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AP releases full New Orleans beating video
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-14 08:45
The Associated Press on Thursday released the full video of police officers
beating a retired teacher as they tried to arrest him on New Orleans' Bourbon
Street.
On Sunday, the news agency had released an edited version of the video, shot
by an AP Television News crew the night before.
"Viewer interest in these images has been enormous, so we are putting out the
entire video," said AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll. "Many times people
like to see more information, which is why we post documents, transcripts and
other amplifying material to our Web customers."
In this image taken from video, a man
resembling University of South Florida student Calvin Briles, 21, is seen
being held down on a car by unidentified law enforcement personnel in the
French Quarter section of New Orleans, Saturday Oct. 8, 2005. Briles told
the Bradenton Herald newspaper that he and another USF student Mike
Monaghan, 22, witnessed retired teacher Robert Davis being beaten by New
Orleans police. [AP] | The full version of the
video runs just over five minutes, about one minute more than the edited
version. The additional minute mostly shows the street scene and the officers
continuing to struggle with 64-year-old Robert Davis.
Davis pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of public intoxication,
resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and public intimidation.
The three patrolmen involved in the beating — Lance Schilling, Robert
Evangelist and S.M. Smith — were arrested late Sunday and charged with battery.
Their attorney, Frank DeSalvo, contends the video of the Bourbon Street
confrontation doesn't tell the whole story. Police union officials described
Davis as so intoxicated that he staggered down the street, stumbled into a
police horse and became belligerent when officers intervened.
Davis told reporters that he hasn't had a drink in 25
years.
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