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In reply to the discussion: DISTURBING. RAW. Police bodycam shows police pepper-spraying 15yo girl following a bicycle accident [View all]FailureToCommunicate
(14,241 posts)27. "There was no gratuitous use of force here." Okay, you must have seen a different video.
This girl was not 'being checked to see if she was injured'.
Let's review:
She was profiled, grabbed, roughed up,arrested, handcuffed, forced to the ground (while screaming and sobbing) and put into a squad car, THEN pepper sprayed!
In the background you can see an ambulance and various EMTs, but they are waved off.
I'm no doctor, but I'm guessing that any potential brain injury is not helped by being physically roughed up and super stressed by the fear of what the three white officers may do next (like pepper spray an already handcuffed girl inside a police car)
The whole scene is disgusting, and would NOT have happened if the hapless girl was white, end of story.
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DISTURBING. RAW. Police bodycam shows police pepper-spraying 15yo girl following a bicycle accident [View all]
yuiyoshida
Sep 2016
OP
This was an open and shut case of what we used to call "police brutality".
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2016
#17
She ran a red light and hit a car. The police were so worried about her they had to wrestle (LINK)
uppityperson
Sep 2016
#9
Stupid handling by cops, but she should be detained and sent to medical facility for evaluation
pediatricmedic
Sep 2016
#15
Really? If this was your daughter? She was handcuffed and pepper sprayed for being black.
FailureToCommunicate
Sep 2016
#23
"There was no gratuitous use of force here." Okay, you must have seen a different video.
FailureToCommunicate
Sep 2016
#27
The problem is that instead of taking her to a medical facility, the took her to the PD and detained
appleannie1
Sep 2016
#29