“It’s because he’s Black,” is what someone is heard saying in the background of a viral video showing the arrest of a Black teen at the Bridgewater Commons Mall.
The video captured last week on a cellphone shows a confrontation between a Black teen and white teen before the two begin fighting. Two white Bridgewater police officers arrive on the scene and immediately pin the Black teen to the ground and put him in handcuffs while the white teen sits on a couch.
“They basically tackled me to the ground and then the one—the male officer put his knee in my back and then he starts putting me in cuffs,” Z’Kye Husain, 14, said in one interview. “And then the female officer came over and put her knee on my upper back too and started helping putting cuffs on me. And while [the other teenager] was just sitting down on the couch watching the whole thing.
In a joint statement, several groups in the United Black Agenda say the officers exhibited discriminatory treatment and should be disciplined. The NAACP said the video is a blatant example of how law enforcement treats Black people differently.
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