YouTube Beat Down: Toledo Cops Say Teen Provoked Them
The latest video to hit YouTube is hard to view. It features a 14-year old boy being restrained by two burly police officers. You can hear him groan while his sister tries to tell the police to stop.
The boy is Trevor Casey from Toledo. The incident, which occurred on May 15, left him with a bloody, swollen face and a cut lip. The video clearly shows the officers subduing the 155-pound boy in a chokehold, while they attempted to put his hands behind his back.
Casey had been hanging outside of the Bradwhitlock Homes with three other friends when the officers approached him. When asked to leave, his friends complied, but Casey didn't. His family believes he didn't move fast enough and so the officers forcibly removed him.
"It wasn't like he was doing anything wrong," says Vincent Casey, Trevor's older brother. "They looked like they were going to suffocate him. By the time they put on the handcuffs, his body fell motionless to the ground."
Police tell a different story. According to the police report, Casey had been ordered to leave several times before Officer Byron Daniels, on the force for 16-years and Officer Andre Bills, a 22-year veteran, placed him against the police vehicle where Casey then allegedly tried to break free. The officers applied "joint pressure" and "body strikes" to Casey as well as open handed strikes to his face. The report goes on the say that Casey admitted to smoking marijuana prior to his encounter with them although an official drug test was never administered. He has not had any prior arrests.
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