The FBI [upon request by the family] is investigating a Missouri police officer's use of a stun gun on a teenager who ended up in critical condition during a traffic stop, officials said Monday. Independence Police Officer Tim Reynolds has been placed on administrative leave while investigators try to piece together what happened during Sunday's confrontation with Bryce Masters, 17, who is the son of a Kansas City cop.
NBC
By the way, besides being the son of a police officer, Bryce Masters is Caucasian.A Missouri cop tased a teenager who was recording him during a traffic stop before yanking him out of the car, handcuffing him, then dropping him on his face on a sidewalk, sending the young man into bloody convulsions where he is now hospitalized in a coma.
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It is reported that he stopped breathing for five minutes.
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Independence police officer Tim Runnels was upset that Bryce Masters, a son of a Kansas City cop, was sitting in the passenger seat of a car but had refused to roll down his window.
Masters told him the window was broken, but that, of course, angered the cop, who then ordered the teen out of the car.
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Independence police started up the Police PR Spin Machine and insisted that Masters was fighting them viciously, making them all fear for their lives, which is why they had to tase him.
The answer probably lies in Master’s camera, but what are the odds that the footage will even be protected?
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“It looked like he hit his head on the concrete. You could see blood coming out of his mouth. The cop put his foot on his back and moved it back and forth like he was putting a cigarette out and asked him, ‘are you ready to get up now?’ You could tell the kid was going into convulsions,” [a witness] said.
Witnesses who saw the whole thing happen say they watched Masters die and then come back to life after emergency crews resuscitated him.
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