Teen Dies After Police Shoved a Sharp Object Down His Throat to Retrieve Drugs that weren’t there

D.C. Clothesline ^ | May 12, 2014 | Cassius Methyl

[eccentric]

In Huntsville, Alabama police are facing no charges whatsoever after allegedly killing a 17 year old boy while trying to find drugs in his throat with a sharp object.

Mainstream media won’t touch the story, and of course, independent media fueled by citizen journalists broke this to the public, releasing the 16 page wrongful death suit filed by the teen’s mother, Nancy Smith.

According to the autopsy:

“Because of the circumstances of this event, it is difficult to discern if the decedent died from a drug overdose or an asphyxia event exacerbated by either the occlusion of the airway by the foreign object, a possible vascular occlusion associated with the neck restraint, or from a combination of all the events that transpired during this incident.”

The mother, who lost her young son to the violent monopoly of the state, filed a federal lawsuit in March alleging that her son was killed via assault and battery by the police who excessive force. She claims it was a wrongful death.

What is possibly even more disturbing is that the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences ruled this teen’s cause of death, “undetermined”.

That cold, robotic assessment seemed to contradict the very things the department found and reported. However police are denying any wrong doing.

They found that the teen suffered blunt force injuries, anoxic/hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, meaning his brain was starved of oxygen before he died.

So what actually happened? The mother’s lawsuit alleges that her son was setup in a drug sting. According to court documents, the teen was unaware of what was happening when an officer not in uniform, not identifying himself, rushed him. The teen proceeded to run, as anyone being chased by an unidentified man might do.

Next, the officer threw him to the ground, maced him, and handcuffed him.

The autopsy adds that his “neck was restrained”.

The Smith family lawsuit says police told paramedics that the teen swallowed a bag of illegal drugs.

What happened after this is not very clear, but this is what we appear to know:

The police proceeded to shove a sharp object down the teen’s throat to allegedly extract drugs. As of yet, the sharp object has not even been identified.

Drugs were never found in the teen’s throat, stomach, or bloodstream.

The actions of the victim’s family seem to indicate that they believe the police killed their son.

How does someone die from lack of oxygen, if it has been proven that nothing was stuck in his throat?

It would make quite a bit of sense if the teen died from lack of oxygen because the sharp object shoved down his throat by the police cut his throat and rendered his breathing organs useless.

Why is there seemingly zero footage of this? Why is no one being arrested or as much as even truly investigated in this police department?

A bit late into the investigation it seems, the police admitted “evidence”: 2 giant ziplock bags full of MDMA (ecstasy) that they claim was on his person.

This is highly disturbing and almost no one is reporting on it. Please share this with as many people as possible so the potential killers here will be known. Sharing this info would be a powerful act of information spreading, given that almost no one knows of this situation.

[Black Agnes]

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[babygene]

“When they yell police, you stop.”

What happens when I, the mugger yells “police”? Do you the intended muggie stop? That’s crazy talk...

[fuzzylogic]

yeah, that makes any action or behavior by LEO just fine. The cop should’ve just shot him in the back because he ran right?

[Responsibility2nd]

Interesting. The lawsuit also claims that as of the date of filing - 9 MONTHS AFTER THE DEATH - they still have refused to release the death certificate to the family.

[eccentric]

The photo on D.C. Clothesline shows a black man holding a sign that says “POLICE BRUTALITY KILLS YET ANOTHER”

[PghBaldy]

Thanks. I went looking for a news article and found his death notice and photo. The photo of the black man may be unrelated, as there is no caption or identifying information besides a credit.

[alancarp]

Right. This details seem to have ‘over-zealous law enforcement’ written all over it.

[Bon of Babble]

My God.

As the mother of a teen, it is unfathomable to me that this hasn’t gone VIRAL and that there isn’t massive OUTRAGE.

Prayers for the family, their grief must be unimaginable — double b/c of nothing being done about those who MURDERED their loved one.

[Bon of Babble]

From the Legacy.com link posted above:

"Nicholas Andrew Smith, 17, died in Huntsville, Ala., on June 18, 2013. He was born in Huntsville on Jan. 23, 1996. He was a very good student, taking advanced classes in high school as a Junior and was looking forward to his Senior year. He wanted to attend the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He was a great athlete; he had a passion for soccer and was a member of the Elite Soccer Team. He was so smart, always asking questions, he was so creative and thought of new ways to do things."

What are the chances his family will receive a condolence call from Obama?

[Bon of Babble]

From the legacy.com link posted by PghBaldy above.

Thanks for the link!!

[Robert Teesdale]

HOW DARE YOU DEFEND POLICE SHOVING A SHARP OBJECT DOWN A KIDS THROAT. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU.

Citizen, do not question the State or its officers. That is an extremist, violent and hateful attitude that demonstrates your incompatibility with social justice.

[trisham]

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of what is before them, glory and danger alike,
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[napscoordinator]

well there is no winners here, he would have risked getting beat up by a mugger, but he took his chances with the cops and lost. Poor guy...better choices in his afterlife I hope.

[napscoordinator]

HOW DARE YOU DEFEND POLICE SHOVING A SHARP OBJECT DOWN A KIDS THROAT. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU.

Oh your right. Next time perhaps the kid should stop when told.

[napscoordinator]

It’s going to be funny when cops kill someone you care about.

It won’t ever happen...guaranteed. Nobody in my family is stupid enough to run after the cops yell stop. In fact, there would be no running involved. Let me see if you have drugs. Open your mouth....ahhhhhh. Ok you are clean. Get out of here. Nobody in my family is an animal who doesn’t follow the law like this kid.

[Lazamataz]

No. You are wrong. The cop was not in uniform.

YOU ARE A FASCISM ENABLER.

YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.

[napscoordinator]

I am still alive and I have been stopped by cops at least four times and all you have to do is follow what they say starting with license and registration. Not hard to do and you survive better that way. The dummy just had to stop and discuss the situation and maybe get frisked due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I never can understand stupid people or their supporters.

[Lazamataz]

It won’t ever happen...guaranteed. Nobody in my family is stupid enough to run after the cops yell stop.

A) There was no clear and present indication the person who yelled WAS a cop.

2) If you think that because you are supercompliant, that the boot will miss your neck, you are quite wrong -- and I will enjoy it when it crushes YOUR windpipe, in the end.

[Lazamataz]

I am still alive and I have been stopped by cops at least four times and all you have to do is follow what they say starting with license and registration.

Uniformed ones, who came from clearly-marked cars, right?

This cop was NOT uniformed and NOT coming from a clear-marked police car.

So, you are telling us you will stop and submit to ANYONE who claims to be a cop?

I never can understand stupid people or their supporters.

Furthermore, THIS SORT OF ON-THE-STREET SURGERY IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE EVEN FOR UNIFORMED AND IDENTIFIED OFFICERS.

I never can understand fascism lovers or their supporters.

[Orangedog]

Aren’t you all just a nice flock of compliant sheep? And that’s fine. But eventually one of them will not bow, stoop or genuflect appropriately or fast enough to your betters liking. And please, please, please express these views of yours publicly in meat-space. We need to know who to shun after things get ugly and the cleanup starts.