Ferguson Police Officer Justin Cosma Hog-Tied And Injured A Young Child, Lawsuit Alleges

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A Ferguson police officer who helped detain a journalist in a McDonald's earlier this month is in the midst of a civil rights lawsuit because he allegedly hog-tied a 12-year-old boy who was checking the mail at the end of his driveway.

According to a lawsuit filed in 2012 in Missouri federal court, Justin Cosma and another officer, Richard Carter, approached a 12-year-old boy who was checking the mailbox at the end of his driveway in June 2010. Cosma was an officer with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office at the time, the lawsuit states. The pair asked the boy if he'd been playing on a nearby highway, and he replied no, according to the lawsuit.

Then, the officers "became confrontational" and intimidated the child, the lawsuit claims. "Unprovoked and without cause, the deputies grabbed (the boy), choked him around the neck and threw him to the ground," it says. The boy was shirtless at the time, and allegedly "suffered bruising, choke marks, scrapes and cuts across his body."

The 12-year-old was transferred to a medical facility for treatment, but the lawsuit says Cosma and the other officer reported the incident as "assault of a law enforcement officer third degree” and “resisting/interfering with arrest, detention or stop."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/24/justin-cosma-ferguson-police_n_5705409.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Ryan Reilly's twitter
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/503664698005680128

[Louisiana1976]

1. I hope Cosma and Carter both get their comeuppance. That was a terrible thing to do.

[smiley]

2. and the hits keep on coming...

sounds like the only qualification for a police officer in Missouri is to be a complete thug.

But I'll save my judgement for the courtroom.

[cui bono]

9. There's one more qualification.

To be racist.

[REP]

14. St Louis has always been awful

Not that the cops where I'm from, Kansas City, on the other side if the state are angels of mercy, but they are polished professionals compared to the brutal goons in St Louis County. And that's damning KCPD with faint praise.

[BaggersRDumb]

3. Lemme guess, kid is BLACK, so this is why he had to be treated like an animal?

Nothing surprises me anymore, white rightwingers view minorites as animals, plain and simple


wait, this kid is white?

GET THE MESSAGE YOU STUPID FUCKS, EVENTUALLY WONT MATTER WHAT COLOR YOU ARE, UNLESS YOU ARE THE ONE PERCENT YOU ARE THE GOD DAMN ENEMY!!

Also, these bad cops are EVERYWHERE, we give them too much power, they become the assholes we see because we give them that power...it is our fault

[Brigid]

7. The boy is white?

I missed that somehow. In that case, I lose the bet I had with myself.

[BaggersRDumb]

8. The tweet from the father i thought i saw the father was white but i may have seen

the wrong thing

[nilram]

10. The tweet in the OP has a picture of the cop.

The guy who tweeted it is one of the reporters that was arrested at the McDonalds. I don't see any pictures of the 12-year-old or his father.

[BaggersRDumb]

11. that makes more sense, thanks

[brer cat]

4. drip, drip, drip

I hope there are members of the press who care enough to dig out all of this and expose them to the world. Filthy cops need to lose their jobs.

[enough]

5. Racism, sadism. (nt)

[mercuryblues]

6. Ok

now we have

Cosmo
Carter
Kaminski
Baird
White

and quite possibly
Wilson
and Boyd.

https://archive.org/details/McAllisterFerguson

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5436444

[adieu]

12. Sounds like we need Harry Callahan

to Magnum Force their asses.

[tblue37]

13. I posted a thread in GD about a study that shows

that cops see black children as older and as less innocent than they see white children of the same age:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5437704

[underpants]

15. The F'edPD

[davidpdx]

16. What a lovely bunch of

officers thugs they have on the police force there.