Raw Video - Houston Police Beating Teen Burglary Suspect
Shame and disbelief
A graphic video brings back old images of Houston police.
Houston Chronicle
We already knew that a suppressed video of Houston police beating a prostrate 15-year-old burglary suspect would be shocking and sickening. City officials had used those words in justifying withholding the images from the public. But its airing by Channel 13/KTRK TV after being leaked to the station by activist Quanell X still proved viscerally horrifying.
Watching a mob of Houston police officers kicking and punching Elsik High School sophomore Chad Holley in the head and body after a chase last March 24 evokes first disbelief and then shame.
Disbelief that our paid professional police force includes groups of officers capable of such actions against a prone, unarmed youth. And shame that it took an inadvertent video-camera tape from a self-service storage company to expose their actions. How many other similar incidents have gone unreported because they occurred outside the view of witnesses and camera lenses?...
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