
Washington Post: On Saturday evening on a boardwalk in Ocean City, Md., police enforcing a ban on vaping surrounded and tackled a teen as an agitated crowd gathered. Then, one officer repeatedly kneed the teen in the stomach.
WOW. Cops tased this 17yo Black teen and repeatedly drove their knees into his ribs until he collapsed unconscious on the ground. Then they hogtied his arms/legs and placed in a police van… all over vaping?? pic.twitter.com/4C274Q8Hnm
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) June 14, 2021
“Stop resisting!” one of the officers yelled.
Later, police used a Taser on another man in the crowd and battled a third who picked up a bicycle.
Police in Ocean City Maryland tasered a 17-year-old teenager after they accused him of vaping yesterday. pic.twitter.com/PVzagAV5i1
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) June 13, 2021
The incident, which was caught in viral videos, left four teenagers arrested, authorities said. Ocean City officials pledged to review the officers’ actions but also noted in a news release, “Our officers are permitted to use force, per their training, to overcome exhibited resistance.”
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tw: police violence against black people
this video was sent to me by a woman named lauryn (insta @/lodogray) of four young men being arrested and abused by police in ocean city, maryland over a vape.
please read this. and especially like, share, and rt if you can pic.twitter.com/Y7MJF5NA1M
— misha🐛 (@notmiisha) June 13, 2021
But the videos left many people questioning whether police needed to use such force over a vaping ordinance.
Many also responded to a separate video, which shows a man on a boardwalk with his hands raised above his head who is suddenly hit by a police Taser. Many sharing the video, which has been viewed more than a million times as of early Monday, said the man was also stopped for vaping over the weekend in Ocean City. Police have yet to confirm those details.
Vaping on the boardwalk led to this. This is ocean city, maryland yesterday. pic.twitter.com/pqoTl4URAN
— blank (@typicaldarkski1) June 13, 2021
Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, in a tweet Sunday evening called on Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh to investigate. And the ACLU of Maryland released a statement condemning Ocean City police officers for “show(ing) a complete lack of humanity towards these Black children” and said “these incidents are a manifestation of the white supremacy endemic to U.S. policing.”
Frosh said on Twitter on Monday that he watched videos of the incident and was “deeply concerned.” He added that he had “shared that concern with the appropriate law enforcement agencies.” Read more…

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probably in the democracy exporting USA people have no other idea of policing:
this is primitive, brutal and ignorant.
no decent selection processes obviously, getting the mob in.
This has been brewing for a few years, albeit, relatively recently. Ocean City is worried that its lily white wholesome family brand is being ruined by out of control youth, especially Black youth walking the Boardwalk, listening to rap and generally having too much fun. Add in some fights, etc. etc. and you have the business community up in arms pressuring the mayor to ‘do something’! Heck, the Pagans during bike week were better received. Add to this that teens are perceived as poor spenders. Then Black teens are especially seen as persona non grata. That’s it in a nutshell. Black families on vacation are welcomed as they are spending moolah. Ocean City is the second largest city in the state during the season. The cops target whom they will that doesn’t fit the economics of whom they want.
Police protect property and privilege, not people. In wrestling, if a person is on the ground, the easiest thing to do is grab a wrist, kneeing does not do anything except inflict pain and causes a stronger response. They want to tag on the resisting charge, so that is what they do.
Grabbing a wrist is not good. Grabbing both wrists with opposing hands, crossing the arms and from behind dropping them into a sitting position while folding them over to reduce movement and some lung capacity does take the starch out of someone exhibiting violence. It’s called a basket hold. To be effective you must include verbal intervention. Because the front of the aggressor is shielded, they feel relatively safer while you are in control. Hand cuffs or restraints can then be applied after the initial takedown. It takes training and a will to keep everyone involved safe. But it works. Often the aggressor will respond to verbal intervention and the physical intervention can stop. If you bend an arm behind the back you just wind up dislocating the shoulder joint: resulting in a trip to the emergency room or worse.
IDF training course
Yep…..looked just like an Israeli soldier kneeing a Palestinian child.
Nah, just piss poor training. Hell you could tie up a f’ing goat better.
If these black idiots who always has an attitude, could get it into their thick skull that THE LAWS ARE THERE FOR EVERYONE INCLUDING THEM, so they just need to obey. Nuff said.
At Michigan State, especially after basketball losses, students would generally burn a few police cars for fun. Nobody was choked…or arrested. Ask me if the perps were ‘white.’
“Hey, you know something people?
I’m not black
But there’s a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I’m not white”
― frank zappa
May I add a couple of 🖕🖕🖕
Gordy, after a big basketball win in 1974, UofMd, we shut down Rt.1. This trucker got out ready to fight until a cute coed planted a kiss on him and we gave him a cold one. He became a Terp fan.
RethugliKKKlan Taleban, b!tch3s. This is nothing compared to the 80k swat raids per year to prevent people from getting high. These are terrorists, plain n simple. Kkkops.
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