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Evidence and falsifying reports. a jury found officer melendez not guilty. >> after advisorying the video, a judge threw out most of the charges against dent, though he still faces the drug charge. yesterday, protesters in inkster, which is 73% african-american, rallied at the inkster police department and called for the officers involved to be fired. >> this is blatant police brutality. towns like inkster, all over this nation, are faced with same problem. inkster is no different than ferguson or sanford or any of these other small towns, where police are using an excessive uses of force. >> ...

The police report that he was not injured and has no official record of having been bitten. melendez has been accused of impropriety in the past. >> officer melendez the one seen throwing the punches, is the same officer while working as a detroit police officer in 2003, was charged by the u.s. attorney's office as planting evidence and falsifying reports. a jury found officer melendez not guilty. >> after advisorying the video, a judge threw out most of the charges against dent though he still faces the drug charge. yesterday, protesters in inkster, which is 73% african-american, rallied at t...

Which is the contention that you have for your client. take a look at this footage for a moment. >> reporter: in the video, the officer seen throwing the punches, william melendez, is seen pulling something from his pocket that looks like a plastic baggy with something inside it. melendez testified in court, police found a baggy of crack cocaine under the passenger seat. >> mr. roll, is it you and your kline's contention that the police planted the crack cocaine they say they found in the car? >> chris, it's pretty obvious, if you look at the entirety of the tape, first of all, the officer who...

I can't breathe. he just kept on joking me. >> you said, "i can't breathe?" >> right, i told him -- stop choking me, i can't breathe. and he continued are choking me. you know? and after about 15 seconds, i just gave up, you know? because i couldn't -- i was on my last breath. you know? and that's when he let go. >> do you remember being tased? >> yes, i remember being tased. i heard somebody in the background saying, "taze the mf." >> mr. roll, let me ask this question to you. there is -- i want to play some tape of a local affiliate that has an angle of the video that they say suggests the p...

shows the moment of impact. 76 people were killed in the bombing and shooting rampage on an island near oslo. survivors are describing the terror. >> when the shooter got closer, i was left with only one question. how would i like to die. i mean, let him shoot me or shall i just drown in trying to escape. the violence just won't stop in syria. at least eight more people including an 11-year-old boy were shot and killed by security forces outside damascus today. that is according to a human rights group that is on the ground there. protesters reportedly fought back by throwing rocks...