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I BROWARD COUNTY I 'Beat it, little f***er.' Officers laugh after shooting rubber bullets at protesters.

BY NICHOLAS NEHAMAS AND SARAH BLASKEY JULY01 , 2020 06:20 PM, UPDATED JULY 02, 2020 10:17 AM - f • r+

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Bodycam footage obtained by the Herald reveals the point ofview of - and conversations between - Fort Lauderdale police officers who clashed with protesters on May 31, 2020. BY FORT LAUDERDALE POLICE DEPARTMENT

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A few minutes later, another officer, Jamie Chatman, came up to Baro behind the police line and asked ifhis body camera was off. Baro replied - incorrectly - that his camera was in "stand-by" mode and not recording. The two officers then began laughing and joking about the people they had shot with rubber bullets.

"Did you see me f"'"'k up those motherf**"'*rs?" one ofthe officers said.

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"I got the one f***er," the other replied amid laughter. George Kirkham, a former police officer and professor emeritus at Florida State University, condemned the behavior captured on the footage.

''This is serious misconduct. This is people with badges acting like thugs," Kirkham said. "It's like a cancer. Ifyou let it go, it will spread."

Asked for comment, a spokeswoman for the Fort Lauderdale police said the department would have to review the footage.

After publication online, Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Rick Maglione said in a statement to the Herald: "Your story shows less than 3 minutes of an 8 minute and 43 second long video.·The entire video clearly demonstrates our officers were under attack by a group ofpeople who chose to use violence instead of peace to antagonize the situation. Although the language is extreme, and offensive to some, our officers were dealing with the chaos ofa developing situation."

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LaToya Ratlieff was being led away from tear gas by another marcher at an anti-police brutality protest in Fort Lauderdale May 31. Moments after this photo was taken a police officer shot her in the face with a foam rubber bullet, fracturing her right eye socket. Tim Becker COURTESY

Marchers hurled plastic water bottles after Officer Steven Pohorence rushed into a crowd ofprotesters and pushed a kneeling woman in the head. Police responded with a round oftear gas. Still, body camera footage shows that even after that, protesters quickly moved to reestablish peace.

"Please I am begging yollt we're peaceful," one man can be heard yelling.

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"Ifyou need it, give me a target," Baro yelled to other officers from behind the line of police.

The comment stuck out to Robert Drago, a retired lieutenant colonel at the Broward Sheriff's Office, who reviewed the footage.

"If you're not seeing a threat, why are you asking for a threat?" Drago said. "That would almost lead you to believe that they were indiscriminately firing."

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Baro said in his incident report that he was firing rubber bullets at protesters throwing tear gas canisters and other objects.

"In an effort to stop officers and innocent people from being hurt, I targeted these violent subjects with my 40mm less lethal launcher," Baro wrote. "I deployed less lethal rounds targeting lower abdomen and the large muscle groups of the legs in an effort to deter their violent actions."

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Dismiss In the report, Baro . He does say that he was struck in his left thigh by a rock "about the size ofmy fist" and that he saw protesters throwing "rocks, fireworks, smoke bombs, and water bottles containing an unknown yellowish liquid."

"F*** I'm getting rocked and bottled, bro," Baro says on camera.

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Chatman said he was struck by a half-stick of dynamite, according to his incident report. Video shows an explosive blowing up at officers' feet. His report does not indicate that he was injured.

Kirkham said internal affairs should investigate the conduct of Baro and other officers in the video, particularly given his position as a SWAT team leader.

"I understand what it's like to have that adrenaline. I've been in a riot situation," Kirkham said. "But that does not excuse that kind of verbiage and behavior. It suggests that the police think they can do whatever they want and get away with it."

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At a Black Lives Matter protest in Fort Lauderdale on May 31, Ofc. Steven Pohorence turns to look at a kneeling young woman just moments before shoving her in the head. Alex Dixon MIAMI HERALD

Other policing experts agreed.

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"It's unprofessional. They shouldn't be laughing and joking about shooting and potentially hurting people," said Philip Sweeting, former deputy chief ofpolice in Boca Raton. "It reinforces the public's distrust ofthe police. It shouldn't be tolerated."

