I just saw this and was about to post it; WTF is going on?
The mayor was telling the police officers the entire time that the woman speaking had the floor, the cops and city manager(?) interrupt her multiple times, and the cops eventually escort her out. Isn't that the definition of a false arrest? Deprivation of civil rights under color of authority? If that isn't I really don't know what is. It would have been nice to see the entire community at that meeting get up and nonviolently resist these unlawful actions by police.
Read one of those followup articles posted by CASD; Turns out the mayor has also been arrested by these jokers for 'disturbing the peace.'
IMHO 'nonviolent' resistance to these LEOINOs would just result in more violence. The woman in the video was non-violently resisting so they wretched her arm badly enough to require hospital care. With no active threat and 3 officers, you think they wouldn't have needed to roughhouse. Imagine if it wasn't in a public forum....
While the majority of officers are protesting themselves, there is that percentage remaining, and now that private firm...
But yah, with such a degree of rottenness, you know it goes 3+ levels deep. And yah, AZ, wish I could say I was shocked some higher ups weren't taking a stand. But hey, this is a state where judges bothering to read capital conviction appeals is a rarity.
Sometimes I really wish we could just tell a state they are doing so poorly they have to start over.
Edit: Just had some great insight from my father, the police officers who have kept on, probably making some wild over time pay right now.