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In reply to the discussion: Cop Beats Up Young Man with Down Syndrome for Packing…a Colostomy Bag [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)There is some garbage here, and we'll begin with that lie. I'll call it a lie, look at the eye in the picture. It's blown red, which means the blow(s) were severe enough and brutal enough to cause bleeding in the eyeball itself. That is not going to happen from a single open hand slap.
But let's consider that alleged open hand slap for a moment, why use it? A common sense approach would have been to subdue or take the suspect into custody, which means control. That is not most efficiently accomplished by the alleged open hand slap. The open hand slap is punishing, how dare you if you will.
But again, the bruises are inconsistant with that type of blow. They are more consistant with a hard object, fist or some sort of club, being used to strike the face. The police are lying, as usual, downplaying the amount of force used, pretending when they are in the spotlight that they are absolutely reasonable and this is a very tragic accident in which they with good intentions stumbled into.
They brutalized a boy, and assumed they would get away with it. Then they discovered that the boy had special needs, and then realized that they will need an excuse that the fellow cops and cop lovers would support.