“He didn’t pose any threat at that point, and they are clearly using excessive force and trying to seriously hurt him when he was on the ground and subdued”, he said Friday. The driver then allegedly crashed into two police cars and injured one deputy, before leading the deputies on a chase that took them on Interstate Highway 580 into Oakland, before heading west into San Francisco.
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In a tweet, the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, which released the video on YouTube, described the clip as ‘shocking and brutal’.
Two Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies were placed on paid administrative leave following the release of a video showing the officers beating a suspect with batons following a 38-minute auto chase from the East Bay to San Francisco. Both deputies then pulled batons and beat Petrov repeatedly as the man screamed for help.
JD Nelson, a spokesperson for the Alameda County Sheriff’s office, said the sheriff’s deputies first encountered the man inside a stolen vehicle at a Travelers Inn in San Leandro at about 1:30 a.m. on Thursday.
‘Lay on the fu***** ground, ‘ one of the officers shouts breathlessly to the suspect, later named as Stanislav Petrov.
Kelly said: ‘We’re going to do a complete and thorough investigation into this incident and figure it out’.
KQED also quotes Sgt. Ray Kelly as stating that the suspect was “resisting arrest”.
He begins hitting the suspect with his fist as a second deputy arrives.
Surveillance footage a witness gave the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office shows Petrov stop in the alleyway near Clinton Park and Stevenson Street.
“It’s extremely disturbing”, Public Defender spokeswoman Tamara Aparton said.
Deputies detained Petrov. He was later taken to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment.
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“I look forward to police explaining this conduct because as far as I’m concerned, it’s criminal conduct”, said Gonzales.
