Special Ed Student Beat by Cop for SHIRT!

Cop beats kid for an untucked shirt. Then instead of protecting the kid the teachers protect the cop. I guess the handicapped teenager was too menacing. Probably more intelligent than the cop also. There had better be a lawsuit. Watch the video.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/marshawn-pitts-cop-caught_n_312354.html

Cop Caught On Camera Beating Special Education Student Marshawn Pitts

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/marshawn-pitts-cop-caught_n_312354.html

A south suburban Chicago police officer was caught on a security camera beating up a high school special education student, CBS2 reports.

Marshawn Pitts, 15, was walking down his school hallway when he says a Dolton, Ill. police officer went from berating him for his untucked shirt to slamming him to the ground and beating him.

"The officer was in his face because he didn't have his shirt tucked in," Pitts' attorney told CBS 2's Davis Savini. "That's the officer put in that school to protect these kids, and instead of doing that, this officer is literally assaulting this kid."

Neither school nor Dolton officials responded to CBS 2 about the story.

Dolton Police Dept

14030 Park Ave
Dolton, Illinois 60419

(708) 841-2533

Favorite

0 members favorited this

Comment

You need to be a member of 12160 Social Network to add comments!

Join 12160 Social Network

Comment by Jeff on October 9, 2009 at 4:29pm: You know I realize many of you here don't want to expose yourselves unnecessarily but honestly, and perhaps because I'm too old to really care, I was compelled to write to the email addresses that I posted above. I wrote the mayor of Dolton and CC'd the remaining people.

Marshawn's gonna get paid but that doesn't negate the fact that the cop portrayed above deserves a long period of incarceration AND his actions are clearly the norm rather than an isolated incident.

America's police forces are OUT OF CONTROL.

Comment by Jeff on October 9, 2009 at 2:05am: Municipal Officers of Dalton

Mayor
Ronnie C. Lewis
rlewis@vodolton.org

Village Clerk
Judith J. Evans
jevans@vodolton.org

Village Trustees
James T. Jefferson
jjefferson@voldolton.org

Eva M. Nicholson
enicholson@vodolton.org

Garry M. Lambert
glambert@vodolton.org

Willie L. Lowe
wlowe@vodolton.org

Denise Harris
dharris@vodolton.org

Deborah Green
dgreen@vodolton.org

Comment by Tara on October 9, 2009 at 12:28am: Dolton cop in beating case has troubling history

A Dolton cop caught on camera allegedly breaking a 15-year-old special needs student's nose for failing to tuck in his shirt has a troubling history that includes killing a man in a case of disputed self-defense.

The officer is now in an Indiana jail on an unrelated rape charge.

Christopher Lloyd, 38, was identified today by his father, Charles Lloyd, and Dolton Mayor Ronnie Lewis as the officer who in May was videotaped by a school security camera scuffling with 15-year-old, 140-pound Marshawn Pitts at the Academy for Learning in Dolton.

An attorney hired by Pitts' parents released the videotape earlier this week, calling the incident an "unprovoked attack" on a vulnerable child. The tape, which has no audio, appears to show the officer slam Pitts against a locker, wrestle him to the ground and pin him.

But speaking Thursday, Charles Lloyd said he had seen the tape and discussed the incident with his son, who he said was "just trying to do his job as a police officer and is completely innocent."

"My son said, `Sir, you need to tuck your shirt in,' and this boy said `**** you, I'm not gonna tuck my shirt in, you can't make me,'" Charles Lloyd said.

"That boy struck my son in the eye and broke his glasses -- he had a history of behavior issues," he alleged.

Christopher Lloyd was arrested last month and charged with sexually assaulting a woman he knew at her home in Hammond, his father said.

According to Lake County, Ind., court documents, he held a pillow over the woman's face while sexually assaulting her Sept. 14 and had previously threatened her with a knife.

Lloyd, who's being held in lieu of $110,000 bail, faces up to 20 years behind bars if convicted of rape, criminal deviate conduct, criminal confinement and sexual battery, said Diane Poulton, spokeswoman for Lake County's prosecutor.

A lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, Nicole McKinney, last summer alleges he gunned down her new husband Cornel McKinney in front of their children outside their home on the 6100 block of South Langley Avenue on Feb. 17, 2008.

A Robbins police officer at the time, Lloyd was suspended following the shooting but eventually found work with Dolton police in January, his father said.

Though an autopsy shows he shot McKinney 24 times, the lawsuit alleges, he was not charged because Chicago police accepted his explanation that he'd acted in self defense.

Chicago police spokesman Veejay Zala said details of the investigation into McKinney's death could not immediately be found Thursday, but McKinney's attorney, Rahsaan Gordon, said the latest series of allegations against Lloyd showed he shouldn't have been employed as a police officer.

"At some point, people in positions of power need to protect the public," Gordon said. "You have to ask why he was hired."

Lewis denied any impropriety in Lloyd's hiring, saying that the Indiana rape case was "not my problem" and that he hadn't heard of Lloyd until the incident at the Academy was brought to his attention last week. Lloyd was terminated following the incident, Lewis said on Wednesday.

Dolton Police Chief Robert Fox declined to comment, citing pending lawsuits.

--Kim Janssen and Jeremy Gorner