Phoenix sued after police pull gun on parents of 4-year-old who took doll from store

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A Phoenix couple is suing the city after police officers reportedly arrested and pulled a gun on them after their 4-year-old daughter took a doll from a store.

The lawsuit, which seeks $10 million, alleges that the officers committed battery, unlawful imprisonment, false arrest and other civil rights violations, a local NBC affiliate reported.

After leaving a Family Dollar store with their two daughters, Dravon Ames and Iesha Harper realized one of the girls had taken a doll with her out of the store, NBC reported, citing a notice of the incoming lawsuit filed this week.

The couple then drove their daughters to a nearby apartment complex to meet their babysitter. When they got there, Phoenix police confronted them in the parking lot.

A video taken by a bystander was posted on Facebook by the city’s police department. In the video, an officer appears to push a handcuffed man against a car, kicking him in the legs.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/448675-city-of-phoenix-sued-after-police-pull-gun-on-parents-of-4-year-old-girl

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. No words...

[Laffy Kat]

2. WTF is wrong with us???

[ck4829]

3. But if someone shoots a bunch of black people in church, they get taken out to Burger King

[JDC]

4. Must have been some doll. Jeezus

[TheBlackAdder]

5. They took the doll from FAO Schwartz?

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Who am I kidding, it wasn't a $5,000 doll.

It's fucking FAMILY DOLLAR, the Wal*Mart of dollar stores.

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[skypilot]

6. Sounds to me as though...

...a store employee must have seen the girl take the doll and instead of approaching the parents they allowed them to leave and then called the police on them. They must have given the police a description of the car and the plate numbers. How else could the cops have tracked them down?
Someone wanted the cops to ambush these people over this fucking doll.

[womanofthehills]

13. Another article said it was not a store employee

Supposedly some unnamed person reported them

[skypilot]

22. OK.

If we go with that scenario, it was someone who decided to call the police rather than inform an employee of the store that a CHILD had walked out with a cheap little doll.

Either way, it appears that someone wanted this family to be confronted by the police over a fairly trivial occurrence.

And confronted they were.

[bobbieinok]

7. If they realized daughter took doll, why didn't they at once take it back to store?

Why go home with doll?

What am I missing in story?

[JesterCS]

8. That's what I was thinking.

I would have immediately taken it back. Not go run other errands. Story sounds fishy. I could be wrong though

[mr_lebowski]

10. Yeah, well watch the VIDEO and I bet you suddenly won't give a F***

that the 'story sounds fishy'.

You'd think they were Bonnie and Clyde just returning from a heavily armed Bank Heist ... the way these dirtbag pigs acted.

Story says the were taking kids to babysitter ... maybe someone immediately needed to get to work?

[JesterCS]

12. You're awful testy

For someone else's opinion. I didn't say the excessive force was justified, I just said that, given my mindset, I would have immediately returned to the store and explained what happened. It's not just black and white ( not racially meaning ).

[mr_lebowski]

17. I literally just watched the vid for the first time, sorry ...

Yes I am friggin' testy about it. I also live in the area. Not directed at you my friend, sorry if it came off that way.

I have no doubt that had they returned to the store this same scene would've played out either on the side of the road on their way back, or IN the parking lot at the store.

These prick cops were completely out of their MINDS.

[womanofthehills]

20. It would have still played out because the store did not report them

A person not connected to the store did. So we do not know what this person said.

[mr_lebowski]

23. Given they were going to a babysitters (not their own residence I'd guess)

And their car was an old beater with no GPS, I'd guess the cops got the call and were so close to the store that they were able to follow the couple to the babysitters based on the vehicle description from the caller. Otherwise how would they have been found so fast?

So I'm guessing even if they'd turned around and drove back to the store halfway to the babysitters, they'd have been confronted by these out of control madmen.

[JesterCS]

24. I agree. I just was pointing out that it seemed off to me

I accidently did a drive off from a gas station. Was back there within five mins to pay for the gas.

[skypilot]

27. You were just lucky...

...that some raging douchebag of a cop didn't descend on you in those five minutes.

[JesterCS]

28. This is true. Hell the gas station didn't even

Realize until I came back

[ProudLib72]

15. + 1

The video is the most vile, disturbing thing I've seen.

[mr_lebowski]

19. Oh, I could show ya a few more recent ones that are just as bad from down here ...

AZ Valley cops are pretty friggin out of control.

It's not JUST PoC (usually but not always) ... it's more ANYONE they don't like the looks of for whatever reason, and they FLIP at the slightest hesitation to do EXACTLY what they COMMAND YOU to do.

If you're white, look well-off, and royally kiss their ass ... then they're nice as can be.

[womanofthehills]

16. I assume you are not a pregnant mom with two toddlers

and that you have never had a kid who stuck something from a store in his pocket.

[skypilot]

9. Maybe they were closer...

...to the babysitter's place than to the store by the time they realized their daughter had taken the doll. They might have intended to return the doll after dropping off the children. But if an employee saw the child take the doll then this whole thing should have played out a lot different from the outset.

[womanofthehills]

14. Guess you never had a toddler - this is so so common

You get in your car and the kid pulls something out of his pocket - usually candy. You have lots to do, esp. a pregnant mom with two toddlers. Who the f returns to the store for a doll that is probably worth 25cents.

[JesterCS]

25. It's theft regardless. It's not about cost

It's about mindset

[skypilot]

26. Whose mindset?

In this situation I would be more concerned about the mindset of a cop who would handle things this way.

[UniteFightBack]

11. Right off the bat with the 'put up your FUCKING hands up'....just right there ALONE the level of

un-professionalism was astounding. Obviously just from hearing that you know it's not going to get better.

We need to stop hiring just any old asshole who can pass a test to be a cop.

[mr_lebowski]

18. I'm actually surprised these Roid-Raging Racists didn't blow the pregnant woman away

Honestly think that if she didn't have a toddler in her arms that cop would've gunned her down as she sat in the car.

[womanofthehills]

21. Actually, the cop was pulling the baby by her arms to get her away from the mom & hurt the baby

He also wanted the mom to put the baby on the hot pavement.