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Video | Police Brutality in Vallejo, California

by Film The Police
On March 11, 2017, videos were uploaded to social media showing police in Vallejo, California brutalizing an individual. Watch the videos.
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VIDEO: Police Brutality in Vallejo, California

On March 11, 2017, videos were uploaded to social media showing police in Vallejo, California brutalizing an individual. The incident took place Friday, March 10 at 1 p.m. on Fairgrounds Drive in front of the Valero gas station at Fairgrounds Drive and Gateway Drive.

The Vallejo police officer captured on video punching and bashing with a flashlight has been identified as Spencer Muniz-Bottomley, an ex-Marine. He graduated from the Napa Valley Police Academy on June 13, 2015. The officer was recognized for his leadership, problem solving and communication skills ... as demonstrated in the videos.


[Three videos were posted online by Laura Maldonado of Vallejo on March 11: 1, 2, 3.]
§Police Brutality in Vallejo, California
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Vallejo cop Spencer Muniz-Bottomley pulls his arm back while making a fist.
§Police Brutality in Vallejo, California
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After Vallejo cop Spencer Muniz-Bottomley pulls his arm back and makes a fist, he punches the person in the face.
§Police Brutality in Vallejo, California
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Vallejo cop Spencer Muniz-Bottomley grabs his gun.
§Police Brutality in Vallejo, California
by Film The Police
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Vallejo cop Spencer Muniz-Bottomley uses a metal flashlight to repeatedly strike the person.
§Officer Spencer Muniz-Bottomley of the Vallejo Police Department
by Film The Police
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??Officer Spencer Muniz-Bottomley

On June 26, 2015 Northbay Copwatch wrote:

"Vallejo Police has hired three ex-Marines to patrol the streets. Time will show if these three will treat their new settings as a war zone, with the People as potential enemies."

* "Personnel: New Hires" (2015-06-26, Vallejo City Manager’s Bi-Weekly Report Volume 3, Issue 18) (.pdf):

"Officer Spencer Muniz-Bottomley was born in Suisun City and attended school in El Dorado Hills, California. He volunteered as a Vallejo Police Explorer during high school, and after graduation in 2009, enlisted in the US Marine Corps. Spencer deployed to the Helmand Province in Afghanistan as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Spencer maintained an exemplary record as Marine Corporal, earning a number of awards and decorations, including the National Defense Service Medal, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Combat Action Ribbon and three Afghanistan Campaign Medals. Spencer graduated from the Napa Valley Police Academy on Saturday, June 13, [2015] ranking second in his class. He was recognized for his leadership, problem solving and communication skills."
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Ex-Marines Patrol the Streets

Spencer Muniz-Bottomley graduated from the Napa Valley Police Academy on June 13, 2015 ranking second in his class. He was recognized for his leadership, problem solving and communication skills.
§Video 2 | Police Brutality in Vallejo, California
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? Video 2 | Police Brutality in Vallejo, California featuring officer Spencer Muniz-Bottomley and the Vallejo Police as Ruthless Pigs. ??
§Northbay Copwatch
by Northbay Uprising Media Collective (NorthbayUprising [at] gmail.com)
The Northbay Uprising Media Collective produces websites and a weekly FM Radio news program that includes information for the "Northbay Copwatch" project.

Anyone in the area who would like to send information documenting human-rights abuse by our local security agencies can do so at our email address.

Please be safe when documenting such abuse, don't do anything that can be construed as provocative.

Vallejo Police got away with over 10 murders in the year 2012, and are known to surveil and harass family members of victims, and members of the local Copwatch project.
§Derrick Lamoris Shields vs. City of Vallejo
by Tariq Nasheed‏
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The race soldier who was caught on video brutalizing a Black man in Vallejo, is named Spencer Bottomley. He is named in another brutality case.

"Defendant Spencer Bottomley struck Plaintiff with his flashlight all over Plaintiff's body."
§Derrick Lamoris Shields vs. City of Vallejo
by Tariq Nasheed‏
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Case No: 2:16-CV 02399 CKD

PLAINTIFF'S CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT PURSUANT 42 U.S.C 1983 AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

DERRICK LAMORIS SHIELDS,
Plaintiff

vs.

