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South Florida Cops Filmed Repeatedly Punching 14-Year-Old Black Girl
There is virtually no reason for a group of large adult male cops to pin a 14-year-old girl to the ground and continually punch her in the ribs and kidneys. Yet after Coral Springs Police officers were filmed doing exactly that to a teen outside the Coral Square Mall yesterday, the police department is now trying to defend itself and callously throwing the teen under the bus for somehow provoking the beating.
The footage is difficult to watch:
Link to tweet
"Why are you hitting her?" an onlooker screams at the cops. "Her hand's underneath her!"
But the only thing that might be more infuriating than the video itself is the response so far from CSPD. The department today issued a callous, multiparagraph statement titled "Rumor Control" that effectively blamed the girl for provoking the attack from the cops.
Read more: https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/midterm-elections-2018-palm-beach-early-voting-locations-from-jupiter-to-boca-raton-to-delray-beach-9980995
