Eugene, Oregon - Eugene Police Officers are surrounded and assaulted by a crowd during a drug arrest in downtown Eugene.
Friday afternoon Eugene police were making a drug arrest in downtown Park Blocks when a "mob" of around 75 people starting harassing them. The crowd of people were yelling insults at the officers and eventually ended up hurting one of them.
Police were finally able to get the mob under control after using non lethal devices like pepper spray and Tasers to disperse the crowd. One man was arrested for interfering with officers and resisting arrest. One of the officers hurt his hand and another got some pepper spray in his eyes.
In the intense video below you can see one officer attempt to arrest the man and he immediately starts resisting arrest. Two more officers jump in to help with the arrest and the man still refuses to put his hands behind his back. One officer delivers 2-4 blows to the mans side in an attempt to get his hands behind his back. When that doesn't work, the officer Tases the man. The crowd then starts yelling "police brutality".
The man still refuses to put his hands behind his back. The man filming keeps throwing out idiotic statements like "What are they doing? Are they stabbing him in the chest??" and "how long has it been since you had sex, you piece of shit?".
As more units arrive, the crowd grows larger and becomes more agitated. After several minutes, the officers are able to get the resisting man under control.
Eugene police Capt. Sam Kamkar stated
“What happened was an isolated incident in the Park Blocks. This is not the type of situation that we deal with everyday, where our officers are surrounded by a mob who is trying to intimidate them and what I can tell you, for people to behave that way, that was completely unacceptable. If there is an issue or problem with officers, then the right thing to do is to be a good witness and videotape the incident and let the courts handle it later, not to get into a mob mentality and charging at the officers.”
As the mainstream media continues to spread around police hate and inciting violence, officers are attacked and killed more and more every day. This is just a small example of the things that police officers face daily.
