NYPD Slams Pregnant Woman to the Ground for Intervening in Arrest of Teen, Father Also Booked

Another day, another video of police brutality.
This time a video caught by a bystander and posted on Facebook
 shows officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD)
shoving a pregnant Brooklyn woman to the ground who was trying to
intervene in the arrest of her 17-year-old son. The cops also
pushed another woman and arrested the teen’s dad for arguing about
the arrest as well,
according to the New York Post. The teen’s alleged
crime? Carrying a knife in New York City.

Watch the video below:

No amount of diversity training, sensitivity training,
diversification or community relations-building can eliminate
behavior like this by law enforcement. The laws need to change. Not
just the laws that protect
bad cops but the
petty laws (like banning knives over a certain length*) that
create the opportunity for such interactions in the first
place.

*Years ago I had a beautiful, lightly stained, hunting knife I
found at World Trade Center confiscated from me by a cop in Times
Square who noticed it in my pocket.and said it was too long. He
said I could throw it out or go to the station with him. I tried to
throw it into the trash in a way that I could recover it later but
the cop clued in to it and came to watch me junk it. Later on a
friend told me that the reason the cops wanted me to throw the
knife out is because they couldn’t do it themselves and that the
threat of taking me to the station was probably a bluff. A couple
of months later I got big into Ron Paul.