Matteo Falcinelli, a 25-year-old Italian student originally from Spoleto, was arrested in Miami, Florida, in a particularly violent manner .
Il Quotidiano Nazionale reports it.
The young man was allegedly knocked to the ground, with his face pressed to the asphalt, then taken to prison. Once in a transit cell at the North Miami Beach police station, four of them hogtied him and subjected him to hogtie restraint. They tied their feet to handcuffs behind their backs with a strap, pulling for 13 minutes .
The boy, who has been in the USA for three years, is attending his master's degree at Florida International University (at the Biscayne Bay Campus). The scenes of violence were filmed by the bodycams worn by the officers , including the one inside the police station, which the young man's American lawyer managed to obtain from the prosecutor's office only on April 12 as part of the trial, which effectively ended with admission to the PTI (Pre trail intervention), a sort of re-educational programme, an alternative treatment to prison, the parallel of probation in Italy. The Italian lawyer assisting the family, Francesco Maresca, confirmed this to ANSA, adding that "at the end of this period, from a judicial point of view this matter is over for him".
" I have my rights, I'm just trying to ask for my rights ," says the young man as they hog him in the barracks. In the video you can hear screams of pain and the boy repeatedly saying "please, please".
The episode dates back to the night between 24 and 25 February. Matteo's family wanted to report it only now that the young man has accepted the program ordered by the judge which will nullify the four charges for resisting a public official, opposing the arrest without violence and trespass . The family - we read - wants to press charges. From the first reconstruction of the same family it emerges that the young man had gone to a club where he had met some people and drank some drinks . Memories are blurred, he doesn't remember how he got to the exit where there was a police patrol. The police will write that they and that he resisted arrest, resisting the officers.
