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Report: Rampage Jackson Accuses Police of Abuse

MMA Bay is alleging there is an interview Rampage conducted with "cbs.com" where he asserts the police who arrested him in July acted unprofessionally and outside the boundries of proper police conduct:

  1. Turned the heat up in the car even though he was already dehydrated
  2. Phoning friends and mocking him to them while in the car with him
  3. Sped up and slowed down while taking him to the station, tightening his handcuffs
  4. Refusing to move his cuffs from the back to the front, leaving him squashed and uncomfortable in the car
  5. Tightening his cuffs further as they escorted him into the medical facility, so much so that he lost the feeling in his wrists for three weeks
  6. Escorted him through the facility with his pants below his knees, exposing his underwear

I've yet to find the "cbs.com" article where Rampage enumerates these claims, so we have to be careful before these charges are verified. If Rampage is claiming this, though, one wonders what corroborating evidence is going to work. His defense is likely to be that because he wasn't an agent of moral choice due to his "illness", then holding him fully responsible would be inappropriate. But Rampage's word is going to go head-to-head with the police's word and that's unlikely to work in Jackson's favor. First, the officers will almost always have benefit of the doubt. Second, to the extent that Rampage needs delirium to save him from the more serious aspects of his charges, his alleged delirium also calls into question his recitation of events. What judge is going to Rampage's word - the word of a man who evaded police in broad day light in a monster truck forcing pedestrians to flee for their lives - over the word of officers who removed that threat from the streets?

We'll have to wait for more evidence to emerge to be sure of anything here. I personally get the sense that Rampage's defense team is throwing the book at the District Attorney's case and hoping something - anything, really - sticks. These counter claims seem flimsy, but they could sufficiently muddle the picture enough to reduce to spotlight on Rampage's more serious infractions.

UPDATE: A reader points me towards this video where Rampage makes the claims of police misconduct.

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Yeah I watched that a few days ago…..I think he mentions each and every one of the things above, or at least most of them. The interview is around 30 minutes long. Rampage rambles and rambles for the entire time and it is hard to stay focused on him. I think he is still delusional in the video. He just talked and talked talked, sometimes saying the same things over and over…..

I recommend watching, or at least watching as long as you can, becasue it is hard to make it through the entire interview. You can make your own opinion

by fightfan on Aug 31, 2008 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I watched the whole video last night and he states each of those things.
However, if I remember correctly he gave no indication of filing any sort of charges.

by Simco on Aug 31, 2008 12:32 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Abuse or not, I don’t see how this changes his charges any.

by Gong on Aug 31, 2008 12:40 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

It’s basically impossible to make any of those acusations stick. I was actually arrested once and a victim of police abuse. To this day i think the 2 highway patrol officers suffered from Little Man Syndrome, but anyways i actually had photo evidence of the bruises caused by the abuse and the D.A. wouldn’t even look at them.

by asmiley420 on Aug 31, 2008 12:42 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Guess what? Don’t act like a jackass and this probably won’t happen.

I have acted like a jackass plenty of times, and paid the price for it. This is what happens.

Mental games? Check.
Uncomfortable cuffs behind the back? Check
Cuffs so tight you don’t get full feeling back for weeks? Check.

I like Rampage, but this is not abuse. There are many instances of abuse, where people have died or suffered long term physical and emotional problems and this BS is a slap in the face to those people. Grow up and take responsibility and be glad you weren’t one of those people.

"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'"

by BJJDenver on Aug 31, 2008 12:59 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I agree, and I’m not normally a fan/defender of the police. #2 and #6 are the only ones that don’t seem like standard routine, and they’re pretty well impossible to prove anyway…

by AJB on Aug 31, 2008 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Considering many of the things that cops are accused of doing, I don’t think this even merits a slap on the wrist for them. And besides, who knows how many of those were blown out of proportion by Rampage and his whining.

by KneeToTheFace on Aug 31, 2008 9:14 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

and the fact that he was admittedly delusional.

by mythbuster on Sep 1, 2008 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Whoa!

Just when I thought this guy couldn’t look any dumber…Hey Rampage you are becoming more of a dick with each passing day. I hope you get abducted by aliens and not returned.

by tallsforeverybody on Sep 1, 2008 1:11 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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