[NYPOST] An Arizona deputy wrestled a 15-year-old quadruple amputee to the ground at a group home in Tucson, disturbing footage of the incident shows.Whoa! Heroic lawn forcement officer story!
The unidentified Pima County Sheriff’s deputy encountered the teen, Immanuel, on Sept. 26 while responding to a report that he had kicked over a garbage can and verbally threatened an employee, KOLD reports.
How's a quadruple amputee kick anything? I guess maybe he uses one of his wooden legs. Threatened the employee? Was he gonna bite him?
Another teen inside the home then started recording the incident on his cellphone, an eight-minute interaction during which the deputy tried to forcefully subdue the teen amputee as he repeatedly shouted and demanded to be let go.
“Don’t f–king hold me down!” the teen screamed, video shows.
Just leave him. How's he gonna get up?
The deputy then rolled the teen onto his stomach as he demanded to be released. At another point, after the teen stopped resisting, the deputy yelled into Immanuel’s face, asking why he didn’t comply with his commands sooner, video shows. “I will raise my voice to you whenever the f–k I want, you understand?” the deputy screamed.
Do they really teach that in Deputies' Academy?
“Hey, you asked him a question,” the teen recording the interaction replied. “He answered.”
So now the other amputee kid's in the soup with him?
The deputy then approached the second teen, a 16-year-old boy,
Toldja so.
and told him to “shut the hell up” before both juveniles were arrested on disorderly conduct charges, according to KOLD, which obtained the footage on Thursday.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"Gimme my legs back!"
A public defender representing the quadruple amputee said he wanted to make sure that no one else in group homes was treated the way he was on the footage.
Amputees, even quadruple amputees, can be just as bratty as anybody else. I'm still of the opinion that police officers should be courteous to citizens even if they're about to shoot them.
“He wanted to talk,” public defender Sam Jurgena told the station. “He wanted to have the video on the news because he wanted to make sure something good comes from this.”
"Something good" would have been not kicking the garbage can with his stump. "Something just as good" would have been Deputy Friendly being civil to the brat.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office was unaware of the footage prior to its release by the Pima County Public Defender and an internal investigation has been launched into the deputy’s conduct, KOLD reports.
"Footage? What footage?"
The incident would have likely never been exposed if not for the quick-thinking teen – identified as C.J. – who recorded the encounter. Charges against C.J. have also been dropped, Pima County Public Defender Joel Fineman told the Washington Post.
Recording a deputy is not disorderly conduct, though kicking a garbage can with your stump might very well be.
“These are kids who live in a group home because they can’t live with their parents,” Fineman said. “This is exactly the type of person that law enforcement needs to protect and defend. Instead we see them being treated like they’re animals.”
All the amputees I've ever known have been on average as decent or indecent as anyone else. If they couldn't live with their parents there was probably a reason.