Student says she was slammed to the ground by Portland pigs

One minute, Delease Carter, a guard on the Portland Community College women's basketball team, was walking home with two friends in North Portland. The next thing she knew she was facedown with a cop's knee on her head with the sound of guns being cocked.

The three friends were eventually let go, but the 21-year-old PCC student says their biggest crime appears to have been walking down the middle of the street with one of them wearing a blue Kansas City Royals baseball cap.

Portland police say they were intent on suppressing gang activity in an area known to be Kerby Blocc Crip territory and took Carter to the ground when she didn't follow their orders, moving one of her hands from her head when they patted her down for weapons.

She says she was following their orders but couldn't answer their questions with her cigar in her mouth. When she tried to pull it out to respond, she found herself slammed to the pavement.

"I felt like I had been violated," she said. "I was naive to the whole situation."

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/02/pcc_students_portland_police.html

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