Phila. Police Commissioner Says January 7th Street Incident Remains Unclear
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) –Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey did his best today to address an incident in which there are more questions than answers.
According to a published report, a 16-year-old boy who is a straight-A student at Mathematics, Civics & Sciences Charter School suffered a ruptured testicle during a patdown by police at 15th and Girard on January 7th.
The boy, Darrin Manning, underwent emergency surgery the next day at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
However, police commissioner Charles Ramsey says the boy and his family have yet to file a formal complaint and have yet to speak with the police department’s Internal Affairs division about the incident.
“We want to know what happened,” Ramsey said today. “This is a young man with no history in terms of negative contact with the law. My understanding is he is a good student. I don’t know what took place, and I’m not in a position to say at this point in time because I don’t have all the facts.”
Ramsey showed reporters video of the incident from a police camera. But the coverage is intermittent because the camera had been set to automatically pan back and forth across the intersection every ten seconds.
From what was shown, it looked like a routine patdown and struggle between a pair of officers and a young man.
Ramsey says the abuse accusations are in media reports.
“An allegation as I read it in the paper, the boy hasn’t said anything to us officially. So I’m only going… this is third party. So take it for what it’s worth. I don’t know. This is coming through someone else who apparently spoke to him and then wrote about it. Okay?” Ramsey said.
“Is that during the course of a search, he was grabbed by the genitals and there was a yanking that took place. And according to what I’m also hearing from a medical report is that a testicle was ruptured. Now how that took place, when it took place, who may have been involved… and I don’t know the answer to any of that. And again, this is through other sources. This is not the result of a statement. We need a statement. We need to know what happened. And the person best suited to tell us that is the person who was injured,” Ramsey said.
In that report, the teen says a female officer is the one who searched the boy. Ramsey has pulled one female officer from the street until Internal Affairs completes its investigation. In the video, it appears she wasn’t even involved in the struggle with the boy. She is seen keeping passersby from getting too close to the tussle.
The teen is now facing three misdemeanor charges, including resisting arrest. Police say they’ve tried to speak to the victim’s family, but they refuse to comment as advised by their lawyer.
Eyewitness News spoke to the teen’s lawyer, who says the family will speak only if the charges are dropped.
Meanwhile, Ramsey says anybody who witnessed the incident is asked to call police to help them piece together the facts. But most of all, he just wants the boy to speak with police and tell them his side of the story.
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I will be extremely surprised if the officer is found having done anything wrong, i am sure she followed police procedures and policies and of course this is an isolated incident from a group of brave public servants fighting valiantly to keep the streets safe from straight A students in obvious gang/school uniforms.
Oh yeah, i hope the twunt cop (likely a bulldyke) gets her life ruined over this, fuck copfuks, every single motherfucking one of them!
Harry p has a bad attitude toward cops.Harry , you can relax.The family will probably win millions in court and the kid will never have to work a day in his life.By time he is 40 he will have blown all the money and he will become a permanent free shit-er on the government dole.
I have a bad attitude to fascists, sociopaths and dipshits.
Eat shit bb and get back to deepthroating a pig.
And if they do win “millions” it wont be from the officer who molested and assaulted this kid, it will come from the dept, which means taxpayers.
I hope when tshtf and u call your beloved pigfuks for help they come and squeeze ur minuscule testicles til they burst.
They will be set food as long as the dollars holds up. After that we are all screwed and tatooed.
$5, harry, I’ll take care of you and bb. no fair using bubble wrap, I like the real thing
Harry p ,I don’t plan on the cops for anything .I want plan on cops being there when TSHTF but I don’t think most police are my enemy.
bb
The police ARE your enemy. They don’t give a crap about you or your puny problems. They don’t give a crap about any of us, except as milk cows and how throwing us in hand irons will pump up their arrest records…
As much as you don’t like the idea, they are NOT your friends. SCOTUS has already ruled that they don’t have to protect you, personally, from anything… only the nebulous phrase “society at large”…. and trust me, they know it.
When TSHTF, they will be the first to cut bait and run – using their emergency gear and slightly superior weaponry to bluff their way past clogs of humanity to either get away, or get the best loot for themselves… it might not have been so in an earlier time, but it’s true now, and that’s all that matters.
DO NOT talk to cops. Ever. About anything. There is no such thing as “off the record” and it doesn’t matter how long you’ve known a copfuk personally… they’re all Blue Falcon motherfuckers who WILL fuck you over the first chance they get…
Ever notice that about half the black teenagers who are killed or injured while incontact with the police, are honor students and dedicated fathers?
somebody snap my nut like that and I’d be on the floor, not Lebroning either, this story doesn’t pass the smell test.
Unless the point is that cops do not have the right to grab your nuts or stick a camera up your ass, then I totally agree with everyone (except my buddy bb, hi bb!).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=c9MdW8RISCI
I’m willing to give this kid the benefit of a few doubts, my doubts about the police being based on their behavior in my part of Chicago.
What I have noticed is that, by way of showing that they are “doing their jobs”, the police will harass and abuse some lone black teen who is likely minding his own and is a little on the “nerdy” side, and who already has enough to deal with being a bookish loner in a high school heavily populated by gangbangers and other budding thugs.
Kid in my neighborhood, a very artsy, quiet, non-criminal black boy who was always alone and wore glasses with lenses like coke bottles, was subjected to vicious abuse by the police in my district, while the area gangbangers went about their usual business of selling drugs in plain sight as well as accumulating impressive weaponry, with no hindrance from the police, who were always very careful how they approached these goons. This is something the police do all too often: pick on a weak loner who has no witnesses and is utterly unprepared, while stepping back from hard well-known neighborhood criminals who might give them a real tussle. Believe me, the police in a given district or neighborhood know damn well who their problem residents are, but they want to get home in one piece and without bullet holes, so they harass some random kid who is unlikely to give them real trouble, just to demonstrate they are doing something resembling a job.
To give the cops some credit, there were occasional ‘sweeps’ that netted a dozen or so drug dealers, but the vast improvement in this area in the past decade came not from any actions on the part of the police, but the closure of certain badly-run apartment buildings and ridding the area of their Section 8 tenants.