FAIR COP

FBI probe videotaped beating

Amateur videotape of the beating of a handcuffed black teen-ager in Los shows a white police officer throwing Donovan Chavis, 16, against a police car and punching him in the face.
An attorney for Chavis described the teen as a developmentally disabled special education student with no arrest record who did not understand what was happening, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The incident is under investigation by the FBI, the city's police department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the district attorney's office.

Immediately after releasing the video to CNN, the cameraman Mitchell Crooks was snatched up by police officers in a black Explorer with darkened windows and spirited away. CNN taped his capture and broadcast that along with the police beating footage.