Graphic: Surveillance Footage Shows Entire Violent Attack by Naked Cannibal in Florida
- Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:22pm by
Erica Ritz
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Editor’s note: this story contains graphic images that may be disturbing to some.
The Miami Herald has released terrifying surveillance footage of the entire gruesome attack on a homeless man Saturday, in which a naked man on drugs named Rudy Eugene literally ate another man’s face in Florida.
(Related: Alleged Photos of Cannibal Victim‘s ’Eaten’ Face Emerge: ‘Unbelievably Horrifying’)
At eighteen minutes long, the uncensored video also helps determine exactly what happened that day.
According to CBSMiami, Eugene had driven to South Beach the morning of the attack to check out the Memorial Day weekend festivities, but was unable to start his car to make a return trip. Leaving his sedan to be towed, Eugene seemingly decided to attempt the roughly three mile trek on foot.
CBS continues:
It was a hot day, with temperatures in the 90′s, and a long walk…As he walked across the causeway, [police] said he started stripping, leaving his clothes on the walkway and in the road.
Cops found his drivers license and clothes strewn from the beach to the mainland.
Had he not abandoned his car, Eugene likely would have driven right past the spot along the causeway under the elevated track of the MetroMover where he met Robert Poppo about 2 p.m.
Instead, on foot, he ran into the 68 year old homeless man, who police believe he’d never seen until that moment. It was at that point that police believe Eugene set in motion the events that led to his death at the hands of police and Poppo’s gruesome mutilation.
Here is the video. And while the camera is located too far away to make out specifics of the attack, it does eventually zoom in and is disturbing:
The horrifying footage shows 31-year-old Rudy Eugene striking homeless Ronald Poppo, removing his pants, then brutalizing his face in broad daylight for roughly 18 minutes as traffic continued on the busy MacArthur Causeway.
More specifically, the Huffington Post summarizes:
[Footage] picks up a fully naked Eugene just before 2 p.m. as he walked down the exit ramp on the other side of the bridge. Pausing in a shady spot, he reels or spins slightly as a bicyclist whizzes by, then is mostly lost to sight as he bends over the homeless Poppo where he sat or lay on the ground.
About two minutes, later, however, Eugene rolls Poppo into the middle of the sidewalk. He appears to strip away some of the older man’s clothing and then savage his face as Poppo futilely resists. Several minutes later, Eugene again drags Poppo farther down the sidewalk and continues to attack him before another cyclist rolls slowly by and a white car pauses on the off-ramp, just on the other side of a short wall separating the roadway from the bike path.
Gruesome photos circulating the web would later confirm most of Poppo’s face, including his nose, eyes, and mouth, was ripped away, in what Miami’s Fraternal Order of Police vice president Sgt. Javier Ortiz told the Associated Press was of the “goriest scenes I’ve ever been to.” Poppo remains in critical condition.
“He had his face eaten down to his goatee. The forehead was just bone. No nose, no mouth,” said Sgt. Armando Aguilar, Miami FOP president. “In my opinion, he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The Miami Herald is also reporting that at least five different people called the police, and while police suspect Eugene was under the influence of a potent drug referred to as “bath salts,” no drugs or paraphernalia were found on the scene.
Toxicology reports will take several weeks.
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Comments (121)
BUDDY LITTLE
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:16pmIf he had not striped off his Hoodie they wood have shot the homeless man?
Report Post »johndoesoetoro
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:12pmThis is analogous to what Obama and the Progressives are doing to America. And just like this homeless guy, we are each conscious and fully experiencing the agony.
Google – Legacy of the American Trojan Horse
Imagine, if you could remember and write down everything corrupt, incompetent, and evil that we’ve learned about Obama, his administration, and the left-wing in general… what would the list look like?
This is what it would look like: http://www.american-trojan-horse.blogspot.com/
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:00pmI am really really glad the cops killed this evil bastard.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:59am“Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents.” Ezekiel 5:9-10
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:43am@JOHN It is an unbelievable list… Thanks for the link i will spread the word..
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:52am@JOHN the list shows beyond any doubt the evil intentions of Obama ,the MSM,and the Democrats..
Report Post »nolafrenchy
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 1:54pmthe thing that separates adults and children is rationality and maturity. you‘ve just proven you’re a child. and p.s. you misspelled “would.”
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:27pmYou seem to have some idiocy running in your blood.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:16pmHe’s kookoo for Poppo Pops.
dogday
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:01pmLol!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:03pmMAn, now that is sick, the video and your comment. Nothing funny about either. Our society is ill, in many more ways than ONE!
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:35pmNo more poppo for you ! BANG ! BANG ! LOL !
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:49pm@Rayblue
“He’s kookoo for Poppo Pops.”
You once said it’s hard to make you laugh. Now I know your funny side.
