Before Michael Brown, Ferguson Police Did This
I had forgotten about this story and am surprised the media did not make this connection more often during the Michael Brown brouhaha:
Michael Daly at The Daily Beast has the flabbergasting story of Henry Davis, who was picked up by cops “for an outstanding warrant that proved to actually be for another man of the same surname, but a different middle name and Social Security number,” then beaten by several officers at the station. What happened next was truly surreal: while denying that Davis had been seriously hurt at all, though a CAT scan found he had suffered a concussion and a contemporaneous photo shows him bleeding heavily, four police officers sought to have him charged for property damage for getting blood on their uniforms. ...
The kicker: the police department was that of Ferguson, Missouri.
