The media is now spinning this Harvard student, who was violent and high on narcotics and LSD and standing naked in the middle of a busy street, as a "poor immigrant victim" and the police as villains for taking him down. Can you imagine being a police officer and dealing with this insanity every day?
Ohene, a Ghana-born student majoring in math at Harvard, was found naked standing in the middle of Massachusetts Avenue while 30 bystanders witnessed his psychotic rampage. He had taken narcotics and hallucinogenics, probably LSD. When Ohene started walking aggressively towards the officers with clenched fists, they made ‘the tactical decision’ to grab his legs and pull him to the ground, but the Harvard student continued resisting arrest.
The 21-year-old suspect has been charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, assault, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on an ambulance personnel.
A woman had called 911 saying a man had thrown his clothes in her face. Six other people later called to report a man who appeared completely naked.
Numerous attempts made by officers to calm the male down were met with opposition and his hostility escalated while officers attempted to speak with him. An officer who ended up punching Ohene wrote in an incident report that his behavior from the start was "aggressive, hostile, and intimidating. Every attempt that was made to calm Ohene down and reason with him was met with opposition. I perceived this as a threat and thought an attack was imminent. Ohene's goal was to seriously hurt himself or one of the officers on scene. Ohene absolutely could not be reasoned with."
A bystander's video shows four officers struggling with Ohene, who was believed to be high on hallucinogenic drugs. It took three officers from the Cambridge Police Department and another officer from the transit police to restrain Ohene and place him in handcuffs to avoid further injury to himself, the responding officers or any on-lookers.
He was then taken to a local hospital for an evaluation. While in the ambulance, he spat blood and saliva at an EMT. Two Cambridge police officers were also treated at a hospital for minor injuries and exposure to bodily fluids. As per department policy, the Professional Standards Unit operating within the Cambridge Police Department has launched an internal investigation into the officers’ use of force against Ohene. Members of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, some of whom witnessed Ohene's arrest, called into question Bard's version of events, characterizing the incident as an instance of police brutality.
'A naked, unarmed Black man stood still on the median at the center of Massachusetts Avenue,' the group said in a statement. 'He was surrounded by at least four Cambridge Police Department (CPD) officers who, without provocation, lunged at him, tackled him and pinned him to the ground.'
I am so sick of this crap, aren't you? We protect criminals and vilify law-abiding citizens.
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