CITY OF VALLEJO et., al.,
Defendant

CLAIMS

1. Defendant Vallejo Police Officers Joseph Coelho, badge #676, Bretton Waggoner badge #650, Matt Samida, badge #636, Spencer Bottomley, badge #687 and Jason Scott, badge #602 violated Plaintiff's rights under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution and California State law, when they subjected Plaintiff to excessive and/deadly force and assault and battery. Tekle v. United States, 511 F.3d 839 (9th Cir. 2007); Smith v. City of Hemet, 394 F.3d 689 (9th Cir. 2005), Blankenhorn v. Orange, 485 F.3d 463 (9th Cir. 2007).

STATEMENT OF CLAIMS

On April 11, 2016, at approximately 10:00 p.m., located at Griffin and Mark Streets in Vallejo, California, Plaintiff was involved in a police encounter with defendant Vallejo police officers Joseph Coelho #676, Bretton Waggoner #650, Spencer Bottomley #687, Jason Scott #602 and Matt Samida #636. Subsequent to Plaintiff laying face down [on] his stomach in a prone position, Defendant Samida kicked Plaintiff in the right side of his jaw, kicked him in the back of Plaintiff's head and struck Plaintiff with his baton all over his body. Defendant Coelho struck Plaintiff with his flashlight all over Plaintiff's body. Defendant Jason Scott struck Plaintiff with an unknown object in the back of Plaintiff's head. Defendant Spencer Bottomley struck Plaintiff with his flashlight all over Plaintiff's body. Defendant Wagoner #650 struck Plaintiff with his flashlight all over Plaintiff's body and punched Plaintiff several times. As a result of the police beating, Plaintiff lost consciousness, experienced bruises all over his body and spine, swollen face, fractured jaw, abrasions, and broken teeth.
§Video 3 | Police Brutality in Vallejo, California
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Video 3 | Police Brutality in Vallejo, California

Police arrest a bystander on sidewalk in front of gas station.
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Suspect sits down and assumes a non-threatening position awaiting arrest. What appears to be a tattoo-clad white supremacist (err Police Officer but can you tell the difference???) runs up and begins brutalizing the suspect who is not resisting arrest.

He simply could of just arrested him and didn't need to fucken hit him with the flash light and use brutal force on a civilian trying to cover himself. You dumb fucken cop. Hope and wish you get fired for being stupid trying to be all cool and shit. Hope you get the same back and worse. You know what they say about karma.
by Location
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This happened right on Fairgrounds & Gateway in Vallejo.

Here's a map of the location:
Fairgrounds Dr & Gateway Dr, Vallejo, CA 94589
https://goo.gl/maps/iuurug6jnDp
by Shut the city down
Blatant abuse of power like this caught on film should be met with militant protest every time it happens and pointing guns at the crowd while cop continues to beat the mentally ill? These cops enforce a system of hell over our heads and we accept that system and then they attack and kill us. Marines or military will be the first responders when police can no longer scare us into submission. WE WILL RESIST!
by Gemineye
How was the Arian born in Suisun? Not that it matters, but since we don't have a hospital here, I'm gonna go with he was born in a f'n barn, while his dad was out burning crosses and his mom was high on Meth. That pos reeks of someone who joined the military just to kill. None of what happened was called for. God gave us a mouth to speak with, but these cops toss that to the wind and use the weapons the devils issued to them. I only watched video 1of3, and I can't think straight. Huge thanks to the bystanders for seeing something and saying something. Isn't that what we've been told to do? SMH. That's all I can do while I hope the victim sees justice. He's just a few years older than my son who I used to drive to work at 6 Flags.
> How was the Arian born in Suisun? Not that it matters, but since we don't have a hospital here,

I am from Suisun. Born at TAFB. I don't tell people "I'm from TAFB". I say "I am from Suisun"

His tattoos look like he hangs out at a Brazilian jiu-jitsu studio. They're not "white supremacist"

I'm not sure what is a "race soldier".
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