Before you watch these videos you need to know what went down before the camera rolled: This teenage girl was unruly, loud, and having words with a woman and being disruptive on 11th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. When the police arrived, she ran and got one block away with two officers in pursuit. They caught up to her and dropped her on the sidewalk. The two officers jumped on her, kicked her, cuffed her, smashed her face into the sidewalk, dragged her up and lifted the cuffs behind her back as to put pressure on her shoulders, her pants were falling down and they raced her back to the police car. She was crying and screaming the whole time. When back at the police car the two officers put her in the car and then pulled her out - this is when we began filming. As you watch note how many police officers, cars arrive. Note the tone of the officers as they speak to the young girls who arrive on the scene, note the panicky energy as they tell us to move back (they have a teenage girl cuffed on the ground, not a hulking brute) ... WHY WHEN SHE WAS IN THE CAR DID THEY NOT DRIVE HER TO THE PRECINCT TO DIFFUSE THE SITUATION OR EVEN AROUND THE CORNER? WHY DID 20-PLUS OFFICERS SHOW UP FOR A TEENAGE UNRULY GIRL?
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Second video:
Who is getting beat? They just have her lying there - yeah, I'm uncomfortable with the video and do not know what the escalation was, but I do not see beating - I see cops just waiting for her to calm down.
ReplyDeleteHello this country is not Iran why you would take out the girl out of car at first place to make this kind ot secne and 20 cops I bet ther are more important calls coming from 911. Even if she is wrong you don't let her use it .and after winning the lawsuit we people have to pay for theiristake with our tax money
ReplyDeleteI don't know what is going on here but I wouldn't make the leap and call it "BLUE ON BLACK CRIME." Let's leave such declarations to events that we KNOW are criminal. I would love to see a follow-up from both sides so we can better understand the situation. If this really is a case of brutality, then the proper condemnations/criminal charges/lawsuits should happen.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, anon 10:26 ... that was the headline that came with the videos... I can't change that...
ReplyDeleteHaving been bullied by teenage girls in the neighborhood, I won't pass judgment on the cops until I know all the facts.
ReplyDeleteis this guy serious?? no brutality by the cops here at all!!
ReplyDeletean officer says in the video that the girl was trying to kick out the windows of their squad car-that is why they removed her from the car and waited for emergency services to restrain her. I didn't see 20 officers but in incidents involving emotionally disturbed individuals other officers including a sgt are required to respond. that combinded with a crowd gathering and the emergency services explains the large police response.
This makes total sense:
ReplyDelete1 girl = 20 cops
50 person brawl on 7th & A a few weeks ago = 2 cops (0 arrests)
I was actually there! I didn't get there to witness the dispute between the two women but what I do know is the following:
ReplyDeleteA. It shouldn't have taken about 7 police cars to deal with this girl.
B. Yes she was unruly but take her to the station instead of making a public spectacle of her.
C. We do have a problem with wild children in the village (and yes they can be very VERY dangerous) but this was just ridiculous.
This certainly should have NOT been handled in this manner!
I think the teenage girl was the guy holding the camera and whining about everything. Next time you post a video of a beating PLEASE have some sort of beating in the video!
ReplyDeleteThe kid obviously has mental and emotional problems and was handled with all the dignity they could muster in the face of her violence.
I dont see the brutality! Where is it? I think they restrained her pretty well. I think there were so many cops there was because of the CROWD that was gathering, and because of the nosy people there were there. Especially the one recording. I love how you think they cops are wrong for doing this, but if you think you can handle things on your own, why call the cops then?
ReplyDelete0% police brutality IMHO. maybe they took her out of the car b/c she was kicking the window and could have hurt herself by doing so. there are major arteries in your leg she could sever and bleed out and die. the cops simply had her on the ground waiting for emergency services to roll her up into a bag so she can no longer be a harm to herself or others.
ReplyDeleteShoot her and be done with it.
ReplyDeleteThe NYPD are bullies. They don't seem to have the intelligence to understand the laws they are enforcing or how to properly enforce without being violent.
ReplyDeleteYou can see them looking towards the roofs. Because they deserve to have garbage thrown on them.
Amazing they let this filming continue. The NYPD seems to think they can arrest anyone filming them in public. They are so fucking wrong.
The fighting 9th fanning the flames of violence instead of diffusing.
While the initial arrest on Avenue B was a bit too far for me to see the details, I did see both officers escort her to the corner of 11th and B (before they got her to the squad cars) trying to calm her down. They were quite professional and this girl was exhibiting the textbook definition of "resisting arrest" - struggling, screaming at them, etc. I don't know the whole story, but at that moment anyway, she was extremely uncooperative and making a huge scene - she wouldn't even walk down the street with them, she kept struggling and trying to sit down. Then other civilians tried to get involved. It may have looked like excessive presence of police after the fact, but I can completely understand why the officers called for additional help. Just my 2 cents.
ReplyDeleteI was there as well, and there wasn't any police brutality going on. The guy with the camera listened a little too much to the crazy lady yelling "arrest her but don't beat her like dat!". She didn't see anything. Duh, they were trying to arrest her but she was resisting, so they sat on her. What else were they supposed to do?
ReplyDeleteAnd that girl deserved to get sat on and put in a straight jacket for what she did before the cops arrived. She and another female teen(wearing a bright magenta tee) were throwing glass bottles a boy, and were hitting him with an umbrella they pulled from the garbage can. Then they started pulling ALL the trash out of all the garbage cans and throwing it at the boy, screaming and yelling and acting like a bunch of fcking animals. Then they tried to attack 2 guys who came out of a building telling them to stop throwing garbage down the street. If the cops didn't show up at that minute these girls and their friends would have kicked the crap out of the two men, without a doubt. They all ran when the cops arrived, the skinny girl got away and the chubby one was too slow and got caught. She would not get into the cop car and was resisting arrest plus kicking the cops, so they sat on her. For once I'm siding with the cops on this one.
PS. her punishment should be cleaning up the huge mess of broken glass and trash she and her friend made on the 11th st sidewalk. Dumb bitch, I don't feel sorry for her at all.
Woah. Is the guy filming the video for real? There is no police brutality here. They have an unruly person resisting arrest and are waiting for her to calm down.
ReplyDeleteIt pisses me off when people jump on things like this screaming "OMG POLICE BRUTALITY!! BLUE ON BLACK! RACISTS!" The cops are by no means perfect but if anything it does a disservice to actual victims of brutality.
Also, the cop at the end of the second video has a point. I find the fact that this guy is zooming in on her while she's having an episode like that, and then posting it on YouTube for all to see (under the guise of "exposing" some kind of non-existent police brutality) far more crass than any behavior by the police here.
I hope I'm on the jury, this seems like a very measured and reasonable police response to me.
ReplyDeleteCertainly the officers had no problem being filmed.