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Fort Lauderdale police policy on body cameras states that: "Once the [camera] is activated to record an interaction, it shall remain on until the event has ended."

City Manager Chris Lagerbloom said in a statement that he was "troubled" by the footage uncovered by the Herald.

"While I am a huge supporter of the hard work of our police force, I would not want the actions of a few to taint the public's perception of the dedication and professionalism of the Department as a whole," Lagerbloom said. "I can understand the intensity ofthe moment captured on body camera footage as the officers were clearly under attack. ... The language the officers used, and sentiment expressed is not consistent with what the public expects from our police force."

He said he had asked the chief to "look into the matter."

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As the clash intensified and police tossed gas, small groups of protesters retaliated: first with plastic bottles, then by tossing tear gas canisters back at police, and finally with fireworks and rocks. Officers said in their reports that those agitators then used peace~ protesters as human shields.

Outside the parking garage at Southeast First Avenue and Second Street, officers shot dozens ofrubber bullets and tossed tear gas at kneeling protesters, including LaToY-a Ratlieff, a non-profit grant writer, who testified before a congressional subcommittee on Monday. Detective Eliezer Ramos shot Ratlieff in the face with a rubber bullet while she was peacefully demonstrating. She suffered a fractured eye socket.

While Ramos said in his official report that he was aiming for someone behind Ratlieffwho had been throwing tear gas canisters, footage taken from various angles shows a cloud of tear gas so thick it's impossible to make out anything happening behind Ratlieff. (Footage from Ramos' body camera started after he shot Ratlieff. )

After Ratlieffwas shot, protesters returned to the intersection chanting "Hands up! Don't Shoot!"

Police maintain it was the protesters who started the violence by jumping on an unmarked police vehicle stationed at the mouth of a public parking garage around 6:50 p.m. Officer Stylianee Hayes, who was driving the black 2019 Toyota Camry, felt her "life was in imminent danger," according to her official incident report. She said she was so worried for her safety that she did not turn on her body camera.

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"She came over the radio screaming for help. She was being surrounded," Maglione, the chief, told the. Herald a few days after the incident.

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Interaction between police and protesters at SE 1st Ave and SE 2nd Street at 6:50:06 p.m., May 31. Within the next minute, an officer in the black Toyota radioed for emergency backup saying her life was in danger. Alex Dixon MIAMI HERALD

A nearby officer on a motorcycle who was present at the moment Hayes called for help did not make an emergency call ofhis own. None of the hours ofbody camera footage released by police, nor the more than lOQ_photos and videos taken_by phQtQgraphe · we.d by the Herald, show anyone touching Hayes' vehicle. Nor was Hayes' 6:51 p.m. call for backup the emergency distress call of a terrified officer described by Maglione and dozens of officers in sworn incident reports.

"Send me a few more units please, they're starting to surround my car," Hayes said, according to a BSO recording of her dispatch. A few moments later she repeated the request: "They're jumping on my car. Send me units."

Dozens ofnearby officers responded. Footage suggests a few arrived on the scene in time to see Pohorence get pelted with water bottles, but not in time to see what set the protesters off. Police thought they were responding to a violent "mob," according to their reports.

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Within minutes of arriving, police began donning gas masks and deploying launchers loaded with rubber bullets. The footage did not show a force that was well-prepared. In his report, Baro did not mention the fact that his gas mask was leaking early on during the clash, likely impairing his vision. He can be heard sniffing and repeatedly cursing in the footage, as another officer helps him adjust the mask. ''Your whole mask is f***ed up, dude," the second officer says. "It's getting on your head backwards." "The SWAT team is supposed to be the best of the best," said Drago, the retired BSO lieutenant colonel. "It doesn't appear Fort Lauderdale had the best of the best out there that day."

Baro wasn't the only one having trouble.

