by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:
In another alarming episode of law enforcement brutality, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was caught on camera punching a mother who was holding her infant during a traffic stop in Palmdale, a suburb northeast of Los Angeles, in July 2022. Sheriff Robert Luna has condemned the incident as “completely unacceptable,” and the deputy involved, whose name has yet to be released, has been taken off field duty and disciplined — allegedly.
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The shocking body cam footage reveals a tense scene, with five officers surrounding the woman as she refuses to hand over her child, saying, “You’re all gonna have to shoot me dead before you take my baby.”
Unforgivably, one male deputy responds to her desperation by throwing two punches at her head. Eventually, the officers took the baby and put the woman in handcuffs.
According to the department, the incident began as a traffic stop when officers saw four females and three infants in a vehicle, none of whom were in car seats. The male driver was arrested for DUI and driving with a suspended license. The women, including the mother who was punched, were not charged — although they were initially held on suspicion of child endangerment for not having the children in car seats.
Unironically, the officer “protected” the baby from her mother’s lack of a car seat by punching the mother, which could’ve caused her to drop the infant.
“I still believe this is an isolated incident that was committed by an individual that will be held accountable, make no mistake about that,” Luna said Wednesday.
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