Justice For Lucca! Video Shows A 15-Year Old Black Boy Getting Brutally Attacked By Broward County Police Officers During An Arrest

A video showing a black teen getting brutally assaulted by white Broward County officers has many viewers heated! The video show 15-year old Lucca getting pepper-sprayed, thrown to the ground, head slammed on the concrete pavement, and beat in the head with a fist by officers Sgt. Greg LaCerra and Sheriff Christopher Krickovich.

Here’s the video of the horrible attack:

Thousands of people shared videos of the incident on Twitter and Facebook over the weekend, tagging them “#justiceforlucca,” and demanding that the officers be fired and prosecuted.

Activist Shaun King even went a step further and provided information for the public to use to get these officers removed from duty.

After the public’s outcry for justice, NBC News announces this:

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said in a statement Friday that the department would conduct a “thorough investigation” into the incident and said that Deputy Christopher Krickovich, one of the officers pictured in the video, had been placed on restricted duty.

In a pre-planned meeting with black leaders Saturday, Broward County Sheriff Tony said that he was taking the investigation into the matter seriously but emphasized that the importance of following the appropriate procedures.

The two officers explained their version of the incident in an affidavit. BuzzFeed News reported:

In the affidavit, Krickovich said that he and his partner Sgt. Greg LaCerra responded to a call from a McDonald’s in Tamarac, Fl, at 3 p.m. on Thursday after employees reported a large group of teenagers gathering for a fight outside the restaurant. He wrote that the McDonald’s was a popular after-school gathering place for students from a nearby high school and the scene of frequent fights — including an incident the day before that had caused damage to a bystander’s car.

Krickovich and LaCerra arrived after the fight had ended, per the affidavit, but as they ordered the crowd of teens to disperse, they identified one of the perpetrators from Wednesday’s fight who had been warned not to trespass in the area again and took him into custody.

“While I was dealing with the male on the ground, I observed his phone slide to the right of me and then behind me. I observed a teen wearing a red tank top reach down and attempt to grab the male student’s phone,” Krickovich wrote.

When LaCerra ordered the other boy to stay back, he said, the teenager “took an aggressive stance” toward the officer and “bladed his body and began clenching his fists.”

LaCerra pepper-sprayed the teen in the face and forced him to the ground, Krickovich wrote. There were more than 200 students in the crowd, according to Krickovich, and this is when many of them started recording the incident on their phones.

Per the affidavit, the officers feared for their safety and worked to restrain the teenager on the ground in an attempt to de-escalate the situation. Krickovich said that he hit the 15 year-old with a closed fist on the right side of his head as “a distractionary technique” to get the teen to release his right hand from under his head. “This technique was successful and I was able to place him into handcuffs without further incident.”

Lucca appeared in court Friday morning, where he was formally charged with assault, resisting arrest, and trespassing.

Regardless of the charges, officers of the law should never use excessive force on an unarmed teenager. Shaun has a point, if a white mass shooter gets taken into custody without a scratch on him, then why are the black children being attacked and treated like trash during an arrest? Leave us a comment below and tell us what you think of this situation. #JusticeForLucca