Police Accused Of Using "Excessive Brutatlity" Against Teen (Video)...

[Skyraider22]

He is 14 that is too much to put on him he is just a child before the showing of the tape he must have did something very bad for the police to do that to me that is just a vry poor way to handle a child:dunno:

 

[bustybbwlover]

for loitering and doing a little jig in front of the cops, it does seem that the po-po were a bit excessive, there are multiple ways cops are taught to subdue suspects that don't involve people getting their faces busted up. now what we don't know, cuz the video doesn't show it, is whether the cops smashed his face somehow or he smashed his own face somehow.

 

[Magnet]

We will see what happens.

At least it isnt a black vs white case.

The kid probably didnt something stupid and needed to learn his lesson.

 

[Facial_King]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/05/18/nr.teen.police.beating.tape.cnn

This happened in Toledo, OH. Apparently, this teen was loitering somewhere when the police showed up to tell him to go away. Then, something happened (which isn't on the video) and the teen ended up in a chokehold, blood all over his face.

The video was taken by a neighbor, but it clearly doesn't show everything that happened. I've been looking, but haven't found any additional information on this news story, other than obvious "fuck the police" type of comments on blogs. Does anyone have any other information on this story? For instance, what happened between the time the police showed up and time the video started?

1. I don't know what "excessive brutality" is. I didn't hear Sanchez or any family member (on the vid or on the phone with Sanchez) use that phrase. CNN chose to caption the vid with that phrase. The phrase just doesn't compute. Brutality itself is an excessive act, so perhaps they meant to write "extreme brutality" which would be a bit more meaningful. Excessive brutality reminds me of "a little bit pregnant."

:dunno:

2. I don't see how it's "apparent" at all that the teen was loitering.

3. There's not enough information to go on to make much of a judgment. It kind of looks like the cop who has him in a chokehold position has his fingers in the kid's mouth. The kid (it's true, he's much smaller and lighter than the cops) doesn't look to be resisting (or exactly conscious) in the vid. Something happened to make the kid all bloody. He clearly looks unconscious later on.

4. Given how inconclusive (and shaky, blurry, etc.) the footage is, I'm not sure why Sanchez opted to show it, especially considering that in about any given week (or day?) there's at least one vid uploaded to the Web that's more compelling and more clear-cut. I'm not saying it was wrong to air it - it's certainly more newsworthy than plenty of other stuff that gets on the TV news - but it just doesn't tell us much. There's nothing close to a reasonable judgment to be made here. The kid could have jumped off a roof and viciously attacked the cops with a knife, or the cops beat the crap out of him for no good reason, or something in-between, and harder to call. Or maybe the kid got in a fight with some other kid before the cops even got there. And even though Sanchez didn't seem to draw any conclusion on this, he'll probably be labeled a cop-hater just for airing the vid and talking to the kid's brother.

 

[Facial_King]

The kid probably didnt something stupid and needed to learn his lesson.

 

[Facial_King]

I don't know when Sanchez ran that semi-pointless story, but this one deserves more attention:

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2009/05/policeman-caught-on-camera-kicking.html

 

[Hot Mega]

Okay, I'm not taking sides, but let's look at some of the obvious. You never see how he ended up bloody. The Police who were arresting him, had this woman run up "AFTER" it started, so that smells like a set up to me. I heard them say 3 times, put you hands behind your back, and only complied after the third, heard request.

Being "set up" is no defense to breaking the law. That argument has been rejected time and time again by those seeking to defend themselves against stings.

 

[georges]

not a proper way to solve things with a teenager.

 

[Kingfisher]

Being "set up" is no defense to breaking the law. That argument has been rejected time and time again by those seeking to defend themselves against stings.

I was in my opinion that it was a setup. Go back, watch the video. Those officers didn't do anything, except thier job. You never see them doing anything to the teen, except detain him.