{"article":{"id":255219,"heading":"Mesa, Arizona Police beat up jaywalker","author":"Mesa Police Beating","created":"2012-09-01 17:07:33","modified":"2012-12-01 15:08:12","last_modified":"Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:08:12","article":"<p>On Thursday, August 30, 2012 between 4:51 and 4:54 pm I witnessed a Mesa cop make an unprovoked attack on a man crossing the street at the light rail station. <br><br> The man was just walking across the street and was in the middle of the street near the light rail train tracks when a cop pulled up with, got out of his car and then used some martial arts tactic that looked like a judo throw to toss the man to the ground. <br><br> The man who was attacked did absolutely nothing to provoked the attack.  <br><br> Here are some photos I shot after the attack.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Mesa, Arizona Police beat up jaywalker at light rail 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It appears you saw the last part of something and assumed the police were the bad guys.  The fact of the matter is the &quot;innocent&quot; jaywalker had just robbed a safeway down the street and you were there when he was caught.","author":"Cheron","parent_id":255219,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-12-01 15:08:12","modified":"2012-12-01 15:08:12","fileurl":""}]}