Despite the existence of this viral video, no criminal charges have been laid against the officer in question. The simple fact is this handicapped child just like anyone else in the United States has the right to engage even with the police on residential school grounds in his right of free speech protected by the Constitution of the United States, even in the great state of Arizona which has had incredible problems with various dysfunctional police departments who are under to appropriately reform themselves so that defunding them is actually the only option.
The names of the parties in question have been withheld in this article because this isn’t actually about a single case. It is about the reality this is happening all over America in an ongoing fashion non-stop for over 200 years. Isn’t it therefore time we did something to stop this? Once and for all?
A good start in doing so manifests itself through the necessity of defunding the police agencies in question. Once and for all because nothing else can eliminate the shocking level of corruption that we’re faced with. We have no alternative but to fire them all and start again because we see that not even America’s children are safe from this torrent of racist abuse. Where no one is safe from white police racist abuse and profiling. Not even a quad amputee minor black child. Therefore seeing this video becomes the nightmare of every parent, yet we must watch, otherwise we can’t stop it.
Circuit courts have repeatedly all across the United States ruled that giving the police the middle finger or in this case the verbal equivalent thereof is in effect free speech. Free speech is a constitutionally protected activity even if someone may find this form of dissent offensive. For this officer not to understand that engaging in free speech is a constitutionally protected activity raises concern of the lack of training that officer has received, as an 11 year so called veteran of that police agency.
Further getting physically assaulted this handicapped minor child, because he felt disrespected by some free speech activity that the child is accused of having engaged in. Also the allegation that this officer's conduct was justified because the child allegedly knocked over a trash can, as is evident from the video, must likewise be seen as a non-sequitur issue from the lack of muscle control which is apparent in the video given the child's handicap, as this quadriplegic child was tackled as in evidence by the video, as this quadriplegic child as he has no legs was already on the floor. The video depicts the officer getting down on his knees in order to tackle the child.
At which point it becomes clear that given the handicapped physical limitations of the child in question, it would be impossible for this child to have behaved in a threatening manner to anyone not limited to, but to include this officer in any way whatsoever, because the child as he has substantially speaking no hands or articulated arms, is therefore incapable of holding any object or even fleeing, so as to warrant any kind of restraint requiring for the officer of anyone else's safety to require the child to be put in compliant restraint. This officer who is clearly visibly at least double the size of the child is seen to throw the child to the ground, so as to put the child clearly audible in respiratory distress, where the officer is seen repeatedly in what may now be a self-evident racially motivated attack by this white officer who appears to be smothering with his weight this 15 year old quadriplegic child. Where the child is heard to yes please get off of me in this 8 minute video. This child can be heard saying I ain't trying to cause problems.
The officer is heard shouting at the child with the words shut the hell up! And goes on to tell the child he will raise his voice with you whenever I fucking want, you understand? The rest of the video is self-explanatory. Clearly this video of this officer in public screaming vulgarities at this black child subsequent to having assaulted the child illegally in a forced escalation which cannot be justified given the handicapped nature of the child in question.
This makes it clear this hateful out of control violent conduct can only be described as meeting a threshold requisite requirement in constituting video evidence of a hate crime, as it is self-evident that the child was incapable of resisting giving the substantial and severe quadriplegic handicapped which would make it impossible for the child to flee or to create any type of threat to this trained, armed and able bodied police officer that could be used to justify the assault in question, as in evidence by the video. In fact there is no evidence on the video that the child ever engaged in anything other than the child's right to free speech expressing verbally dissent. In expressing dissent courts have long held that dissent may be offensive or otherwise disagreeable, but that doesn't make it illegal for the simple use of an expletive.
In the United States we don't criminalize free speech and why we don't understand what has led this substantially handicapped minor child to have found itself in these substantially disturbing circumstances. The simple fact is that we do not see any reason why or to reiterate how the substantially handicapped child could have posed any type of threat to this armed able bodied white police officer. Therefore it is reasonable especially in view of the fact the officer engaged in vulgarities as in evidence by the video. That the lack of control and passion exhibited by this officer can only be understand to be racially motivated. All of the usual arguments that the black child may be armed or could have weapons or could pose a flight risk. In these circumstances this non-sequitur nonsense, that this plainly is the one set of circumstances where colloquially put that old dog don't hunt!
This child in question suffered a racially motivated attack plain and simple.
As to reiterate any and all conceivable usual tried and true arguments of a police officer being in fear while moving to protect himself or other persons, or being fearful that a child could be armed in any way, or that any object could be mistaken or the child posed some kind of flight risk by the severity of the child's handicapped are all rendered mute. The simple truth is the child in question exercised his first amendment right of free speech, plain and simple! Because this officer felt disrespected, he decided to beat the child for the crime of breathing while black in his presence, but even worse than the conduct of this obviously racist officer, is the racially infected institution which refused to fire this officer, and refused to criminally prosecute the officer in question in the matter of his unprovoked physical assault of a quadriplegic black child 15 years of age at the hands of this racist white armed able bodied police officer, who appears to have been able to act with complete impunity in the matter of this hate crime caught on video viewed 135, 498 times.
Whereas despite the attention by the public and the public outcry, even one year ex post facto, not only has there been no disciplinary action against this officer. Nothing has been done whatsoever.
Therefore the internal investigation started by this police agency obviously has led nowhere, nor will it ever lead anywhere, unless we write to the Governor's Office and ask him to direct the Attorney General to conduct a full investigation into this racially motivated attack by this able bodied armed white police officer against a black 15 year old quadriplegic minor child in the matter of a most disturbing video that must be seen to serve so as to shock the sensibilities of decent people everywhere.
You are asked to please consider following this link to the Arizona governor’s office and ask to Arizona Governor Doug Ducey to direct the state attorney general’s office to initiate necessary steps against the criminal conduct of this policeman today. You and only you can make this happen. By providing the governor’s office with a link to this disturbing viral video.
You are the jury of last resort. Absent your immediate involvement there can be no justice for this child, his parents or American society. It all comes down to you and your willingness to act. Please help us, make a difference, get involved today.
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There’s a final thought. Are police engaged in a cover up in this matter? If not, why is the body cam and other video being withheld? What is the purpose of that?
Who benefits from it? If this isn’t a text book case for defunding the police, I don’t know what is.