Florida Cops Choke Black Teen Holding Puppy Over 'Dehumanizing Stares'
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Police in Miami say they had no choice but to forcefully restrain a 14-year-old boy who was playing on the beach with his friends because he was giving them "dehumanizing stares."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=987bSp2ADUM
Tremaine McMillian was roughhousing with another teen in the water when he was approached by Miami-Dade Police officers and ordered to stop fighting.
Despite quickly realizing that no actual fighting was taking place, the officers still asked McMillian to point out his mother to them.
Tremaine says he complied, but Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta claims the boy refused to cooperate and tried to walk away.
"When he started to leave the beach area, officers had to get off their ATVs to detain him. He had closed arms, clenched fists and pulled his arm away," Zabaleta told CBS Miami.
Sensing an imminent "threat" from Tremaine's body language and "dehumanizing stares," the officers placed the teen in a chokehold.
"He started choking me, and as he was choking me, I urinated on myself because I couldn't breathe," Tremaine later told a juvenile court judge.
According to Tremaine, it would have been impossible for him to be clenching his fists because he was holding his six-week-old pit bull mix puppy Polo at the time and feeding him with a bottle.
He says the puppy was injured when police slammed him on the ground.
"At that point we are not concerned with a puppy," Zabaleta told the CBS affiliate. "We are concerned with the threat to the officer."
Police ultimately booked Tremaine on a felony charge of resisting arrest with violence as well as misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
A public defender's request to have the charges reconsidered was denied by a Juvenile Justice Center judge, and his trial has been scheduled for July 16th.
http://gawker.com/florida-cops-choke-black-teen-holding-puppy-over-dehum-510491930
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=987bSp2ADUMTremaine McMillian was roughhousing with another teen in the water when he was approached by Miami-Dade Police officers and ordered to stop fighting.
Despite quickly realizing that no actual fighting was taking place, the officers still asked McMillian to point out his mother to them.
Tremaine says he complied, but Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta claims the boy refused to cooperate and tried to walk away.
"When he started to leave the beach area, officers had to get off their ATVs to detain him. He had closed arms, clenched fists and pulled his arm away," Zabaleta told CBS Miami.
Sensing an imminent "threat" from Tremaine's body language and "dehumanizing stares," the officers placed the teen in a chokehold.
"He started choking me, and as he was choking me, I urinated on myself because I couldn't breathe," Tremaine later told a juvenile court judge.
According to Tremaine, it would have been impossible for him to be clenching his fists because he was holding his six-week-old pit bull mix puppy Polo at the time and feeding him with a bottle.
He says the puppy was injured when police slammed him on the ground.
"At that point we are not concerned with a puppy," Zabaleta told the CBS affiliate. "We are concerned with the threat to the officer."
Police ultimately booked Tremaine on a felony charge of resisting arrest with violence as well as misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
A public defender's request to have the charges reconsidered was denied by a Juvenile Justice Center judge, and his trial has been scheduled for July 16th.
http://gawker.com/florida-cops-choke-black-teen-holding-puppy-over-dehum-510491930
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Black 14-year-old Carrying a Puppy Tackled and Choked by Police for Giving Them a "Dehumanizing Stare"
Grown police officers allege that the unarmed teen looked at them funny.
Photo Credit: CBS Miami
May 30, 2013 |
New cell phone footage shows Miami-Dade Police officers aggressively pinning an unarmed teen to the ground while choking him. His alleged crime: giving the officers “dehumanizing stares” and “clenching his fists.”
Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillan says he was feeding his puppy and playing on the beach with some friends when cops riding ATVs approached him and asked what he was doing. The "peacekeeping" officers say they saw McMillan roughhousing with another teenager, told him it was “unacceptable behavior,” and asked where his mother was. When McMillan walked away, they chased him on ATVs, jumped out, pinned him to the ground and arrested him. According to police reports, McMillan “attempted to pull his arm away, stating, 'Man, don't touch me like I did something.'" See footage of the incident, captured by McMillan's mother:
McMillan says he obeyed orders, and was leading the officers towards his mother when they jumped him. The teen adds that he was holding and feeding his puppy at the time, who got injured during the encounter.
