July 16, Oakland, Tennessee. Caught on video: cops kick down the door and chase Brandon Calloway, a young Black man, through the house. With no mercy, they brutalize him bloody with batons and tasers. The “crime”? Being a Black man who supposedly failed to stop at a stop sign and then drove away at 32 miles per hour in a 20 mph zone.

Who is Brandon Calloway? This 25-year-old had played baseball from the time he was three years old and through high school, where he excelled academically. He was a National Honor Society member with a passion for engineering and graduated from the University of Tennessee last year with a degree in electrical engineering. He produces music, and runs his own business.

But to the pigs Brandon Calloway was just a “Black man running.” A video shows the cops following him into his father’s home. One is swinging a baton, another has a weapon drawn.

After the police kicked down the door of the house, Calloway’s girlfriend captured on video what happened: Pigs rush in and chase Calloway up a flight of stairs where Calloway tries to hide behind a couch. Cops tase him, and he runs downstairs. The cops continue to pursue him and then beat him and tase him again. In the video you hear a woman yelling, begging the cops to “stop hitting” Calloway and asking them, “Why are you chasing him and hitting him? He has no weapon. There’s no weapon.” You hear Calloway yelling, “I’m bleeding!”

The pigs throw Calloway to the ground, face down, and handcuff him. One pig puts his boot on Calloway’s neck. A woman screams, “Get off of his neck.” Watching the video, you can’t help but think about how a Minneapolis pig murdered George Floyd by putting his knee on Floyd’s neck as his fellow cops helped in the murder and kept bystanders away. Later, after watching the video of his brutalization, Brandon Calloway said, "It is kind of hard to watch. But it is fulfilling… to know that it was on video."

After the beating, Calloway was arrested, taken into custody and charged with evading arrest, disorderly conduct, failing to stop at a stop sign and speeding.

Andre Wharton, Calloway’s lawyer, described what happened to his client, who is about 5'5" tall and 120 pounds, as “vicious and intolerable.” He said, “We don’t treat animals like that; but we certainly don’t treat human beings like that… you have an officer, just two years out of the George Floyd incident, who is putting his foot on the neck of a clearly disabled suspect at that time.”

Calloway needed stitches on both sides of his head and had injuries “all over” his body. He continues to suffer from “constant headaches and eye pain,” has trouble with focusing and his memory, and says he has felt out of touch with reality. He says, “I keep asking people if this is a dream… I’m really just traumatized.” Calloway's father, Edward Calloway, said, his son has "severe psychological trauma.”

Again and again, cops across the U.S. justify their brutality and terror against people by saying they “feared for their lives”—and similarly, the pigs who brutalized Calloway claimed he had “reached into his pocket.” The pigs don’t even claim to have ever seen an actual weapon as they pursued Calloway, but they beat him bloody, and then arrested him on blatantly trumped-up charges. The real criminals here are the vicious pigs and the whole system that the police serve and protect.