According to Associated Press html on the 228th, Matthew Neal, a policeman in Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced to four years of probation for violent enforcement of a 15-year-old black teenager. He pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and his law enforcement license was revoked.
This violent law enforcement incident occurred on November 14, 2019, when the black teenager was riding in a car was chased by the police. Prosecutor Neil then knelt on the teenager's head and neck with his knees. When the boy was lying on the ground wearing handcuffs and his face was pressed on the sidewalk, he said, "I can't breathe."
After this encounter, the teenager left bruises, broken teeth, and a wound on his head. He has not been arrested or charged with crime.
In August 2020, the police officer involved in the accident, Neil was indicted by a grand jury. At the time, Jackson County Attorney Jean Peters Baker said she was upset about the incident in November 2019, but her office didn't notice it until the spring of the incident.
In January 2021, the Kansas City Police Commission agreed to the teenager's claim against excessive law enforcement against police, paying $725,000 in settlement.
Kansas City Police Source: US media
Neill was sentenced to four years of probation during the trial on Thursday. As part of the probation, Neil was asked to waive his law enforcement license, banned from carrying a gun, attend anger management course, and write an apology letter to the victims. For privacy protection purposes, the victimized teenager did not appear in court.
According to the Kansas City Star, Kansas City police said Neal left Thursday.
reported that American civil rights organizations have long criticized the way the Kansas City Police Department and the city’s former police chief Rick Smith handled complaints of excessive law enforcement. Laura McDonald, executive director of the U.S. Metropolitan Organization for Race and Economic Equality (MORE2), said Neil’s plea statement on Thursday showed that the criticism made sense.
"He (Neill) should have been fired a few years ago. How long does it take for them to investigate the attacks by insiders?" MacDonald pointed out that more than 10 police officers witnessed the incident at the time, but then-deputy chief Smith only learned about it a few months later.
In recent years, news about violent law enforcement by American police has emerged one after another, and "kneeling" behavior has been constantly being staged. In March this year, surveillance video released by a school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA showed a local policeman pressing a 12-year-old girl on the neck and handcuffed her at lunch time in the school cafeteria.
In December 2020, Angelo Quinto, a 30-year-old Filipino , an American American, was kneeled down by a policeman for 5 minutes during a family investigation incident. He was then sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, but died three days later.
In September 2020, a black pregnant woman in Kansas City, Missouri, USA was treated violently by police. Video leaked online showed a policeman pressing the pregnant woman with his knee on the back and pressing her to the ground. The black pregnant woman was lying face down on the ground, unable to move. Several onlookers shouted at the police, "She is a pregnant woman! What are you doing!" But the police continued to arrest the police and warned that "If you don't retreat, you will be sent to prison!"
In March 2020, a 41-year-old black American man, Daniel Prude, was pressed on the sidewalk with his knees by the New York police for two minutes, and eventually died of suffocation. The process was similar to the scene before Floyd 's death.
(Editor: ZLQ)
