Four Philadelphia police fired over filmed beating

By Jon Hurdle

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Four Philadelphia police officers were fired and four others demoted or suspended after a video showed them beating three suspects after a drug-related shooting, the city's police chief said on Monday.

The eight officers were among 18 who surrounded a car in North Philadelphia on May 5 after a shooting between two groups of men during police surveillance of a suspected drug-dealing operation.

Some of the officers were seen in a 67-second video dragging the suspects out of the car and kicking and punching them while they lay on the ground.

The incident, captured by a television news helicopter, came two days after the murder of a police sergeant during a robbery, the third Philadelphia officer killed in the line of duty in the past two years.

"We do have a group of officers whose actions were outside department policy and procedure," Commissioner Charles Ramsey told a news conference.

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Scary ..so  it's    danger  to walking  in the street 

I think that the police are trying hard to arrest drug dealers
Police do not open fire the sometimes I hear a lot about that .. but may be forced to that …if  the person   had resisted the police

Whats more scary, is the amount of beatings that didn't get caught because they weren't filmed.

Despite their uniforms and badges, policemen are only human.

'Who watches the watchmen' 

Philosphise

  just when knows there is fire shots   i think yes  it's sacry and