By Prensa Latina,
Washington : Civic and judicial organizations of the US regarded sanctions imposed to US police officers who took part in a beating to three African-American young people in the city of Philadelphia as insignificant Tuesday.
“Firing them or taking them out of the streets is not enough. We want the accused to be processed with all the weight of the law,” said National Action Net official Paula Peebles Tuesday.
Peebles said the response of the authorities is just limited to discipline, which contradicts the size of the event, picked up by video cameras and broadcast several times by local and national press media.
Lawyer Scott Perrine regarded the official position on the case as inappropriate, and said the responsible people should be taken to be judicially processed.
Citizens of Philadelphia issued approaches according with the postures of Peebles and Perrine.
Nobody can be mistreated this way, independently of the crime committed, they coincided.
Charles Ramsey, police commissioner in the state of Pennsylvania, informed of the removal of four police officers, the service suspension of three, and the removal of another, of nearly 18 present in the event on May 5.
Ramsey admitted that some of his men used unnecessary violence against the possible criminals accused of starting a shooting.
After the shooting a prosecution started on the streets of Philadelphia, which culminated with the beating, filmed and published by the press.
At the end of April, hundred of US citizens protested in New York for the absolution of three accused agents of murdering an Afro-American, who received about 50 projectiles on his body.