Report Post »Tektonak
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:53pmI agree with UNIX. That was a messed up comment.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:47pmSome dissension I see. OK. I won’t be at odds with my peers.
Report Post »I agree with the majority.
marcus_arealius
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:14pmA new show, The Reverend Cannibal Show tonight on MSNBC ! Be there !
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:14pmthis is the best argument not to legalize drugs
Report Post »EJ1979
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:31pmYah cause you hear about those crazy pot heads all the time doing violent things.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:40pm@ EJ1979
Like attacking neighborhood watchmen? Oh, that’s right….it was that, plus DMX, soda, and sugar.
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:01pmA pot head just ran over a woman in our area with his car and killed her. In front of her children and with his children in the car. Yeah pot is harmless. I tell you what, I will agree to legalize pot, if you agree to jail time for first time DUI offenders and drug testing to receive government assistance (from Medicaid to Food stamps). Oh and you loose your kids if there is a case of abuse or neglect and you are found to be stoned at the time (tired of seeing that too).
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:52pm@EJ1979
Did you forget your sarcasm tag? Stupid Paulestinians.
Report Post »TexasIndependant
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:24pmHe snorted Bath Salt, how are the drug laws going to stop this?
Report Post »cmonnow
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:27pmTSUNAMI-22 – Zimmerman was prescribed pharmaceutical drugs that can cause violent side effects, so not the best response there killer. http://newsone.com/2016433/george-zimmerman-drugs Martin was peacefully walking to his father’s house after having peacefully bought an iced tea and some Skittles. We know what you mean though: Martin was a young black male, thus thug – he had marijuana in his system, thus a law-breaker, he got in an altercation, thus he started it – etc., etc. and he somehow deserved to die… gimme a break.
Report Post »flat_top_particular_about_the_point_it_makes
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:29amApproximately 30% of Americans will be in an accident involving alcohol (what’s that 100 million people?)
Report Post »• According to estimates, someone is injured in an alcohol-related accident every two minutes
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 2:35pm@ cmonnow
Do some research on what was in Martin’s system during the autopsy. You might learn something other than you think I’m racist against blacks.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/05/24/update-26-part-2-trayvon-martin-shooting-a-year-of-drug-use-culminates-in-predictable-violence/
Report Post »Tutis
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:09pmWill we hear Obama say if he had a son he would look just like the cannibal?
Report Post »dogday
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:02pmI know it’s wrong, but I can’t quit chuckling at these comments!! Funny stuff people!
Report Post »cmonnow
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:12pmit is wrong, it’s ignorant, and it’s revealing of your intelligence level and that of many people on here to in any way link this horrible act to the President. pathetic.
Report Post »Dcjones
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:08pmIts crazy at the end of the video. The guy who was getting “eaten”; his legs were moving and he seems to have sat up. I can not believe that he was CONCIOUS THE WHOLE TIME!!!! wOW. The pain. This is absolutely disgusting.
Report Post »positive1
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:45pmThe speed and quick response of our men in blue for those suffering in this country has become ridiculously slow. Just look how low they move and respond in the video, like a walk in the park.
Report Post »321481
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:07pmFor some reason weirdos are attracted to Florida.
Report Post »behonest
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:07pmI think I know what‘s worse it’s not eating dogs? That should calm the left down
Report Post »nocomment
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:06pmIf it was Rosie O‘Donnell he was ’munching‘ on he’d still be there weeks later due to her very meaty mug.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:00pmI am betting this black cannible is an import or decended from imports who came here either illegally or is the result of illegals coming here. He is no slave decendent. There are not that many slave decendents out there compared to those who came here willingly from the islands, or other places because our handouts are better. The decendents of slaves do not even bother with the “gimme people” because most of the slave decendents have enough moxie to do like the rest of us and work and pay their own way. These nasty ingrates and their sorry habits should be shipped back to where they came from. These people who would go that crazy, have it in their hearts or they would not bring it out under extreme amounts of any drug. It is there, just waiting for the right trigger. These people who would treat another human being in such a manner should be shot and their bodies cremated. They are not worth burying.
Report Post »CrawfishFestival2
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:38pmI agree….!
There had to be other stuff – with and without drug-induced acts – from Rudy – getting Free Passes.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:57pmThis turns my stomach. I can’t wrap my head around this kind of violence. It’s inconceivable, unfathomable. I looked at the photos and I wish I hadn’t. It‘s one of those things you can’t unsee.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:04pmFor that reason, I didn’t look at them. I have a hard enough time sleeping.
Report Post »juge
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:19pmAmen. I cannot believe that this is the world I will leave to my children. GOD be with them please! How are we better than the folks that were drowned in the flood??
