What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed son, who is Black and has behavioral and intellectual disabilities.

After he failed to hand over the last of the stolen e-cigarettes, two officers physically forced him to do so, then Cathy Austrian’s son was handcuffed and pinned to the ground as he screamed and struggled, according to a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday and police body-camera video shared with The Associated Press by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.

The teen eventually was injected with a ketamine, a sedative, then taken to a hospital, according to the lawsuit and video.

  • @SGGeorwell
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    -8311 months ago

    Fine with us. We don’t want cowards walking around, quivering and jumpy.

    • GladiusB
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      4011 months ago

      We dont want you speaking for us. And there are more of us than they are of you.

      • @[email protected]
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        fedilink
        511 months ago

        Conservatives don’t understand that they’re in the minority; that their representatives are only in power due to gerrymandering; that it isn’t a fluke that the mainstream media goes against them. It’s sadly and tragically lost on them that they’re freaks.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      2511 months ago

      We don’t want cowards walking around, quivering and jumpy.

      So when are you going to deport NRA, cuntbag?

    • @ABCDE
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      1911 months ago

      The fuck does that even mean.

      • @Misconduct
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        611 months ago

        It means they’re one of the macho dipshits that make us all look like gun happy lunatics :(