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Newly-released police body cam video shows a Bay Area Rapid Transit passenger scuffling with BART officers during an arrest. The incident happened back in July when BART officers responded to reports that a passenger who was possibly armed tried to rob another passenger. Other witnesses disputed the report, saying the reporting party called police after some sort of diagreement with the passenger. Video of the violent arrest was released Wednesday by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. The passenger, Michael Smith, was acquitted last week of battery on an officer. He was not armed during the confrontation.
The video shows officers with guns drawn confronting Smith as he steps off a train at Embarcadero Station. Smith is seen struggling with officers who forced him down, pinning him on his stomach. BART officials said Smith bit, kicked and spit on the officers. Smith looked to be relatively calm until an officer also took down a woman he was with, keeping a knee in her back even after being informed she was pregnant. After repeatedly stating she was pregnant, the officer gets off her and helps her to her feet. In the video, Smith continues to struggle with officers even as he is restrained and at one point, he spits at an officer who responds by punching Smith in the face.
Public Defender Jeff Adachi Wednesday called on prosecutors to drop the remaining misdemeanor charges against Smith. A BART spokeswoman issued a statement regarding the case Wednesday. “BART Police’s Internal Affairs investigation regarding the Michael Smith case is ongoing; the agency’s goal is to complete all Internal Affairs investigations within 6 months,†said spokeswoman Alicia Trost. “Once the Internal Affairs investigation is complete, the Office of the Independent Police Auditor conducts a review of the investigation and findings to ensure it is complete, objective, and fair.â€
Trost said Smith was not cooperative during the arrest and the reporting party had said he believed Smith was armed. Adachi argued in court that Smith had a reasonable response to the excessive force used by police against him and his companion after they had been racially profiled. Trost maintained in her statement that BART Police is now on the forefront of training to deal with racially-charged situations. “BART Police is a progressive agency and has been on the forefront – and in some cases the model approach – to training in the areas of fair and impartial policing, bias-based policing, crisis intervention, cultural competence training, and de-escalation training,†she said.
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Guess he 🤕 will think twice before spitting on the Police again
Where is the gun????
I love how the high pitched screaming from the crowd have zero idea what this guy did yet their automatically standing up for him! nie swartz
Now those people going to ruin Mickey Mouse like they did tommy hilfigure, true religion,polo, Gucci, fendi, Versace ….. they ruin every brand they pick up
That cop had evey right to subdue that suspect after he spat on the officer. All those liberal idiots don't understand law enforcement or what it takes to be an officer.
Well done to the officers for excellent work.
Best Zoom meeting ever
God People suck, just let the cops do their fucking JOB!!! Kids an obvious punk I would’ve done more than a little punch if that fuck spit on me.
Spit, get hit! Spitting is assault and will be met with force!
Where da gun
His still tryna be hard and then you wonder why people get beat up. Just fall back until they find out you didnt do what they said you did. And then take their ass to court.
YA MEAN
Police 👮â€â™‚ï¸ say don’t move u don’t need to move bro if u move u get hurt bro 😎
They know no shit and making shitty loudy sounds. Maybe he was gonna hurt them or sth illegal.
ROBBING PEOPLE ON THE TRAIN? NOT SHOCKING LOOKS LIKE HE DIDN'T GET WHAT HE WANTED AND DECIDED TO GET OFF ON THE NEXT STOP. THEN THE LIBERAL PANSIES GET ALL UPPEDY BECAUSE SOMEONE DID THE RIGHT THING AND CALLED PD THEN SPITS AT A COP OH WHAT A REALLY GOOD GUY.
"not doin' nuttin'. Comply, cooperate, go on with your day…unless you have that gun, fool.
San Fran is the new Zimbabwe
Why they ain’t pic the man up and take him to the squad car smh popo love attention
He learned to not try and bite a cop that day. Ended up biting the pavement.
Looks fine to me.
Just once I'd like to see background females screaming to be tazed just to sttfu
Fcn dirty little grub. Your parents must be so proud. Oh I forgot you probably don't even know who they are!!
Cops get a call of THIS PERSON having a gun. They were RESPONDING to a call. They are NOT being racist here. What is wrong with people?
Police brutality
Pussy cops
Humans…
Lets say if this was during covid times, oh boy
Wtf? He was robbing people. Maybe he needed a pinch in the head. His parents obviously suck
i think some "ppl" have too much freedom of speach. they need to eat a fist in the mouth
Guess getting spat on is cool as long as it doesn't happen to you. Furthermore how y'all KNOW he didn't do anything.
The officer must spit to the suspect too
Some people are just too stupid. If he had cooperated they may have found that there was no reason to arrest him. Instead he gives them a reason. Resisting arrest and assaulting an officer. WOW.
So he spits on officer and everyone expects the officer not to hit him… he has to be disciplined because spitting is something a little kid would do lmao good job officers professional work!ðŸ‘ðŸ‘
All these loud mouth bitches need to shut up And when you get arrested you need to be compliant and nonexistent and you need to keep your mouth shut otherwise you’re going to pay the price
Looooool and the black and asian cops are racists as well? Like where is the logic?
Dude, you got a mickey mouse shirt on, you aint gangster……………………
Imagine if everything was more calm and carefully explained while people were just steadily recording. They may have been released on the spot.
Those loud screams were horrific.
The public filming. The 15 second clip they drop on Facebook will be… wait for it….the cop hitting the punk. The caption. He comes from a precious home. He delivers cookies to the nursing home. He gave his kidney to his cousin and is in good standing at Zion Baptist Church where is an alter boy.
I’d slug his sorry ass too. This country is screwed. He’s lucky he is alive. Punk
Watching videos like this help me under stand whats goes down in these calls. Please people chill tf out stop yelling that almost never helps please tell ur mama i said she didnt teach u right
People in these comments are no better than those bystanders. Jumping to conclusions without knowing the facts.