By Chris Hedges
TruthDig | Report | Monday, 16 September 2013
Elizabeth, New Jersey - JaQuan LaPierre, 22, was riding a bicycle
down a sidewalk Sept. 5 when he noticed a squad car pulling up beside
him. It was 8:30 on a hot Thursday night at the intersection of Bond
Street and Jackson Avenue here in Elizabeth, N.J. LaPierre had 10 glass
vials of crack cocaine—probably what the cops were hoping to find—and he
hastily swallowed them. He halted and faced the two officers who
emerged from the cruiser.
“We are tired of you niggers,” he remembers one of the officers
saying. “We’re tired of all this shooting and robberies and violence.
And we are going to make you an example.”
He was thrown spread-eagle onto the patrol car.
“What I bein’ arrested for?” LaPierre asked.
A small crowd gathered.
“Why you harassin’ him?” someone asked the cops. “He ain’t resisting. Why you doin’ this?”
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