Who’s Being Protected Here? Cops Destroy Kid’s Basketball Goal, Drag it Off to Junkyard

[timslash]

Chicago, IL– In a video posted to Facebook on April 2, two Chicago police officers are seen confiscating a basketball goal belonging to Diego Chavarria, 22, as he looked on and filmed the destruction of his property.
According to Chavarria, the incident took place on Thursday around 4:30 pm on West 26th and South Kedvale Avenue. The young man and his friend were playing a game in the street, when the police pulled up to harass them. Instead of telling the young men to move the game to a safer area, or into their own yard or driveway, the officers not only confiscated it, but destroyed the rim, beating it against the ground as if it was an unarmed citizen.
I've got two questions:
1 - Why cops destroyed private property? They really have necessary rights to do such things?
2 - Since when playing basketball on streets is crime?
It's absurd, do you think so?

 

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Who s Being Protected Here Cops Destroy Kid s Basketball Goal Drag it Off to Junkyard The Free Thought Project

 

[depotoo]

Could it be this was not the first time they had been told to keep it out of the street, and themselves and cars out of danger?

 

[timslash]

Could it be this was not the first time they had been told to keep it out of the street, and themselves and cars out of danger?

Just, read the article.
>Instead of telling the young men to move the game to a safer area, or into their own yard or driveway, the officers not only confiscated it, but destroyed the rim,

 

[depotoo]

They should not have destroyed it. But the article does not speak to the police to find out if they have previously been told to take it out of the streets. It only presents what they think they know.

Could it be this was not the first time they had been told to keep it out of the street, and themselves and cars out of danger?

Just, read the article.
>Instead of telling the young men to move the game to a safer area, or into their own yard or driveway, the officers not only confiscated it, but destroyed the rim,

 

[Sonny Clark]

Chicago, IL– In a video posted to Facebook on April 2, two Chicago police officers are seen confiscating a basketball goal belonging to Diego Chavarria, 22, as he looked on and filmed the destruction of his property.
According to Chavarria, the incident took place on Thursday around 4:30 pm on West 26th and South Kedvale Avenue. The young man and his friend were playing a game in the street, when the police pulled up to harass them. Instead of telling the young men to move the game to a safer area, or into their own yard or driveway, the officers not only confiscated it, but destroyed the rim, beating it against the ground as if it was an unarmed citizen.
I've got two questions:
1 - Why cops destroyed private property? They really have necessary rights to do such things?
2 - Since when playing basketball on streets is crime?
It's absurd, do you think so?

As I've said many time before, "cops are low-life POS, and there's plenty of evidence to support that statement." Cops basically have Carte Blanche to do as they please, and our courts back them up 99% of the time. They get a free pass to do things that you and I would be serving time in the big house for. And what's worse, despite the bad publicity, they refuse to clean up their own profession. Destroying property, seizing property, violating rights, practicing obvious and unnecessary brutality, and even the cold blooded murder of unarmed citizens, has become par for the course for them, and serves as their trade mark.

 

[bucs90]

Im sure these 22 year old "kids" have been warned many times. Not that the cop hate site "Free Thought Project" would report that.