A病毒视频上周末，两名少年在新泽西州布里奇沃特公共购物中心发生打斗，警方对此事的反应引起了公愤，并引发了对该警官明显对待黑人少年的内部调查。
这段由一名旁观者拍摄的视频显示，这两名青少年发生了争吵，然后他们开始互相挥拳相向。不久后，两名布里奇沃特镇警察到达现场，制止了这场争吵。然而，视频显示，只有一名黑人少年被扔在地上后被戴上了手铐，这名黑人少年被确认为八年级学生，名叫Kye。
“他们基本上是把我摔倒在地，然后那个男警官把他的膝盖放在我的背上，然后他开始给我戴上手铐，”Kye说讲述美国广播公司新闻台WABC在周二晚上播出的采访中说。“然后那个女警官走过来，把她的膝盖也放在我的上背上，开始帮我戴上手铐。而[另一个少年]就坐在沙发上看着整个过程。”
在视频中，女警官坐在沙发上与另一名打架的青少年坐在一起，然后在协助男警官给他戴上手铐时，似乎将膝盖放在了Kye的脖子上。
参与打斗的另一名少年没有被铐上手铐，美国广播公司新闻尚未确认其身份。
布里奇沃特镇警察局在一份声明中告诉ABC新闻，警方已经要求萨默塞特郡检察官办公室协助对该事件进行内部调查。
“我们认识到这个视频让我们社区的成员感到不安，并呼吁内部事务调查，”警方说，敦促任何人与执法部门分享该事件的额外视频。
萨默塞特郡检察官办公室副主任弗兰克·罗曼(Frank Roman Jr .)在一份声明中告诉美国广播公司新闻，萨默塞特郡检察官办公室内部事务股正在调查这起事件。
Bridgewater Commons购物中心的高级总经理特洛伊·费舍尔(Troy Fischer)告诉ABC新闻，打架之后，这两名青少年“立即被禁止在未来三年内进入我们的财产。”他向警方提出了有关该事件的进一步问题。
凯告诉WABC，这场打斗据称是在这名高中生欺负了凯的一名7年级学生的朋友后开始的。
“我的朋友在和大孩子争吵，所以我就加入了战斗，因为他比我大，所以他在我上面，他比我大，”凯说。“我只是对此感到困惑和愤怒。”
凯尔的母亲，伊本·侯赛因，讲述WABC说，她希望尽可能多的人观看视频。
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被警察戴上手铐的黑人少年凯的母亲...
当被问及她希望看到什么发生时，侯赛因说，她希望这些官员“变得无法就业”
在愤怒中，新泽西州州长菲尔·墨菲(Phil Murphy)周二晚上在推特上回应了这一事件。
他写道:“虽然调查仍在收集这一事件的事实，但我对这段视频中似乎完全不同的种族待遇深感不安。”“我们致力于增强执法部门和他们所服务的民众之间的信任。”
布里奇沃特镇镇长Matthew Moench也发表了一份声明，对这一事件做出回应。
Moench说，他“完全相信检察官的审查将是公正、客观和彻底的”，并敦促公众在调查完成前不要妄下结论。
Police response to mall fight prompts outrage, investigation into treatment of Black teen
Aviral videoof police responding to a fight between two teenagers at the Bridgewater Commons Mall in New Jersey over the weekend has drawn outrage and prompted an internal investigation over the officer’s apparent treatment of the Black teenager.
The video, which was taken by a bystander, appears to show the two teens arguing and then they begin to throw punches at each other. Shortly after, two Bridgewater Township police officers arrived at the scene and broke up the altercation. However, only the Black teenager, who was identified as an eighth grader named Kye, was handcuffed after being thrown to the ground, the video showed.
“They basically tackle me to the ground and then the one – the male officer put his knee in my back and then he starts putting me in cuffs,” KyetoldABC News station WABC in New York, in an interview that aired Tuesday night. “And then the female officer came over and put her knee on my upper back too and started helping putting cuffs on me. And while [the other teenager] was just sitting down on the couch watching the whole thing.”
In the video, the female officer sits the other teen who exchanged punches on the sofa and then appears to put her knee on Kye’s neck as she assists the male officer in handcuffing him.
The other teenager involved in the fight, who has not been identified by ABC News, was not handcuffed.
The Bridgewater Township Police Department told ABC News in a statement that police have asked the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office to assist in an internal investigation of the incident.
“We recognize that this video has made members of our community upset and are calling for an internal affairs investigation,” police said, urging anyone with additional videos of the incident to share them with law enforcement.
Frank Roman Jr., deputy chief of the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office, told ABC News in a statement that the incident is being investigated by the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Internal Affairs Unit.
Troy Fischer, the senior general manager of the Bridgewater Commons Mall, told ABC News that after the fight, both teenagers were “immediately banned from our property for the next three years.” He directed further questions about the incident to police.
Kye told WABC that the fight allegedly started after the high schooler picked on Kye’s friend, who is a 7th-grader.
"My friend was arguing with the older kid and so I kind of just jumped into a fight, and since he's older, he was on top of me and he's bigger," Kye said. "I was just confused and mad about it."
Kye’s mother, Ebone Husain,toldWABC that she wants as many people to watch the video as possible.
Asked what she wants to see happen, Husain said that she wants the officers to “become unemployable.”
Amid the outrage, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy responded to the incident in a tweet on Tuesday evening.
“Although an investigation is still gathering the facts about this incident, I’m deeply disturbed by what appears to be racially disparate treatment in this video,” he wrote. “We’re committed to increasing trust between law enforcement and the people they serve.”
Bridgewater Township Mayor Matthew Moench also released a statement responding to the incident.
Moench said that he is "completely confident that the Prosecutor’s review will be impartial, objective and thorough" and urged the public not to jump to conclusions before the investigation is complete.
