On what planet would this be allowed to happen without the severest consequences possible to these monsters, one and all?
Here is a situation in which a 9‑year-old child is distraught and asks for her dad, and a cop tells his colleague to quote, “at this point, just spray her.”
America, what you witnessed here are cops who want to escalate to force level, and would use any pretense to get to that escalation.
In the first instance, there is absolutely no need to place a 9‑year-old child in handcuffs. None whatsoever.
Secondly, the female cop speaking to the little girl is not deescalating the situation by demanding that she sit back; the child is already in the cruiser; where was she going to go?
American Police continue to use these pretenses to trigger force, then revert to them to justify using force.
A caring trained police officer would gently ask the little girl her name, rather than continually demanding that she sits back.
The next step is to ask her her father’s name and find out from the child how they may contact her daddy.
Contrary to these simple steps, the monsters used pepper spray on the child instead. If you do that to my child, it becomes personal; it is no longer between me and the system; it becomes between you and me.
In Rochester, police released two body-camera videos Sunday of officers restraining a distraught 9‑year-old girl who was handcuffed and sprayed with what police called a chemical “irritant.”
The Democrat and Chronicle reported that before the video release, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren expressed her concern for the “child that was harmed during this incident that happened on Friday.”
“I have a 10-year-old child, so she’s a child, she’s a baby. This video, as a mother, is not anything you want to see,” Warren went on to say. A total of nine officers and supervisors responded to the report of “family trouble” on Friday. The girl can be heard in the body-camera videos from officers at the scene screaming frantically for her father as the officers try to restrain her.
At a news conference Sunday, Deputy Police Chief Andre Anderson described the girl as suicidal“She indicated she wanted to kill herself and she wanted to kill her mom,” he said.
Officers tried to force the girl into a patrol car, but she pulled away and kicked at them. In a statement Saturday, the police department said this action “required” an officer to take the girl down to the ground. Then, the department said, “for the minor’s safety and at the request of the custodial parent on the scene,” the child was handcuffed and put in the back of a police car as they waited for an ambulance to arrive.
Police said the girl disobeyed commands to put her feet in the car. An officer was then “required” to spray an “irritant” in the handcuffed girl’s face, the department said Saturday.
At Sunday’s news conference, Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan described the irritant as pepper spray. She declined to defend the officers’ actions.
“I’m not going to stand here and tell you that for a 9‑year-old to have to be pepper-sprayed is OK. It’s not,” Herriott-Sullivan said. “I don’t see that as who we are as a department, and we’re going to do the work we have to do to ensure that these kinds of things don’t happen.”
Police said the girl was eventually taken to Rochester General Hospital, “where she received the services and care that she needed,” and was later released to her family.
The Rochester Police Department has faced scrutiny since Daniel Prude’s death last year after officers from the department put a hood over his head and pressed his face into the pavement.
Again I ask,” Why do African-Americans continue to call the police to their homes, knowing that the monsters are trained to hate and kill them”?