Officer Cleared of Choking Skateboarder

seems to be police brutality to me but then again I'm a hippie. Seriously, I'd have something to say to anyone who manhandled me or my kids that way.

I agree with Missy C. let someone manhandle my kids they would have me to deal with I might go to jail but when it comes to police brutality it would be worthit.

What a crock of..........*&%*#@. Seriously.
If this was my son I'd flip. They'd be hearing from my attorney.
This guy overreacted is the bottom line.
All the videos out there, all showed what happened.
How could they come up with the officer being innocent here?

Well this is right up there with the Scooter Libby thing.

Totally wrong!

First, the clips are all one sided and do not show the entire incident. Second, these punk kids got what they deserved. That is what is wrong with what I like to call the Flip-Flop generation. They have no respect for themselves much less for anyone else. The parents will over react as always and over look their child's discretions and total lack of respects for the law. Police officers have enough to worry about without having to worry how they handle a bunch of rotten miscreants.

The kid who got choked was 12 years old. He did not do anything to deserve getting choked. I watched a much longer video at you tube that does show the whole thing.
The 12 year old was a victim of the police officer's temper. How he chose to react to this child was wrong period and point blank.The older young adults may or may not have been a different story. This officer needs to be on suspension at the very least.
This guy overreacted is the bottom line.

The only punk in this incident was the fat ass cop in shorts.

Joy, I expected no less than this. Cops usually get off scot free. Nothing new here. In New York this is a way of life:

Sean Bell was killed on what was supposed to be the morning of his wedding, Nov. 25, when police unloaded more than 50 bullets into the car he and two friends—all African American and all unarmed—were in. The three were leaving Bell's bachelor party in Queens, N.Y.

Bell's friend Joseph Guzman is in critical condition after being hit at least 11 times. The other, Trent Benefield, was hit three times. A report from New York in the Sydney Morning Herald said the two had been shackled to their hospital beds. (Nov. 28)

One white officer alone, Detective Mike Oliver, emptied a full magazine of bullets, reloaded and then emptied a second magazine—a total of 31 bullets. New York Police Department policy on shooting at moving vehicles clearly states that police cannot fire at a moving vehicle "unless deadly force is being used ... by means other than a moving vehicle." (AP, Nov. 26) The officers involved were placed on administrative leave, yet are still being paid.

Not just 'bad apples'

Authorities are scrambling to come up with excuses for Bell's death. The police claim that one of Bell's friends made reference to a gun. "Experts" discuss the problem of "contagious shooting"—which was amplified in 1993 when the NYPD switched from revolvers to semiautomatic weapons. The media is quick to point out that a multinational group of officers were involved in the incident—two white, two Black and one Latino—to downplay the racism in the killings. However, to reiterate, all the victims are Black.

But despite any excuses and "bad apple" theories, police violence and terror in communities of color is systemic, not individual. The police act as an indiscriminate, armed occupying force, with the mentality that the poor and people of color are disposable. Brutality against these communities is a daily occurrence.

As if to prove this point, the next day in the Bronx police attacked and then arrested Juanita Young, an activist against police brutality and the mother of Malcolm Ferguson, who had been killed by the NYPD in March 2000. According to a press release by the October 22nd Coalition, as many as eight cops participated in the attack, kicking her in the chest and back.

In addition, the group TransJustice has called for a press conference and rally on Nov. 29 to denounce the Nov. 1 beating and arrest of two African American men beaten by cops in the West Village of New York City. When a white male police officer pushed a young African-American woman without provocation, 23-year-old African-American college student Shakur Trammel requested his badge number. In response, the officer punched Trammel in the face and chest, threw him onto the police van and choked him with his nightstick. Eyewitnesses report that between four to six mostly white cops then kicked and punched Trammel and another African-American man who was being very vocal about his outrage at Trammel's beating.

By LeiLani Dowell
and Dianne Mathiowetz
New York and Atlanta

Published Nov 30, 2006 12:59 AM

These punk cops will probably never see the inside of a jail, but, it's all good. In my neighborhood you see them around noon huddled at busy street corners in groups of 6 or 8. At night you couldn't find one for all the tea in china. You treat people like shit...expect the same treatment in return.

It's not just new York.

