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(Reuters) - The mayor of Rochester, New York, ordered the immediate suspension on Monday of city police officers involved in the pepper-spraying of a 9-year-old girl while she was handcuffed, an incident caught on police body-camera video.
Mayor Lovely Warren said in a message posted on Twitter that the suspensions, announced after she met with the city’s police chief, would continue “at a minimum” until a police internal investigation of Friday’s arrest is completed.
“What happened Friday was simply horrible, and has rightly outraged, all of our community,” the mayor said. “Unfortunately, state law and union contract prevents me from taking more immediate and serious action.”