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TexasTowelie

(117,259 posts)
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 02:01 AM Nov 2019

Video showing teen with no arms or legs being tackled and pinned by deputy prompts AZ investigation

The shirtless 15-year-old screams as he lies facedown on the kitchen floor of his group home in Tucson, Arizona. He has no arms or legs, so he can't flee or fight back. A sheriff's deputy at least twice his size is crouching over him and pinning him to the ground, using his body weight to restrain the quadruple amputee.

The eight-minute cellphone video has now prompted an internal affairs investigation at the Pima County Sheriff's Department, according to KOLD, which first published the footage on Thursday.

But Pima County Public Defender Joel Feinman told The Washington Post that the disturbing incident likely wouldn't have come to light if it weren't for another teenager at the group home, who filmed the confrontation and then had his head slammed into the wall by deputies.

"These are kids who have already been traumatized in some way," said Feinman, whose office is representing both boys. If a parent reacted to their teenager acting up in the same way the deputy did, he added, "they might be arrested for child abuse."

Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Video-showing-teen-with-no-arms-or-legs-being-14837578.php

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Video showing teen with no arms or legs being tackled and pinned by deputy prompts AZ investigation (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2019 OP
An Abomination. Mike 03 Nov 2019 #1

Mike 03

(17,135 posts)
1. An Abomination.
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 08:05 AM
Nov 2019

This comes three weeks after a cop in NM slammed a sobbing 11 year old girl into the pavement at her school. Both of these videos are so hard to watch, but luckily they were filmed or it's doubtful we'd know about these cases.

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