The arrest in controversial circumstances, the handcuffing which results in abuse of force and a preventative measure admission of faults that instead seem all to be blamed to ascertain. It seems like the account of one of the many episodes for which the police American. This time in the victim’s role there is a lad Italian.
The story is reported by the Quotidiano Nazionale, which also publishes the very hard images of the officers’ bodycams. The 25-year-old student from Spoleto paid the price on February 25th Matteo Falcinellienrolled in a Master’s degree at Florida International University and arrested from North Miami Beach in a club strippers.
The boy, according to his defenders, enters convinced that it is a bar like many others (and so it is advertised) only to discover that it is “offered”. company a woman: $500 for half an hour. It’s unclear whether he refuses to pay or ask the sum back, the fact is that after a drink he realizes that he no longer has his two mobile phones. He claims them, a bouncer helps him find them but at the end of the discussion, which seems to have remained only on a verbal level, Falcinelli finds the police waiting for him outside the club.
Convinced he is right, he doesn’t show it collaborative with the officers who want to identify him, according to witnesses he points to the finger against one of them asking to provide him with his registration number: “Do I have no rights?” he screams and at that point he snaps the arrestwith his face on the ground, handcuffed and a knee on the back of his head.
In the police station Falcinelli then finds himself against four agents in a small room. Barefoot and actually harmless he comes again boundlying on the ground and left for 13 minutes in conditions of great difficulties breathing while begging “Please, please please”.
Only to distance of hours his flatmates manage to track him down and to raise 4000 dollars to set him free. On April 12, the 25-year-old agrees to admit his own responsibility and access a program re-educational which drops the charges of resistance. The Spoleto family is determined to give battlesaying that he had only brought the matter to light now out of fear of retaliation. Ended up in a psychiatric hospital for five days, injured and in shock, Falcinelli attempted several times suicide.
