I know Phoenix is consistently listed in the top 5 of most corrupt, most insane, most fuck up police departments in the fucking country.....
but holy shit this story is so beyond the pale of human decency that I am mentally struggling how fucking depraved you have to be as a group of cops who live in PHOENIX... claiming that they were never trained on how dangerous it could be to lay someone with shorts and a tank top onto black asphalt in the phoenix heat when it was 114° outside
and the fact that the cops literally had the wrong guy makes it worse.... yes the kid had an active warrant out for his arrest (claimed he didnt know), but the cops didnt know that at the time, and they werent arresting him for that.
They were arresting him because they thought he was a different suspect. so 5 of these fucks help stand on his back searing his skin against the fucking asphalt for 4+ mins... which gives him 3rd degree burns on his chest, back, arms, thighs, knees. It took over a fucking month in the burn unit to recover and hes permanently disfigured as a direct result of these fucking morons.
throughout the report when they show a 3rd party camera of the arrest, you can hear him screaming and the cops, who I guess are just used to that... ignore him...
kid suing for 15M.... which I would vote for if on the jury... but highly unlikely he gets more than $5M.