Police even beat up 5 year olds

I used to work in an emergency room in Elmhurst hospital. I was pretty young and naïve at this point in my life, my state of mind was just as blank as the rest of the flock, never ask questions, always trust the president or people in charge because they can do no harm, watch MTV and be a consumer BUY, BUY, BUY EAT, EAT, EAT.

One night while working the midnight shift in Elmhurst hospital a Mexican lady comes running into the Emergency room screaming. The tears were pouring down her face, as she screamed “Ayudame porfavor me los van a matar!!” (Help me please they are going to kill them) with two kids on her back half dead.

My first impression was that she was being attacked by gang members or possibly a family member; anyway I was chosen to be her translator because she did not know any English. Here is what she said …

“I was selling buttered corn and hot dogs in the near by park, When all of a sudden two police officers approached me and asked to see my license. I was packing up obviously because it was late and the children had to go to bed. I gave the two officers my license and they tore it up into pieces and laughed, I couldn’t understand a lot of what they were saying because my English is very limited, next they turned my only source of income upside down and all of my food fell on the floor.

I was startled and we began to run (my kids and I) but my kids were not fast enough and the officers began beating them with there clubs. I jumped on top of my kids and took a pretty big beating myself, the officers left when they were done.”

I looked at the medical charts and was amazed. The kids were 8 years and 5 years old. The 8 year old had a broken leg and a broken rib; the 5 year old had a bloody gash on his head that needed stitches and bruises on his back as well as a broken leg. I advised the lady to take pictures and to get a lawyer … I also took her phone number in order to offer my services and any help I could offer. We went to the precinct and as you could imagine, the cover up began. The lady was not a U.S citizen, she was Mexican, she was a minority therefore she was not helped, she had no rights. This lady and her children will forever live with that memory, The red, white and blue, the NYPD doing its best to represent America the land of the “FREE”.