Recently, a Meriden, Connecticut police officer (Ouellette) arrested my child at his school, Thomas Edison. I filed a grievance after finding out that this individual taunted my child, and rather than give him a consequence for a prank, told him that he wanted to "wring his neck," accused him of lying and at the end, called him "useless." My child responded by telling him "you are!", and at that moment this gorila jumped on his back, and handcuffed him, taking him to the poilce station in an obvious show of force and abuse of authority. A violation of his civil rights, as my son was not disrupting a class or an event when he returned the insult to the cop. By the way, he is a 13 yr old Puerto Rican boy. I filed a grievance, and, even though the assistant principal witnessed the abuse, Internal Affairs's investigation determined there was no proof to substantiate my complaint. What can be done to stop police abuse and brutality? What can be done to fight the code of silence among them?
2006-09-08
06:07:04
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