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Fort Lauderdale police officers laughed and joked with each other after shooting protesters with rubber bullets at a May 31 George Floyd protest. They didn't seem to realize a body camera was picking up their comments. FORT LAUDERDALE POLICE DEPARTMENT COURTESY

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~~July 2 , 2020, 12:63 PM EDT By Elisha Fieldstadt~~

~~Fort Lauderdale police released footage showing officers laughing and celebrating after shooting protesters with rubber bullets during a late May protest against police brutality.~~

The police department in South Florida released the nearly 9 minutes of body-camera footage on Wednesday in response to a Miami Herald story that was accompanied by a 2-minute clip ofthe footage the Herald obtained through a public record~ request.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-florida-officers-celebrate-laugh-after-shooting-protesters-rubbor-n 1232753 1/7 11/25/2020 Video shows Florida officers celebrate, laugh after shooting protesters with rubber bullets The Miami Herald reported i. .t the recording was from a Fort La. .erdale officer's body camera during a protest on May 31, after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

~~"Beat it, little f---er," an officer can be heard saying after shooting projectiles at a protester. The protester appears to have tossed tear gas at the police and to be walldng away.~~

~~Later, one officer asked another ifhis body camera was off, and the second officer incorrectly said it was.~~

~~"Did you see me f--k up those motherf----rs?" one ofthe officers says on the video.~~

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~~"I got the one f---er," the other officer replies, as the two officers laugh.~~

The department said it is conducting a review of8,000 minutes ofbody-camera footage, including from the protest on May 31, but it is defending the officers involved in the video published first by the Miami Herald.

"The Herald's story shows only two and half minutes of an 8 minute and 43 second long video. The entire video clearly demonstrates our officers were under attack by a group ofpeople who chose to use violence instead of peace to antagonize the situation. Although the language is extreme, and offensive to some, our officers were dealing with the chaos ofa developing situation," Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Rick Maglione said in a statement.

~~A Fort Lauderdale police officer who was captured on video appearing to push over a kneeling demonstrator during the same protest was charged with battery earlier this week.~~

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Officers ln Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are being investigated for their actions during a May 31 protest after body camera footage surfaced that appears to show them laughing and celebrating aftershooting rubber bullets at protesters. Z4/1 ccveroge oft>reoking"'""' ond lil'teverns

The footage, first obtained and reponed on by the Miami Herald, showed members ofa SWAT team shootingtear gas and then firing non-lethal projectiles into a group ofprotesters who threw bottles, a tear gas canister and other objects at the officers.

After dispersing the crowd, two ofthe officers are seen in the video laughing after shooting the protesterswith rubber bullets and apparently referring to them using several curse words. During the conversation between the two officers, one of them apparently mistakenly believes their bodycamera is on standby mode and not recording.

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~~The Fon Lauderdale police released the video after the Herald article was posted onlin e.~~

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Protesters In theMay 31 demonstration following George Floyd's death have argued that FortLauderdale police escalated tensions and used unnecessary force. LaToyaRatlieff told reporters last month she was walking away from the protest when she was shotintheeye bya rubber bullet, a wound requiring 20stitches. Floyd dicct in police custody in Minnesota on May 25.

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FonLauderdale Clcy ManagerChrisLagerbloomsald In a scatement that while be understood the Intensity ofthe situation in the video. "as the officers we.re clearly underattack," be still was "ttoubled" by what he saw. Lagerbloomsald becalled on FortLauderdale Police ChiefRickMaglione to Investigate the Incident.

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'The exchange recorded by the body cameras paintsan un1lanerlng yet truthful depletion of the chaos they were operatingIn. Thelanguage the officers used and sentiment expressed is not consistent with what the public expectsfrom our pollce force,• Lagerbloom said In a statement.

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~~Maglione said his office isInvestigating over 8,000 minutes ofbody camera footage, including the video inquestion. He defended the officers' actions ina statement released Wednesday.~~

'The entirevideo clearly demonstrates our officerswere underattack by a group of people who chose to use violence instead ofpeace to antagonize the situation,• he said. •Although the language isextreme and offensive to some. our officerswere dealing with the chaos ofa developing situation.•

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~~At one point in the video, Baro can be heard saying, "Beat it" and using a profanity, after officers shot less lethal projectiles.~~

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LaToya Ratlieff was shot in the face during what had been a largely peaceful protest, suffering a fractured skull and requiring 20 stitches. She couldn't eat for a week and still has trouble seeing out of one eye that is filled with blood.

