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From [HERE] and [HERE] In a video posted on YouTube, a police officer violently lifted a 19-year-old Latino man he had detained and then dropped him onto a subway platform floor—pulling a subway poster down with him. Sean Pagan had allegedly been "seen writing graffiti in a restricted area of the station". The cop's action is very excessive - he acted like no one was watching. He was wrong.
The video shows a police officer striding toward a young man standing on a platform at the 45th Street subway station in Brooklyn. A few seconds later, the officer pats him down. Shortly afterward, the officer slams him to the ground, ripping a subway ad from the wall in the process. The officer slams him down again, then puts the young man in a headlock and handcuffs him. That scene was captured by David Galarza, a local activist, who said he recorded it last Thursday night. At a news conference on Thursday in Brooklyn, Mr. Galarza and other local activists said the officer’s confrontation with the young man, Sean Pagan, 19, was another example of the police’s mistreatment of Latinos and Blacks.
“These are young people of color who are victimized many times, and this kind of excessive force, sometimes it’s captured, sometimes not,” Mr. Galarza said before screening the video for reporters at a Latino community center in Sunset Park. “There was an arrest of a young man, but not of the officer who did the groping, and who did the choking.” The 4th Amendment rights of people of color are vanishing in NYC and around the country. The mainistream media has been preparing the public to accept the identification of Blacks and Latinos as enemies. That is, a substantial part of the population is ready to consider it desirable or normal that Blacks & Latinos can be detained, searched, isolated or killed. The tone of this NY Times article for instance is not of outrage but weak neutrality. The writer even suggests that because "the young man appears to fidget against a wall" after he is slammed into it that the officer may have had some justifiable reason for this assault - despite there being no articlulable reason to believe that Pagan was armed and dangerous during this graffiiti or failure to pay subway fare stop/arrest. No reason except that he is not white. NYC Stop and Frisk and Arizona's SB 1070 are precoditions to genocide.