At one point, the girl ran from the home and was chased down by an officer. After the girl’s mother arrived, she began arguing with the officer, causing more commotion and reportedly upsetting the girl further. Eventually, as the officers tried to put the girl into the cop car, she kicked at them and tried to pull away, which, according to a police statement, “required” an officer to take her down to the ground.
The child was then handcuffed and again officers tried to put her in the back of a patrol car until an ambulance could arrive. Police said the girl refused to listen and put her feet in the car, which the police said “required an officer to use an irritant on the minor.”
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Rochester police were caught on video handcuffing and terrorizing a 9-year-old girl with pepper spray while she was in the back of a police car crying for her dad.
Adult police officers who participated in this injustice are claiming that the child’s actions “required” them to use pepper spray on her, even after she was handcuffed and sitting inside the police car. In the video, the child can be heard crying, “I just want my dad” and then screaming in pain when the male officer says, “Just spray her already” and the female officer complies.
I don’t know what this girl’s crime was, if any, but what the officers did to her is beyond reasonable under any circumstances. When a suspect is handcuffed and sitting in the police car, the only thing left to do is close the door and drive to the station. But why were they arresting a 9-year-old in the first place?
Rochester Police Handcuffed and Pepper-Sprayed a Nine-Year-Old Girl Just spray her at this point, says one officer in body-camera footage
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Democrat & Chronicle reports, the footage was released Sunday, January 31st. Following the incident, the child was taken to Rochester General Hospital where she was treated, and then released to her family.
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The incident took place Friday afternoon, when RPD officers responded to a call involving “family trouble” and a possible stolen vehicle. After arriving, the nine-year-old’s mother told the officers she was worried her daughter might harm herself and others. RPD Deputy Police Chief Andre Anderson described her as suicidal and added that she “wanted to kill her mom” as well, during a press conference Sunday.
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