Feb 21, 2015 Posted by AGA Editor

Cops Turn Off Dashcam. Why?

An unarmed 18 year old, Cortez Bufford, found himself pulled over by police in St. Louis for allegedly making an illegal u-turn.

This is the treatment he received.. Watch the video below…

The police originally charged Cortez Bufford with a bizarre lengthy list of crimes that were later dropped… They said that Bufford was a suspect in a local shooting; that he had marijuana on him; that he had an illegal gun; and that he assaulted officers and resisted arrest. Curiously enough there was no drugs or guns found. oh yeah, and there was that illegal u-turn as well. Police dropped all charges.

At about the 6:00 mark in the video, officer force Bufford out of his vehicle and begin beating him, tasering him and yelling that he should “remain still” and “stop resisting” all the while. He is never resisting.

By 7:51 in the video, Officer Kelli Swinton approaches fellow officer Burkemper’s patrol car, as she loudly yells: “Hold up. Hold up, y’all. Hold up. Hold up, everybody, hold up. We’re red right now, so if you guys are worried about cameras, just wait.”

That’s when the audio cuts out, and the video abruptly ends only eight seconds later.

Bufford’s lawyers say that their client was brutally beaten once all of the cameras were off.

Dropping the charges against Bufford was part of that. They have been hoping that this would all just go away, and indeed, for a while, it seemed that the events surrounding the shooting death of Michael Brown and the Ferguson protests were going to help them keep this buried.

But now the videos are seeing the light of day, and it’s up to all of us to help spread the word so this ends up as headline news!

Are you awake Yet?