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Video: Cop Chokes, Tases 13-Year-Old In The Spine For Skateboarding
Video: Cop Chokes, Tases 13-Year-Old In The Spine For Skateboarding
itnesses say sheriff’s deputy tried to delete videos from their phones
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
June 15, 2015
A San Diego sheriff’s deputy has been filmed brutally choking and tasering a child for skateboarding around a parking lot.
Horrified bystanders are heard yelling at the cop to stop in the video as the child writhes in agony from being tased at point blank range in the spine by the cop who already has him in a choke hold.
Witnesses told reporters with the San Diego Union-Tribune, that the cop attempted to force several witnesses to delete the footage from their phones after he had put the kid in the back of the police car.
The report notes that the child had run away from home, and been missing for a day-and-a-half. The cop was aware of this and was looking for him at his mother’s request.
The sheriff’s office is claiming that the deputy did not have the kid in a choke hold and that the treatment of the boy was justified because when confronted, he reached into the waistband of his pants.
“He approached him, identified him, verified who he was and said he had to come with him,” (Sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan) Caldwell said. “The juvenile refused. As the situation unfolded, he became not only verbally assaultive but physically combative.”
The cop also claims that the boy bit him on the hand, prompting the tasering.
