Police brutality captured on cameraphone in Italy (?)

Régine sent me this link to Gazzeta di Modena and Kataweb while blogging from LA. I hate to bother her Max for a translation. Does anyone understand Italian? It's a video of purported police brutality. But without understanding the content of the article and just viewing the clip, something seems off to me, or staged. The exagerated erratic movements of the person filming, the bad framing. I don't know, maybe this is what's its' really like, and you're not stable when you witness something like this. But it seems to me that these three strong police officers are showing undue force against someone wearing only his undwear.

Many thanks for further insight!

Other incidents captured by citizen reporters which made headline news:

-- Geneva has a "Rodney King" racial brutality scandal on their hands - The Geneva Police Department has a "Rodney King" racial brutality scandal on their hands, documented by an a eye-witness with a camera phone. The video has been broadcasted on all the TV news stations.

-- Cell Phone Video At Center Of Police Controversy - Bringing to mind the Rodney King beating videotaped by an amateur, an incident in Chicago involving police brutality of a traffic violator was recorded by a witness through the video of a camera phone.

-- Citizen captures police act of racism on camera phone - A blatant act of racism by the Portland police was snapped by a "citizen reporter" armed with a camera phone. The story and the photos were published in the Portland Tribune and broadcasted on television.

emily | 7:11 PM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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