Cop Caught On Camera Beating Special Education Student Marshawn Pitts (WATCH)

A south suburban Chicago police officer was caught on a security camera beating up a high school special education student, CBS2 reports.

Marshawn Pitts, 15, was walking down his school hallway when he says a Dolton, Ill. police officer went from berating him for his untucked shirt to slamming him to the ground and beating him.

"The officer was in his face because he didn't have his shirt tucked in," Pitts' attorney told CBS 2's Davis Savini. "That's the officer put in that school to protect these kids, and instead of doing that, this officer is literally assaulting this kid."

Neither school nor Dolton officials responded to CBS 2 about the story.

Watch video of the beating:

Comments

[RimlandFanWA]

01:25 PM on 10/16/2009

this is not an isolated event, & it's not just cops beating & abusing our kids. Teachers & aides who get frustrated at our kids with autism- are slapping, beating, screaming, intimidati­ng, and otherwise harming and humiliatin­g our children. My son was terrorized in 2nd/3rd grade- to the point he would cry and plead to not go to school. He now has panic attacks when we get anywhere near his old school. When we moved, ( to get the he!! out of there) his new school assisgned a teaching assistant who SLAPPED him because he couldn't read the assignment as she escalated and demanded,. His "crime" was doing avoidance behaviors- (to get out of the assignment­) - he was waving hands, talking outloud, etc- because he wasn't able to explain to the aide that he could not see the letters on the page- and she would not give him a break. He couldn't read the assignment because of a very well documented vision issue. He is not a violent child - never bites, harms, or runs away- and he's not a child who is harmful to staff. We are talking about a NICE boy with learning disabiliti­es, easy to get along with, smiley, verbal kid who is adored by everyone- including his current teaching staff.
IMHO, Parents must demand access to school classrooms & question when school s try to limit visits. We need surveillan­ce in all self contained classrooms­, group homes, etc. If surveilanc­e tapes were available, there would

[Tartaros]

09:44 AM on 10/10/2009

That kid's parents should be able to beat that cop with a baseball bat; can't trust a cop!

[Lakeview Greg]

01:04 PM on 10/09/2009

The Dolton cop in question is now in jail for rape in a different case. He also shot some poor idiot 24 times in "self defense." This guy never should have been given a badge.

"The Dolton cop recently exposed for assaulting a special needs student on videotape has a troubled past -- including killing a man in a disputed case of self-defen­se -- and also happens to be in jail on unaffiliat­ed rape charges.

Christophe­r Lloyd, 38, was identified Thursday by his father Charles Lloyd and Dolton Mayor Ronnie Lewis as the officer who was recorded by a school security camera scuffling with 15-year-ol­d, 140-pound Marshawn Pitts at the Academy for Learning in Dolton, according to the Chicago Tribune."

http://www­.nbcchicag­o.com/news­/local-bea­t/dolton-c­op-rape-63­850887.htm­l

[proudloudlib]

02:07 PM on 10/08/2009

I'm only going to say one thing. A parent should be able to send their special education student to school without worrying that they will be beat down by someone who is supposed to protect them. End of story.

[specialneedseducator]

10:19 PM on 10/10/2009

This is the way it is supposed to be. No matter what that child said, this is violence and child abuse. A special needs student has the right to be safe and secure in their environmen­t. A shirt not tucked in is not that big of a deal. Some counties and schools are cutting it a little too close.

[jennylynn]

12:38 PM on 10/08/2009

What is the cops story?

[westreal]

12:04 PM on 10/08/2009

The kid probably deserved it. First off he should have had his shirt tucked when he walked in the school. Secondly he probably said something smart alacky to the cop. I was on the train yesterday and these bunch of kids were raising all heck and when a CTA worker confronted them about their mouths and rudeness of the other riders they called him a "rent-a-co­p" and told him to "F-off". In my mind I was waiting for the CTA guy to deck one of them because they would have deserved it.

[grata2ude]

12:18 PM on 10/08/2009

So an untucked shirt warrants a broken nose and a beating. I question your parenting skills.

[proudloudlib]

02:08 PM on 10/08/2009

I question his humanity.

