There is a reason cops don't trust reporters....

And here is an example.

In 1991 the country was shocked at a video of a suspect being hit with batons by four Los Angeles Police officers. But one thing kept coming through that video again and again. The strike upon Rodney King's head.

A fuller viewing of the video and some background information would put the incident into context. The fact he had been evading police, the fact he was refusing the orders of the officer who were trying to take him into custody, the fact he was tazed twice and it had no effect on him, the fact that King's two passengers were taken into custody without incident. But that, in the vernacular, doesn't make for good TV.

What was shown over and over was the hit to the head which was not justified. Intermediate force such as the baton strikes below the neck or taser, yes. But a strike against the head is considered deadly force.

Now were come to this. Watch the video and notice who gets most of the time.

14-YEAR-OLD HOLDING A PUPPY SLAMMED TO THE GROUND AND PUT IN CHOKEHOLD FOR GIVING POLICE ‘DEHUMANIZING STARES’

Police in Miami say they felt so threatened by a 14-year-old boy’s “body language” and “dehumanizing stares” that they had no choice but to put him in a choke hold and arrest him.

According to reports, Tremaine McMillian was “roughhousing” with a friend when Miami-Dade Police officers approached them and ordered them to stop fighting.

Here’s where things get sketchy.

The officers reportedly realized that there was no actual fighting going on, however, they still asked McMillian to identify where his mother was.

Who reported it? The mother of the fourteen year old on the TV? Whom? Would kinka set this up well.

The teen says he did as he was told, but Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta argues he refused to cooperate and started walking away.

So the teen says it, but an officer argues. No bias in the the choice of words, right? Sorry guys, but words mean things. You're starting to cast doubt on the story of the officers but you seem to not be critical of the words of the fourteen year old or his mother. I wonder why? Prejudice against the police?

It was as he was leaving the beach area that police apparently sensed an imminent “threat” based on the teen’s “body language” and “dehumanizing stares.” They soon had the boy on the ground in a chokehold.

“When he started to leave the beach area, officers had to get off their ATVs to detain him. He had closed arms, clenched fists and pulled his arm away,” Zabaleta told CBS Miami.

McMillian says it would have been impossible for him to clench his fists in an intimidating manner because he was holding his 6-week-old pit bull mix puppy at the time and feeding him with a bottle.

“He started choking me, and as he was choking me, I urinated on myself because I couldn’t breathe,” the 14-year-old later said in juvenile court.

He also claims his puppy was injured after officers took him to the ground. Police said they were not concerned with the puppy, but rather the “threat” to the officer.

McMillian was slapped with a felony charge of resisting arrest with violence as well as a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct...

OK, one question. Why is it they just keep showing the same scene over and over? I would suppose there is more video out there and that would put the incident into better context. But for some reason they keep showing the same few seconds again and again. Like the one scene from the Rodeny King video showing the cops hitting him in the head. It was shown deliberately to make the cops look at their worse. I think it's a safe assumption that is happening here. If not, how about the entire video be released. If the officers acted improperly, let them take their punishment as needed. If the cops acted properly, maybe the kids needs his ass kicked by the mother.