17-year-old Troy Canales was hanging out just outside of his Bronx home last November when two NYPD cops pulled up to harass him.
Canales has autism, and when people talk to him, he has a very hard time making eye contact. Apparently this lack of eye contact led to a brutal interaction between Canales and police.
The 17-year-old boy was thrown to the ground, he was then punched in the face, arrested and hauled off to the precinct stationhouse where he was questions and then released with no charges, according to a lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleges that police in New York are entirely untrained in how to deal with people who have special needs. However, anyone who has seen the myriad of videos showing police kill mentally ill people, does not need a lawsuit to tell them that police are terribly incompetent at dealing with those who have special needs. Full story...
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Canales has autism, and when people talk to him, he has a very hard time making eye contact. Apparently this lack of eye contact led to a brutal interaction between Canales and police.
The 17-year-old boy was thrown to the ground, he was then punched in the face, arrested and hauled off to the precinct stationhouse where he was questions and then released with no charges, according to a lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleges that police in New York are entirely untrained in how to deal with people who have special needs. However, anyone who has seen the myriad of videos showing police kill mentally ill people, does not need a lawsuit to tell them that police are terribly incompetent at dealing with those who have special needs. Full story...
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