Police Brutalize Disabled Teen! Vicious Cop Slams Special Needs Student into Lockers

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October 12, 2009

http://cbs2chicago.com/inve... DOLTON, Ill. (CBS) ― A 15-year-old student was walking down a hallway at school when he says a police officer grabbed him and threw him to the ground. But that's not...

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DOLTON, Ill. (CBS) ― A 15-year-old student was walking down a hallway at school when he says a police officer grabbed him and threw him to the ground. But that's not all. The teenager says he was beaten and nearly suffocated. He told his story to CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini.

Security cameras captured the beating of a 15-year-old Special Education student by a police officer. Marshawn Pitts says the officer started shouting and swearing at him because his shirt wasn't tucked in.

"I was tucking my shirt in," Pitts said.

But it's what happened next that had Marshawn Pitts worried for his life. Pitts says the officer came at him suddenly.

"It was just like boom," Pitts said.

He says he was blindsided by the officer, thrown into lockers and struck repeatedly.

In the video, you can see that he gets slammed to the ground and his face smashed into the floor. His nose was broken.

Pitts says he was bleeding.

"All this on the outside of my mouth was busted," he said.

He calls this treatment violent and unnecessary, especially considering he was attending the Academy for Learning High School in Dolton for students like him with Special Education needs.

When he was younger, he suffered a brain injury and now has a learning disability.

The school for special needs was supposed to help him and understand his situation.

"Yeah, but instead I got beaten on by police," Pitts said.

Ed Manzke is Pitts' attorney.

"The officer was in his face because he didn't have his shirt tucked in," Manzke said. "That's the officer put in that school to protect these kids, and instead of doing that, this officer is literally assaulting this kid."

The officer in question was a Dolton police officer, and the hold he used on Pitts can be a dangerous one.

Zena Naiditch of Equip for Equality, a legal advocacy group that fights for the rights of people with disabilities, looked at the video and said the type of physical restraint used by the officer has killed students.

"It's called a face-down take-down, and kids and adults often die because they can't breathe," Naiditch said.

A Government Accounting Office report released in May, just one day before the officer's use of the hold on Pitts, found face-down take-downs led to at least 20 deaths nationwide.

Currently eight states prohibit the use of this hold. Illinois is not one of them.

"So we don't actually know how common these incidents are, and that's outrageous," Naiditch said.

Pitts says he was terrified and begged the officer to stop.

"I couldn't breathe,'" Pitts said. "I was like, 'let me up.'"

Naiditch says it shouldn't have happened.

"He's getting a beating, and he's getting a beating on an issue that has nothing to do with danger, it has to do with dress code," Naiditch said.

No one from the Academy of Learning in Dolton would talk to CBS 2 about the alleged abuse.

The Dolton Police Department and the Mayor of Dolton did not return phone calls.

Marshawn Pitts's attorney Ed Manzke says he has transferred to another school and is planning to file a lawsuit.

The State Board of Education says no one from the school reported the use of forceful restraint to them.

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This is why i dont like police.

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Rusfi16 (3 days ago) Show Hide

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Cut the police officer some slack. People have phobias about everything. Maybe the worst one of them all is untucked shirts.
Medication can slow the urges to lash out violently,but it can't stop them totally.
And Lord have mercy on any victim of an officer witha phobia about unzipped pant zippers.

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disgrace

faze3todd (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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why isnt this cop put in jail for at least 6 months to a year???

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this guy will never get laid i stand my word

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it appears the cop is a special ed cop who is trained to beat other retards. Cops are trained to abuse low IQ peeps - this cop just got caught by the video which he must have known was on. Maybe the cop will get a scholarship to attend the Special retard school

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WOW! RIDICULOUS!

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what a asshole, look how big this guy is, all this for a shirt out of your trousers, that realy sick man

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There is an unwritten job description. They all know what it is.

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