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In May, the Detroit cops charged two brothers who are college students with assaulting two officers at a coney island on Detroit's east side in May.
But Fox2's Andrea Isom reported Wednesday that the brothers say they were the victims. The station aired video which certainly raised questions, and left anchor Huel Perkins asking why the cops approached the two men inside the restaurant when it appeared as if they'd done nothing wrong.
The station says the brawl started when the brothers, Tywonn Mitchell, 20, and Naybon Moore, 26, were driving to Grandy's Coney Island. They felt the cops were profiling them and tailing them.
The cops followed them into the restaurant and demanded to see identification. The brothers wanted to know why. One is studying criminal justice, the other law.
Isom reported:
The officers say when they were investigating inside the Coney Island, one of the officers extended his hand and asked one of the brothers to step back, but he slapped the officers hand in return. At that point the police officer responded with force.
Isom reported that the police department reviewed the video and concluded that the officers used justifiable force in the situation. An attorney for the men calls it police brutality.
