College Cop observed guilty for Beating 11yo girl with unique needs

 A veteran Farmington law officer was allowed to quietly resign during a move to flee accountability after horrifying video footage showed him attacking an 11-year-old girl with special needs. At the time, he likely thought he got away, but due to pressure from accountability activists, former Farmington policeman Zachary Christensen is facing down a possible three-year sentence.

Christensen pleaded no contest to a felony charge of kid abuse and a misdemeanor battery charge after roughing up an 11-year-old student in the class. As a part of a plea deal, two other battery charges were dropped.

Originally, the case was named the prosecuting officer who naturally declined to prosecute the officer. However, the state's attorney general then stepped in and took up the case after receiving outside pressure.

“I was very concerned with the protection of our victim, who was a baby, and that I think this conviction sends a powerful message that nobody is above the law, but we'd like to line a really high standard of care that protects students on our faculty campuses,” said Attorney General Hector Balderas.

In a corrupt twist, however, despite the conviction, Christensen still has his state certification to be an enforcement officer.

The incident unfolded on August 27, 2019, but the officer’s lapel camera video wasn’t released until later. it's nothing in need of disturbing because it shows the officer, who is far bigger than the girl, slamming her down on the concrete while abusing her.

“That’s not our standards. That’s not who we are,” said Farmington captain Steven Hebbe in response to his office within the video.

According to school officials, the girl had misbehaved in school and was expecting her mother to return to choose her up from school. As she waited within the lobby of the varsity, the officer wrongly accused her of assault and so attacked her.

As KOB reports, on the day of the incident, school administrators will be seen on the lapel video following the girl around campus as she waits for her mom to choose her up from school.

“This morning, she went straight to the cafeteria. She took more milk than she was alleged to. She threw milk on the bottom,” said Officer Christensen within the lapel camera footage.

After savagely attacking the little girl, Officer Christensen attempted to assert in his report that “the child assaulted two school employees that morning.” He claimed that one assault occurred when the girl walked past the assistant principal and brushes past him and therefore the second occurred when the girl attempted to open the door and walked past the principal.

However, none of those charges against the girl would stick because the officer lacked any evidence of them.

Despite the girl not posing any threat to anyone, the officer attacked her anyway. because the video shows, he grabs the 11-year-old girl with special needs by the backpack and throws her to the bottom. He then jumps on top of her, pinning her down for over six minutes as she screams in horror.

The entire time, the officer is yelling “stop resisting,” as if this has any effect on a special needs child being attacked by a person twice her size.

The situation became so unnerving that a faculty official was forced to step in and tell the officer to let the girl rise.

“Officer Christensen – she isn't a threat to yourself or others at this moment,” said the college employee.

“No, she is!” Christensen replied, claiming the girl, half his size, maybe a threat to an armed man during a waistcoat.

Laughably, the cop would last to jot down in his report that the 11-year-old girl “was very strong, stronger than I used to be.”

After the altercation lasted several more minutes, the varsity employee then demanded that the officer stop his attack, even using the term “excessive force.”

“We’re not visiting use excessive force,” the varsity employee said.

Naturally, the officer replied that “It’s not excessive!”

But because the video shows, it had been definitely excessive. Never once did the girl tries to fight back. She was trying to comply, but the officer’s weight on her body wouldn't let her move within the position he was demanding. She even tried to elucidate this to him but to no avail.

After the incident, police were unable to search out anything on which to charge the girl, so she was allowed to return to high school because the officer was allowed to resign to flee accountability — for a bit while.

The girl and her mother have retained an attorney to file a lawsuit against the town of Farmington and therefore the school.

“She’s an 11-year-old girl and it’s a shock to the system to work out that this is often a thing which will occur at a college by a licensed lawman,” attorney Mark Curnutt said.

Curnutt then identified the very fact that the officer attempted to accuse the girl of committing multiple felonies, none of which actually materialized.

“When you have got a situation where there’s a report that claims a felony is committed, another felony is committed, another felony is committed — then you review the factual documentation you've got of that through the video and it doesn’t add up, there must be the grade of accountability,” Curnutt said.

Below is that the most annoying video link: https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/former-farmington-police-officer-faces-up-to-3-years-in-prison-for-excessive-force-on-a-child/5915748/