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.

  • @Gradually_Adjusting
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    189 months ago

    Get in touch with your local John brown gun club. Not every lefty is anti gun.

    • @ABCDE
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      79 months ago

      Liberals are not left.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        79 months ago

        Gun control laws exist at all because the right wanted to grab guns from Black Panthers who were simply defending themselves. Even the “gun grabber” rhetoric that comes from the right is ultimately projection.