Police Brutality: The New York Times Video

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Another piece that was found on the New York Times website, was a video post. The video that was posted was placed in May 24, 2014 a teenage boy got arrested at Tacoma Mall, being that the boy was riding his bike on the Mall’s parking lot. In the video you could see two police trucks following the boy and his friend. Once they stopped them claiming that they were doing something wrong to them. The main officer got irritated that he then pinned down the boy, dragged the boy around on the floor, and then tasered him. The video that was posted website has helped them spread awareness what is actually happening with police brutality. Even though, that the video is slightly out of date by couple of years, and you can’t hear what everyone is saying

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