Aboriginal 18-year-old with disability thrown to ground during NSW police arrest while having seizure

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/18/aboriginal-18-year-old-with-disability-thrown-to-ground-during-nsw-police-arrest-while-having-seizure

Exclusive: Police launch internal investigation over arrest at Taree, as footage shows officer performing a leg sweep while man is handcuffed

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Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If I did a leg sweep like that on someone I would be charged with assault and battery.

Police need to be held to a higher standard than the public.

The “leg sweep” was clearly an unnecessary use of force and the officer should be prosecuted for it.

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- 999@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That guy looks like he'd been waiting for that moment ever since he learned how to do it and just needed to try it on someone much smaller than him so that he could actually pull it off. What a cunt.
  
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Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Cops always investigate themselves and even when found guilty face no repercussions.

Anyone remember the neurodivergent guy thrown to his lawn by like 4 cops in Melbourne a few years ago! They were made to apologise to him.

The cop who was close to retirement who beat up a prisoner in his cell in Geelong? He retired peacefully soon after.

Fuck internal investigations, cops should be held up to a community judgement.

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Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sickening.

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autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:

New South Wales police have launched an investigation after a young Aboriginal man with disability was violently arrested while having a seizure and thrown to the ground while handcuffed in Taree.

Footage of the arrest shows the young man being walked along a driveway by an officer before stumbling and falling to the ground, where he begins having a seizure.

A second sequence shows the teenager being walked along the street while handcuffed before the same officer performs a leg sweep manoeuvre on him, throwing him violently to the ground.

“An internal investigation is under way after an 18-year-old man was arrested at Taree on Tuesday 15 August 2023 for alleged property offences,” a NSW police spokesperson said.

Magistrate Rami Attia found Constable Ryan Barlow guilty of occasioning actual bodily harm, dismissing claims the officer had felt threatened.

The case garnered national attention when mobile phone footage of the violent arrest – taken by the boy’s friends – was posted online.

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- Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Magistrate Rami Attia found Constable Ryan Barlow guilty of occasioning actual bodily harm, dismissing claims the officer had felt threatened.
  
  For anyone reading only the bot summary, this is from a separate case and the investigation is “ongoing” and no charges have yet been brought against the officer in the video.
  
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