Police of Pomona, California arrested teenager Christian Aguilar for filming the brutal manner in which they arrested his family. When they spotted him filming the crimes they committed against his family, they arrested him, too – for "resisting arrest" … which is in fact not an offense under California law if the person is not in fact charged with some other offense that would justify an arrest.
Police then noticed Robert Hansen, whom they spotted recording their beating of the teenager. Naturally, they arrested him, too – alleging a slew of bogus offenses.
They had it all neatly wrapped up – they wrote reports that spun a bald-faced lie how the encounter went down, and they edited the video they seized so that their wrongdoing never appeared. It was this video they presented to the District Attorney's office of Los Angeles.
While this was going on, they delivered Christian Aguilar – a minor – into the hands of actual criminals by locking him among a population of male offenders. They kept him there despite his protestations he was a minor. Pomona police told Christian Aguilar's mother that her son could not have a lawyer.
The terrible allegations made by police against their victims cost the job of one of Christian's relatives, a respected cardiac nurse.
The story gets worse. Read all about it here.
Also, some of the video is available.
