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

[KamaAina]

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

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."

[Glassunion]

1. Same old shit

[gyroscope]

2. Terrorist cops

note to self - don't ever move to Missouri (or even visit)

[Kalidurga]

3. We need a militant police force app.

Have people report suspected criminal activity by the police so we know what cities to avoid.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Do you follow Carlos Miller's Website,

Photography Is Not A Crime? He details these incidents constantly. http://photographyisnotacrime.com

(Carlos used to post here as RagingInMiami, and he is awesome.)

[Kalidurga]

5. Bookmarked

Now we need a website/app for the whole country. This site does look awesome. I think I will let one of the forum members here in on it, a member who thinks Wilson is innocent.