14-year-old Jacob Herrera from Amarillo, TX attended a school football game last week and was asked by officer, Corporal Wilson, to remove the rosary he was wearing.
When Herrera refused the officer appeared to use excessive force, according to an eyewitness.
Cops ask people not wear a rosary as it could be gang related.
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Was this all the kid did? Being disrespectful of cops is one thing. Brutality by cops is another.
Rosary. Cause a gang fight ,,,how. STUPED ..I think these so called police doing this is a private police,,,surely a real police is smart than what we have been hearing,,,I HOPE…
SO WRONG !!!1 V
jdp420 says:
“gang members wear them in texass and he was told to remove them or leave , he did niether”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/police-brutalize-14-year-old-wearing-rosary/comment-page-8/#comment-672311
ME says:
“The cop is the one who was trespassing.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/police-brutalize-14-year-old-wearing-rosary/comment-page-7/#comment-672016
Dennis Deitsch says:
“The government may make no law pertaining to freedom of religion. This young man’s rights were violated by the school and then by the officer. Their excuse that some gangs are wearing rosary beads as a sign of affiliation can be used to make nuns and priests remove their beads also. It is a stretch to say that this was a legal action. My first big question is where is the public outrage about this incident? Where are the national rights groups protesting the violation of this young man’s rights. Yes he is not an 18 year old, over 6 feet tall, over 200 pound thug who was shot while battering a police officer. He is just a puny 14 year old trying to support his friends at a school football game but doesn’t he deserve an outcry?
Come on people let us give him the same visceral response we give for hoodlums. Let us say that a quiet youth has the right to believe in God and show his support for the religious tenets that may be keeping him from gang life. Write a letter, share a post, start your own blog to kelp raise the cry for religious freedom before it is lost to us all.
My last question is this:
Would there have been an altercation if the student was wearing a “Star and Crescent” or the Arabic “Allah” instead of a rosary?
http://to-be-prepared.com”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/police-brutalize-14-year-old-wearing-rosary/comment-page-3/#comment-670308
Aren’t police supposed to use good judgment…or have things reached the point they undertake actions based on immediate gut instincts.
How is it that elaborate screening processes not root out latent aggressiveness when things don’t go as planned or desired?
Juan G says:
“He wore the rosary in memory of his brother who passed away. Not “gang related” he got disturbed by the officer asking to take it off when he was not doing anything wrong.His behavior towards the officer is what got him in trouble.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/police-brutalize-14-year-old-wearing-rosary/comment-page-1/#comment-670032
Must be F**e no video of it..
Why ????