. . CRIME AND CRIMINALS: SEXUAL ASSAULT : UNITED STATES: CITIES: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA : POLICE BRUTALITY: Philadelphia Community Rallies around Prep Basketball Player Hospitalized by Alleged Police Brutality . . Philadelphia Community Rallies around Prep Basketball Player Hospitalized by Alleged Police Brutality By Ben Rohrbach January 17, 2014 10:06 AM Prep Rally Yahoo Sportshttp://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/ philadelphia-community-rallies-around-prep-basketball- player-hospitalized-150649721.html
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/mzyna6s . .A case of alleged police brutality has a West Philadelphia community rallying behind a 16-year-old straight-A student and prep basketball player who underwent emergency surgery to repair a ruptured testicle after a police stop on his way to a game.
.The details -- widely reported in Philadelphia, including accounts by the city's Daily News and the local FOX affiliate -- are now the center of an internal affairs investigation.
.According to a police report obtained by the Daily News, Officer Thomas Purcell stopped Darrin Manning on Jan. 7 (during the height of the polar vortex) after witnessing the teen and roughly a dozen of his Philadelphia Mathematics, Civics & Sciences Charter School teammates wearing ski masks and running down the street.
.The police report alleges Manning struck Purcell three times, inflicting no injury but forcing a call for backup. The report also claimed Manning "didn't complain of any pain" while being charged with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest and reckless endangerment.
.That's the police's side of the story, according to the Daily News report. Manning's own account of the afternoon's events paint a disturbing picture that has many in the community outraged, organizing town meetings and rallies in his defense.
. snip .An unnamed witness corroborated Manning's account of excessive force to the Daily News.
.According to the reports, after spending eight hours in jail, Manning underwent emergency surgery the following day at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and remained in a wheelchair at school a week later. His mother, Ikea Coney, told the Daily News that doctors believe the injury could potentially prevent him from fathering children.
."I'm just grateful that they didn't just kill him," Coney told the local FOX affiliate.
.Meanwhile, Manning's family has reportedly hired an attorney in hopes of clearing him of all charges. Community organizations, including the Pennsylvania State Chapter of Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, have also come to Manning's defense, reports said.
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