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Police Brutality

The Second Circuit denied qualified immunity to a police officer accused of grabbing a mother while she held her 4-year-old son, throwing her and her child to the ground, and kneeling on her back until she could not breathe and urinated on herself.

MANHATTAN — The Second Circuit denied qualified immunity to a police officer accused of grabbing a mother while she held her 4-year-old son, throwing her and her child to the ground, and kneeling on her back until she could not breathe and urinated on herself.

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