Officer resigns after alleged beating of student caught on tape

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A Dolton, Illinois, police officer assigned to a school was placed on administrative leave and later resigned after a surveillance video surfaced of him allegedly assaulting a special-needs student, officials said.

Ed Manzke, an attorney who represents the student, Marshawn Pitts, 15, told CNN Wednesday the officer beat Pitts for not adhering to the school's dress code.
The incident occurred in May at the Academy for Learning, a Dolton high school for special-needs students. Pitts was admitted to the school in May after moving from Iowa, Manzke said. He suffered brain injuries as a child when he was hit by a car.
The police officer, who has not been identified, reprimanded Pitts for not tucking in his shirt as school dress code and policy requires.


A video, released to Pitts' parents by the school several weeks after the incident, showed Pitts talking to the officer and a faculty member grabbing Pitts' arm. Pitts pulls away and walks down the hall, with the officer and faculty member close behind. But the officer then slams him against the lockers and pins him on the floor -- breaking his nose, according to Manzke.
Pitts was treated by a school nurse after the incident, then taken to the Dolton Police Department, where his mother picked him up, Manzke said.
The officer was taken to a hospital and treated for an eye scratch, Manzke said. But, he said, the officer was never charged with anything and an explanation for the incident was never provided.


In a written statement, Guy Lindsay, internal information officer for Dolton police, said the department was made aware of the incident and the tape on May 20. After review of the tape, the officer was removed from the school and placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, Lindsay said.


While on administrative leave, the police officer returned to the department and voluntarily resigned, Lindsay said. The investigation continues, he said.
In a statement obtained by CNN affiliate WGN, the Academy for Learning said it could not comment on an incident involving a specific student.
But, the school said, "Unfortunately, the physical restraint of a student sometimes becomes necessary. In such instances, AFL and its staff are committed to employing techniques that are safe, effective and which conform to best practice standards.


"Annually, a Behavioral Intervention Committee comprised of administrators, staff, union representatives and parents convenes to review restraint procedures. The AFL Behavior Management Team also participates in professional development and training regarding physical restraint on an annual basis. After a physical restraint occurs, the team meets to process, debrief and evaluate the incident and use of a physical restraint. AFL addresses the unauthorized or inappropriate use of a physical restraint, or improper techniques, as necessary, as an internal manner."


Pitts' parents are considering litigation against the city of Dolton, the school and Dolton police, Manzke said. He added he is in talks with Dolton police to settle the case. If those talks are not fruitful, Manzke said, a lawsuit could be filed within a few weeks.
Pitts is now living with his father and attending another school, Manzke said.


source http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/08/special.needs.student.beating/index.html
 

Simply_Black

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:hmm:

A resignation is not good enough for proper justice to be seen and done. He needs to be charged and brought in front of a jury ... but we all know that's never gonna happen.
 

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Dolton officer in beating case faces unrelated rape charge


A Dolton cop caught on camera allegedly breaking a 15-year-old special needs student's nose for failing to tuck in his shirt has a troubling history that includes killing a man in a case of disputed self-defense.

The officer is now in an Indiana jail on an unrelated rape charge.

Christopher Lloyd, 38, was identified today by his father, Charles Lloyd, and Dolton Mayor Ronnie Lewis as the officer who in May was videotaped by a school security camera scuffling with 15-year-old, 140-pound Marshawn Pitts at the Academy for Learning in Dolton.

An attorney hired by Pitts' parents released the videotape earlier this week, calling the incident an "unprovoked attack" on a vulnerable child. The tape, which has no audio, appears to show the officer slam Pitts against a locker, wrestle him to the ground and pin him.

But speaking Thursday, Charles Lloyd said he had seen the tape and discussed the incident with his son, who he said was "just trying to do his job as a police officer and is completely innocent."

"My son said, `Sir, you need to tuck your shirt in,' and this boy said `**** you, I'm not gonna tuck my shirt in, you can't make me,'" Charles Lloyd said.

"That boy struck my son in the eye and broke his glasses -- he had a history of behavior issues," he alleged.

Christopher Lloyd was arrested last month and charged with sexually assaulting a woman he knew at her home in Hammond, his father said.

According to Lake County, Ind., court documents, he held a pillow over the woman's face while sexually assaulting her Sept. 14 and had previously threatened her with a knife.

Lloyd, who's being held in lieu of $110,000 bail, faces up to 20 years behind bars if convicted of rape, criminal deviate conduct, criminal confinement and sexual battery, said Diane Poulton, spokeswoman for Lake County's prosecutor.

A lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, Nicole McKinney, last summer alleges he gunned down her new husband Cornel McKinney in front of their children outside their home on the 6100 block of South Langley Avenue on Feb. 17, 2008.


A Robbins police officer at the time, Lloyd was suspended following the shooting but eventually found work with Dolton police in January, his father said.

Though an autopsy shows he shot McKinney 24 times, the lawsuit alleges, he was not charged because Chicago police accepted his explanation that he'd acted in self defense.


Chicago police spokesman Veejay Zala said details of the investigation into McKinney's death could not immediately be found Thursday, but McKinney's attorney, Rahsaan Gordon, said the latest series of allegations against Lloyd showed he shouldn't have been employed as a police officer.

"At some point, people in positions of power need to protect the public," Gordon said. "You have to ask why he was hired."

Lewis denied any impropriety in Lloyd's hiring, saying that the Indiana rape case was "not my problem" and that he hadn't heard of Lloyd until the incident at the Academy was brought to his attention last week. Lloyd was terminated following the incident, Lewis said on Wednesday.

