A Pennsylvania mother is rightfully outraged
after she says her teenage son was brutally beaten by police officers after being arrested for
stealing. Report via Philly News: Was 14-year-old Joseph Williams “brutally
tortured” by Bucks County cops, as his mother alleges? Or did the 9th grader
take a nasty spill on his face when he was Tasered while fleeing police?
The Internet wants to know. A grisly photo that Marissa Sargeant posted on
Facebook Friday — her son’s swollen, bloody face after a shoplifting arrest
last week in Tullytown Borough — went viral over the weekend and had been
shared more than 43,000 times as of Sunday night.
Supporters are demanding justice, calling it a
horrific case of police brutality and comparing it to the Rodney King beating.
“The picture speaks 1,000 words. They brutally
beat him,” Sargeant said in her Levittown apartment. “If he did fall on his
face, why does he have scrapes and bruises all over his whole face, everywhere.
Why is his nose broken? Why is his nostril lifted off his face? Why is both of
his eyes black and swollen?”
Sargeant said Williams is embarrassed to go
outside or see people he knows, so he covers his face.
“I’m left with a child who’s going to be
physically damaged for the rest of his life,” his mother said
Despite the extensive nature of 14-year-old
Joseph’s injuries, the GOP-affiliated county district attorney says he doesn’t
believe police did anything wrong, claiming that the injuries are consistent
with falling down face-first and not with being beat in the face.
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