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“The video, which was taken by a bystander, appears to show the two teens arguing and then they begin to throw punches at each other. Shortly after, two Bridgewater Township police officers arrived at the scene and broke up the altercation. However, only the Black teenager, who was identified as an eighth grader named Kye, was handcuffed after being thrown to the ground, the video showed.
“They basically tackle me to the ground and then the one – the male officer put his knee in my back and then he starts putting me in cuffs,” Kye told ABC News station WABC in New York, in an interview that aired Tuesday night. “And then the female officer came over and put her knee on my upper back too and started helping putting cuffs on me. And while [the other teenager] was just sitting down on the couch watching the whole thing.””
– ABCNews, Police response to mall fight prompts outrage, investigation into treatment of Black teen.
“The female officer, after pushing the white teen to the sofa, appeared to order him to sit there and not move. She did not attempt to handcuff him.
Instead, the female officer moved to help her partner handcuff the Black teen — even appearing to place her knee on or near the boy’s neck.
The subsequent video of this confrontation went viral, accompanied by the inevitable and important question: Why did the cops appear to treat the white kid differently from the Black kid?
Adding to that question was the footage of police officers appearing to use their knees to subdue yet another Black suspect. The episode evoked some of the horrific scenes from nearly two years ago when Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin pushed his knee into the neck of George Floyd and eventually choked the life out of him.”
– NorthJersey.com, Bridgewater mall incident raises questions about policing and race.
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