Video [HERE] “Police said I'm lucky it wasn't nighttime.”  From [HERE] and [HERE] A Broward teen who was roughed up by Hollywood police during a traffic stop was released from the county’s juvenile lock up Wednesday afternoon. On Aug. 14 Hollywood Police arrested Cabrera – and the takedown was caught on video. Cabrera says they roughed him up for no reason.

Michelle Surgeon, the mother of 17-year old Cabrera, said an emergency hearing was held Wednesday morning and judge ruled that he could be released under the condition that he wore an ankle monitoring device. Surgeon said this was great news. She said her son still having bad headaches every day because of the head injuries he sustained. Cabrera has been in the Broward County juvenile detention center since August 14th.

On that day, Hollywood Police said he refused to stop when they tried to pull him over because his license plate did not match the registration. They said Cabrera ran red lights, rammed a police car at one point and then refused to get out of his car once cornered. “The police cruiser hit me in the back as I was driving,” he said.  “I never put it in reverse, I kept going straight.  The police cruiser hit me.  And so he wouldn’t get in trouble, he said I hit him.” Police said he was given order to exit the vehicle, but he did not. Cabrera said they did not say anything to him.

The takedown was unexpectedly captured on a homeowner’s security system. In that surveillance video, you can see officers pulling Cabrera from his car, wrestling him on the ground and after being handcuffed, one officer uses his knee to poke Cabrera. In the video, it appears that Hollywood Police punch the teenager and knee him in the head, and one officer keeps a knee on Cabrera’s neck most of the time, even though he appears to be handcuffed behind the back. Cabrera said he blacked out as officers beat him on the head.