Lets Talk Demetrius Hollins, Beaten By Georgia Police

 

I'm really surprised that I am just seeing the video of Demetrius Hollins traffic stop. If you don't know what happened like me, here's the scoop;

The 21-year-old Georgia college student seen on cell phone video being beaten by two Georgia police officers says he thought he was going to die during the traffic stop on April 12.

Demetrius Hollins was pulled over on a busy suburban Atlanta road by Gwinnett County Police Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni for not having a license plate, according to the police report.

 

Hollins said the license plate was in the rear window.

 

He also said he recognized Bongiovanni from an August 2016 traffic stop. 

 

"That's when I reached over to get my phone," Hollins told CNN on Monday.

 

 

"[Bongiovanni] started yelling at me and saying that I'm not going to get video of this, 'You're not going to make any phone calls, nobody is going to know about this,'" Hollins said.

 

Hollins said Bongiovanni ordered him to get out of the car. Cell phone video recorded by a witness and posted on social media shows Hollins getting out of the car with his hands up.

 

"I tried to let him know I didn't have anything where I could hurt him and, of course, me getting out with my hands up, that means basically I'm surrendering," Hollins said.

 

Bongiovanni wrote in the police report that Hollins resisted arrest: "Hollins refused to place his hands behind his back, spun around and began to actively resist arrest by bending at the waist and trying to push me away." 

 

The cell phone video does not show Hollins attempting to push Bongiovanni. 

 

Seconds later, the video shows Bongiovanni strike Hollins in the face with his elbow.

 

There is no mention of the strike in the police report.

 

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