The family of a 25-year-old Italian Matteo Falcinelli, who is studying a master’s degree in Florida, in the United States, denounced the brutal methods used by the Miami police to arrest the young man, as can be seen in the videos from the cameras they were wearing. the agents and that have been published by a newspaper in Italy.
According to the video published by the newspaper ‘Quotidiano Nazionale’, Miami police officers tied the young man’s hands and feet with a strap and put a knee on his neck to immobilize him for 13 minutes despite his screams. pain of the Italian student.
The episode, explains the Italian newspaper, dates back to the night of February 24 to 25, but the family only wanted to report it now, after the young man accepted the re-education program ordered by the judge so that the charges against them would be dropped. He was accused of: resisting a public official, resisting arrest without violence and breaking and entering.
The scenes of violence were filmed by the body cameras worn by the agents, including the one inside the police station, and which the young man’s American lawyer managed to obtain from the prosecution only on April 12, within the framework of the process, which it effectively ended with the acceptance of the reeducation program.
The family of the 25-year-old young man wants to denounce the episode of police violence that they consider ‘torture’.
According to the reconstruction provided by the relatives themselves, the young man went to a place and only inside did he realize that it was a striptease bar. He ordered drinks, but refused to pay for having sexual relations, when he left he had an argument with the doorman of the establishment and then he saw a patrol arrive and intervene because ‘the young man had created problems’.
The young man resisted the police, considering that he had not done anything and asked that his rights be respected while he was arrested.
Not seeing him return, his friends began to look for him until they found him at the police station with a swollen face, abrasions and wounds on his left side, which was beaten and pressed against the asphalt. After paying bail, he was released from jail on February 27. .
