Shahin Zamir

On a cold freezing night in Milwaukee, December 10, 2003, Curtis Harris was arrested in his home on a routine “disorderly conduct” charge, handcuffed and then punched in the face and shoved in the mud by former Milwaukee Police Officer Kevin Clark. Dragged to the Milwaukee Police Jail, Curtis walked into the Milwaukee booking room, where his life changed forever when Clark deliberately and maliciously used excessive force, throwing Curtis headfirst into a concrete wall for no reason whatsoever, rendering him a quadriplegic for the rest of his life. The Insider Exclusive will show how the actual Milwaukee Police surveillance camera video, in the booking room, completely contradicted the lies of Clark and his fellow officers; how Clark and his fellow officers taunted, ridiculed and laughed at Curtis as he lay paralyzed on the cold cement jailhouse floor and drifted in and out of consciousness; how the wheels of justice turn in police brutality cases like Curtis’s; how Jason Alexander and Todd Korb of the law firm of Hupy & Abraham, S.C. got some justice for Curtis; and how all Americans are protected against police brutality by the nation’s civil rights laws.

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