(Adnkronos) – Shock arrest in Miami for an Italian student. This is what the newspaper ‘La Nazione’ reports on its website. The 25-year-old, who was in Florida to attend a Master’s degree at Florida International University, the newspaper reports, was knocked to the ground by Miami police and had his face pressed against the asphalt with the officer’s knee against his neck . Once in a transit cell at the North Miami Beach police station, four of them, ‘La Nazione’ reports, hogtied him for 13 minutes and subjected him to hogtie restraint.
With a strap they tied his feet to the handcuffs behind his back and pulled, until the 25-year-old Italian student from Spoleto begged them to stop because he literally felt like he was breaking. ‘Please, please, please’ would have been the words spoken in a faint voice between tears and unspeakable heartbreak.
The scenes of violence, the newspaper reports, were filmed by the bodycams worn by the officers, including the one inside the police station, which the Italian student’s American lawyer managed to obtain from the prosecutor’s office only on April 12 as part of the trial , which effectively ended with admission to the PTI (Pre Trail Intervention), a sort of re-education programme.
A story that began on the night between 24 and 25 February but which the student’s family wanted to report only now that the young man has accepted the program ordered by the judge which will nullify the four charges for resisting a public official, opposition to arrest without violence and trespass. Accusations for which the 25-year-old had been arrested during a nighttime intervention in a club by off-duty officers.” What exactly happened that night – writes the newspaper – will be a matter of investigation: the family wants to file a formal complaint for the abuse, the declarations which do not correspond to the truth and made under oath, the illegitimate arrest and the torture suffered by the young man and to appeal to the Fourth Amendment.” The police will write that they intervened in the bar where the student was because the boy had created problems in the place so much so that he was thrown out and that he resisted arrest, resisting the officers because he wanted the 500 dollars he spent back.
