Wauwatosa Livestream video: Tracy Cole complains of injuries during arrest: 'That cop, he hit me in my head.'
The mother of Alvin Cole, a 17-year-old who was shot and killed earlier this year by a Wauwatosa police officer, was arrested and injured Thursday night during a protest over the fact no criminal charges would be filed in the case.
The arrest of Tracy Cole, 48, and two daughters was caught on a Facebook livestream by a third daughter.
The recording starts at 8:28 p.m. with Cole being confronted by police and told to get out of her car. She's taken from the car, and a phone remains inside the car continuing to record audio of the arrest.
Cole, 48, complains that she can't breathe numerous times early in the 18-minute clip.
"I’m Alvin Cole’s mother," Cole screamed repeatedly as officers pulled her out of her car and handcuffed her.
About a minute later, she is heard saying: "He hit me in my head and pulled my hair. One of these cops over here. My head is bleeding."
The officer who was previously heard giving Cole orders responds: “Well, that’s too bad.”
Cole tells a paramedic that she needs medical attention and says: "That cop, he hit me in my head."
At the 5:21 mark she says: “I can feel the blood going down my head.”
An officer then tells Cole he's going to "switch these (hand)cuffs" and Cole screams in agony.
“Oh my arm … I think my arm is broken," she says, adding: “That cop throwed me down, slammed me and pushed me and pulled my hair. Oh my arm hurts …”
A few seconds later a new voice is heard, telling officers: “Don’t put cuffs on her and I’ll take responsibility for her. Put her on the curb. I don’t want her in the street.”
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