Teen Beat and Chocked By Police - caught on Cell Phone Video

I don't know people...

Don't anyone get up-tight, but the video I have seen does not show the cops beating the kid...?

gastapo baby welcome to the NWO police state. I bet those cops never have to answer for anything. people unite! take the power back!

link thi sto the oscar grant case and try to find the video. we should make this a headline so we can do something about it. force the police to pay. it's working here in oakland.

this is a complete disgrace

"Can somebody please help me out...I must be missing what the police did wrong in this video. Where did they "beat this guy into jelly?" If the guy getting arrested is innocent until proven guilty, why are the police guilty until proven innocent?

The evidence presented suggests nothing wrong or illegal happened. Just an observation."

ok, first. the two "peace" officers, aka pigs, did do something wrong in the video. They put him in a choke hold. Cops cant do that and can lose their job over just that. The two cops apparently aren't saying they didn't hit him. They felt that with their interpretation of the situation it was their only option. and about the proven innocent thin your saying. i see it more like guilty into proven innocent, I was arrested over a lie. i did nothing wrong, nothing. yet i went to jail, lost my job, and had to drop out of college. i was a full time student and worked full time. why was i in jail and have all my freedoms taken away from me if i was innocent until proven guilty? I was guilty until proven innocent.

I actually don't hate cops.
This thread, unwarranted violence by police, is only about an aspect that exists in some places and at some times - but does not exist everywhere else.

But it pisses you off to hear of mis-directed violence.
Then also, how do you get better conduct from normal, every day cops - especially when they are to deal with violence as an every day part of the job?
Same problem in the armed forces, how do you keep innocents from getting shot up when 18 and 19 year-old kids are seeing their friends get killed in the middle of war?
People are people - every one of them has a range of emotional potential. Some are smarter than others.

I guess you have to get the laws under which they work to be a very strong presence in their every day working life. - So that their general interactions are always tied to a foundation set of rules. They need to be always aware that their actions will seen as sitting inside that context.

And that their actions WILL be judged later as opposed to being allowed to think that they might get away with something.
That's what goes on in a criminal's mind. Gambling that maybe they can get away with it.

If that cop that shot that kid in Oakland had an idea that he'd be on candid camera, he would not have done it.
But if cops know that their actions will be investigated and exposed, they would then be likely to hold within appropriate bounds.
I think at this time, it is likely that cops are taught that "we will back you". That needs to get changed to 'we must hold to the rules, A-numero-uno'

Black on Black crime....

Regardless of whether this poor 14-year-old boy was hurt by the police, when they arrived or after, the boy was in critical condition and should not have been held still, but instead rushed to a hospital. Maybe the cops didn't kill him, but they certainly let him die and that is not the job of the authorities.

taunted by a 14 year old.
Would it be more obvious if it was a 6 year old taunting them?

I don't know about this case - I have only written about the state of authority.

And I may be lucky to not have kids, although, something gets at you when you see violence close up. Maybe I could get riled by the profoundly wrong, seen close up.

Because certainly if I had kids and any humans, half-wit, got nothing else going for them in their life but bullyism - were to threaten or injure my kids, - there would be no armies - no judiciary - or lawyers - or national guard. No authority, no government -

There'd be just me. I would make my mind up about it.

Why is all the attention being focused on how the police reacted and not what the kid did to invoke the officers' actions?

The news report I read said the kid taunted police, resisted arrest, assaulted one officer and tried to break free before being subdued with force. The kid, I repeat kid, also admitted to police to smoking marijuana before the incident.

C'mon people, this is a 14 year old kid behaving like an animal. And he's the victim? It's about time somebody roughed this kid up a little and taught him a lesson from the school of hard knocks. Why weren't Mom and Dad crying foul when their own child was breaking the law? Now that there's cameras and attention on their child, his Mom is all over the media.

I wouldn't defend my kid if he got what he had coming. Hopefully the kid and those around him learn from this incident.

Ya know, abuse of power is, perhaps the only reason anyone in this country doesn't feel good.

If we had no abuses of power - we'd have no counter-veiling off-sets to pride in the USA.

How would that feel?

Everyone in the country, spanky proud. No reservations!

Prosecutors like the idea of special circumstances.

How 'bout if you beat someone to death, you get a certain punishment - however, if you are a cop and beat someone to death while abusing your authority - the death penalty.

No survivor's insurance or cop pensions. All void.

How 'bout the special circumstances for abuses of prosecutors.

Abuse of power should be clearly called.

No psychological excuses - they're a bully because their mommy didn't love them...

