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Saturday, October 26, 2019

What Happened To Genesis Hansen?

Black woman was violently arrested by Oregon cops.
A Black student at Oregon State University was violently arrested because she was cycling on the wrong side of the road and refused to show identification.

Genesis Hensen, 21 was stopped by Oregon State Police trooper Kelly Katsikis on October 13 as she was traveling down a local street in Corvallis, Oregon.






The trooper stopped Hansen because she was riding her bicycle in the wrong way. He asked for her identification and tried to issue a citation for the offense.

Police released body cam footage of the arrest in which Hanens being arrested on the ground and the trooper along with Corvallis Police officer Donald Sheldon claiming she was not cooperating.

The refusal of showing her identification led to an escalation in which the trooper threatened arrest.

"I need you to either give me your identification now or you are going to be under arrest. Do you understand that?"

Henson responded with the fifth. "I don't answer questions." (Basically: I don't consent to giving my information).

The cops then tried to place her arms behind her back and Hansen stepped backward and fell to the ground. Both officers are then seen holding Henson down as they place handcuffs around her wrists.

There were several witnesses nearby and one woman yelled: "She's a young woman, you do not need to be on top of her. She is not resisting. You are so much bigger than her. This type of force is not necessary."

The officers would soon get Hensen on her feet and place her into a cruiser.
The arrest made national headlines.
She was charged on interfering with an officer and resisting arrest.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Following the incident, Oregon State University released a statement.

"We remained concerned about what was portrayed occuring in the video. And we have asked that law enforcement policies and practices by Oregon State Police --- and other local law enforcement agencies --- be examined for evidence of implicit or explicit bias."

The university said it has also offered support services to Hensen.

The incident attracted outrage from the NAACP.

"As the nation's oldest civil rights organization, we view this civil rights violation by state and local law enforcement as another example of racial inequality and excessive use of force imposed on communities of color by law enforcement."

The Oregon State Police released a statement.

"As an agency that is committed to eliminating racial profiling and implicit bias in policing, these allegations are being meticulously reviewed and we are compiling as much information possible. The agency understands the importance of vigorously investigating these allegations and is taking a serious look at the incident."

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2 comments:

  1. amethyst137:11 PM

    Cops today are nothing more than jack-booted Nazi's. One of these days unless the cops start acting like real cops I hope mobs start rolling over the cops and leaving their broken bodies lying in the street. These cops are moronic assholes who are creating laws to satisfy their own moronic ideals.

    Cops who make up laws to let them arrest and brutalize people for their own satisfaction should be taken off the force and either fired or sent back to rookie school and warned the next time they make up a law, they will be arrested themselves and sent away for at least a year.


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  2. Anonymous10:07 PM

    You should understand that police do not make laws, they simply enforce them. This incident turned into a stunt and needlessly so.

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