[drama_free_b]

You would think things like this rarely happened anymore…if at all anymore. But 18 year old Jordan Miles is yet another headlining case of police brutality very likely due to blatant racial profiling. Philadelphia cops severely beat him and ripped out his dreadlocks after he simply walked out of his mother’s house headed to his grandmother’s.

The details when you read the rest…

The photos taken by Jordan Miles’ mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut. A bald spot mars the long black dreadlocks where the 18-year-old violist says police tore them from his head.


Now, 10 days after plainclothes officers stopped him on a street and arrested him after a struggle that they say revealed a soda bottle under his coat, not the gun they suspected, his right eye is still slightly swollen and bloodshot. His head is shaved. The three white officers who arrested him have been reassigned. And his mother says she is considering a lawsuit.


“I feel that my son was racially profiled,” Terez Miles said. “It’s a rough neighborhood; it was after dark. … They assumed he was up to no good because he’s black. My son, he knows nothing about the streets at all. He’s had a very sheltered life, he’s very quiet, he doesn’t know police officers sit in cars and stalk people like that.”


A judge continued the case until Feb. 18 after the officers failed to appear at a hearing Thursday, Miles’ attorney, Kerrington Lewis, said.


The police department is saying little as it investigates and isn’t releasing the officers’ names. Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said that the city is investigating whether the officers’ actions were justified and that if they weren’t, “they will be held accountable for those actions.”

“The incident was very troubling to me, and we’re taking it very seriously,” Ravenstahl told reporters. “It seems as if there was a tremendous amount of force used.”

By the way, Jordan is a studious teenager who plays the viola in his jazz band and orchestra at Pittsburgh’s prestigious Creative and Performing Arts High School.

“Reassigned?” Hair RIPPED out of this teenager’s head? And his jacket only held a soda bottle..not a gun? I’m disgusted…to say the least. Speak on it…

[sumthinUnik]

I dont know what to say...they ripped his hair out! wow.

[J-Mack]

Philadelphia cops severely beat him and

The police department is saying little as it investigates and isn’t releasing the officers’ names. Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said that the city

Wassup with that tho??

[J-Mack]

And his mother says she is considering a lawsuit.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

[TheyCallMeMrSniffles]

Did he act like he had a gun?

Did he reach for his jacket?

Those are crucial questions.

Still looks like overkill on the beating even if he did "reach".

Fuck da po po

[MR. FURLY]

Damn shame. These pigs should squeal slow.

[sumthinUnik]

still....why would they stop him if hes just walking??

[TheyCallMeMrSniffles]

He's saying he was just walking. There are no other details. Even if the stop was a case of racial profiling (which I will freely admit it could be), there seems to be an issue with a soda bottle in his jacket. They wouldn't have focused on that if it wasn't a point of contention. All I know is, racial profiling or not, there have been waaaaay too many cop incidents to know you don't reach in your jacket or pockets or even pantomime it with the cops. Even if you're mad they stopped you for being a nigger.

[J-Mack]

Still doesn't warrant that kinda ass-beating

[TheyCallMeMrSniffles]

Exactly. That's why i said in my initial post that it was overkill regardless of the circumstance.

I hope I'm completely wrong and he did nothing to even warrant a second look and these cops are fired and brought up on charges and the department sued. But we all know what will REALLY happen.