Security use excessive force on Greyhound Bus patron www.privateofficer.com
Minneapolis MN May 27 2009
A father trying to get to work says security at the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown Minneapolis beat, tased, and maced him Monday night.
Minneapolis Police are backing up Troy Cooper’s story, saying private security may have gone too far.
Cooper had a ticket for the last bus to Chicago last night. But security prevented him from getting on that bus after he asked to use the bathroom. That’s when he got beaten up.
“No one should be treated the way that man treated me. No one,” he said.
Cooper says Wolf Security Officer Chris Ebbert wouldn’t let him use the restroom without a ticket—which he didn’t have since he purchased his fare online.
Cooper admits calling 22-year-old Ebbert a ‘toy cop.’
“He grabbed my shirt and ripped my shirt and pulled me back. I turned around and told him, don’t put your hands on me again,” Cooper explained.
Cooper tells 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he tried to leave the building, when Ebbert tased him twice. Outside, Ebbert then allegedly hit him 15 times with a baton and another officer then maced him.
Security did not call Minneapolis Police until after they used all that force.
“I believe that there’s some questions the security company may have to answer to,” said Minneapolis Police Sgt. Jesse Garcia. “The police should have been called sooner.”
Police declined to charge Cooper with assault and even drove him home.
The 42-year-old spent part of Tuesday in the emergency room at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale and missed his first day at work as a pipe layer in Chicago. It’s the only income for his wife and six children.
“I was wrongly treated and I don’t want it to happen to anyone else,” he said.
A father trying to get to work says security at the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown Minneapolis beat, tased, and maced him Monday night.
Minneapolis Police are backing up Troy Cooper’s story, saying private security may have gone too far.
Cooper had a ticket for the last bus to Chicago last night. But security prevented him from getting on that bus after he asked to use the bathroom. That’s when he got beaten up.
“No one should be treated the way that man treated me. No one,” he said.
Cooper says Wolf Security Officer Chris Ebbert wouldn’t let him use the restroom without a ticket—which he didn’t have since he purchased his fare online.
Cooper admits calling 22-year-old Ebbert a ‘toy cop.’
“He grabbed my shirt and ripped my shirt and pulled me back. I turned around and told him, don’t put your hands on me again,” Cooper explained.
Cooper tells 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he tried to leave the building, when Ebbert tased him twice. Outside, Ebbert then allegedly hit him 15 times with a baton and another officer then maced him.
Security did not call Minneapolis Police until after they used all that force.
“I believe that there’s some questions the security company may have to answer to,” said Minneapolis Police Sgt. Jesse Garcia. “The police should have been called sooner.”
Police declined to charge Cooper with assault and even drove him home.
The 42-year-old spent part of Tuesday in the emergency room at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale and missed his first day at work as a pipe layer in Chicago. It’s the only income for his wife and six children.
“I was wrongly treated and I don’t want it to happen to anyone else,” he said.
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