Teen: "Am I free to go?" Cop: Punches teen in face, points gun

[Yieu]

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/...up-for-himself-then-got-punched-by-a-cop.html

This was in Canada in 2011.

What happened:
Unlawful arrest
Deprivation of rights under color of law
Assault and battery against a minor
Brandishing and assault against 3 minors - poor firearms safety, lack of respect, lives were threatened - Don't point a gun at anything you don't mean to destroy
Pedophilia - a 15 year old was stripped naked while being given uncomfortable comments, without mention of parental consent or presence

Actual charges:
Unlawfully arresting the four boys — all 16 or under
Disorderly conduct for punching one of the boys
Disorderly conduct for pointing his gun at three of them

The witness said he told the officers they had just come from his mom’s house and offered his cellphone to call her to confirm. But he was instead asked for ID, which was wasn’t carrying — “I was 15,” he said.

He then asked Lourenco: “Am I under arrest?” Then later, “Am I free to go?” The officer did not respond, the witness said.

At this point, the witness says he began to step away, then alleges Lourenco grabbed him, pushed him away from the group and started searching him, all the while insulting him — “he was calling me a bitch, that I wanted to be a thug, a smart ass,” he said.

Then, in a move that was picked up on grainy TCHC surveillance footage, Lourenco punched him. The young man alleges the officer punched him multiple times, including once to the head, dropping him to the ground.

When the young man’s brother and friends moved in to stop the attack — asking the officer: “what are you doing?” — Lourenco pulled his gun, the witness testified. Pais, meanwhile, turned his back and stopped looking, the witness said. “I could see that he was not interested in helping us,” he said.

Officers called for backup. The witness, then on the ground, alleges Lourenco stood over him and cut his thumb on his belt, drawing blood.

“And he said: ‘You just assaulted a police officer,’” the young man testified.

The witness alleges he was kneed in the back and handcuffed; when Lourenco asked if the cuffs were on tightly, the young man said they were, prompting the officer to tighten them, the complainant testified.

When backup arrived, the young man testified, Lourenco roughed him up as he was placed in the back of the car, the officer still calling him names and saying: “that’s why you don’t play these games.”

He was taken to the police station and only then told he was facing charges, including assaulting a police officer, threatening death and assault with intent to resist arrest. When he was asked in the station if he understood the charges, he said yes, even though he didn’t.

Asked by Toronto police Insp. Dominic Sinopoli why he wrongly claimed to understand the charges, the young man responded: “You have to say yes.”

The young man said he was held over night and strip-searched, the officers all the while making “uncomfortable comments,” the witness said.

 

[jllundqu]

Video of the incident?

 

[Yieu]

Video of the incident?

At the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_TEOzI0swo

 

[jkr]

what an inhuman piece of pig $hit!

 

[oyarde]

Thats in canada , in america you can still have a pocket knife ( well , not seattle ) and can stick 'em .

 

[Origanalist]