WATCH: New Jersey cops accused of 'beating' Latino child for not wearing a bicycle helmet

[Nevilledog]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/watch-new-jersey-cops-accused-of-beating-latino-child-for-not-wearing-a-bicycle-helmet/


A civil rights group is calling for an investigation after police officers in Ridgewood, New Jersey were seen using force against a Latino boy who was not wearing a bicycle helmet.

Video of the incident began circulated on social media on Sunday.

“So @Rpdnj ‘protect & serve’ our youth by ensuring they ride bicycles with a helmet by beating them down & arresting them?” attorney Karol Ruiz wrote on Twitter. “This is a minor. He is Latino.”

Video shared by Ruiz shows one officer grabbing the boy’s bicycle while another officer accosts him from behind. Within seconds, the boy is slammed to the ground and held there by the two grown officers.

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[Demsrule86]

1. Awful...thanks!

[triron]

2. Not too atypical of some city cops in my experience.

They are the most prevalent source of thuggery around.

[DFW]

3. Ridgewood, New Jersey?

Where do these guys think they are, anyway? Philadelphia?

[malaise]

4. So let me see if I get this stright

The cops are beating kids for not wearing something that protects the kids from injury.

This is fucked up on steroids/

[Progressive Jones]

5. When you hire shitty people, you get shitty results. nt

[MagickMuffin]

6. How old was the kid?

Not sure if it states it in the article since I won't go to rawstory.

[Sympthsical]

8. I'd ballpark 13-14

That was ridiculously violent.

[Blue Owl]

7. K&R for exposure

[bluestarone]

9. KICK