Yet Another Example: Are We Weaker Now?

         In October of 2010, a 23-year old Santa Monica student was tasered and brutally beaten by a dozen police officers because of his beer in a brown paper bag. Aibuidefe Oghogho was walking accross the street from the liquor store where he had just purchased a 40oz. to drink on his way to a nightclub. Oghogho was stopped by an unmarked undercover police car and questioned for his open container.  The officer then proceeded to push the African-American student which prompted him to place his hand upon the officer's chest and ask him to stop, but he did not stop. “They picked me up, threw me onto this fence and they threw me onto the fence started hitting me while I was on the fence and then they slammed me down like head first,” Oghogho tells CBS2. “And I’m…and it’s the whole time they’re doin’ it, the whole time they’re doin’ it, I hear one officer keep punching me in my face, he’s telling me, ‘stop resisting arrest, stop resisting arrest’ and all I could say to myself was, ‘I’m not resisting.’” Aibuidefe has no criminal record and has never been arrested. Video was captured by the night club security cameras only 50 feet away from the incident where twelve officers responded to the call. After he was hit with a 5-second taser shot and his face bruised to a pulp, he was charged with felony resisting arrest. Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLoBeifQeXA

         This video for some reason hasn't surfaced as national media news and with only 49,000 views on youtube hardly got any recognition at all. The District Attorney of Los Angeles waited 18 months to even look at this case to bring criminal charges against the officers. Less than 20 years ago Rodney King sparked one of the biggest riots in the history of the United States, and today, with so much more technologically savvy instruments, somehow this video cannot gain momentum and circulate as the Rodney King video did. Did the media downplay this incident? Was it swept under the rug? Or have the citizens of the United States given up the fact that they will never be able to stand up to brutal and racially biased policing? Maybe the US just isn't putting up that much of a fight anymore, hopefully that can change.
        With the release of surveillance drones and the passing of the Patriot Act it seems as if United States citizens have less freedom than they ever have. Internet censoring bills such as SOPA are at the forefront of the fight against American liberties all the while the police departments get more efficient in their way to hide their mistakes while highlighting the mistakes of (mostly minority) citizens. There was a fire this time and then a fire next time... but are there any more fires to burn down the injustice that has for so long rendered us frozen underneath a layer of ice that traps us between the abyss and freedom? If the beating of an innocent young black man trying to better himself through college doesn't strike a chord in this nation anymore what will?