Posted on 09/28/2006 11:29:43 AM PDT by CondorFlight
DURHAM - Police have launched an internal investigation into allegations that a 13-year-old boy was wrestled to the ground, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed Monday, though he had done nothing wrong...
The officers took him to Duke Hospital for treatment of cuts and other minor injuries, where he was left for several hours without his parents being contacted, Lowery said.
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Obviously they mistook him for a Duke student. . .
Yaaawn.
Uuuuhh....yeah. He was just walking down the street and BAM. I can barely get down the sidewalk myself before 6-7 cops are throwing themselves on me.
Was he carrying lacrosse equipment?
I've always wanted to have 6-7 cops throw themselves on me.....
Wear a hat that looks like a donut.
Boo-HOO!
Police don't just pick you out and jump you.
Let's find out:
A. What did this guy do to attract attention?
B. How big is this kid? There have been 6-0 230 pound 13 year olds.
Right now, with no answers from police, this is a a Pity-Party with the media nad the suspect.
i thought you were going to say a Duke Lacrosse player/student.
123's kinda young to be a cook in a bar, isn't it?
oops, meant to be '13's' kinda young...
It can happen.
Happened to me once. Valentines Day, 19 years ago. Called police on my drunk husband, who wouldn't let me in the house and was making faces at us through the windows. The cop who came was POed at having to come out on a domestic, he grabbed ME in a chokehold. It went downhill from there. I hadn't yelled or screamed or anything, i was just wanting in that house where the breast pump was waiting and i was in discomfort. I burst into tears and he grabbed me. I'd just given birth by C-section 4 weeks before, to a tiny preemie. My milk went out overnight.
It traumatized me for years. i couldn't have a police car behind me, i'd have a panic attack and have to pull over and calm down. I wasn't some weirdo, druggie or anything, just a middle class mom with an alcoholic husband.
I'm pretty sure I saw that on a "Cops" episode. Was that you?
Of course it can, and I'm sorry it happened to you. I have often been annoyed on FR threads by those who are sure the cop did no wrong, as well as by the ones who are sure the cops acted as jackbooted thugs, when such judgements are made in the absence of sufficient data. It seems the basic rule is perp = some kid on the street -> cop = hero, whereas perp = drug user/dealer at home -> cop = JBT, or something like that.
Nice. Real nice.
Nice touch MM.....
I see that those sensitivity classes are really working for ya'
Shouldn't that be "alleged" cuts and injuries?
It happens a lot, when I was standing in a carpeted, air conditioned, open office at the Houston police dept, with two handcuffed friends the police started beating them.
My brother went to the 7/11 down the street, cops swooped in, took him to the station and beat him badly enough he was taken to the hospital, One cop called and told my mother he was so horrified that he would testify against the other cops. The best any of us could find out was that they thought he was someone else.
I helped another friend after I saw the police driving away from him on the street, he was pretty roughed up and we had to nurse him that night.
I have seen a lot of police misdeeds, interestingly I have never seen any Houston like behavior from San Diego cops.
I know any big city is going to have a few problems and San Diego is pretty casual about gunning down people, but I don't think they could ever do something like the HPD did when they took Airborne Ranger Joe Torres down to their sleeping area by the bayou, then beat him almost to death and pitched him into the river, where he drowned.
I was roughed up a little in LA when I asked a cop what his probable cause was, but really, almost every Southern Californian cop, and sheriff I've ever met or watched, has always been the emotionally detached professional we all desire as police.
Why is it that scandals among the Highway Patrol are almost unheard of.
I had a friend taken down by swat for driving a green Chevy truck and having blond hair. He matched the general description of an armed robbery suspect.
I got the crap beaten out of myself at 19 because a deputy sheriff pulled me over in a maroon over white Mercury when he was looking for a black over white Ford... the deputy ended up fired over the stop. Seems he was pulling over everyone he could, and then calling his brother-in-law for the tow... he had something like five brutality charges pending at the time.
Just try to tell me all cops are perfect angles. /s
What are you? A Donut delivery man? /sarc
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