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NYPD Officer Knocks Out Teen for Smoking CigaretteBy Joe CoscarelliNew York Magazine Oct. 08, 2014 |
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 Another day, another video of police brutality. The family of 17-year-old Marcel Hamer has released a cell-phone clip of a plainclothes New York City police officer hitting the teen while he lies in the gutter pleading one afternoon over the summer. Lawyers for Hamer say their client was suspected of smoking marijuana, but was ultimately just charged with disorderly conduct. “Mister, it was just a cigarette, sir,” says Hamer in the video, right before a partially obscured strike that appears to leave him unconscious. “Do you wanna get fucked up?” the officer says. “Yeah, get it on film,” he tells the boy’s friends. Read More |