“I don’t like it. I feel sad. He got in front of me on the ATC (sic) and he slammed my hand,” McMillan said. “Then he started choking me. Then my 6-week old Pit Bull mix named Polo got hurt and bruised his front paw when the police grabbed me and slammed me down. It makes me feel sad.”
Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta justified the use of force, saying McMillan was exhibiting threatening “body language,” which includes “clenched fists.” McMillan adamantly denies this charge because, well, he was holding a puppy.
“Of course we have to neutralize the threat in front of us,” said Zabaleta. “And when you have somebody that is being resistant, somebody that is pulling away from you, somebody that’s clenching their fist, somebody that’s flaring their arms, that’s the immediate threat.”
McMillan’s mother, Maurissa Holmes saw the incident and recorded it on her cell phone. She told WSVN-TV, "I ran over there and said, 'That's my son, that's my son. Can you get off of him? He can't breathe.'
Police charged McMillan with resisting arrest, a felony, and disorderly conduct. The teen’s attorney entered a plea of not guilty for his client and asked the court to reconsider the charges. The judge did not grant him his request.
McMillan’s 6-week old puppy, who suffers an injured front paw, did not make the police report.
“At this point we are not concerned with a puppy,” said Zabaleta.
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My thread was first...
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White people watching this be like "aww, what did they do to that puppy?"
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The person who's detained always claims "innocence" and the video footage hardly ever catches the whole story.
I'm sure the charges will be dropped. -
u stole my thread
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I only posted this because these nutless ass ? had the audacity to say "dehumanizing stares." How you let a 14 year old snatch your humanity? ? 's disgusting.
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They better pay for that ? puppy's paw!!!!
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They better say sorry to that muthafuckin puppy
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? . The threat was not present... it's a 14 year old kid, what capacity does he even have to inflict harm on two grown police officers?
I hope these guys lose their badges. They probably won't, but I still hope it. -
thats how them crackas is on the beach, they think they on miami vice or baywatch or some ?
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ole fukk ass hoez
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RodrigueZz wrote: »
No but a welcome replacement. -
Rawse's Boys At It Again
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>I urinated on myself because I couldn't breathe...
^^LOL @ This ? .
? peed on himself while nursing a puppy in his arms.
? 's softer than baby fabric. -
? tried to bring the puppy into it lol
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13To73XbH-0
"Puttin' me on my knees, tellin' me move and I'm dead,
'cause I'm killin' all your ? , turnin' them blue suits red.
And then I'm comin' to that funeral to shoot that ? up,
because I know that's where y'all ? is bound to meet up.
Cop killas, all up in they chest, and
I know what to do with that vest, man
Twenty-two shots. I killa.
You don't wanna ? with Bone, ? .
And it really ain't ? to pull a trigger on a copper,
'cause if I go down, some of y'all goin' down,
'cause I'm goin' down poppin, so ? all coppers,
Let me catch you slippin', ? , bet I pop ya.
Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop
Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop"
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So a skinny 14 year boy with nothing but swimming trunks and puppy is a threat?
So white ppl can cuss out a police and its not considered a threat? -
Your under arrest for "WWB" (walking while black)
? actually happened to me before on my way home from work
I hate the police with a passion
True Story -
Things like this make libertarianism seem more appealing
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Your under arrest for "WWB" (walking while black)
? actually happened to me before on my way home from work
I hate the police with a passion
True Story
There is no such thing as DWB or WWB. It should be WPBW (White people being white). Anything otherwise is to suggest that being black is the problem when in actuality they're the problem. On a subconscious level we criminalize blackness with these acronyms. -
The kid obviously has the Sharingan. The cops were just playing it safe. You can't be staring at people menacingly with the Sharingan.
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If people would support cop killers they'd think twice. The L.A. Riots proved this. Pigs and Crackers were SOOO ? nice during the riots.
Then weak ass ? ass "give peace a chance" ass ? came along and crackers went right back to being the animals they are. U have to force humanity into whites because they're subhuman by nature and cant be humane on their own. Without a little "help."
Without intimidation they revert back to their natural animistic nature.
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