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:55pmHe was under the influence of Obama and Occupy. This is what the Master of Malevolence is doing to all of civilization! He’s making all of his followers into cannibals that prey on all the rest of civilized society!
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:53pmThis cannibal looks like a Somali muslim. Perhaps the cannibal mistook the homeless guy for a dog and just wanted a snack.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:36pmHe walked a long way, he was tired and hungry.
Report Post »Diablo4965
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:52pmThis has to be labeled an Ate crime!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:25pmWhat’s for desert ? Vanilla Ice ?
Report Post »BIgWheeler
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:01pmWell done.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:51pmWhat is it with people in South Beach? Two cyclists and someone in a car could have prevented this, but did nothing? Well, they may have made a 911 call, maybe. Where are those conceal-carry people when you need them?
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:05pmMaybe Florida has made people with CWP’s afraid to use their weapon. Afraid they’ll be accused of a hate crime.
Report Post »Celeste.Christi
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:21pmRational Adults in So Fla (concealed carry types) knew this was Urban Weekend on South Beach. We all avoided the area because of the mess Urban Weekend brings to the beach.
Report Post »Zer0
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:51pmI live in Miami, and this just cements my belief that I’m going to get a conceal/carry permit. You won’t believe the amount of insane, heinous, acts of random violence that occurs all the time down here that never make the national headlines.
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:47pmIts obamas fault.
Report Post »juge
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:24pmThis has been a slow decline into the worst humanity has to offer. Good people have to teach their children values and how to love their brothers. If we dont do it, we are in real trouble. Anyone out there committed to the next generation????
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:46pmOMG wake me up quick and let Reagan be in the WhiteHouse please!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:39pmThe only one that could have saved us would have been Jefferson Davis in the White House
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEC68vTQwP8
Ron Paul – “South was right”
cmonnow
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:29pmhow in the world does this have anything to do with anything..?? yeah, sure, let’s go back to the 80s when our cities were left to turn into hives of drugs, prostitution, and violence….. this deification of Reagan cannot be healthy.
Report Post »tbeard
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:44pmCan’t help but think there are way too many calloused people making jokes about this. It’s a disgusting and horrifying event.
Report Post »SLOWBIDEN
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:01pmI agree. This is pure evil and nothing to joke about. If you think this is funny than you are pure evil as well.
Report Post »Melika
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:07pmBlack humor is one way of dealing with something as horrifying as this. It helps some people to blow off a little steam. Very rarely is it a case of someone too callous to appreciate the horror of it all.
Report Post »nappy
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:43pmwell.. I guess over-the-top deceptive headlines aren’t beneath The Blaze either.
Report Post »moltengold
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:39pmCrap, now I gotta worry about the Zombie Apocalypse too.
Report Post »Dogonit
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:31pmHahahaha!
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:36pmThis is a very, very, very sick individual who has an OBVIOUS eating disorder..
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:55pmI know just think if the sick bastard got into a nursing home,he would of had a buffet.
Report Post »LLATPOH
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:35pmBath Salts – the new uber-pot. Gives you the munchies so bad that you‘ll eat someone’s face off!
Call 1-800-UBER-POT to get your free sample today!*
*Must be 12 years or older and own a hoodie to purchase.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:39pmLol!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:33pmThe black culture. Violence.
Report Post »TheJeffersonian
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:50pmAh, theblaze. Where one man’s drug-induced psychosis turns into a blanket statement about hundreds of millions of people.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:11pm@ thejeffersonian
irony /ˈīrənē/
Report Post »Noun:
The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Weiners Wiener
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:24pmJeffersonian — I hope you’re not talking about blacks in the US alone, because there aren’t anywhere near hundreds of millions of them.
Report Post »cmonnow
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:21pmTHEJEFFERSONIAN – yes, Blazers seem to pride themselves on simple-minded ignorance – the more vulgar and less reasoned, the better. received ideas to reinforce prejudice is the currency of the so called “conservative” movement. we (the US) are currently 29th out of 109 in math and science and with radical efforts to privatize/corporatize our education system, rest assured that the ability to reason and think critically and not just regurgitate and mime such ignorance will be long gone. the tea party would rather whitewash history and teach the Bible in school and convince themselves that the national debt didn’t balloon under Reagan…
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:31pmYou’re supposed to eat the rich you stupid SOB ! On the bright side your man eating days are over.
Report Post »I know when my car breaks down my first thought is to get naked and eat a human’s face,the nut job was probably on pcp because it took several rounds to put him down.
Gonzo
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:45pmI did some pretty heavy drugs in my youth Slayer. Not once did any substance I abused give me the desire to eat a homeless man’s face.
Report Post »Dogonit
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:40pmHahaha! You’re hilarious dude!!!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:19pmBetty Crocker. Not the products. Just Betty Crocker.
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