The local news tonight broadcast 2 citizen videos of police assaulting and arresting people, just blocks away from one another in downtown Ft Lauderdale.
The first incident involved FLPD Officer Victor Ramirez. Ramirez assaults and arrests homeless man Bruce Laclair, according to the victim, for trying to use the bathroom at Broward Central Terminal on Sunday. BCT's public bathroom is one of the few restrooms available to homeless people in downtown Fort Lauderdale, and unfortunately the profiling and trespassing of homeless people is all too common in these areas.
The 2nd, and perhaps even more disturbing, video, is Dasyl Rios being dragged through Broward County Courthouse, just a few blocks South of BCT, on Monday. Rios was being sent back to jail for violating probation and when she did not cooperate with BSO deputies, she was dragged by a pair of ankle cuffs into a holding area.
Although this kind of casual brutality is often described by poor and needy people who live and congregate in downtown, and are processed through the jail and court system nearby, it is somewhat rare for 2 shocking instances to be on display in one day. And yet, this is Fort Lauderdale.
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