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Police Allegedly Attack Homeowner
   posted 6:00 pm Tue October 02, 2007 - Montgomery Village, Md.
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A Montgomery Village homeowner claims he was just trying to flag down authorities when police confronted and attacked him Monday night.

Rolando Bass said he first encountered the accused Montgomery County (web|news) police officers when he ran to guide fire fighters to his burning townhouse. That's when he said one of them accused Bass of setting fire to his home. "One of them got in my face," according to Bass, "They were like thugs." As firefighters worked to put the blaze out and made sure his family members were safe, Bass said police laughed and asked if 'he had been cooking crack up in his room.'

Bass admits he yelled back and used profanity.

ABC 7 News myTAKE - What's Your Opinion?"The next thing I know, I'm getting kicked in the face." Bass said. Montgomery County police have not commented on the incident, since Bass has filed a formal complaint, but do confirm there was an encounter.

"His face was in that dirt, (the police were) punching him," Rolando's Grandmother, Ida Bass said.

ABC 7 News has learned that Bass was arrested Tuesday evening on a warrant charging disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, failure to obey the lawful order of a police officer.
Latest Comment on Police Allegedly Attack Homeowner
desk235
PeeGee: I did see his record and all his previous charges are for nothing more than things like arguing/disturbing the peace.

BTW, he was found innocent by a jury of all charges except disorderly conduct (his HOUSE was on FIRE!!!). Anyways, you can tell the cops fabricated their story by the fact that everything else (some serious charges) were dropped. I don't know about you, but charging someone with resisting/obstruction/failure to obey would insinuate there were clear intentions (and resistance) given at the scene. They were just racking b.s. charges on him to try to play the system.

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