Police Beat Man to Death With Batons, Confiscate Witness Video
David Sal Silva was reportedly seen and recorded being beaten to death by California police.
Salon.com / By Natasha Lennard
May 13, 2013
Following the death of father of four, David Sal Silva last week, his family’s attorneys are calling for police to release bystander video evidence that reportedly shows California Highway Patrol officers brutally beating the 33-year-old. A video from a surveillance camera (which does not show the scene close up) has been released and shows the man repeatedly struck with a baton. Local press have also reported on details from a 911 call made, in which witness Sulina Quair, 34, said “There is a man laying on the floor and your police officers beat the (expletive) out of him and killed him. I have it all on video camera. We videotaped the whole thing.” Officers say they were responding to a call about an intoxicated man and the Silva had fought them.
Attorneys representing the Silva family expressed concern that police may tamper with video evidence and demanded that they be given access to any recordings of the lethal incident. Details emerged, The Bakersfield Californian reported, that officers confiscated the phones of bystanders who had captured the event unfold. Police reportedly arrived at Quair’s home to take his phone. The local paper reported:
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