PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
Published on Jun 18, 2015
Police in San Diego tased and arrested a 12 year old boy.
The officer claimed the boy bit the officer
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PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
Published on Jun 18, 2015
Police in San Diego tased and arrested a 12 year old boy.
The officer claimed the boy bit the officer and reached for the officer's weapon.
The officer used the taser to subdue the boy.
Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
"A San Diego sheriff’s deputy was caught on video tasing and wrestling a 12-year-old boy in a parking lot.
Witnesses say the cop tried to suppress the video, while the sheriff argued the boy had attacked the cop and the use of force was justified.
Activists from Filming Cops shared the video with the Free Thought Project on Sunday.
The graphic footage, riddled with expletives, shows a boy being wrestled to the ground and shocked into submission with a Taser.
The altercation took place on Saturday, in the parking lot frequented by skateboarders in the community of Fallbrook, north of San Diego, California.
Witnesses who recorded the event told Filming Cops that the deputy punched the boy in the face before they began filming.
They identified the boy as a 12-year old named Joshua.
Afterwards, they said, the deputy approached them with a drawn Taser and demanded to see the recordings, erasing all but one."
