Police Claim Beating Couldn’t Have Caused Man’s Broken Face, Because It Was ‘Done With Palm Strikes’

A Knoxville, Tennessee police officer was caught on video beating 31-year-old undocumented immigrant.  But now he’s denying any responsibility for the injuries the man sustained.
Why? The officer claims that the man could not have been severely injured from the blows because they were “palm strikes,” according to local WBIR-TV.

Attorneys for Ernesto Delgadilo Rodriguez filed a federal lawsuit against the officer, in response to the July 2014 police brutality incident.
In that encounter, Officer Thomas Thurman lashed out during a traffic stop – beating Rodriguez so severely that he required a breathing tube, in addition to doctors tending to several severe fractures to bones in his face.
The dashcam footage captured it all, as Rodriguez was lying facing down on the police cruiser.
Thuman’s colleague, Officer Fred Kimber, was in the process of handcuffing him, when Thurman approaches the vehicle, grabs Rodriguez, and begins beating him, then striking him further with his knee.
But the police and Thurman himself apparently think palm strikes and knees are not enough to cause serious injury. Apparently they are not big fans of Kung Fu movies.
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