‘Beat it, little f***er.’ Officers laugh after shooting rubber bullets at protesters.
By Nicholas Nehamas and
Sarah Blaskey
July 01, 2020 06:20 PM , Updated 2 hours 13 minutes ago
Warning: This article contains profane language.
Fort Lauderdale police officers laughed and celebrated after shooting protesters with rubber bullets at a May 31 George Floyd rally in Fort Lauderdale, newly released body camera footage shows.
“Beat it, little f***er,†Detective Zachary Baro, leader of a Fort Lauderdale SWAT team unit, can be heard saying after officers shot “less lethal†projectiles at a protester. The protester was walking away after tossing a tear gas canister back at the line of police.
A few minutes later, another officer, Jamie Chatman, came up to Baro behind the police line and asked if his body camera was off. Baro replied — incorrectly — that his camera was in “stand-by†mode and not recording. The two officers then began laughing and joking about the people they had shot with rubber bullets.
“Did you see me f**k up those motherf****rs?†one of the officers said.
“I got the one f***er,†the other replied amid laughter
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