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Cops left a boot imprint on a teen's face after he was beaten too violently over a speeding ticket.


Body camera footage released over the weekend highlights the gang mentality of the many cops because it showed them violently beating a 17-year-old boy over a traffic stop “like a pack of wolves.” It also illustrates how far cops will move to enforce a speeding violation.

The incident unfolded in December of last year, when 17-year-old Devin Carter, a high school football star was accused by police of driving his vehicle over the ordinance. When police pulled him over, cops pounced on him like wolves tearing apart a priceythe whole time, cops were accusing Carter of “resisting” but because the video shows, that was simply not true.

The video was released by John Burris, a civil rights lawyer, who is representing Carter and his family during a federal lawsuit against the Stockton department of local government.

“These vicious cops acted sort of a pack of wolves and Devin was their evening meal,” said Burris. “I haven't seen a law officer beating this outrageous since my former client Rodney King was beaten by LAPD officers back in March of 1991.” After you watch the video below, you'll likely agree.

“The officers’ conduct was so atrocious that they must be criminally prosecuted,” Burris said. “The most troubling aspect of this case is that these officers must have believed that they were somehow immune from department discipline and will flee with their conduct knowing that their body-worn cameras were on.”

In the video, Carter is heard repeatedly telling the officers that he's “not resisting” and it had been clear that he wasn’t. Nevertheless, the beating concerned.

According to police, Carter was driving a Mercedes erratically at over 100 miles per hour when a police vehicle attempted to prevent him from speeding. Police claimed that rather than stopping, Carter shut off his lights and led officers on a three-minute chase.

Eventually, Carter came to a stop after police rammed him, causing his side airbags to deploy.

Carter is 17 and made a poor decision, but what happened afterward, was a far greater crime than driving fast and running from the cops — which crime was four grown adults beating the hell out of a defenseless kid.

According to the lawsuit, Carter, who only “may have been” speeding, remained within the car together with his hands above the wheel, until a political candidate yanked him from the vehicle and slammed him to the bottom all at once. As Devin Carter lay in an exceedingly fetal position, a politician kneed him within the face, the suit alleges. “Officers’ body camera footage shows that multiple officers began to repeatedly punch, knee, and kick Devin Carter in his face, neck, and back as he laid during a fetal position screaming in agony.”

While he was on the bottom Carter was screaming go in agony, begging the four cops who were beating him to preventin step with Burris, Carter thought that this was it, and police were visiting kill him.

Fortunately for Carter, the beating stopped and he was eventually placed in handcuffs and booked into juvenile detention for evading police.

As for the officers who beat him, two of them were fired, but not charged. Michael Stiles and Omar Villapudua were both fired for using excessive force.

“The investigation determined two of the involved officers were well outside the scope of both our policy and training. Our department has policies that state we must always make attempts to avoid striking an arrestee round the head and neck area when possible,” Stockton police officer Eric Jones said during a statement.

As the Mercury News reports, chief Jones said “several of the involved officers are receiving discipline,” including the 2 who were fired, but failed to provide further information on which officers are being disciplined and in what manner. the opposite two policemen named as defendants within the lawsuit are Daniel Velarde and Vincent Magana. they're still gainfully employed with the department.



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