Video Shows NYPD Officer Hitting Teen In The Face With His Gun Despite Teen Raising His Hands

[Cali_Democrat]

The kid had marijuana!!11! Clearly he deserved his beat down.



Oh....the kid is black in case you were wondering....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/07/nypd-brutality_n_5944736.html

By Murray Weiss

BROOKLYN — Two NYPD officers are under criminal investigation after punching and bashing a 16-year-old suspect in the face with a gun despite the teen raising his hands to surrender, according to a video obtained by DNAinfo New York.

The surveillance footage obtained exclusively by “On The Inside" shows the two officers catch up to marijuana suspect Kahreem Tribble after a brief chase in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

As the teen stops running, one officer throws a punch at his face. Then, as the suspect raises his hands, the other officer clocks him with his gun.

Tribble was arrested for possessing 17 small bags of marijuana and disorderly conduct on Aug. 29. At his arraignment, he pleaded guilty to a violation and was released with cracked teeth and bruises.

Video @ link.

[uponit7771]

1. What some police are doing to citizens in some cities is hate..... pure.... hate... they hate those

... they're supposed to be serving

[CaptainTruth]

7. Good point. I wonder if hate crime prosecutions are possible.

Civil rights suits against police seem to be succeeding (thankfully), I wonder if hate crime charges could be used too?

Whatever we have to do to make this crap stop.

[logosoco]

2. I wish I had musical talent because I would love to collect these videos

(and damn there are TOO many) and put them together to a song.

Maybe eventually the cops will see it like looking in a mirror and stop the hate.

[KamaAina]

3. Here you go

[logosoco]

5. That is very good and powerful

and while i have said "fuck the police" many times in my life, we need something that the general public can hear. Lots of people (not me) are turned off by those words, so it is not going to connect to them, may even turn many of them off the idea.

And, since there is so much more video now, many, many more clips should be included.

Sad to see the Rodney King because I guess some part of me back then thought "yeah, this exposure will change things". Boy was I wrong. But I still try to be optimistic.

[With whom]

6. In the credits:

special thanks: Shitty Police

[etherealtruth]

4. I am so sick of this sh*t