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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Jersey Cop Slams, Nearly Kills Female Senior Citizen
New Jersey Cop Slams, Nearly Kills Female Senior Citizen
Clark County, New Jersey cops pulled over Fortuna Riga, for allegedly running a stop sign. Riga says the cops pulled him out of his car, and his 61 year old mother intervened. According to the cops his mother jumped on one of the officers back. According to the family, she merely grabbed one of the officers and asked why they were going after her son? The officers slammed the grandmother to the ground, breaking out her front teeth, and causing multiple fractures. She is in critical condition, and was placed into a medically induced coma. It is unclear how long she will remain in the hospital or how long the recovery will take.
Riga was taken away in handcuffs and given multiple citations including reckless driving and refusing to exit the vehicle when ordered.
The couples five year old child was in the car, and exposed to this traumatic incident where those who claim to protect, but instead brutalized his grandmother, the injuries show that very easily this lady could have lost her life, and very well may never be the same.
They tried saying my mom jumped on the cops back. My mom grabbed the cop and said why are you going after my son like this?. He was like, shut up boom and just slammed her, she went face first.
http://www.copblock.org/134458/new-jersey-cop-slams-nearly-kills-female-senior-citizen/
Clark County, New Jersey cops pulled over Fortuna Riga, for allegedly running a stop sign. Riga says the cops pulled him out of his car, and his 61 year old mother intervened. According to the cops his mother jumped on one of the officers back. According to the family, she merely grabbed one of the officers and asked why they were going after her son? The officers slammed the grandmother to the ground, breaking out her front teeth, and causing multiple fractures. She is in critical condition, and was placed into a medically induced coma. It is unclear how long she will remain in the hospital or how long the recovery will take.
Riga was taken away in handcuffs and given multiple citations including reckless driving and refusing to exit the vehicle when ordered.
The couples five year old child was in the car, and exposed to this traumatic incident where those who claim to protect, but instead brutalized his grandmother, the injuries show that very easily this lady could have lost her life, and very well may never be the same.
They tried saying my mom jumped on the cops back. My mom grabbed the cop and said why are you going after my son like this?. He was like, shut up boom and just slammed her, she went face first.
http://www.copblock.org/134458/new-jersey-cop-slams-nearly-kills-female-senior-citizen/
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New Jersey Cop Slams, Nearly Kills Female Senior Citizen (Original Post)
FreakinDJ
Aug 2015
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Laxman
(2,419 posts)1. Ahh, Clark, NJ.....
where the police have a long-standing and well earned reputation for discrimination. Many years ago a good friend of mine was driving through Clark around midnight on his way home from dinner. He was driving a BMW. He was pulled over-for no real reason-and ordered out of his car. (well, you can guess the reason). They made him place his hands on the hood of his car and patted him down and lo and behold what did they find? Oh, it was his badge and ID from the Union County Prosecutor's Office where he was working as an assistant prosecutor. How the apologies flowed. You see, they had received a report of a stolen car that matched the description of his car, blah, blah, blah. I see things in Clark haven't changed much.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)2. No dashcam?
tblue37
(65,403 posts)3. This is what he did to that poor woman:
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)4. Just another day in America. n/t