Two Prince George’s County police officers were suspended last week for producing a Youtube video described by the department’s police chief as “offensive” because it depicted “crude stereotypes” about race.
But if anything, the video is a humorous and accurate portrayal of police behavior in the United States, especially that very department.
And that is probably the real reason they were suspended.
The video was produced by two black police officers and includes a black actor posing as a motorist pulled over because of his race.
It also includes another black actor posing as a citizen attempting to video record the traffic stop.
That man ends up getting tased.
There is also another part where one of the cops grabs the driver by the shirt and orders him to “stop resisting,” even though he is not resisting, as we’ve seen done so many times in the past.
In fact, ordering citizens to stop resisting as they are being arrested appears to be part of their training as a way to get citizens to succumb to arrest.
But that routine protocol also allows officers to charge citizens with resisting arrest charges when they are not even resisting.
According to [__KPLCtv.com__](http://www.kplctv.com/story/20130406/officers-suspended-for-offensive-videos), Chief Mark Magaw stated the following about the video:
> “The profane and racially insensitive video that included two Prince George’s Police officers was circulating on the internet. I watched it and was disgusted by what I saw,” Chief Mark Magaw said. “It was orchestrated to be put on YouTube and I believe it was a spoof on driving while black, but like I said before there’s nothing funny about this video and it goes against the values of this community and this police department.”
Magaw is a hypocrite considering the multiple times the department has been exposed for corruption, excessive force and racial profiling.
*After Almost Three Decades With The Prince George’s County Police Department, Mark Magaw Became Chief In July 2011.*
It was only last month when a Prince George’s County officer [__was convicted__](http://www.kplctv.com/story/20130406/officers-suspended-for-offensive-videos) of second-degree assault for beating a University of Maryland student in 2010.
The student, John McKenna, was initially charged with assaulting the officers, a felony that could have sent him to prison, but that charge was dropped when [__a video emerged__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/another-video-exposes-another-cover-up-of-police-brutality) that showed police surrounded him and beat him viciously.
Upon viewing the video and reading about [__the ensuing coverup__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/and-the-lies-continue-to-mount-in-the-maryland-police-beating-case), it is infuriating that only one cop was convicted out of the whole debacle.
Then there was the 2009 incident in which a Prince George’s County cop pulled a black man over, dragged him out of his car and punched him twice before tackling him to the ground.
Officer Steven Jackson claimed the 24-year-old citizen had attacked but a dash cam video proved otherwise.
This is from my own [__2009 article__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dash-cam-proves-maryland-cop-to-be-a-boldface-liar) on the incident:
> After watching the tape, prosecutors dropped all charges against Leake, including assault on a police officer, reckless conduct and failure to obey a lawful order.
> Jackson obviously doesn’t think about the consequences of his overly aggressive actions because three months after this incident, he shot and killed an unarmed man for carrying an open container of beer.
> In that incident, Jackson claimed that he “feared for his life” – which has become such a cliche in these unjust killings.
> But three witnesses, including Espina’s son, say he was not resisting when he was beaten and shot. An autopsy revealed that Espina suffered blunt force injuries to his face and arms.
But those are just a couple of incidents I’ve covered on *PINAC.*
[__My Fox DC__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/prince-georges-county-police-officers-under-criminal-investigation?obref=obinsite) covered an incident earlier this year in which two white off-duty Prince George’s County cops threatened to kill and kidnap a black teen to “teach him a lesson.”
Then there was the [__incident last month__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/d-c-police-officer-claims-police-brutality-against-prince-george-s-county-police-officers–80582.html) when two white Prince George’s County cops assaulted a black Washington D.C. cop outside a bar, stopping only when he managed to pull out his badge.
And then there was the incident [__earlier this year__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/prince-georges-county-police-officer-charged-with-misconduct) when a Prince George’s County cop struck a teen with his gun, causing it to fire, then lying about what happened, only to be exposed when a video emerged.
D.L. Chandler, a black journalist and son of a Washington D.C. cop who became a U.S. Secret Service official, wrote the following about the Prince George’s County Police Department [__earlier this year__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/police-brutality):
> Ask any Black person native to the D.C. area about Prince George’s (PG) cops, and you will see a collective tension come over their faces. The PG cops were notorious for targeting Black boys and men in my neighborhood, often beating us senseless and daring us to say something to a higher-up.
The ongoing abuse and [__corruption__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/gJQA51O63W_story.html) within the department is so rampant that [__Wikipedia__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Prince_George) dedicated half of its page to them in its entry on the police department.
So it leaves one wondering how many times has Chief Magaw called [__a press conference__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pgpd-officers-suspended-for-inappropriate-video) where he was flanked by several of his commanding officers to claim he was “disgusted” by a pair of officers who did not break the law or abuse citizens.
