Opinion: Fire L.A. County’s probation chief Adolfo Gonzales
“Stop resisting, stop resisting” Los Angeles County probation officers keep saying to a skinny teen they have in custody in a room at a Malibu juvenile facility.
They say this over and over to the 120-pound 17-year-old, even after the brutal leg twist they have applied to him has him screaming in pain and completely immobilized.And one officer keeps saying “stop resisting” even as the inert youth is being dragged across the floor of a room, seemingly unable to even stand up, much less “resist.”
It’s as if the officers think that they are merely being recorded on audiotape, and that if they incessantly keep saying that the prisoner is “resisting,” then anyone listening to the recording later will believe that they are correct in how they are handling the situation. But the recording that was released last week of the October 2020 incident at Camp Kilpatrick is videotape, with both sounds and a very clear image of the fracas, and no one viewing it could possibly say that the officers are doing their work in an appropriate professional manner.
After supervisor Oscar Cross bends the young prisoner’s feet toward his head, “Mamá, mamá” he screams.
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