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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-destroys-15-yo-students-face-wanted-cell-phone-call-mom/According to Petrillo, last Friday morning, Joe, who was at school on his lunch break, asked the schools principal, Mary Vito, for his cellphone. In high schools, it is not uncommon for students to have to leave their phones in the office every morning.
While he was on lunch, Joe merely wanted to call his mother. However, principal Vito was not going to allow him to do that, so the two went back and forth several times. At this point, officer OMara stepped in to force Joes compliance...
He grabbed my son, who is maybe one hundred and twenty pounds, like a bean pole, and he slams him on the floor, handcuffs him and then starts punching my son in his face, Petrillo said.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)I don't know why everyone thought letting them get this invasive and pervasive in society was the answer to anything.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)And a need for society to bring them to heel.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)You must be a member of the reality based community or something.
I'm pretty sure there's help for that these days.
Blus4u
(608 posts)Oh, wait.
Peace
muriel_volestrangler
(101,312 posts)In other words, Chief VanBrederode thinks it's ok for a man more than twice the size of a skinny kid, to beat his face to a pulp.
Chief VanBrederode says video surveillance footage from officer O'Mara's bodycam proves that officer Shawn O'Mara was justified in punching the student.
Of course Chief VanBrederode is refusing to release that video.
http://davyv.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/gates-ny-cop-beats-high-school-student.html?m=1
And it points out that they did not take the victim to hospital, though any fool could see he needed checking out (photo at link)
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)authority and this is a training session, indoctrination. That's how bad this F'en country has become IMO.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)on in this country. So many in this country have drunk the Kool-Aid and vote in those least likely to serve them well. It's worse than Joseph Goebbels. We live in such an oligarchical authoritarian country and so many are brainwashed to think all is well. It's depressing.
Orrex
(63,209 posts)What made this fucked up stormtrooper think it was a good idea to maul this child?
dana_b
(11,546 posts)looks like he has been in a UFC fight. His wrists are badly bruised too from the hand cuffs. He could have had a serious head injury but they got him no help. A nurse at a school does not count. They usually aren't even allowed to touch kids.
The Police chief won't release the video but he says that the kid threatened to hit the cop. I don't care!! He didn't touch the cop and the cop had NO right to hurt this CHILD!
He should be suspended immediately pending investigation by and outside and objective office.
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)... that kid needed medical attention, not just a ride home.
... and, no, I don't think it was justified.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Sorry, I won't take the cop's word on this.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... and my son's a cop who married into a tribe of racist Republicans and guzzled a gallon of the Kool Aid. We don't agree on much.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)but, fortunately, they've remained sane. Both are for Bernie. Guess that's the advantage of being raised by pot smoking hippies.. Sorry about you're kid. Hope someday he comes to his senses. My friends tell me their kids say a lot of cops support Trump.. wow, that's scary!
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... during the Summer of Love (1967) I worked in Park Square in Boston when the city sponsored daily concerts on Boston Common. I would eat my lunch and listen to Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, etc. FOR FREE! Dealers would stroll up and down Charles Street singing, "Smack, acid, speed." Good times...
Chemisse
(30,811 posts)So what if the kid threatened to punch him. The cop couldn't counter a swing? The cop couldn't restrain him minus the throwing him on the floor and punching?
These power-thirsty cops make me sick. Only cool-headed and specially trained cops should be allowed in schools.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Just using a "threat" from an immature kid as justification for beating him.
Yeah, I'd get a lawyer anyway.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Or just fucked up in the head.
kcr
(15,316 posts)for why a student ended up with smashed facial bones. And then casually dropped off at his house afterwards. No biggie.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Why should he not be allowed to use his phone on his own time? Instead this minor was brutally assaulted by a goon with a badge while handcuffed and he was denied medical attention.
And why is he working at a school if he is such a danger to children?
yardwork
(61,604 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)There is no withholding judgement here.
Rex
(65,616 posts)There was no reason to hurt her son. File charges and try to get the piggy fired is my advice. Cops should try to weed out pigs.
greymouse
(872 posts)I was talking to my doctor about this just a few weeks ago after I fell and landed on my face and she was telling me the various things that happen in facial injuries. The cop must have smashed the kid's face into the floor. Then not to get him medical attention was inexcusable.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Then he could have shot the bad guy. RIGHT?
phazed0
(745 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)phazed0
(745 posts)You tell me. Cause the only thing we can get from her so far is an acknowledgement of the problem.. and their acknowledgement that they (Bill) are largely to blame.
Feb 24th - Salon - SC Town Hall: Sanders calls for fighting structural racism; Clinton calls for white people to be "honest"
That's nice, but how?
March 2, 2016 The Post Crescent: How primary plays out in Wisconsin
That's nice, but how?
Feb 11th - Milwauikee Journal Setinel: Clinton, Sanders debate health care, police shootings
That's nice, but how!?
See.. simply spouting out the problem and that "we need to do something", doesn't actually fix the problem.
Then we can point to just Jul 18, 2015 - WTVR-TV: How Bill Clinton Says he made mass incarceration issue worse
I signed a bill that made the problem worse, Clinton told an audience at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples annual meeting in Philadelphia. And I want to admit it.
Everyone back then knew it was a failed policy but 'for-purchase politics' won... and now we have a Prison Industrial Complex and jail more people than anyone else on Earth. Horse Shit? Ya, it's all over your face... wipe it from your eyes and you can see, otherwise, have fun rolling in it.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Of the property. They should have nada to do with students.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Maybe not a "superpredator", but appears not to be a white Caucasian.
But then, when you see the headline, one almost assumes that to be the case. I don't know whether it just doesn't happen...abusing a white kid...maybe it's not reported? But it always seems to be the case.
LEO abuse...POC or non-Caucasian seems to be on the receiving end.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Although I suppose he could be mixed-race on his mom's side.