His mother, Pamela Ononiwu, who had come to pick up her son for a dentist appointment, actually witnessed the cop assault her son.
In a previous incident cops assigned to the school had dragged her daughter into a room, her shoes falling off so they remained in the hallway.
Ms. Ononiwu decided to join with two other parents and sue the Fairfax County Public Schools system for their restraint and seclusion procedures on students, which they showed are disproportionately used against children of color and children with disabilities.
The parties recently agreed to settle, with both monetary damages paid to the plaintiffs and major changes to the school's policy.
Fairfax County is not only one of the wealthiest in the country, it has recently been embroiled in the debate over the teaching of what is incorrectly labeled "critical race theory."
The trauma of the experience is something from which Ms. Ononiwu's son will never recover.
She says she will never forget he was so terrified immediately afterwards and told her he thought the cop was the devil and he was going to die.
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So it turns out the incident at Carmine's in NYC didn't go down like it was reported.
The three TX women who were arrested are Black, they did show proof of their vaccination status, and the altercation started after the hostess called them a racial slur. nytimes.com/2021/09/18/nyr…
Lawyers for Carmine's don't dispute that the women showed proof of vaccination. Security footage obtained by @nytimes shows that the women were seated and that this was not a one-sided physical assault on the hostess.
Even from the cell phone footage people have been posting, it's pretty clear it was very much a mutual physical altercation and, without knowing the circumstances, people just decided to run with a certain narrative.
This murder mystery is crazy, but let's not forget 3 generations of Murdaughs served as district attorneys for the 14th Circuit (covering 5 counties in South Carolina).
Think how many cases they set up or worse. Every one of them needs to be re-examined. nytimes.com/2021/09/14/us/…
I am not even going to try to fully explain the case here, Definitely google, but basically the mother and son were murdered (son had been facing manslaughter charges in death of friend on boat) and the father was embezzling money from his law firm nytimes.com/2021/09/06/us/…
So then they re-opened a homicide case from 2015 that is seemingly unconnected to all of this, but with which they think the family are involved. nytimes.com/2021/06/23/us/…
Police have the resources and budgets to investigate sex crimes. They choose not to make them a priority, and instead to arrest people for low level offenses like jumping the turnstile and trespass.
The "backlog" narrative is a convenient way for police to ask for more money.
For instance, in 2019, the NYPD had almost 40,000 police officers and the biggest budget of any police department in the US - at $6 billion.
Yet it had only 67 detectives assigned to its Special Victims Unit to investigate 5,661 sex crimes that year. theappeal.org/the-appeal-pod…
Police shot and killed Antwan Gilmore after he fell asleep in his car at traffic lights, but were able to arrest a white supremacist carrying a machete and bayonet "patrolling" DNC headquarters in a pick up truck with swastikas painted all over it. OK. nydailynews.com/news/politics/…
Police shooting and killing a Black man - almost no media coverage.
Police arresting a White Nazi - front page news.
Maybe it's because they do a whole lot more of the first than they do of the latter.