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Cops Brutalize Galindo
posted (May 21, 2020)

7 months ago we told you about the cold-blooded murder of 58-year-old Mirna Young, a grandmother who became collateral damage in what looked like a retaliatory attack against her sons, David, and Jorge Galindo. 

And tonight David is back in the news after an incident of what he describes as police brutality. Here’s his take on the 6:30 a.m. drug and ammunition search allegedly led by the GSU which has left him bruised and burned. 

David Galindo, Victim of Police Brutality
"When I watch it was like wham, the first whop the come, I said like seriously this bally the whop and they whop me again with the chair and that's when I drop because the hard part of the chair touch one of the bones in my back and that made by feet get weak and I dropped and when I said boss I can't get up and the next one come and hold me up from my shirt and the next two by my hands and they raise me up, I said boss I dropped boss and whop me again, they whop me way down by my foot because they done see when they whop me on my back I drop. From there they bring me down on the ground and 3 of them hold me, one of them put his foot on my chest, the next one come and put his 2 hands over my mouth just leave me the breathe, so when they do that now, like seriously one of them come and lift up my shirt and the next one haul out lighter. Now two of them are holding me down from my hand and the next one the cover my mouth, now they begin to burn me, my nipple, they burn off the skin."

Reporter
"What were they looking for, why did they come after you?"

David Galindo
"They claim they searching for drugs and ammunition, we no have a problem, we no say a single bad word to them, we say you alright boss, they just tell we that and they come and take we in there and begin to torture we, being to torture me. They say we look for gun and ammunition let's go in there, they walk me in there and in there they begin to beat me because they no the come ask, they the come get that's what they told me."

This evening Galindo’s brother Jorge told us that an X-ray of David’s injured back will be required to determine whether or not damage was done to his spinal cord. 

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