14 Yr. Old Black Girl Allegedly Beaten by Albany Police
Friday, April 22, 2005 at 10:59PM
TheSpook
A Livingston Middle School student says
some of the blows thrown after school two weeks ago came from a few
Albany police officers. 14-year-old Shenekwa Stewart is not allowed to
talk about the alleged incident, but has scars on her face that tell
her story. Her right eye is swollen shut and still bloody red. She says
it is the result of being hit by an Albany police officer. "She was
upper cut and after she was upper cut her nose and mouth were
bleeding," Shenekwa's mother, Lorenda Charles said. "So of course she's
spitting out blood, and the officer thought she was spitting on him.
That's when she was thrown to the ground." Charles said her daughter is
an honor student at the school and was one of many kids who witnessed
the fights after school April 7th. She was the only one who was rushed
to Albany Medical Center. Charles said her daughter is still trying to
heal. "She can't look up, she can't look down, a lot of pain in her
eye. She's had a lot of hemorrhaging in her eye and they've had to put
her on steroids." Charles added Shenekwa will need surgery. Doctors
need to put in a metal plate to support the section of her face where
her bones were shattered. Albany Police Detective James Miller said an
internal affairs investigation is going on. He said it was hectic
outside school that day and officers were trying to get control of the
people involved in the fights. Miller said there were a small amount of
officers, a large amount of kids and things were tense. [more]
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