Youth, 15, was shoved to couch but not restrained while 14-year-old was handcuffed in incident that went viral
Highlights
- Video of incident involving Black 14-year-old went viral last week.
- Teen says police treated him differently than the other boy in the altercation.
- Incident prompted calls for police to be disciplined for racially disparate treatment.
- Family and friends of the teen held a protest in front of police headquarters on Saturday.
- Governor of New Jersey said the incident was ‘deeply disturbing’ and showed ‘progress we’ve made on relationships between law enforcement and community they serve’ The incident prompted an internal affairs investigation and calls for disciplining the officers involved.
- The teen says his mother was Colombian and his father Pakistani, and that he had mistakenly been identified in media reports as white.