Last Friday, a Birmingham, Alabama police officer was pistol-whipped unconscious by a convicted felon. The officer later admitted from his hospital bed that he hesitated to act out of fear he would be called a racist.
Onlookers mocked the unconscious officer.
“Pistol whipped his a$$ to sleep.”
Police Officer Beaten During Traffic Stop, Left Bleeding And Unconscious, People Take Pictures
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— Hadji911 (@_hadji_911) August 9, 2015
The brutal beating was celebrated on Facebook.
Local Birmingham Gangbangers celebrate attack on Birmingham Police Officer on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/b10LDiC4CO
— Stop Hate Crimes (@StopHateCrimez) August 8, 2015
National Review reported:
A police officer in Birmingham, Ala., was beaten unconscious by a suspect during a traffic stop last week because the officer did not want to be pilloried in the media as a racist for using force against a black man.
Last Friday, a Birmingham plainclothes detective pulled over a car being driven erratically. The officer, who has chosen to remain anonymous to protect his family, told the driver to stay in the car while he called for backup. Instead, according to CNN, the driver got out and became belligerent, angrily and repeatedly asking why he’d been stopped. The driver, a 34-year-old convicted felon, allegedly grabbed the detective’s gun and pistol-whipped him with it until the detective lost consciousness. The felon, Janard Cunningham, reportedly fled the scene but was later apprehended. His record includes convictions for robbery and assault, among other crimes, and an attempted-murder charge, according to ABC 3340 and WVTM 13.
Several witnesses to the beating posted photos of the bloodied, inert, and prostrate detective on social media, accompanied by celebratory gloating similar to the social-media triumphalism after two New York City police officers were assassinated last December. A typical post read: “Pistol whipped his ass to sleep,” under the hashtag #FckDaPolice.
The detective, who is still in the hospital recovering from injuries to his head and neck, now reveals that he hesitated to use force against Cunningham because of the post-Ferguson war on cops. “A lot of officers are being too cautious because of what’s going on in the media,” the officer told CNN. “I hesitated because I didn’t want to be in the media like I am right now.”
