Fourteen-year-old Tremaine
McMillan was feeding his puppy and playing on the beach with some friends when
cops riding ATVs approached him and asked what he was doing. The cops said
later that they saw McMillan roughhousing with another teenager, told him it
was “unacceptable behavior,” and asked where his mother was. When McMillan
walked away, the cops chased him on ATVs, jumped out, pinned him to the ground
and arrested him. Cell phone footage taken by his mother shows the boy being
thrown to the ground and pinned. Miami-Dade
cop Alvaro Zabaleta justified
the use of force, saying McMillan was exhibiting threatening “body language,”
which includes “clenched fists.”
