Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 13, 2012

Denver resident James Moore was standing outside his apartment when he was thrown to the ground and beaten by two police officers.

After eight more police arrived, Moore was repeatedly slugged, kicked, and struck with a weighted weapon called a ?sap.? For most of the time he was hog-tied with his hands and ankles shackled and his legs pulled up behind his back, making it impossible to breathe. When paramedics arrived, Moore briefly ?flat-lined? on the sidewalk.

The police had come in response to a noise complaint. Charges against Moore were quickly dismissed, and the officers who beat him have never been disciplined.

Three years later, a group of ten cops in Fresno, California beat, pepper-sprayed, and repeatedly tasered a man named Paul Rosas. The assailants also hog-tied Rosas, earning extra points for creative sadism by using a garden hose to drown him as he pleaded for water. This atrocity was witnessed by Rosas? horrified children and several neighbors, who repeatedly warned that the victim was suffocating. No officer has ever been disciplined for the torture-murder of Paul Rosas.

America in 2012 is a country in which each of us is a phone call away from being beaten, tortured, and murdered by the police.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.