From [HERE] The Police Department announced Tuesday that it’s conducting an internal investigation of two of its officers after the arrests of two juvenile offenders Monday.

Officer Garett Ford and detective Andre Arnoldi arrested two boys after a security officer at Central Mall reported that one of them had threatened to kill him and others with a gun.

Ford and Arnoldi are seen in body camera footage of the arrest struggling with, then forcibly restraining the two in the mall parking lot.

The investigation will consider whether the officers used racial bias in the arrests, said police Lt. Don Cobb. Both of the youths are Black, and one accused Ford of arresting him only because of his race, according to the arrest report. Ford and Arnoldi are white.

Around 6 p.m. Monday, one of the youths threatened in front of multiple mall employees to return to the mall with a gun and kill people when he was asked to leave after causing trouble, according to police. He fled when Ford approached him in the parking lot, according to video. Not clear who exactly said what to whom but all Blacks should be arrested under the circumstances of course b/c they are all guilty by their very existence. The logic behind this racist idiocy is that "there is no innocent Black male, just Black male criminals who have not yet been detected, apprehended or convicted." [MORE]

The video shows Ford approaching the youth, who is sitting on a curb outside the mall, and telling him he did something and telling him “yes you did” when the youth says “I didn’t do anything, what do you want?” The officers tells him to turn around so that he can place him under arrest. But the boy sets off running through the parking lot. Once Ford reaches him, the youth repeatedly asks what he did as Ford tries to place him in handcuffs.

Ford said in his incident report that he was arresting the youth on felony terroristic threatening counts because of the boy’s earlier statements. Ford didn’t tell the youth why he was detaining him before he placed him in handcuffs. The youth later is heard denying the accusations when the security guard repeats them to Ford.

When the youth resisted arrest, Arnoldi pinned him to the ground, the video shows. The youth is screaming in the video that he can’t breathe and telling the officers to get off him. Ford repeatedly tells the youth to calm down.

Ford says in the report that he didn’t apply pressure to the youth’s neck.

A woman who said she was the aunt of the youth accused of threatening mall security posted on Facebook on Tuesday, asking why the police didn’t check his identification or call his father. She accused police of treating him “like an animal.”

The Facebook post includes a 38-second video of Ford and Arnoldi struggling with the youth and then taking him to the ground and a 14-second video of the youth screaming “I can’t breathe” as the officers pin him to the ground.

The woman who posted the videos couldn’t be reached through social media Wednesday.

A 15-second video clip of the arrest posted to social media was “lacking considerable context [referring to the system of physical coercion and RWS] ,” the release states, prompting the Police Department to release to media a 14-minute clip from Ford’s body camera.