A shirtless 15-year-old boy with no arms and no legs was held facedown on the kitchen floor of his Arizona group home by a deputy more than twice his size, an eight-minute video released last week shows. The teenager was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct last week, which prompted him to release the video to a local TV station. By the next day, prosecutors had dropped the charge, and the deputy, Manuel Van Santen, was put on administrative leave on Friday. “It’s a horrible spectacle,” said Joel Feinman, the teenager’s lawyer. “He was assaulted by a man with a badge and a gun, just screamed and cursed at.”

Source: New York Times November 18, 2019 01:52 UTC