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R.I.P
Arthur L. Mcduffie
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After an 8 minute chase, Arthur surrendered by pulling over, lifting his hands into the air and saying, "I give up!" The police didn't accept his surrender and according to witnesses about a dozen officers surrounded him and beat him. Some officers held him down to allow the others to beat him until he was motionless with batons and flashlights. Mind you, Arthur was handcuffed throughout the entire ordeal. They cracked his skull open clean down the middle and after 20 minutes of torture he was driven to the nearest hospital where he slipped into a coma and died 4 days later. He was only 33 years old was married and had two children.
After an all white jury deliberated for more than three hours at a trial in Tampa, all the officers were acquitted of the crime. This led to outrage, Arthur's wife said, "Once they got him they got upset and they wanted to teach him a lesson." She also discussed the struggle in explaining to their 8 and 2 year old daughters what happened to their father. It was hard to watch her two year old daughter run to the window whenever she heard a car drive up and call out for her father.
On December 17, 1979 a man by the name of Arthur Mcduffie was brutally murdered by Miami Police Officers. He was both a former Marine and a successful businessman. It was said by officers that they spotted Mcduffie at approximately 1:50 am doing "daredevil stunts" on his motorcycle. He was riding his motorcycle at over 100 mph before he was pulled over. He led the police on a high-speed chase because he had a suspended license and had previously received a ticket because of this.
The police officers ran over Mcduffie's motorcycle to make it seem as if his injuries were due to an accident. A coroner report later revealed that Mcduffie's injuries were no accident and therefore exposed the fact that the police officers involved tampered with evidence in an attempt to cover up their wrong doing. Six officers were indicted, Officer Alex Marrero for 2nd degree murder, Sgt. Ira Diggs and Officer Michael Watts for manslaughter and aggravated battery and Officer Ubaldo Deltoro and Sgt. Herbert Evens, Jr. for accessory after the fact. Officer William Hanlon was also to be charged, but his testimony was thrown out by Judge Lenore Nesbitt.
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