Several instances of police beating teenagers in Chicago
http://www.corpun.com/usj00402.htm


Again in Chicago another police incident

Teen killed, another hurt in bizarre police chase
Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 25, 2006
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060725/ai_n16640148

True, Joy, L.A. I think tops the list and here's an incident from Austin, Texas:

APD Shoots Unarmed Youth Author

Austin Imc

11 Jun 2005 07:33:08 PM

Late Thursday night in Southeast Austin, 18 yr old Daniel Rocha was killed by APD officer Julie Schroeder. According to local news and police reports, a blue suburban was stopped on drug traffiking suspicions on south Pleasant Valley Road. Of the three passengers of the car, one suspect managed to flee, while the driver was taken into custody. Police claim that Rocha resisted arrest and that during the struggle Officer Schroeder shot him. However, numerous eyewitness reports have a different story, stating that Rocha didnt run and declared he was unarmed several times. He was shot while on the ground, in the back, point blank. Autopsy reports show no indication of a struggle on Rocha's body. The FBI has now given notice that they will investigate the shooting.

http://austin.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20104/index.php

The unarmed Moore was killed Nov. 26 by a Detroit police officer who shot him in the back as he ran from him. The officer also shot Moore's 14-year-old friend Johnathan Stanley, an Osborn football player, in the hand, after the young men were forced to leave a Detroit National Wholesale Liquidators store because of the chain's policy banning unaccompanied shoppers under 17, The Michigan Citizen reported.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/12/nwl_shooting.html

Police kill teen; his mom calls it 'death sentence'
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jan 11, 2006
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- Police shot and killed a 16-year-old boy early Tuesday after he drove a car at them while fleeing the scene of a possible burglary attempt, authorities said.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20060111/ai_n15991936

A New Hanover County sheriff's deputy Friday shot and killed an 18-year-old man suspected in an armed robbery of two PlayStation 3 video systems, authorities said.
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061203/NEWS/612030440

It's all over, and the more I read the scarier it gets.

The only recourse for the kid that was choked is a civil suit, but this police brutality has gotten out of hand. In Chicago we had a cop beat up a female bar tender because she cut him off at the bar for being drunk. Unfortunately it's not going to stop until enough cops end up behind bars themselves.

Did this cop beat her up in the bar? Was there any charges put on him?

The cop was caught on bar's video camera and charges were made. The cop tried to bribe the woman not to press charges and when that didn't work, some of his cop buddies told the female bar tender that drugs would be found in her car. The cop has been fired and is facing criminal charges and his buddies are in hotwater. I don't know the results of hat investigation. The video was all over the news and was posted on You Tube.

I saw this online Brian. Scary stuff. Looks like some crazy stuff with police officers has been going on in Chicago. Here's a link summing them up it mentions the incident you speak of.

Here's more:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/killedoncamera/

Outgoing police superintendent Phil Cline said he was "disgusted" by the assaults. He said what dismayed him wasn't just the beatings but also how the attackers were subsequently protected by the department. Commanders kept the offenders in the December incident on active duty for months, even after seeing the recording. In videotape of February's incident, Abbate can be seen repeatedly punching and kicking bartender Karolina Obrycka, yet he was only charged with a misdemeanor till the state's attorney's office brought more serious charges. A police captain ordered his men to harass the media who came to cover Abbate's first court hearing.

"I won't tolerate any misconduct. If it comes to a criminal nature, we'll arrest you. If somebody tries to shield Officer Abbate, or any other officer accused of misconduct, then they're going to have to pay the consequences for it," Cline said after that hearing. But this isn't anything Cline hasn't seen before.

The Chicago police have been out of control for some time now. That female bartender was only doing her job. Bars and taverns can get fined for letting a person drink too much here in Chicago.

Speaking of police burtality check out Jon Burge on Google here is one article that gives you a summary of his activities.

http://www.truthinjustice.org/jon-burge.htm

Jon Burge was a police detective that tortured confessions out of suspects. Some ended up on death row and a few may have been executed. Evidence points this way. I haven't followed the story to closely because it's so disgusting. Some of the allegations include electric shock and smothering. But you can follow the story on the internet for more details.

Jon Burge, I remember him, the man should be locked up himself for what he did. I just wonder did an innocent person die because of him? Not to mention how many people did time in prison that were probally innocent in the first place.

I remember hearing about Jon Burge. I have not followed it for the same reason.
I hope justice is served somehow, or serious karma and a long & painful lightning strike, however karma decides.

I cannot believe they let the cop off the hook with the skateboard thing.
It was interesting to view the information on other cities and police histories.
Jon Burge was just sick.

Felix, Austin police have a history of shooting and assulting innocent citizens and then covering them up. This is nothing new, in Texas.

As the old t-shirt used to say, "Skateboarding is Not a crime"

Just another example of how officers are, "above the law".