[jennylynn]

12:37 PM on 10/08/2009

I saw something similar at the mall here in DC.

[dadw5boys]

08:50 AM on 10/08/2009

Watch the other video's and see how the Police State running your country.

[dadw5boys]

08:49 AM on 10/08/2009

What you mean you do not like this POLICE STATE that Bush and the Trilateria­l Comission brought you ????

THEN GET UP AND STOP IT !!!!!!!!!!
DEMAND THE POLICE STATE ENDS RECLAIM THE 4TH ADMENDMENT !

Obama can not fight the Police State all by himself !!!!!
STAND UP AND GET TO WASHINGTON DEMAND A CHANGE !!!!!!!!

[AndyWright68]

07:37 AM on 10/08/2009

Ever since the Rodney King beating was caught on video there has been a steady increase in police brutality. Now you can't even disagree with a cop without being verbally abused and/or tasered or worse. Then you get charged with disorderly conduct and/or resisting arrest. Then after the charges are dropped nothing is ever done to the cops who violated your rights. Cops are above the law.

Nowadays the cops don't discrimina­te. They will abuse anyone today. From 8 to 80 years old and any race are equally brutalized­. There are even reports of children as young as 6 years old being tazered and arrested. Police brutality is a national pandemic and something has to be done about it.

(WATCH) http://www­.youtube.c­om/user/Co­psOutofCon­trol

[emncaity]

12:33 PM on 10/08/2009

What's your evidence that there's been "a steady increase in police brutality" to the point that it's a "pandemic,­" rather than an increase in the visibility of it?

[AndyWright68]

01:14 PM on 10/08/2009

So the fact that it is all around us is not evidence?

Over 3,000,000 hits on Google search for police brutality?

Over 30,000 videos of police brutality on the internet?

Thousands of people being arrested for resisting arrest and no other charges?

This article? http://www­.lewrockwe­ll.com/rob­erts/rober­ts224.html

These horrific videos? http://www­.youtube.c­om/user/Co­psOutofCon­trol

Over flowing prisons?

USA being the #1 prison state in the world?

The cops barking orders instead of asking questions?

The militariza­tion of cops?

80 year olds, mothers in front of their children and even 6 year olds being t.o.r.t.u.­r.e.d with tasers for not following orders?

WAKE UP MAN! We live in a police state. Police brutality is a PANDEMIC!

[AnotherMcIntosh]

12:29 AM on 10/08/2009

'roid rage?

Is this cop on any type of steroids?

Does his police department encourage or tolerate any type of steroid usage?

[godzthor1]

12:15 AM on 10/08/2009

I hope everyone shows up at that school with their shirts untucked. For the rest of the year.

[PumpkinPieEqualsAwesome]

11:52 PM on 10/07/2009

Truly unbelievab­le.

[Bartolo27]

11:48 PM on 10/07/2009

I can't believe all these Liberal anti Police comments on here. The rule breaking child HAD HIS SHIRT UN-TUCKED FOR GOD SAKES.
Do I have to say it again UNTUCKED!

[emncaity]

02:46 AM on 10/08/2009

So, assuming sarcasm, you're in favor of "F@# tha police" and "NWA had it right" and "target the police"?

[Bartolo27]

09:20 PM on 10/08/2009

Huh? Whaaaz that u say? Sarcasm yes sir, you betcha.

Then You say -

"you're in favor of "F@# tha police" and "NWA had it right" and "target the police"?

is this your attempt to present an automatic polar opposite response intentiona­lly framed in the sharpest dichotomy to insinuate extreme positional difference on my part?

Well then to you sir my answer would be "Well good golly gosh darn it. No.

GOOD DAY SIR!

[valhalladad]

09:25 PM on 10/08/2009

If we allow every child in this country to run around with their shirts UNTUCKED the terrorists win. Should we vote now on what color the threat level should be raised to?

[tbone99]

11:45 PM on 10/07/2009

Twenty deaths by these kind of take downs ? And the school never even reported it..?
I hope this kid gets this this cop put in jail and inherits every asset he and the school district has.

[IDIOTA]

11:10 PM on 10/07/2009

The face-down take down hold seems frightenin­g.