Cleveland Police to Black Man: "You should die you fucking nigger, you understand me?" Gang of White Cops Accused of Assaulting & Demeaning Restrained Black Man

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 From [HERE] A Black man is suing the Cleveland Division of Police, accusing white officers of beating him and using racial epithets when he was arrested.

Patrick Carner, 23, of Cleveland, was arrested on Nov. 29, 2012 on charges of felony assault, two counts of failure to comply with a police order and vandalism. In the suit, he alleges that Sgt. Terry Shoulders, Sgt. Thomas Shoulders (in photo) and Det. Elliot Landrau assaulted him by repeatedly punching him while he was restrained and demeaned him by calling him "animal" and "nigger." The white cops also destroyed his phone because they believed they were being recorded. 

The suit [PDF] says that none of these interactions were video recorded by police, but were instead partially preserved on a voice message. During the arrest, Carner got his cellphone and called his mother, but his mother did not pick up and the call went to voicemail.

The suit alleges that the police officers violated Carner's constitutional rights. It also alleges that the city of Cleveland did not properly train police officers and that "there is a custom and practice ... of unequal and disparate treatment against the African-American citizenry and/or suspects in the course of an arrest and the placement into custody of an African-American arrestee."

According to the lawsuit, Carner was arrested by police on Cleveland's West Side. He was not armed and "immediately surrendered by laying himself face-down on the driveway.  One or more of Defendant Landrau, Terry Shoulders or Thomas Shoulders seized Mr. Carner and yelled to him: "why did you make me chase you you little nigger." The cops then dragged him approximately ten paces and slammed him head first on the trunk of a police cruiser.

After he was placed in the police cruiser, allegedly the following recorded dialogue took place: 

Shoulder: Hey, you dumb nigger, how are you? Here's your fucking running (inaudible) you piece of shit. You fucking animal.

Carner: Hello?

Shoulders: You should die you fucking nigger, you understand me?

Carner: Yeah.

Shoulders: You're a fucking nigger. You're an animal. (Inaudible) tape recorder, there ain't no fucking tape recorder here.

Defendant Terry or Thomas Shoulders told Carner that there was no tape recorder in the police cruiser to record or document anything. He then immediately began to beat Carner repeatedly. Shoulders punched him in the right side of his face, as well as on the right side of his torso and in his groin. According to the suit, at all times Carner was restrained in handcuffs, compliant and not resisting.

The white cops noticed the cell phone between Carner's legs. An officer screamed that he was a "dumb mother fucker" and began to beat him. He punched Carner in the torso, grabbed the cell phone and threw it on the ground, breaking it into pieces, then threw away the phone so it could not be located or retrieved. 

Carner is asking for more than $25,000 on each of the five counts he is alleging against the city and officers, as well as punitive damages and attorneys' fees. His attorney, Aparesh Paul, said the way police treated Carner was an "injustice."

Carner is serving a four-year prison sentence at Mansfield Correctional Institution on convictions for drug trafficking, aggravated riot, felonious assault and vandalism. He will be released in November 2016.

The case was first filed in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas on Nov. 25, but the city's attorneys asked that the case be moved to federal court. It was filed in front of U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Boyko on Monday.

The suit also names police Chief Calvin Williams, Public Safety Director Michael McGrath and Martin Flask, executive assistant to Mayor Frank Jackson. McGrath is being sued as the former Cleveland police chief, while Flask is being sued as the former public safety director.

The city has not yet filed a response to the lawsuit. Through its spokesman, it declined to comment, saying it does not talk about pending litigation.

The lawsuit was first filed prior to the Department of Justice releasing a report that said Cleveland police officers too often use excessive force against residents. It makes no mention of what was then a pending DOJ investigation.

Paul declined to release the voicemail audio when asked Monday.

"I want to litigate this in the courts and don't want to litigate this in the media," he said.