~~She has asked to sit down with the police department to discuss ways to change the system and make sure there's accountability going forward.~~

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"The entire video clearly demonstrates our officers were under attack by a group of people who chose to use violence instead of peace to antagonize the situation," Maglione said. "Although the language is extreme, and offensive to some, our officers were dealing with the chaos of a developing situation."

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wo Fort Lauderdale cops were enjoying their attacks on protestors and the whole T ordeal was caught on body camera footage. According to Miami Herald, the two police officers laughed and joked after they shot protestors with rubber bullets at a George Floyd rally on May 31.

"Beat it, little f*** er," yel-le<:l-Deteaiv:e-Za~har-y-Bar-e ,t.eaeer-ef-a-F-ort Lauderdale SWAT team unit. Officers had just shot "less lethal" projectiles at a protester. The individual was walking away after throwing a tear gas canister back at a line of cops.

A few minutes afterwards, another cop, Jamie Chatman, approached Baro behind the police line and asked if his body camera was off. Baro sa id that his camera was on "stand-by" mode and not recording, which turned out to be false. The two cops then started laughing and joking about the protestors they shot with rubber bullets.

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1:1w1.J:11 f ,, ~ p The clip received major backlash with attorney Benjamin Crump tweeting, "Fort Lauderdale officers Zachary Baro and Jamie Chatman thought their body cams weren't recording. Thankfully they were WRONG - and now we know how they actually feel about protestors.''

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"Did you see me f**k up those motherf****rs?" Fort Lauderdale officers Zachary Baro and Jamie Chatman thought their body cams weren't recording. Thankfully they were WRONG - and now we know how they actually feel about protesters.

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The Fort Lauderdale Pol~<:;e-Gh~·ef-Ric-k-Maglione -eefeAded-t-Ae·-EGpS to the Herald. "Your storyshows less than 3 minutes of an 8 minute and 43 second longvideo," he said. "The entire video clearly demonstrates our officers were under attack by a group of people who chose to use violence instead of peace to antagonize the situation. Although the language is extreme, and offensive to some, our officers were dealing with the chaos of a developing situation."

~~Maglione didn't mention whether Baro and Chatman are under internal investigation or removed from duty.~~

~~When reviewing hours of footage, the Herald said itwas police aggression that resulted in the first documented confrontation between cops and protestors.~~

Marchers threw plastic water bottles after Officer Steven Pohorence swarmed into a crowd of protesters and pushed a kneeling woman in the head. Cops responded with a round oftear gas and body camera footage shows that even after this, protesters quickly tried to reestablish peace.

~~"Please I am begging you, we're peaceful," one man can be heard yelling.~~

"Do you see this?" another man questioned the line of riot police pointing to the protesters taking a knee in the street. "We are going to stop this. We are going to be the generation that brings peace."

After a couple of minutes, footage shows cops starting to throw tear gas at the group again. Within the 15 minutes of Pohorence pushing the woman, Baro had unloaded his six-chamber rubber bullet launcher and had to reload, according to the body camera footage.

~~"If you need it, give me a-t-ar-get-f-Bar-e-yeU€e·-te-Eep5-f.r-em-behine the line.~~

~~Such a comment caused concern for Robert Drago, a retired lieutenant colonel at th~osc~~

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~~In his incident report Baro argued:~~

"In an effort to stop officers and innocent people from being hurt, I targeted these violent subjects with my 40mm less lethal launcher. I deployed less lethal rounds targeting lower abdomen and the large muscle groups ofthe legs in an effort to deter their violent actions."

Baro doesn't record his comments to the other officers in his report. He does, however, say he was hit by a rock "about the size of my fist" and that he saw protesters throwing "rocks, fireworks, smoke bombs, and water bottles containing an unknown yellowish liquid."

Meanwhile, Chatman said he was hit by a half-stick ofdynamite, according to his incident report. Footage shows an explosive blowing up at officers' feet, according to the Herald. Chatman's report doesn't mention that he was injured.

