San Diego cop smashes phone & beats up suspect: “Phones can be converted to a weapon. Look it up online.”

San Diego cop smashes phone & beats up suspect: “Phones can be converted to a weapon. Look it up online.”

A San Diego cop beat up a man whom he was ticketing for illegal smoking, after the man refused to stop video-recording the experience.

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/04/19/san-diego-cop-smashes-phone.html

“Blood was everywhere,” Pringle said. “I was laying on my stomach and he had one knee on my back and the other knee on the side of my face.

“They kept telling me ‘to calm down,’ that ‘you’re making this worse for yourself,’ that ‘you have no right to record us.’”