11-Year-Old Boy Allegedly Beaten in Beverly by a White Police Detective

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"When I approached ([Robert Smith]), he said he was an off-duty police officer, but in my mind I was thinking how could he be a police officer if he was crazy enough to do this to a little boy," [Marcos Resendiz] continued. "I didn't intervene because I thought if he is a police officer and would do this to a little boy, what might he do to me? I was trying to calm him down and I was saying, 'what you are doing is wrong. You shouldn't be doing that. You can't do that because that's a kid.' And he asked me if I was an attorney."

"The kids, their mother and another witness were the only Blacks out there," Resendiz said. "There were other adult witnesses out there, but they were all white. They didn't do or say anything. And then, there was one white lady who rode up in a SUV, and you could see that she had a gun. I don't know, but I don't think she was there for the Black kids."

"The one plain clothes officer, I think his name was Ed, seemed to have known the guy who attacked the kids," Resendiz said. "He (Ed) told me because the officer (Smith) told him what had happened that he had to take his word. And my response was, 'but that's a kid.' It wasn't right."

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11-Year-Old Boy Allegedly Beaten in Beverly by a White Police Detective

Donna Moore didn't want to talk on the phone long Thursday morning.

"Look, I am not trying to be rude, but I am on my way to find some help for my son," Moore told the Defender in a highly emotional voice. "He is traumatized and doesn't want to come o...

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