Dolton Police Chief Robert Fox declined to comment, citing pending lawsuits.

http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-dolton-cop-rape-oct8,0,5324605.story




:smh::smh::smh:
 

Flawless

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hold up this one guy shot someone 24 times and got away with it? that means he reloaded and kept firing :smh:
 

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First off, lock up the officer and throw away the key. But..... This is a lesson for the kid: Don't assume you can talk shit to somebody and not get fucked up because you're a jit. If you watch the tape, he was talking shit and snatched away from the female that was trying in intervene. The cop was all wrong, but you can't assume somebody's going to respond to you with equal aggression or is even sane. Tuck the shirt in and shut the fuck up.
 

doggmd

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I thought you guys said it was OK for the cops to beat someone down if a person didn't follow orders. This is an old story.
 

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The officer was wrong for beating him. He should tucked his shirt in and shut the hell up. No excuses for getting emotional and mouthing off to a teacher or officer in the real world.
 

BigDaddyBuk

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This is a lesson for the kid: Don't assume you can talk shit to somebody and not get fucked up because you're a jit.

if you watch teh tape all you see is what looks like words exchanged. you can't see what was said.

now lets keep it 100...this motherfucker is killing AND raping people...do you REALLY think the kid said ANYTHING to set him off?
 

MaximusBlaque

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So he gets hit with murder, rape and assault charges and the only punishment he faces is having to resign. Man, I'm in the wrong fucking field of work. :smh:
 

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First off, lock up the officer and throw away the key. But..... This is a lesson for the kid: Don't assume you can talk shit to somebody and not get fucked up because you're a jit. If you watch the tape, he was talking shit and snatched away from the female that was trying in intervene. The cop was all wrong, but you can't assume somebody's going to respond to you with equal aggression or is even sane. Tuck the shirt in and shut the fuck up.
You must have lost perspective on this one.....the kid has a learning and coping disability due to a brain injury. Do you overstand?!? You are talking like he is 100.
:rolleyes:
 

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This is fuck up as usual. You know this mofo will go to another police station and why do this shit just happen to black people.

We get "accidentally shot"
We get "wrongfully convicted"
We get "beat down the police"

And nothing happen to them mofos.

Fuck them.
Fuck Blunt the Cunt.
Fuck any sell out mofo that defense them bitches.
 

LennyNero1972

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First off, lock up the officer and throw away the key. But..... This is a lesson for the kid: Don't assume you can talk shit to somebody and not get fucked up because you're a jit. If you watch the tape, he was talking shit and snatched away from the female that was trying in intervene. The cop was all wrong, but you can't assume somebody's going to respond to you with equal aggression or is even sane. Tuck the shirt in and shut the fuck up.

Co-sign. The officer overreacted yes, but these young niggas can be hard headed for no reason.
 

TEN

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WTF, ..pig is a child abuser, a rapist and a murderer and he STILL gets hired
by a special needs school???????????????

First KRS One loses his damn mind now this!

sheeeesh
 

masterzeek07

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24 times is self defense?

His ex wifes new husband

wtf:smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh:


All pigs involed,that allowed him to get away should be charged

but we know that aint gone happen

we need groups like the old panter party to put fear of death

in those pigs, cause they aint worried bout shit
 

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:hmm:

A resignation is not good enough for proper justice to be seen and done. He needs to be charged and brought in front of a jury ... but we all know that's never gonna happen.

pre national exposure, nothing woulda happened. but WITH national exposure? let's just say u can bet dude is having a case put against him as i type this sentence
 

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First off, lock up the officer and throw away the key. But..... This is a lesson for the kid: Don't assume you can talk shit to somebody and not get fucked up because you're a jit. If you watch the tape, he was talking shit and snatched away from the female that was trying in intervene. The cop was all wrong, but you can't assume somebody's going to respond to you with equal aggression or is even sane. Tuck the shirt in and shut the fuck up.

so the kid was supposed to think in his head "i better put my shirt in because this cop might fuck me up"?

why should anybody HAVE to think that way? that's the entire problem right there! all of us need to stand up against this bullshit. and from the article posted in the thread we now see this cat is a complete psychopath and somehow he got a gig working around women and children :eek:
 

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Co-sign. The officer overreacted yes, but these young niggas can be hard headed for no reason.
there is no fuckin BUT in this case! you niggas kill me! thinking patterns like yours and the idiot you quoted are why shit is fucked today. APATHY ALL AROUND!!!
 

destrehan

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aint nothing alleged about a beating caught on tape
DAMN! i just read that too WTF :angry:

(CNN) -- A Dolton, Illinois, police officer assigned to a school was placed on administrative leave and later resigned after a surveillance video surfaced of him allegedly assaulting a special-needs student, officials said.
 

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there is no fuckin BUT in this case! you niggas kill me! thinking patterns like yours and the idiot you quoted are why shit is fucked today. APATHY ALL AROUND!!!

If time I could see your concern. Bgol e-militants come through and defend young hard headed thugs niggas because they just a young brotha they don't know any better bullshit. These young thugs not this kid but others know what they are doing. The e-militants thinking back in the real world when they acted like fools.

I'm still supporting those that look out for my neighbors and myself. E-militants talk this yang yang behind a computer but in the real world cops are needed even in Our communities. Thugs hurting the elderly,selling dope. Thank God for those that protect and serve.
 
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