~~Kirkham said an internal affairs investigation should be conducted on Baro and additional cops in the video. Other former police officers agreed.~~

"It's unprofessional. They shouldn't be laughing and joking about shooting and potentially hurting people," said Philip Sweeting, a former deputy chief of police in Boca Raton. " It reinforces the public's distrust ofthe police. It shouldn't be tolerated."

Christina Currie, an attemey-anca-eha1f-ef-t-A€-·F-e.r-t-Laud-eHfa~-e-Gitizens' Police Review Board, also said t hat Chatman's questioning ofwhether Baro's body camera was off posed a "grave concern." The policy for Fort Lauderdale police body cameras states that, "Once the [camera] is activated to record an interaction, it shall remain on until the event has ended."

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JackGalt Jul 6 J THIS IS WRONG!! They are not protesters they are rioters and deserve to get fed up. quit feeding a false narrative. Cops are to be commended for f'ing up miscreants when they cannot be detained.

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Phil A. Jul 4 These guys are getting yelled at, being called every name and epithet in the book, and having projectiles thrown at them buy unruly mobs. They are being called out because they made some jokes about hitting the rioter with rubber bullets. The rioters should hold themselves to the same standards they want hold the police accountable.

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~~Update, May 30: This story has been updated to include n1ore infon11ation about the South Florida protests.~~

~~Cities across the country are den1onstrating collective pain and anger over the killing of a black man by Minneapolis police on Monday.~~

~~Protests, rallies, and vigils for George Floyd - the 46-year-old father who died after an officer dug his knee into Floyd's neck - have en1erged everywhere fron1 California to New York.~~

~~Conm1unity activists and soda] justice groups in Mian1i-Dade and Broward counties are planning protests this weekend.~~

Southeast Save the Kids, an organization that works to end the incarceration of youth, is organizing a protest Saturday fron1 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Torch of Friendship at 301 Biscayne Blvd. in downtown Miami. Organizers ask those attending to wear n1asks.

~~A newly created Instagram page called Protests Miami shared inforn1ation about another protest happening Saturday at 375 Miracle Mile in Coral Gables fron1 4 p.1n. to 7 p.n1.~~

The Coral Gables protest will honor F1oyd; Ahmaud Arbery, a black inan who was chased down and shot by two white men in southeast Georgia; Eric Garner, a black man who died after New York Police Department officers placed hiln in a chokehold and took hiln to the ground; Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old shot and killed by a poHce officer in Ferguson, Missouri; Tan1ir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in Oeveland, Ohio; Sandra Bland, a civil rights activist who died in a Texas jail; and "all the black and brown lives that n1atter."

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~~On Sunday, Mian1i Drea1n Defenders is organizing a protest at 3 p.111. at 1328 NW 3rd Ave. in Overtown.~~

Up in Broward County. local chapters ofDream Defenders, Black Lives Matter Alliance, and the Den1ocratic Socialists of An1erica are also planning a protest den1andingjustice for Floyd at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Lauderhill Perforn1ing Arts Center, 3800 NW11th Place. Organizers remind anyone who wishes to participate in the protest to wear masks and be mindful of their distance.

For anyone who wants to be involved but can't attend an in-person protest, Drean1 Defenders shared several calls to action, including donating to the Floyd family's me1norial fund and fo1lowing social justice accounts.

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The Broward protest also seeks justice for Tony McDade, a black transgender man who was killed by a Tallahassee police officer on Wednesday. The Tallahassee Democrat reports that McDade allegedly stabbed and killed a n1an. Before the stabbing, McDade posted a video on Facebook swearing revenge on a group of men who attacked him the day before and saying there would be a standoff with police, the newspaper reports.

David J. Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, urged people to push the Tallahassee Police Departn1ent for a full investigation of McDade's death. https:/lwww.miaminewtimes.com/oontent/printview/11642767 3f4 1211/2020 Miami and Fort Lauderdale Protests for George Floyd I Miami New Times "We don't know a lot of tli Jetails around Tony's death, d .1ow police becan1e involved. We do know that Tony should not have been killed," Johns said in a statement last night. "We must work together to raise awareness about the unique chall enges that Black LGBTQ/SGL people face. It is important to highlight the too often ignored violence that men1bers of our community face in addition to the discrimination we 1nay experience because we are Black."

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