You cant even see this poor kids face, all you can see is blood......

I hate the fucking race bating bull shit the cops were black. But I guess they’re self hating blacks now. Call it what it is cops are ass holes there are plenty of viral on you tube with cops of all colors in the USA fucking with kids of all colors! Cops are just dicks stop saying its cuz he is black cuz that’s wrong and stupid… its cuz the kid was present. And if this kid was a danger they would have used pepper spray or tazered him. Not bead the living shit out of the kid I hope the family sues and gets millions for the two dumb asses I don’t care if that kid had a gun knife or Molotov cocktail there are other things they give pigs so they don’t have to beat the shit out of a 14 year old BOY!!! AND YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE!!!

We live in a police state. If you don't know this, they've got your dumb ass in the Matrix. Red pill/blue pill? Decide

Because the police represent justice in our country.
Some one steals a hub-cap - is a little thief.
Someone who gets in a fight - maybe it was their fault.

But cops - they are not supposed to be committing felonies. They are not supposed to be raping. They are not supposed to be oppressing citizens.

They are supposed to be perfectly legal, as close to perfection as is humanly possible.

If they beat your mother into unconsciousness because they didn't like her looks, you would see what I'm talking about.

Criminals beat people. Cops are not supposed to.

See, there's a difference.

Can somebody please help me out...I must be missing what the police did wrong in this video. Where did they "beat this guy into jelly?" If the guy getting arrested is innocent until proven guilty, why are the police guilty until proven innocent?

The evidence presented suggests nothing wrong or illegal happened. Just an observation.

Cops on steroids
You got an attitude problem, there buddy?
Cops on steroids

People gettin’ shot all over town
but it’s ok - cause we’re the cops

Cops on steroids
-You got an attitude problem?

We don-n need no drug-tests
cause we’re the cops
Cops on steroids

We’re buffed up & Puffed up
Flak jackets, ski-masks
Kevlar and mace

weaponized by the
Military Industrial Complex.
It’s ok, the government gives it away
cause we’re the cops

We got machineguns
we got Tanks
We got flame-throwers!
WHAT DO YOU GOT?

we don’t answer to nobody
We can burn you and your little kids too
cause we’re the cops

We got hit-men in black masks
We got helicopters
We got night vision

We got billy-clubs
we’re the cops

we got cattle-prods & Tazers
we got BLUNT - FORCE - TRAUMA

we’re the cops
Cops on steroids

You got an attitude problem, there buddy?

FUCK THE POLICE!!! FUCK THEM ALL!!!

It seems as though the police are (becoming?) a malignant part of our already cancerous society. It is disturbing to me that there seems to be a story like this everyday here. Can we cut the cancer out and survive? If law enforcement has become a threat to the general populace is it time for us to stand together against this injustice? What will it take, how many children need to be beaten for a change to occur? They are an armed militaristic force embedded in our society, they won't just go away or start playing nice. It is the polotics of fear that enables them to do what they do. More prisons more police, to protect us from ourselves. Unfortunatly there are real live bad guys out there that we need them to protect us from. So the police have become a paradox, they are there to protect us from ourselves but who will protect us from them? Will it really take a martyr to affect a change here? I am so tired of hearing the tired old shit saying "we were just doing our jobs" just like they said in Nurnberg. And they got the gall to get offended at the comparison. Wake up people, we are living in a candy coated, designer packaged, police state!

but if you listen at 2:25 the office clearly states he didnt give a choice. He's 14 years old. They're grown men professionally trained and it took two of them to beat him. I'm sorry but thats just wrong. I know there are many more means of protocol to follow and they resort to this. Even if he is guilty. No one should end up like this.

How do you "chock" someone?

Seeing this reminds me of Oscar Grant who died in Oakland on the first of January. It's sad to know that this is becoming more and more common. When will we realize the pain and hurt we cause each other on a daily basis?

but what you fail to realize is that if you were in his shoes. how would it feel to be arrested and have the life beat out of you. yes given that if he did do something wrong there are means of protocol to follow but two not one officer, but two officers twice his size beat him to a pulp and why because they couldn't handle him. please. they could of mased the boy and that would of been enough.

We don't know what happened. We can't claim one party as guilty of anything over the other. All that can be said is that the police seemed to have handled him poorly after the young man had obviously been badly hurt.

Who hurt him so badly is not evident by what's seen on the video.

It's much too easy to assume a sensational story, but in this and every case, only what's perceived can be commented on or used to argue against the behavior of these policemen.

Regardless of whether or not one chooses to acknowledge it, the police, in much more overwhelming force, provides justice and peace to brutality and disorder.

