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The Epoch Times reports
The family of [13-year-old Columbus, Georgia] student Montravious Thomas claim that behavioral specialist, Bryant Mosley, physically attacked the young student on his first day at AIM/Edgewood Student Services Center on Sept. 12.
[The family's attorney] Renee Tucker, [said that the boy], who was the only student in the classroom, wanted to leave the classroom to call his mother from the main office to pick him up. As Thomas tried to leave the classroom, Mosley slammed him to the floor. When he tried to leave again, he was slammed to the floor again. It's not clear how [many] times this occurred.
Tucker said that assistant principal Eddie Powell reportedly witnessed the incident and a school resources officer observed Thomas limping after the alleged attack.
Thomas was allegedly told that school officials would call an ambulance, but changed their minds. Once classes were dismissed, Mosley carried an injured Thomas to an idle school bus without notifying his family of the events that had transpired.
[...] Since the alleged incident, Thomas has undergone four surgeries. Doctors at Egleston Children's Hospital informed the family on Oct. 16 that [Thomas'] nerve damage was so severe, his right leg would have to be amputated.
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The boy's mother was forced to be absent from [work] while [caring] for son and ultimately lost [her job].
Inside sources have reported that the school is in possession of a videotape of the confrontation and the boy's attorney has submitted an open records request to gain possession of the footage in addition to 50 documents related to the incident. They plan to sue the school for $5 million.
[..] Mosley works for Mentoring and Behavioral Services, which claims to conduct "holistic behavior approaches" to student discipline. Mosley is no longer working with the school district, though it has not been confirmed at this time whether this was a result of his confrontation with the student.
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Further details from The Washington Post :
A 13-year-old student in Georgia was badly injured after a behavioral specialist slammed him to the ground multiple times while at school last month, the boy's attorney [ Renee Tucker] said.
Montravious Thomas's injuries — which included a fractured tibia, a dislocated knee and permanent nerve damage — were so severe that his right leg had to be amputated on Tuesday.
[...] Tucker said there were at least three other school employees who saw the incident, but no one took the boy to the hospital after he yelled in pain and said his right leg was numb. Instead, [behavioral specialist Bryant] Mosley carried Montravious to the school bus, and he was driven home.
His mother took him to the hospital, where they arrived around 3:30 p.m. — about 90 minutes after the incident was alleged to have happened.
"The leg was never stabilized until he got to the hospital," Tucker said.
The boy was airlifted to a hospital in Atlanta that night for further examination. Over the next month, Montravious went through four surgeries to save his right leg, Tucker said. It was amputated Tuesday night, and he will soon have to go through physical therapy.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @01:35AM
Eric Garner had long passed peak value, which is somewhere around age 18 to 35. (upbringing investment made, with many productive years to go)
Eric Garner was in terrible health. This contributed greatly to his death.
Eric Garner actually had committed multiple crimes. He was selling tobacco in small quantities without paying the city tax. He then clearly resisted the police -- not bullshit resisted, but actually really resisted.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 21 2016, @12:36PM
I call you a fascist bootlicker or a virulent racist, perhaps both. I saw that video of what actually happened. He was talking to the police, not resisting, and then the cop behind him put him in a choke hold and choked him to death. The end. A person should not be summarily executed for selling loose cigarettes, even if he's done it more than once.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Disagree) by Thexalon on Friday October 21 2016, @01:32PM
There was also the fact that there was exactly one person involved in that video that ended up going to jail for it: The guy who filmed it. Or, more precisely, what happened was that plainclothes cops started following him everywhere he went, he figured out he was being followed, got understandably nervous, borrowed a gun from a friend to protect himself, and then was "randomly" stopped and frisked, and busted for having an unlicensed firearm.
That wasn't the cops looking for justice, that was cops trying to intimidate witnesses.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Informative) by MikeVDS on Sunday October 23 2016, @05:45AM
I just watched the video for the first time. They were trying to cuff him and he resisted. He was a large man and multiple police could not get him hands behind him to cuff him. They took him down with a choke hold, and he continued to fight getting cuffed. His head was getting pressed into the ground and he was saying "I can't breathe, I can't breathe" but he was still fighting to prevent the cops from cuffing him.
Did the police escalate the situation? Probably. If they need to arrest someone, do they need to have the ability to force someones hands? If they person fights, should they just let him go or use more and more force until they can get the cuffs on?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @05:17PM
there's no excuse for choking people to death over cigarettes. it doesn't matter if the guy was a pain in the ass for the cops or not. The cops should go to jail for negligent homicide or something along those lines. period. cops now think they have a right to put their hands on you over anything or bark orders and tase you or shoot you if they are scared. they think we are all slaves and victims or dangerous threats. they will fullfill their own prophecy regading the dangerous threat if they don't pull their head out of their asses.