Cop Guilty After Fellow Cops Turned Him In for Beating Innocent Handcuffed Child on Video
Gloucester Township, PA — Body camera footage of a Gloucester Township police officer captured the disturbing assault of a small 13-year-old girl by a massive cop. The attack was so deeply troubling that the officer was actually suspended and subsequently charged—after his own cops turned on him. This week, he was found guilty of official misconduct.
Gloucester Township police officer John Flinn, 29, of Williamstown was found guilty of official misconduct after he was captured on a body camera hitting a handcuffed teenage girl. However, the jury was deadlocked on the charge of endangering the welfare of a child. Exactly how they were deadlocked, given the graphic video below, remains a mystery.
“Body-worn cameras from responding officers captured the incident,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
What made this case particularly important is the fact that his own officers turned him in. A responding officer who testified for the prosecution said he saw Flinn “strike the victim with an open hand twice while she was complying with commands,” the statement said.
The incident began on March 8, 2018 and was captured on another officer’s body camera. It shows Flinn repeatedly punching and attempting to choke a small 13-year-old girl as he places her in handcuffs.
According to prosecutors the attack was entirely unprovoked as the girl was complying with the officer, yet he began attacking her anyway. Camden County prosecutors said the juvenile followed police instructions and allowed Flinn to handcuff her, but the crazed cop “struck her twice on the side of the face, causing her to cry out in pain.”
Police originally said they were responding to a disturbance call in the Camdem County township.
As the video shows, when the police are attempting to apprehend the young girl, she originally tells them to get off of her. However, she then quickly complies and lays down on her stomach.
As the girl calmly lays there, allowing Flinn to place her in cuffs, for no reason, he yells at her to stop resisting and begins punching the 13-year-old in the face. He then grabs her by the neck, doles out multiple knee strikes before shoving his 250-pound knee in the back of her neck. All the while, the girl is screaming in agony.
After the brutal beating caught on Flinn’s fellow officer’s body camera, the girl was taken to an area hospital to be evaluated and treated for injuries sustained during the attack. Not that there would be justification for a grown man to ever savagely beat a non-violent 13-year-old girl, however, to illustrate just how unnecessary the attack was—the girl was not charged with any crime.
As noted above, what stands out about this case—aside from the obvious child-beating cop—is the fact that his conduct was reported, not by the victim, but by a fellow officer.
According to a statement obtained by the Free Thought Project, the Gloucester Township Police chief, Harry Earle explained that it was the officer’s supervisor who turned him in for the beating first, not the 13-year-old girl.
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