police officers in the United States in the last ten years than were killed in total in the war in Iraq.

The officer in the Los Angeles incident has been put on leave while an investigation takes place. Join others in demanding that criminal charges be filed against the officer and that the CHP be required to take responsibility for their actions.

PETITION LETTER:

Dear Mr. Farrow,

Reports of police brutality against unarmed, innocent civilians continue to plague the news. Recently, a member of the California High Patrol accosted and repeatedly punched, up to fifteen times, a woman whose only crime was walking next to a highway. Non-violent incidents like this should never result in an unarmed civilian being brutalized.

I ask you to take action to ensure that this type of incident never happens again in the California Highway Patrol. Press charges against the officer in question, taking a firm stance that his behavior cannot and will not be tolerated. Further, provide training to other officers to make sure that turning to violence is not a choice against unarmed, non-violent civilians. Research puts estimates of civilian deaths by police hands at about five hundred per year for the past decade--a sum that, when totaled, equals more than the number of American deaths suffered during the war in Iraq.

Please help to end this madness and restore peace to American citizens. Press charges against the officers who was implicated in the Los Angeles highway incident and take measures to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.

Sincerely,

[Your Name Here]

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