[UPDATE below.]

Yikes, just six days ago I posted a video of Denver cops beating up a guy who was standing there, talking on his cell phone. To counteract the inevitable “hey man, this is one bad apple, I bet you call the cops when a guy breaks into your house” comments, I mentioned that I come across videos like this weekly.

Well, this time we came in ahead of schedule. David Kramer over at LRC tips us off to this video. Cops pulled a car over and ticketed a guy for running a stop sign, and a guy walking his dog went up to tell the driver, “If you want, I’ll testify in court that you stopped at the stop sign.”

Naturally, the police put him in the hospital.

UPDATE: A few more thoughts on this:

(1) In addition to putting a guy in the hospital for daring to mess with their Ways & Means Committee, the cops here probably were ticketing a guy who actually stopped at the sign. I mean, if I’m out walking my dog and see cops stop someone who blew through a stop sign, I’m probably not going to “fight the power” by walking up and offering to lie to help a guy who might have run me over or hit my dog.

(2) For those of you who dismiss these types of videos by saying, “Well, I’m not a black guy in my 20s,” or, “I don’t wear baseball caps sideways and go to strip clubs at 2 am,” how do you feel about this one? This was a white guy walking his dogs, and his apparent offense was offering to help someone who apparently was being wrongly fined. So that means in order for you to “keep your head down” at this point, not only do you have to be white and not hang out in rough neighborhoods at night, but you also have to keep your mouth shut when you see cops breaking the law.

(3) Am I the only one who is shocked at the comfort with which these keeps methodically beat this guy up, in broad daylight and with traffic going by? Wouldn’t you think that the cop on the left would have hesitated to openly punch the guy several times, knowing there could be a bunch of witnesses?