Many in the African-American community have been warning for years that police officers overstep their bounds, but it seems that the impact of rogue officers is just now reaching the mainstream.
The family of a 16 year old teen have filed a $1 million dollar lawsuit against the city of Rotterdam, New York after police officers were caught on camera breaking the teen’s arm.
The incident began after police were called on Jacob Gocheski because a school bus driver didn’t want the mentally ill teen on the bus due to “threats that the student made in an aggressive manner.”
By the time the incident took place, the bus was in Gocheski’s driveway, but the teen refused to leave the bus. Video shows the teen sitting in his seat, looking down and despondent. When the officers began to wrestle the teen out of his seat and put his hands behind his back, you can hear Gocheski’s arm begin to break in half.
“There was clear and obvious use of excessive force,” said Kevin Luibrand, attorney for the teen’s family. “They placed his arm in a position where they locked the arm and proceeded with significant force to break the arm between the shoulder blade and elbow, creating a displaced fracture.” Luibrand also says that the officers threatened to “hog tie” Gocheski and “exerted enough force to snap one of the strongest bones in the human body.”
Gocheski was charged obstruction of governmental administration, all for refusing to leave a school bus.
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