{"id":537,"date":"2015-07-12T21:25:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2015-07-12T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T21:25:03","slug":"orlando-cop-brutally-beats-teen-over-suspicion-of-marijuana-no-weed-is-found-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/2015\/07\/12\/orlando-cop-brutally-beats-teen-over-suspicion-of-marijuana-no-weed-is-found-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Cop Brutally Beats Teen Over Suspicion of Marijuana, No Weed Is Found [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>During the wee hours of July 5th, Kissimmee residents Mario Manzi 19, Jazmin Ahmed 19, and Ryan Diaz 19, took refuge\u00a0 from the rain under a parking overhang of a building at 47 W. Jefferson street in Orlando. They had just attended a m<i>ewithoutYou<\/i><i> <\/i>concert. As the teens waited for an Uber driver to pick them up, an Orlando Police officer appeared\u00a0on a bicycle claiming that he was responding to a call from a woman inside the building who said\u00a0she could hear people talking under the parking overhang and\u00a0that she could \u2018smell\u00a0marijuana\u2019 through the building\u2019s mail slot. Once the police officer \u2013 identified as Michael Napolitano \u2013 advised them that they were being detained and would be searched under the suspicion that he too could smell marijuana, Manzi took\u00a0out his cellphone to record the altercation\u00a0for legal purposes. Once Manzi hit record, the situation took a sharp turn downward.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DxYqRaLlG1w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As the video illustrates, Manzi explains to Napolitano that he is in fact allowed to record the confrontation, but Napolitano counters with \u201cYou are being detained right now \u2019cause you smell like Marijuana!\u201d and reaches for Manzi\u2019s cellphone. Manzi hands his phone over to Ryan Diaz, saying \u201cRecord this. Record this.\u201d\u00a0which Diaz does. The officer then again loudly says that they are being detained, and from behind the camera Manzi acknowledges that they are being detained saying, \u201cWe\u2019re being detained because it smells like marijuana, we understand.\u201d Napolitano again reaches for Manzi\u2019s\u00a0cell phone that Diaz is recording with. \u201cYou\u00a0can\u2019t grab my camera!\u201d says Manzi. Napolitano replies, \u201cYes I can sir! You do not understand how\u00a0this works! You are detained! You do not run the show!\u201d\u00a0 Diaz gives\u00a0the cell phone back to Manzi, who is then\u00a0able to record Diaz being pushed to the ground and punched in the face\u00a0by Napolitano. It is also clear that while Diaz is\u00a0already\u00a0on the ground, Napolitano punches Diaz again and yells \u201cGet on the ground!\u201d. \u00a0At this time another officer appears on the scene and restrains Diaz while Napolitano punches him one more time in the leg. Diaz was then\u00a0handcuffed and taken into custody.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Afterwards, the officers searched all three teens, as well as the surrounding premises and found no marijuana or drug paraphernalia at the scene.<i>\u00a0<\/i>Manzi and Ahmed each received trespassing violations while Diaz was taken to jail on the charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer without violence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"mantis__recommended__wordpress\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n    MANTIS_RECOMMEND = {\n        property: '556c86bbbf60bd001d672ecb',\n        render: 'mantis__recommended__wordpress'\n    };\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n\tvar z = document.createElement(\"script\");\n\tz.type = \"text\/javascript\";\n\tz.async = true;\n\tz.src = \"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.min.js\";\n\tvar s = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(z, s);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<link href=\"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.3columns.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the wee hours of July 5th, Kissimmee residents Mario Manzi 19, Jazmin Ahmed 19, and Ryan Diaz 19, took refuge\u00a0 from the rain under a parking overhang of a building at 47 W. 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