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The Rev. Jesse Jackson: Dover cop used excessive force Jessica Masulli Reyes, The News Journal 8:01 a.m. EDT May 8, 2015The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks at an event in Texas on March 17. Jackson on Thursday condemned the actions of Dover police officer shown on tape kicking a man during an arrest in 2013.(Photo: Jack Gruber/USA Today)
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COMMENTEMAILMORENational civil rights activists, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, on Thursday condemned a white Dover police officer shown during an arrest, saying the incident is one of many that show the extent of police brutality against the black community.
Jackson said after seeing the dashboard camera video of the 2013 assault that the officer used "excessive force."
"That man was already down and handcuffed," Jackson said. "There is nothing in the guidelines that says a man who is down should be kicked in the head to unconsciousness and to near death."
Other civil rights activists around the nation joined Thursday in criticizing the officer and drawing parallels to cases that have dominated the national conversation on police brutality.
"The black community expects this – you expect to be beaten, you expect to be disrespected," said Connie Rice, a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles and co-founder of the Advancement Project. "That is the sad part about this."
The release of the video on Thursday follows a long list of recent cases where unarmed black men, including Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Michael Slager and Freddie Gray, were killed by police around the nation.
Most recently Baltimore erupted in violence and protests last week in response to Gray, 25, dying from a spinal cord injury after he was arrested by police. Six Baltimore police were charged in connection with his death.
Just before that, a video captured in South Carolina showed an officer shooting and killing Scott, 50, as he ran from a traffic stop. The officer has been charged with murder.
"The fact of the matter is there is enough out there to know we have a problem that is not based in one geographic area and not just based in urban America and not even just happening to black men, even though we know the numbers are higher for them," said Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.
The Dover video shows , then 29, being kicked by the officer, Cpl. Thomas Webster IV, while he was on the ground. A grand jury indicted Webster on Monday.
Civil rights leaders said the video, while shocking, shows what has been going on for decades.
Rice said poor communities, particularly those of color, have been discounted and ignored, even when police were using unconstitutional and cruel force.
She pointed to the case of Rodney King, a taxi driver who was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department following a high-speed car chase in 1991. When the officers who beat King were acquitted, the city erupted in riots that left 53 people dead.
Like some of the recent incidents, King's beating was caught on camera by a witness on a balcony and aired on television.
However, some civil rights leaders say the difference today is that videos can be disseminated with far more ease and to a larger audience because of the Internet.
"It is the kind of thing that usually most people don't see so it is easy to think it doesn't happen in your community, but it is a pattern that is happening everywhere across the country," said William Powell Jones, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and expert on the civil rights movement. "We are in a moment where there is a lot of heightened attention to it."
While videos draw more attention to the issue, some of the leaders say body cameras on police officers are not the answer to the problem.
In Delaware, law enforcement, including Wilmington police and Delaware State Police, say they support body cameras, but are working on the logistics, such as rewriting departmental policies and determining the best way to store recordings.
"Body cameras are a tactical operational response, but what you really have to have is a hearts and minds response," Rice said. "When a cop walks into a housing complex, he needs to know the kids names, he needs to know which families need help or which kids are struggling in school."
Campbell agreed. "It is about protecting the community and not protecting their uniform," she said.
Jackson called on police and prosecutors in Delaware to act swiftly in ensuring justice is served. He said the people of Delaware must take action to be "citizens of the country ... not wards of the state."
Contact Jessica Masulli Reyes at (302) 324-2777, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Twitter @JessicaMasulli.
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