Information Liberation – by Chris
Two Rotterdam, New York police officers helping to remove a youth with developmental disorders from a school bus got tired of trying to reason with him, so he and his partner escalated to using physical force.
Surveillance video of the incident shows the youth was simply sitting in a bus seat refusing to move, after police grabbed him he is seen not putting up any real fight, at most he appears to be going limp. After pulling him out of his chair, the cops put him against a seat, then one cop decides to twist the youth’s arm behind his back in a hammerlock, but then the cop winds up and decides to shove his arm even further, literally snapping his bones in the process.
It seems the officer can slightly be heard saying, “oh [expletive],” after he breaks the boy’s arm, though one must wonder what he thought would happen by cranking the youth’s arm overwhelmingly past the breaking point like he was prying on a car jack.
The youth continued to put up no resistance despite his arm being broken, yet the officers elected to charge the boy with “obstructing governmental administration in the second degree.”
The boy is still facing charges, his family in the meantime has filed suit against the department for a million dollars.
His parent’s attorney told the press “there was clear and obvious use of excessive force.”
“They placed his arm in a position where they locked the arm and proceeded with significant force to break the arm between the shoulder blade and elbow, creating a displaced fracture.”
Despite breaking the youth’s arm, Rotterdam police chief James Hamilton cleared his officers during an internal investigation saying they “followed department protocol and procedures.”
All the cop had to do was calmly walk the boy off the bus, he was being compliant enough. Instead, for whatever reason, he chose to put him into a hammerlock, then break his arm. I guess the chief is telling us hammerlocks into over-crank arm-breaking is now part of Rotterdam police’s official protocol.
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Chris runs the website InformationLiberation.com, you can read more of his writings here. Follow infolib on twitter here.
I sent this to the Rotterdam PD…let us see what their response is..eh?
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– I recently read where your department has once again exonerated itself in the abuse of an innocent Rotterdam NY victim.
– I understand that your officers and your Chief think is is acceptable to break the arm of a small, developmentally disabled boy?
– As a local author who writes about police abuse, I wonder how as human beings you even can justify this action, or look yourselves in the mirror?
– I am working on an essay for a major American Magazine related to criminal activity on the part of LEO’s around the country…would you care to comment on how corrupt, absurd and criminal your department looks now, both to the citizen’s of Rotterdam, as well as the rest of the world?
– Having been raised in a family of corrupt LEO’s, I understand the culture is to protect one another at all costs…lie, cheat, steal….abuse….so your Department’s situation doesn’t shock me…but I wonder what all you blue-clad little boys are going to do when a real revolution rocks the City of Rotterdam, this country and when the Rotterdam NY LEO’s become the target of the raging masses?
– Are you prepared for the millions of pissed off NY citizens who may now have been given incentive to chase down every member of your department, City Council and City Government… …arrest , charge and convict them with treason…and then hang them in the public square.. while arresting and convicting their families, wives, kids etc…charging and convicting them with generational treason and hanging them…as out of control mobs tend to do?
– Just how much criminality is the City of Rotterdam and it’s Police Chief willing to accept and defend from within an out-of-control group of LEO’s when “the people” decide they have had enough?
– Good thing that 2nd Amendment still exists…eh? As an objective observer…I think LEO’s in this country are going to be finding out very soon…what the purpose of that Amendment was intended….is your department prepared for that?
RJ O’Guillory
Author-
Webster Groves – The Life of an Insane Family
-450 (odds) on receiving any reply beyond an acknowledgement of your letter, granted that would be a surprise as well.
Nice letter & a fine job as usual.
Yes, they brought (from behind his back) his hand up to his ear, rapidly even.
The cops approach to the situation was dead from the start. No, I don’t expect more than a small fraction of street cops (single digit percentages) to be able to handle even a pseudo negotiation situation as most are of thug mentality.
OK, at least he waited a few mins. before jamming the kids arm up to his ear from behind his back; what a pal.
Better watch out, one of these days they are going to break the wrong kids arm..and all hell will break out for those cops family..
100 heads insurance policy
careful what you wish for cops..yes were all paying attention
you’d never “get away” with this if that were my child..never
This is insane.
They’re trying very hard to get a response out of the
people.
-flek