“The family of a Brooklyn teenager is suing the NYPD, claiming an officer knocked their son out and gave him brain damage after mistaking his cigarette for marijuana.

Seventeen-year-old Marcel Hamer was reportedly walking home from school smoking a cigarette when a plainclothes officer stopped him, apparently suspecting the cigarette contained marijuana.” *

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.

*Read more here from http://gawker.com/nypd-officer-knocks-teenager-out-for-smoking-a-cigarett-1644123568