According to the lawsuit, Murphy was fired before over conduct "similar" to that seen in the video, but subsequently rehired.
Police and paramedics in Millvale, Pa., were recorded on video laughing as they repeatedly stunned a handcuffed and mentally-ill man as he pounded his head against the side of a desk. The video--predictably--ended up on YouTube, and the police officers involved became targets of an FBI investigation and a federal lawsuit.
Sadly mental illness is one of the last bastions for prejudiced assholes. Somehow there are still millions of people who will make fun of and abuse the mentally ill. Race, sex, age, religious belief, all of these attributes are becoming less and less condemned by others. Yet somehow even police in America are still getting away with treating the mentally ill as lesser than human.
In a similar story The Young Turks reported on a cop who made a mentally ill man make animal noises, then continued to film the man and laugh at him.
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