This isn't to say, however, that some people don't have the right to be angry. The police has certainly screwed up on more than one occasion, and for those they deserve their righteous urge to re-establish justice. But simply because such instances have occurred before this unfortunate incident, that doesn't mean that there is an any evident and proven culpability of any party in this obviously yet-to-be solved tragedy.

Before people get on their soap boxes to rant against the establishment, they should be aware that many more people, whose lives have truly been ravaged by police brutality, reported or not, have a much more justified position to speak from and an actual event to speak against. Do not insult those who deserve their voice against injustice by stealing their credibility to make a case against police who have not yet been found guilty of any crime.

Innocent until proven guilty. It's an American ideal and one that should be followed.

why? did you see as they were purposely trying to put him to sleep? first UCPD tassed Mostafa Tabatabeinejad. for what? now this! what do we do to deserve this?

I want to say that this is another case of police brutality that should result in the firing of cops.

However, the video shows the end of an arrest where one cop has the kid in a choke hold while the other cop is putting on handcuffs. The cops are not beating the kid while he's on the ground and appear to be acting calmly when dealing with the bystanders.

How the kid got a bloody face, I don't know (definitely "possible" abuse) . . . but the video doesn't tell.

If there was an abuse of power and/or violence by the police, it was done before the video started rolling . . . and in this video alone, the cops don't appear to be doing anything wrong . . . unless I missed something.

It is news because it is an all to common event that seems to be unraveling fabrics within our society on all levels. Further more police officers or "peace officers", which is what they really are, should protect and serve it's community and not abuse it.

It is most unfortunate that law enforcement has lowered itself to that of common criminals. It is not dignified nor productive to society when it's own people no longer trust, rely upon nor believe in it's protectors and defenders of the law, mainly because they are villains equal or greater than those they try to "control." And if you are not upset or see a problem with this type or any type of police misconduct, then you are part of the problem.

Peace officers should be examples, models of what we wish the public to be like. Now that doesn't mean they should be push overs or let people walk all over them.

There is a serious fundamental issue when an underground movement begins and the majority of people do not trust the people who are suppose to keep the peace (THE POLICE).

Someone has it right in numbers there is force. I am not for violence but self protection is different, I think the crowd should have crowded the police and as someone else said sooner or later it is going to be us or them because this is happening more and more each day. This is shame and embaressment for America , the Police and Toledo, Ohio. I hope this kid sues the ass off these police and the police are prosecuted. Thier superiors are the ones to blame here and in any brutality case. If they do not disipline thier police then this will go unchecked. Go after the Superiors.

This is a misleading video title. I saw no beating, or anything remotely conclusive. In fact, the officers seam to be holding him at the beginning of the video...I dont see any punches thrown...or cheap shots...

for all we know, there could have been a large fight, he could have gotten the crap kicked out of him during it...and the cops could have come to break it all up.

Oh yeah, and thank God those cops are black. imagine what would happen if those cops just *happened* to be white (assuming that they even did anything, which I am not convinced yet.) Suddenly, this would be a "racially charged" beating.

Why is this even 'news?"

Welcome to Toledo. Usually all for dumb kids getting their faces bashed, but this is cops being more than a little brash.

this made me so mad it also made me want to puke. Why are so many cops turning into gutless pussies who would do this to a kid???

guys like that would have been beaten senseless in the locker room and told to never show up again when I was on the force.

let me ask, if you saw 2 or 3 cops beating an unconcious kid, and then he started having seizures which indicates brain damage and they continued to beat him, would you let it go.

because the right thing to do would be to violently attack them and drive them away.

...were going to have to start killing them eventually.

I didn't see any beating... I saw a bloody dude getting arrested. I assume the cops whooped his ass from how they had him in a head lock. I hope he was violent offender for the cops sake. Otherwise, these cops should be punished for hurting someone.

thanks for adding this! this is so sad...I feel bad for that poor kid...

Stories like these are becoming more numerous and frequent. Anybody notice that a good majority of them are minorities?

FUCK ALL COPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!

Fuck the pigs.

This kid did not have a gun!

they say they had no choice ?"? wow .. look how big they are compared to him.

we need to watch the people with "power" over us. the ones that control and enforce our laws. supposedly its us but i am not so sure anymore.

and we all know,..the first statement of defense to the public/press will be, "We perceived the man to be an immediate danger to himself and to other officers, therefore, we had to beat this man to a jelly into submission, and we believe the action was good police work, inside the boundaries of the police officers training manual, and it was justified."

press conference

that is sick

they're beating up kids left and right