Go below the squiggle and witness another out of control cop punching a teenage girl in the face. The fifteen-year-old girl was a runaway and the cop was trying to subdue her.
These cretins have been doing this crap all along, now it's being filmed. Problem is, the American public can't get enough of putting cops on a pedestal. How else can you explain the recent grand jury debacles?
Ignorant, and/or racist citizens combined with killer cops = NO JUSTICE for the weak.
When will ALL of the citizens in this country wake up?
Thankfully, a smart citizen filmed this particular incident. He even managed to keep the cops from deleting his video. However, even with film, there's no guarantee a jury will do the right thing.
On the other hand, I hate to say this, but it's a reality: The fact that the girl is white will make a big difference if her mother decides to sue.
Mesa, AZ– A video was uploaded to Facebook on Friday of a Mesa, Arizona police officer repeatedly punching and attacking a 15 year old girl as her mother begged them to stop. The young girl, who was reportedly a runaway, was screaming that she couldn’t breathe as her mother attempted to explain to the officers that she has mental problems as well as asthma. Luis Paul Santiago, the witness who filmed the violent encounter stated that police attempted to delete the video, and the second officer on the scene explained that the officer “behaved correctly” and stated that “if she needed to, she could have shot her dead.”
Now read that again: “if she needed to, she could have shot her dead.”
The guy who filmed this, Luis Paul Puleo Santiago wrote the following on his Facebook page:
Just watched mesa PD punch a 15 year old girl in the face 2 times she was a runaway is this rely how we treat emotionally unstable teens? The cops wanted to delete this off my phone share the fuck out of this shit
In a similar vein, here's something I posted in another diary. The clip is so powerful, I wanted to share it again: