Lexington, Kentucky
I am a 16 year old male. But yesturday I was hanging out with 4 buddies, and this guy comes up wanting to beat up my friend. The guy is 19, and my friend is 18. The 19 yr old brings a half broken bottle and a metal broom stick handle. He starts egging all of us on to fight, so he charges at us and all of us beat him down. I only got like 2 hits in tho, but still long story short cops show up. Ask for the basics(name, address, ect) I only give them my name and I told them that I am going to keep my mouth shut. So two officers try to bully me into giving them my info by saying that I'm only making it harder on myself, and both of them pick me up by each of my arms and drag me to the crusier. They ask what I have and reach into my carhartt pockets to get my stuff out, I didn't agree to a search. At the time I was being detained but not charged with anything, well I sit in the cruiser for like 30 minutes while they investigate some more.
The officers come back and they call up like 10 different people including the Sargent of the department asking if they can charge me with anything as long as I don't feel like I "won" and was "right" in the situation. Well the sarge just says to let me go and I am let go into my parents custody after that.
Well I go home and look at my arm and see it has a big bruise on it, I already took pictures and know the officers name. Would I have a case here of excessive force or not?
I am a 16 year old male. But yesturday I was hanging out with 4 buddies, and this guy comes up wanting to beat up my friend. The guy is 19, and my friend is 18. The 19 yr old brings a half broken bottle and a metal broom stick handle. He starts egging all of us on to fight, so he charges at us and all of us beat him down. I only got like 2 hits in tho, but still long story short cops show up. Ask for the basics(name, address, ect) I only give them my name and I told them that I am going to keep my mouth shut. So two officers try to bully me into giving them my info by saying that I'm only making it harder on myself, and both of them pick me up by each of my arms and drag me to the crusier. They ask what I have and reach into my carhartt pockets to get my stuff out, I didn't agree to a search. At the time I was being detained but not charged with anything, well I sit in the cruiser for like 30 minutes while they investigate some more.
The officers come back and they call up like 10 different people including the Sargent of the department asking if they can charge me with anything as long as I don't feel like I "won" and was "right" in the situation. Well the sarge just says to let me go and I am let go into my parents custody after that.
Well I go home and look at my arm and see it has a big bruise on it, I already took pictures and know the officers name. Would I have a case here of excessive force or not?
