justice4mikebrown:On May 29, 2013 Najee Rivera was brutally beaten by 2 Philadelphia police officers
justice4mikebrown:On May 29, 2013 Najee Rivera was brutally beaten by 2 Philadelphia police officers, Kevin Robinson and Sean McKnight. The officers said that when they pulled Najee over for allegedly running a stop sign he became frightened and drove away. They said he lost control of his scooter and fell off, hitting the pavement. The officers then claimed that Najee resisted arrest, reached for one of the officer’s batons, and assaulted the other officer. Najee was charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault.However, Najee’s girlfriend, Dina Scannapieco, managed to find a surveillance video of the beating that proved that the two officers lied. (TW: The video is graphic and very hard to watch.)The video shows that the officers drove into Najee, knocking him off his scooter. The officers then immediately jumped out of their car and threw him against a wall and then to the ground. After the beating, they handcuffed him and left him laying on the ground bleeding for several minutes.Najee had a broken orbital bone, his right eye was severely swollen shut and he suffered many cuts which required stitches and staples. After being treated at the hospital and bailed out of jail, he immediately went to work at his new job at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He was sent home because his boss was concerned that he could catch an infection through his open wounds. After a month, he was fired for not showing up to work for 3 days due to medical reasons, which he had a note for.After going through human resources, management, and CHOP’s CEO, Najee was told he could reapply for the job but that they weren’t interested in rehiring him.Thanks to the surveillance video, Officers Robinson and McKnight were suspended for 30 days with intent to dismiss and have since been charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, criminal conspiracy, recklessly endangering another person, tampering with public records or information, false reports to law enforcement authorities, obstructing administration of law, and official oppression.As for Najee, he filed a lawsuit and won a $200,000 settlement from the city but he’s still fighting to get his job at CHOP back. Najee says “the job was a good paying job. That was a nice career for me. Doing what I like to do best, is to clean. … I worked hard to get to that spot. People wait years to get into CHOP. For me, it was a steppingstone. It was a good job for me and I like to be around kids.”Najee Rivera shouldn’t have been fired for being attacked. Click here to sign the petition and let CHOP know that Najee deserves to return to his dream job. Only 9,500 3,500 more signatures are needed! -- source link
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