Re: Wild video shows cops beat down anti-ICE protester after demonstration blocks Cincinnati bridge

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>Wild video shows the moment cops beat down an anti-ICE protester who was
>part of a demonstration that blocked a vital bridge out of Cincinnati,
>Ohio. 
>
>At least 15 people were arrested on felony rioting and various
>misdemeanor charges after protesters clashed with cops on the Roebling
>Bridge, which spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, KY
>as they called for the release of a former hospital chaplain detained by
>US Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month. 
>
>In the dramatic video, a Covington cop is seen repeatedly punching a man
>in the head. 
>
>The protester, wearing a red Cincinnati Reds baseball cap, was standing
>off to the side of the bridge when he was hit and wrestled to the
>ground. 
>
>As one officer pinned him down, a second continued to punch him while
>protesters yelled at the cops. 
>
>Cops were seen dragging away a female protester who tried to step in,
>while another man was shoved to the ground by an officer. 
>
>The man in the baseball cap seen getting punched in the head during
>Thursday’s protest has been named as Brandon Hill. 
>
>Cops say he tried to disarm an officer carrying a pepper ball gun when
>he was detained, but Hill insisted he was just trying not to get shot. 
>
>“If anything like that happened, it’s because a random gun was pointed
>in my face,� Hill told WCPO. 
>
>He was one of around 100 people who marched across the Roebling Bridge
>and blocked traffic as part of Thursday evening’s vigil for Imam Ayman
>Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant and former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
>chaplain, who was detained by ICE on July 9. 
>
>Some 50 officers responded to clear the bridge.
>
>The officer who punched Hill thought he was pulling a gun from a bag he
>had around his shoulders and chased him to the side of the bridge before
>trying to pull him from the railing without falling into the Ohio River,
>Covington Police Chief Brian Valenti told a press conference Friday. 
>
>“The last officer we lost in the line of duty was because he fell off of
>a bridge while fighting,� he said. 
>
>He admitted that none of the protesters were found to have weapons.
>
>Dramatic police bodycam video showing Hill being hit during his arrest
>was also shown during the press conference. 
>
>The officer involved was placed on administrative duty with pay while an
>investigation continues, WCPO reported. 
>

>Hill went to the hospital after his release from jail to treat bruises and scratches to his head, and pepper ball welts to his shins.
>
>His arm is potentially fractured and will require further testing, he said.
>
>“I did not try to attack anyone. We were there peacefully, exercising our First Amendment rights,” Hill said

No, you lying sack of left-wing shit. You were not exercising ANY
rights. You do not have the right to block a highway, street, road,
avenue, boulevard, bridge, or sidewalk.