46yo man assaults 13yo boy and pins him to ground. Cops say that's not a crime.

[DetlefK]

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https://www.theroot.com/man-faces-assault-charges-after-using-excessive-force-o-1836021252

When McGovern’s son got to the park, he noticed one of his friends crying in an abandoned truck that had been at the neighborhood park for years, according to McGovern. The son eventually calmed the crying girl down and got his friend to exit the truck.

“He saw them over by the truck, assumed they were vandalizing it, and he called the police,” McGovern told The Root. “He waited and waited but the police didn’t show. So he called the police again but nothing happened.”

McGovern continued:

“So he got upset, ran across the street and ran up to my son and basically said: ‘I’m gonna give you a head start, you better run.’

My son was like ‘What? What are you talking about?’

“Then he punched my son in the mouth. So my son hit him back.

“He got upset because my son hit him back. He thought that because he was an adult he could put his hands on someone and the child wasn’t gonna do anything. The next thing you know, they’re on top of the slide. He pins my son down, threatens my daughter...Thankfully my daughter had enough sense to record it.”

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The Facebook video recorded by McGovern’s daughter shows a man identified as Thomas D’Andrea straddling the 13-year-old as the child complains that his head and his arm are hurting. The sister cries as she begs the man to get off her little brother, to no avail. But D’Andrea insists he can’t release the boy “until the police get here.”

“I am 13 years old,” the boy explains to the camera in a second video as he pleads for his sister to go get help. “This man ran up to me and assaulted me.”

“This child [was] vandalizing property and assaulting a 46-year-old man,” says D’Andrea, while urging onlookers to “take more fucking pictures” before he explodes into an expletive-filled rant.

“The police didn’t fucking come,” he explains, calling either the child or his sister a “fucking maniac.”

As the incident occurred, McGovern says her daughter called her father, who rushed out of the house, and she followed. When police finally arrived, they declined to arrest the Dollar Tree George Zimmerman, telling the child’s mother that the man hadn’t committed a crime.

From the article's comment-section:

Seriously. Can you imagine the wave of reaction to a video of a 46 year old black dude holding down a 13 year old white boy? And then threatening to hit his 16 year old white sister while she records him because she won’t shut up? Fuckin’ hell, I think several entire states may just simply self-combust.

EDIT: Yes, charges were eventually filed, but only after the public pressured the cops.

[Dunnjen]

1. Remember Covington boys v native American drummer?

That got all sorts of poor witto teenage boy from the righties because a silent grown man stood before him. Pretty much nails the point down hard. Hypocrisy x infinty = BS

[obamanut2012]

2. Assault charges have been filed, as per the link you provided

[KBlagburn]

3. Man Faces Assault Charges for Using Excessive Force on 13-Year-Old

Authorities filed assault charges against a Pennsylvania man, whom they initially declined to arrest, after he was caught on video forcibly restraining a child in a park.