Sunday, August 17, 2008
Videotape shows man beaten by Denver Police
...The Denver District Attorney's office has dropped its case against a man who was facing three years in prison for assault, after 9Wants to Know obtained and showed prosecutors a videotape of the man's arrest....
..."The thing that kind of made everybody gasp was when the officer took the back of the guy's head and shoved it to the ground on his face," said TV producer Greg Prinkey. "He was not resisting. It was totally uncalled for."
When Prinkey saw men beating Heaney, he ran in to stop the fight. The video shows that's when the officers yelled, "Hey, we're cops! Get the (expletive) out of here!"
Prinkey gave the videotape of the arrest to 9NEWS.
"Had I not been rolling the camera, and no one else was rolling the camera, it might have just been swept under the rug," Prinkey said. ..