Cell Phone Video Shows Police Choking, Kicking 6th Graders

[Mika]

Source: Gawker dot com

On Tuesday, the Boynton Beach, Fla. police department released two student-shot cell phone videos that show police officers detaining two sixth graders who'd reportedly just been removed from a school bus. In one video, an officer appears to put a student in a chokehold; in another, an officer kicks a student in the back of the leg, causing the student to fall.

Read more: http://gawker.com/cell-phone-video-shows-police-choking-kicking-6th-grad-1575850680

[olddad56]

1. in this day and age, who would expect anything less from the municipal armed forces?

[tblue37]

37. This 19-year-old girl was beaten, arrested, jailed for *days*,

and brutally abused even *more* in jail, even after several witnesses repeatedly told the cops that she and her friends were NOT the group that they had been called to deal with.

"Just Because You Weren't Dancing is No Reason for Us Not to Beat You Up and Then Throw You in Jail."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/14/1298490/-Just-Because-You-Weren-t-Dancing-is-No-Reason-for-Us-Not-to-Beat-You-Up-and-Then-Throw-You-in-Jail#

[MrScorpio]

2. I suspect that cops have always behaved this way...

It's just that we're seeing so much of this kind of thing these days because the use of smartphones is so wide spread.

[DeSwiss]

14. +1000

- And a hellava lot worse.

[randys1]

3. Oligarchs need police to treat us all like criminals

[951-Riverside]

4. Face it ladies and gentlemen, there is a war going on and we are the enemy

Riot Police Anaheim, California 2012
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[balthazar2]

5. +1.

It's good to keep a record like this. Thanks for posting it.

[shedevil69taz]

22. If this were to come to pass...

Wouldn't you want to be able to be armed at least as well as your local LEO? Yet many here want total bans on equipment (namely AR15 style rifles) that they have ready access to...

[rwsanders]

26. What good would that do?

They have the mentality (and I would bet it is based on their training) that if a person is unarmed, a nightstick works.
If they have a stick (or knife), go for the gun.
If they have a gun, then get 10 cops with guns.
If they have an AR-15 bring in the armored personnel carrier they got from the military.

I'm not saying to roll over, but that kind of resistance is a quick way to get dead, unless your on the right wing. Then it seems to be OK.

[marble falls]

34. Thanks for posting these all in one place. Its bad and getting worse all the time.

[GeorgeGist]

6. THREE cops for 2 sixth graders.

Boynton Beach got some real stupid on its payroll.

[demigoddess]

9. yes, and they expect one mother to

control 3 sixth graders or they will do a beat down on her!! Cops just don't make sense these days.

[Unknown Beatle]

24. There were four pigs,

which makes it worse. Watch the beginning of the second video.

[phantom power]

7. small wonder smartphone cameras freak them out

[sakabatou]

8. So the officer needed to subdue by choking instead of just slight movement?

Or just blocking? WTF?

[Not Sure]

10. Terminate their employment and charge them with crimes

It's the only reasonable thing to do and the only thing that will stop this shit.

[christx30]

36. Yeah, right.

There will be an "investigation" followed by these guys's butts right back in their patrol car, with them found to have been justified.

Cops are the bad guys.

[HipChick]

11. Black kids

I'm not shocked by the treatment

[951-Riverside]

13. Typical

...Cops are always picking on the weakest and most defenseless because they are bully gangs. Its always five on one, one on a little girl and they love busting down the wrong person's door then leaving without saying sorry.

Its a government gang but one day they're going to do this stuff to the wrong person and all hell is going to break loose.

Long gone are the days of the community cop who would give a homeless man a buck, these days its a paramilitary force that views the American people as the enemy.

I can vividly recall a homeless man who would sit around and scream in the park but never bother anyone, sometimes the cop would come out, give him a chance to pick up his stuff and he would leave. No harm no foul but these days I have no doubt in my mind that he would have been a dead man.

They do not hesitate to kill homeless people these days.

[dhill926]

12. well, in their defense...

Boynton Beach 6th graders are notorious ruffians….

[jayfish]

15. Just some more bad apples I take it.

Seems to me, at this point, the tree is rotted the fuck out.

[DeSwiss]

16. K&R

- This is what happens to people who live in FEAR of their government instead of the other way round.....

[center]

''The beatings will continue until the morale improves.'' ~Anon.[/center]

[Mika]

17. Ever notice that (in comic books) Superman and Batman always came to the rescue of the elite ...

... working with the cops, saving the banks, saving the politicians, saving the status quo - never saving the minorities downtrodden by said bankers, cops, politicians.

[DeSwiss]

20. Well, in all fairness.....

...Superman came from an elitist scientist family and from a totally different planet. While Batman's parents were rich 1%ers who got mugged and killed by some rabble from the hoi polloi.

It is clear they are obvious victims suffering from immigrant resentment and species-racism in Clark Kent's situation, for taking away superhero jobs from born and bred Amurikans. And of course the debilitating sickness of affluence in Bruce Wayne's case.

- So instead of being critical of them, we should give them a break and our sympathies and our munies, too also.

[Mika]

21. ROFLMAO. Thanks for the humor.

[Fumesucker]

32. Superman has other problems too...

You might enjoy this..

http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

[AnneD]

38. Read that when I was in college...

in the early 70's. Laughed so hard it was hard to catch my breath. Never forgot the story. Thanks for posting.

[Ash_F]

18. Bet they weren't rich white suburban kids!

EDIT - Nailed it. I must be psychic.

[abelenkpe]

23. I know right? nt

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

19. and the cops wonder why their not respected

[Blue Owl]

25. How did I know this was from Florida?

Crazy, crazy shit...

[QuestForSense]

27. What? And nobody got tased?

[nikto]

28. If a teacher did that, he/she would be FIRED and probably arrested

if the cops do it...meh.

[nikto]

29. It's just a matter of time...

...before the cops start shooting kids in that type of situation.


Guaranteed to happen.

[blkmusclmachine]

30. ,

,

[mahina]

31. Ran out of bullets?

Taser was in the shop?

I keed...

[marble falls]

33. Where's the photo of some random cop giving a gallon of milk to someone? Cops are your ...

friends, right?

[Sunlei]

35. jeez, thanks to cell phones we can all see today,-for some people the police are still pigs