Video shows L.A. cop assaulting cuffed teen

Video shows L.A. cop assaulting cuffed teen
Chief says images won’t be made public; incident occurred in police station

Updated: 2 hours, 49 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - A videotape shows an officer assaulting a handcuffed teenager inside a police station holding cell, but the images won’t be made public, the police chief said.

Sean Joseph Meade, 41, was arrested Thursday for investigation of assault under color of authority. He was released on $10,000 bail, and a court appearance was scheduled for Monday.

Police Chief William J. Bratton said the confrontation was part of an internal investigation, so the videotape won’t be released publicly.

The department is still wrestling with fallout from two recent and very public videotapes that appear to show officers using excessive force against suspects. Both of those were taken by amateurs on the streets.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16108465/

Officer is held in attack on teen
By Richard Winton, Patrick McGreevy and Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writers
December 8, 2006


A Los Angeles police officer was arrested Thursday on suspicion of assault after he was caught on videotape applying a chokehold to a handcuffed 16-year-old boy inside the Central Division station, authorities said.

The officer's alleged actions were recorded by a hidden camera that had been installed after some chairs at the station had been vandalized.

The videotape appears to show the officer, Sean Joseph Meade, 41, locking the teenager's neck in a chokehold for several seconds, according to sources in the department who have viewed it. Moments later, Meade allegedly removed the boy's handcuffs and challenged him to a fight, said the sources, who spoke on condition that they not be named.

"It is just mind-boggling that we have a situation where a kid is arrested and handcuffed and sitting in a room posing no threat to anyone, and this officer just comes in and beats the hell out of him," said John Mack, president of the Los Angeles Police Commission. "It's unacceptable."
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd8dec08,0,7553804.story?coll=la-home-headlines

dumbass got owned. Now he lost probably everything.

Its no wonder these sweet hearts are the way they are

They recruit control freaks in the first place

What a dangerous criminal.

Bratton isn't doing any better in LA than he did in Boston or NYC.

The teenager was arrested on suspicion of a curfew violation in Chinatown, and Bratton said the alleged attack on the teenager was "without any physical provocation."

"Based on what I and my command staff witnessed on the video, we felt the behavior was nothing that we as a department can tolerate or condone," Bratton said.

The teenager was treated at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and was in good condition. But he remains in police custody because detectives cannot find any family members, leading police to believe that he might be homeless.

If the kid is homeless, then he had no place else to be than out on the street. He was arrested and beaten for being homeless! The big crime here is that the teenager is homeless to begin with, and then that he is arrested and beaten for being a victim in the first place.

On edit: Oh, and obviously the other "crime" that he was arrested beaten for was being a member of a minority.