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Black 14-year-old Carrying a Puppy Tackled and Choked by Police
...for Giving Them a "Demeaning Look"
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...m-dehumanizing
They even hurt the pup's paw. You couldn't write this shit.
May 30, 2013 |
New cell phone footage shows Miami-Dade Police officers aggressively pinning an unarmed teen to the ground while choking him. His alleged crime: giving the officers “dehumanizing stares” and “clenching his fists.”
Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillan says he was feeding his puppy and playing on the beach with some friends when cops riding ATVs approached him and asked what he was doing. The "peacekeeping" officers say they saw McMillan roughhousing with another teenager, told him it was “unacceptable behavior,” and asked where his mother was. When McMillan walked away, they chased him on ATVs, jumped out, pinned him to the ground and arrested him. According to police reports, McMillan “attempted to pull his arm away, stating, 'Man, don't touch me like I did something.'" See footage of the incident, captured by McMillan's mother:
McMillan says he obeyed orders, and was leading the officers towards his mother when they jumped him. The teen adds that he was holding and feeding his puppy at the time, who got injured during the encounter.
“I don’t like it. I feel sad. He got in front of me on the ATC (sic) and he slammed my hand,” McMillan said. “Then he started choking me. Then my 6-week old Pit Bull mix named Polo got hurt and bruised his front paw when the police grabbed me and slammed me down. It makes me feel sad.”
Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta justified the use of force, saying McMillan was exhibiting threatening “body language,” which includes “clenched fists.” McMillan adamantly denies this charge because, well, he was holding a puppy.
“Of course we have to neutralize the threat in front of us,” said Zabaleta. “And when you have somebody that is being resistant, somebody that is pulling away from you, somebody that’s clenching their fist, somebody that’s flaring their arms, that’s the immediate threat.”
McMillan’s mother, Maurissa Holmes saw the incident and recorded it on her cell phone. She told WSVN-TV, "I ran over there and said, 'That's my son, that's my son. Can you get off of him? He can't breathe.'
Police charged McMillan with resisting arrest, a felony, and disorderly conduct. The teen’s attorney entered a plea of not guilty for his client and asked the court to reconsider the charges. The judge did not grant him his request.
McMillan’s 6-week old puppy, who suffers an injured front paw, did not make the police report.
“At this point we are not concerned with a puppy,” said Zabaleta.
Last edited by RedSonRising; 1st June 2013 at 01:46.
This makes me so angry! Don't even know if I want to watch the video, will only further my anger to this whole fiasco. I can't believe that they're getting away scot free with this. And the judge even refuses to reconsider the charges!
Blatant police racism - a problem not only in the USA but something which is happening globally.
EDIT: Oh and the term "Neturalise the threat" that's so ridiculous!
I hope people start EDIT helping the EDIT cops on a large scale.
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The judge refusing to reconsider the charges is a positive thing; there's a trial date set up. A slim chance for justice, but a chance nonetheless.
EDIT: Sorry, thought the kid's family was pressing charges. I hope the kid gets a good lawyer.
Eh, they'd just get more trigger happy.
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look at all these people who are gonna be banned lol
I'm on some sickle-hammer shit
Collective Bruce Banner shit
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I hope one day that pitbull grows up and . . .
The life we have conferred upon these objects confronts us as something hostile and alien.
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Imagine what the reaction would be if he was a white kid holding a puppy that got attacked by police. Oh wait, that doesn't happen!
(Mods, can anything be done about the tread title? I've tried shortening the title with an edit to cut everything before the word "for" but it hasn't changed in the sub-forum.)
Dude I strongly recommend that you delete or change that comment right now because I don't want to see you get banned
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I won't link my blog, because it would personally identify me, but I posted this an hour ago and I now have 600 likes on facebook.
This child is from my hometown.
Thank you for having his back.
No freedom til we're equal.
No justice? No peace.
Now the reaction is beginning - inspired by Ireland and Russia. Scotland must again have independednce, but not to be ruled over by traitor cheifs and politicians. The communism of the clans must be re-established on a modern basis.
We can safely say, then: back to communism and forward to communism.
-John MacLean
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This is yet another incident of blatant racism/racial profiling by police officers. The sad thing is, I feel angry whenever I read about this kind of stuff, but it doesn't surprise me because it seems to happen so fucking often.
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People really taking the wannabe cow boy approach and saying they want to hunt cops?
Get over yourselfs, don't know if you're trying to come across as bad ass but it's not working.
It's blatant vile racism by the police, and I'm no fan of them by a long shot. Plenty of them are genuinley scum. But some, albeit a minority, are genuinley good people just doing a job which helps them live in a capitalist system.
Going around killing cops wouldn't do much good. You'd end up killing a lot of genuinley nice people along the way, along with all the bad.
Rather than wishing death on police, wish death on the system which gives them the power which is usually what ends up turning them into nasty pieces of work.
Saying you're gonna shoot some cops isn't cool. It doesn't make you seem like a hardcore revolutionary, it makes you seem like a hardcore idiot who's probably getting their IP adress monitored as we speak.
You shouldn't take every single post in an internet forum entirely serious. I most certainly wasn't actually suggesting to go out and kill cops as everything you said about the subject is my opinion, too , on a serious note.
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. - V.I. Lenin
'Neutralise the threat'?
A kid with a puppy in his arms leading you towards his mother is a 'threat'? How the fuck did these blatant racist shits get away with this!?
Can't anyone at the least file charges?
'despite being a comedy, there's a lot of truth to this, black people always talking shit behind white peoples back. Blacks don't give a shit about white, why do whites give them so much "nice" attention?'
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Yes.
The police.
Who are charging him with felony resisting arrest.
Also, don't shoot cops you morons, propagandize them. Convince them. Get them on OUR side. Have them disobey illegal orders.
If the police and soldiers support US then there's no one left to defend the state, and it will fall. That's the only way that revolutions become succesful.
Now the reaction is beginning - inspired by Ireland and Russia. Scotland must again have independednce, but not to be ruled over by traitor cheifs and politicians. The communism of the clans must be re-established on a modern basis.
We can safely say, then: back to communism and forward to communism.
-John MacLean
Stupidest shit. While I'm sure if we looked deep in to the hearts of the police, we'd find some of them pure and full of sweet intention . . . but let's stop and think for ten seconds about what the function of all police actually is.
I'm not talking (just) about relative outliers like this, where a cute puppy was involved, but the everyday functioning of the prison industrial complex. What you're saying basically falls into the same category as ". . . but some slave owners really loved their slaves! We need to attack the system of slavery!" (the parallel being particularly pertinent when we stop and consider the racialized character of the P.I.C.). While I'm sure that's very comforting to a large number of implicitly white supremacist liberals to hear, "Let's pull down the system without hurting any of the people who's day to day activities constitute that system!" it's, on even cursory analysis, an absurd proposition.
The life we have conferred upon these objects confronts us as something hostile and alien.
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nay, cops are shyte and i really dont want scum like this on our side.
so workers arnt importent, only armed workers who protect for the state? let the revolution come and we'll see where the police and the military stands, i have my doubts that they will be on our side.
All i want is a Marxist Hunk.
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Not, it's not "stupid shit". Most police are normal middle class people. The bad ones are a minority. They too are facing hard economic times. Killing them will only make you look like a lunatic, rightfully so. What will your justification be to family and friends of a now dead cop with children who had never done anything like the ones in this story? Do you tell people "good" when you hear a cop dies? Would you kill friends and family of mine who are cops? After that, how would you convince them your fight is 'just'?
