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Cop beats 11th special needs girl, claims 'she was stronger than me' - no jail

A veteran Farmington peace officer was allowed to quietly resign in an exceedingly 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 lawman Zachary Christensen was found guilty for his crimes in November. However, because the PBWW website often points out, even when cops are found guilty, they seldom see the within of a prison cell, and Christensen was sentenced to probation.

In November, 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. He was facing a maximum sentence of three years behind bars.

In a virtual hearing, prosecutors involved that maximum sentence, albeit, entirely unsuccessfully, per KOB.

“[Christensen] classified this as an underserved hardship… an underserved hardship brought upon him by the callous AG’s office. it's not in any respect undeserved. He chose… to commit this attack,” said Assistant Attorney General Zachary Jones.

Christensen then publicly explained himself during the sentencing hearing, blaming his actions — of attacking a tiny low child with special needs — on his training as a cop.

“Everybody makes mistakes and I’m willing to admit that I made mistakes,” said Christensen, adding later: “I’m not a caseworker and therefore the way I used to be trained was how I responded.”

But this was simply not true. an inside investigation found that Christensen violated multiple department policies including “violating the utilization of force policy” and “unsatisfactory performance.”

“I lost my career. I lost the flexibility to ever get an enforcement job again… we had to maneuver due to death threats,” said Christensen. “This may be a one-time incident that I’m not pleased with but it’s never visiting happen again.”

Despite prosecutors pushing for the utmost, the judge bought the abusive officer's story and sentenced him to probation instead.

“I don’t believe that to be appropriate under all the facts and circumstances,” said Judge Curtis Gurley, rather than placing Christensen on a three-year period of conditional discharge suspension “under which period he’ll be under the quality conditions of probation.”

New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, whose office prosecuted the case, expressed his disappointment with the judge’s decision.

“We were able to secure a conviction during this case, but this sentence is very disappointing. By allowing a conditional discharge, this defendant will have admitted to abusing a young minority special needs child during a school and may effectively leave prefer it never happened,” said Balderas.

Indeed. Had Christensen not been granted a badge and authority, rest assured, he would be behind bars without delay.

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

According to school officials, the girl had misbehaved in school and was watching for 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 then attacked her. She was accused of taking two glasses of milk rather than one.

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

After savagely attacking the tiny 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 also 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 get on my feet.

“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, could be a threat to an armed man during a vest.

Laughably, the cop would last to write 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 college employee said.

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

But because the video shows, it had been definitely excessive.

“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 shielder,” 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 transpire.

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

Sadly, that accountability came within the type of no jail.

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/yYWZyBu-7_Y

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