Police Officers Kill and Injure Toddlers

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When a police officer takes it upon themselves to beat, maim and kill a person normally those people are at least of age, normally.  Many times they are young teens, sometimes they are children, in the two cases I am about the get in to, they were toddlers!  These are police officers who actively took actions that injured and killed toddlers, just another day on the job for them though.

Our first story comes from AlterNet.org:

A Philadelphia police officer beat a woman, injured her toddler and arrested her and her friend in May 2011, a newly filed federal lawsuit alleges.

The Philadelphia Daily News reports that Angelique Gerald-Porter was near her home watching a violent arrest that her friend, Salimah Milton, was videotaping. After Gerald-Porter got off her steps, a police officer told her to get back. According to the lawsuit, she complied, but the officer, Ian Nance, told her to walk to the end of the block. Gerald-Porter refused since she lived steps away.

Then Nance said: “This is our property right now," and took Gerald-Porter to the ground. In the ensuing altercation, Nance allegedly punched her in the stomach, and dragged her down her steps by her hair. Her two-year-old son was pinned beneath her and was kicked, according to the lawsuit. Gerald-Porter “was bloodied, her clothes torn and she was nearly naked in the street, the suit says. Gerald-Porter and her son were both treated for injuries at Lankenau Hospital,”

To add insult to injury the article goes on to say:

The officer named in the suit has been accused of physical abuse five times since 2008, but none of the complaints have been sustained.

In the second story involving an officer and an infant the baby was not so lucky.  The 8 month old was stuck in a burning home and when his father tried to run in and save him an officer on the scene tased the man. The 8 month old burned to death.  

I am a father of a 7 month old, if my house was on fire I would risk anything to get my daughter out.  If a police officer stopped me from doing everything in my power to save her, I would murder him.  No questions, no hesitation, I would murder him on the scene and spend the rest of my life in jail.