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20.5.05

Media outrage: cop beats handcuffed suspect...

Recently in Philadelphia, a police officer struck a handcuffed suspect 8 times. The incident was captured by a cameraman on a news helicopter.

  • The motorist who was recorded on a TV news helicopter videotape as he was being struck by a city police officer after a car chase was behind bars yesterday, charged with a parole violation.

    Charles Baum, 30, of Kensington, was arrested Monday as his attorney, James Duckworth, was arranging for Baum to be interviewed by investigators with the police Internal Affairs Division about the April 28 incident filmed by WCAU-TV (Channel 10) news and shown around the country.

You haven't heard of this story? Maybe that's because the cop is black and the suspect is white...