Posted on 05/13/2014 6:23:38 AM PDT by eccentric
In Huntsville, Alabama police are facing no charges whatsoever after allegedly killing a 17 year old boy while trying to find drugs in his throat with a sharp object.
Mainstream media won’t touch the story, and of course, independent media fueled by citizen journalists broke this to the public, releasing the 16 page wrongful death suit filed by the teen’s mother, Nancy Smith.
According to the autopsy:
“Because of the circumstances of this event, it is difficult to discern if the decedent died from a drug overdose or an asphyxia event exacerbated by either the occlusion of the airway by the foreign object, a possible vascular occlusion associated with the neck restraint, or from a combination of all the events that transpired during this incident.”
The mother, who lost her young son to the violent monopoly of the state, filed a federal lawsuit in March alleging that her son was killed via assault and battery by the police who excessive force. She claims it was a wrongful death.
What is possibly even more disturbing is that the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences ruled this teen’s cause of death, “undetermined”.
That cold, robotic assessment seemed to contradict the very things the department found and reported. However police are denying any wrong doing.
They found that the teen suffered blunt force injuries, anoxic/hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, meaning his brain was starved of oxygen before he died.
So what actually happened? The mother’s lawsuit alleges that her son was setup in a drug sting. According to court documents, the teen was unaware of what was happening when an officer not in uniform, not identifying himself, rushed him. The teen proceeded to run, as anyone being chased by an unidentified man might do.
Next, the officer threw him to the ground, maced him, and handcuffed him.
The autopsy adds that his “neck was restrained”.
The Smith family lawsuit says police told paramedics that the teen swallowed a bag of illegal drugs.
What happened after this is not very clear, but this is what we appear to know:
The police proceeded to shove a sharp object down the teen’s throat to allegedly extract drugs. As of yet, the sharp object has not even been identified.
Drugs were never found in the teen’s throat, stomach, or bloodstream.
The actions of the victim’s family seem to indicate that they believe the police killed their son.
How does someone die from lack of oxygen, if it has been proven that nothing was stuck in his throat?
It would make quite a bit of sense if the teen died from lack of oxygen because the sharp object shoved down his throat by the police cut his throat and rendered his breathing organs useless.
Why is there seemingly zero footage of this? Why is no one being arrested or as much as even truly investigated in this police department?
A bit late into the investigation it seems, the police admitted “evidence”: 2 giant ziplock bags full of MDMA (ecstasy) that they claim was on his person.
This is highly disturbing and almost no one is reporting on it. Please share this with as many people as possible so the potential killers here will be known. Sharing this info would be a powerful act of information spreading, given that almost no one knows of this situation.
Are LEO now mistaking teenagers for dogs now?
Based on the information provided (giving initial benefit of doubt here), this is tragic and disturbing. That said, I would also be curious for more official details. I can’t find any google links to the story beyond what is provided.
“Minor N.S. was lying on the ground, unable to move as a result of the police officer confining him beneath the weight of his body and the effects of being pepper-sprayed in the face,” the lawsuit alleges. “While handcuffed, defendant officer was forcefully and unlawfully shoving his knees into Minor N.S.’s back, further hindering [his] ability to breathe.... Although Minor N.S. continued to choke and lose consciousness, defendant officers refused to remove his handcuffs or allow him to sit upright to attempt to breathe.”
Police said that the teen had choked on a bag of drugs, the lawsuit claims. In an attempt to retrieve the bag, officers shoved a sharp object into N.S.’s throat, according to the suit, which also contends that no bag was ever found. What kind of sharp object the officers allegedly used is unclear.
I just noted that only the “Smith” family is mentioned in this article. ?????? No other names or sources?
Here is a link with some more details. It helps to spell names and locations correctly in Google.
When they yell police, you stop. This kid got himself killed.
I wonder what kind of drugs he was selling or allegedly swallowing? Two “huge” ziplock bags of Extecy?
I live just outside of Huntsville area and haven’t heard about this. Hmmmm But then I don’t watch the local news that often but still . . . you’d think I’d have heard on the radio or other sources.
Just another casualty in the "war on drugs".
Why is the mother not releasing her dead son’s name in the legal docs? That seems odd, as he is dead.
According to court documents, the teen was unaware of what was happening when an officer not in uniform, not identifying himself, rushed him. The teen proceeded to run, as anyone being chased by an unidentified man might do.
The officers may have a different story, but his reaction seemed appropriate.
Rev. Jesse & rev. Al are probably trying to find out skin color to see if they should book a flight.
This might be him, given his mother’s name, his first initial, month of death, and location:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nwfdailynews/obituary.aspx?pid=165585707
All the way to post 6 before we got “blame the victim”.
Not even close to a record.
Since he is white, the media does not care. we would have heard about this case last year if he was black or brown.
I noticed an awful lot of unsupported extraneous comments inserted in what is purported to be reports, documentation, accounts by officials that lead one to believe the suppositions are part of the story. I believe that much of the story is wholly one-sided.
Further, I tried to find out some information on ‘Cassius Methyl’ and found some really freaky sh!t wrt music, UFO claims, etc. Likewise for D.C Clothesline....
I wouldn’t get sucked into this crap, myself.
A stranger walks up to you on the street, common clothes, no identification. You pass them without incident. Moments later, you hear, “Police! Freeze!” You turn quickly to notice that same stranger is running at you. You mean to tell me you wouldn’t run?
I’m sorry, I’m not going to stand around to see if a charging bull is a cop or a thug trying to roll me. I’m going to pull my CCW and fire until it stops.
"The lawsuit claims at some point in the transaction a female plain clothes officers [sic] came running toward N.S. and did not identify herself as an officer"
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