Taking the Fifth » Phuong Ho http://takingthefifth-acriminallawblog.com –A Criminal Law Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:14:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 SAN JOSE POLICE OFFICERS ATTACK UNARMED STUDENT WITH BATON AND TASER http://takingthefifth-acriminallawblog.com/2009/10/26/san-jose-police-officers-attack-unarmed-student-with-baton-and-taser/ http://takingthefifth-acriminallawblog.com/2009/10/26/san-jose-police-officers-attack-unarmed-student-with-baton-and-taser/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:00:07 +0000 zshapiro http://takingthefifth-acriminallawblog.com/?p=3012 Another police officer has been caught on a cell phone camera beating an unarmed person. San Jose officer Kenneth Siegel was called to an apartment where two roommates were fighting. He arrested Phuong Ho on assault charges. The officer claims that Ho resisted arrest but a third roommate photographed the arrest with his cell phone. It shows numerous hits with a metal baton. At least one of the hits occurred after another officer had placed Ho into handcuffs. While Siegel is beating Ho with the baton another officer is shooting him with a Taser.

Ho is a 20 year old Vietnamese-American student at San Jose State University. He got into a physical fight with a roommate after the roommate put soap on Ho’s steak.

This follows the killing of Oscar Grant by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in nearby Oakland which was also photographed on cell phones. The shooting of Grant also occurred after he was in handcuffs. Mehserle is charged with murder. Likewise, a criminal investigation is being initiated into the shooting of Ho.

San Jose has a large Vietnamese-American community and many members of the community remain upset over the killing of a mentally ill Vietnamese-American, Daniel Pham, by a police officer in May.

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