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Charges quietly dropped for Cop who helped smash innocent teen’s Face Into the Concrete



 Three deputies from the Broward County Sheriff’s office were all charged last year after they smashed an innocent teen’s face into the bottom, leaving a pool of blood, and lying about it. the whole gruesome incident was captured on video. Fast forward to the current year and therefore the violent cops who viciously attacked the innocent teen, Delucca Rolle then-15, told the court they were standing their ground and may not face a shot for his or her charges.


Earlier this year, deputy Ralph Mackey beat the costs of falsifying records, and this month, Sgt. Greg LaCerra, who pepper-prayed the teenager, also had his charges dropped, a ruling that prosecutors commit to appeal, but will likely not see any success. Indeed, it's more likely that the opposite officer, former Deputy Christopher Krickovich, who jumped in and gave the impression to slam the teen’s head into the asphalt multiple times, will see his charges of battery quietly in an exceeding frenzy|over excited|anxious|hyped up} in a few months still.

Predictably, attorneys for the charged cops claimed the video showing them smash the innocent teen’s face into the bottom ‘doesn’t tell the full story.’

According to the Sun-Sentinel, defense lawyers Eric Schwartzreich and Jeremy Kroll said their clients were charged for political reasons, and that they sought to portray the videos during a context that validated their clients’ actions.

“Up to the current point, the general public has been supplied with a snapshot of what happened that day,” said Kroll, Krickovich’s lawyer. “There’s a film, a movie that tells more of the story.”

Scwartzreich, who was hired by the BSO Deputies Association to represent LaCerra, described the world the teenagers were located that day as a “fight club” wear teens would meet to fight after school. Many readers of TFTP likely remember places like this after they visited highschool wear teens met to settle disputes without getting into trouble in class. Nevertheless, Scwartzreich used this description of the placement to smear the victim.

“This wasn’t a situation where students were having church services within the automobile parking space,” Schwartzreich said, conveniently failing to say the part about the officers lying to hide it up.

After the assault was caught on video, Sheriff Gregory Tony immediately suspended deputies Gregory LaCerra, Christopher Krickovich, and Ralph Mackey without pay. They were hit with misdemeanor charges for battery and falsifying police reports, in line with the Broward State Attorney’s Office.

“Good officers are visiting think this is often a decent thing,” the Rolle family lawyer, Sue-Ann Robinson, said at the time.

“It’s too premature for us to mention justice has been served,” she said earlier this year, predicting the end result this month.

As reported at the time, in step with witnesses, a crowd of scholars formed outside the McDonald’s after school that day to look at what they thought was visiting be a fight between two students — something that takes place in towns across the country. However, there was no fight and therefore the only ones initiating violence seemed to be the cops.

According to witnesses, police showed up at the McDonald’s and yelled at the scholars to disperse. those that failed to disperse fast enough were then pepper-sprayed. The video shows multiple teens hit with the spray.

The witnesses told NBC 6 that when police first grabbed one teen to handcuff him, his friend approached the deputies to ask why he was being arrested and merely grabbed his friend’s phone. That teen was Rolle who was then doused within the face with an aerosol can and thrown to the bottom.

As the video shows, Rolle wasn't initiating any violence toward the officers and was merely attempting to rub his eyes and possibly cover his head from the punches being dealt out by the deputy.

According to the officers’ attorneys, however, Rolle, “tensed his body up and stepped toward Sgt. LaCerra in an aggressive manner while uttering profanities,” so he deserved to possess the hell beat out of him.

“No use of force is pretty,” Schwartzreich said. “But it had been justified and it absolutely was legal.”

But this wasn't legal. because the teen lies face-first on the bottom, one deputy holds him down while another punches him. After a pair of punches, the deputy then grabs the teen’s head and repeatedly smashes his face into the asphalt.

One of the videos shows the savage assault on Rolle while another shows him sitting on the bottom in handcuffs with blood pouring down his face.

“The next thing you recognize, his head started bleeding and everything, and while he was getting handcuffed, Lil bro got punched within the face by police,” one student told NBC 6 at the time.

After the incident, Rolle was rushed to the hospital to be treated for his injuries.

“It was outrageous that a deputy would do that to an unarmed student who wasn't fighting back, who was giving no resistance,” Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen said.

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