DISTURBING. RAW. Police bodycam shows police pepper-spraying 15yo girl following a bicycle accident

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9. She ran a red light and hit a car. The police were so worried about her they had to wrestle (LINK)

her, twist her arms, cuff and spray her because a crowd was gathering to protest then manhandling her? WTF? I see him spraying her 3 times in that last minute. One time my ass.

http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/local/hagerstown-police-chief-officers-acted-properly-in-incident-with-teen/article_121b9294-8106-11e6-8384-6bc0dd947419.html

Brito said an officer administered one shot of pepper spray on the 15-year-old girl — not multiple shots, as purported in social media and by the girl's attorney — as she continued to resist and kick officers while they tried to put her into a police cruiser.

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Brito said his officers acted correctly. They have to make split-second decisions every day, and using pepper spray was determined to be the best possible action at that moment, he said.

"We wanted to get her in the vehicle and move from the scene," Brito said. "The scene was growing large, a lot of people were around. We didn't want to have an incident where we had a civil disturbance there. We thought it was prudent, No. 1, to remove her from the scene at that point."