Providence police investigating complaints of officer conduct during Tuesday incident Published Fri Jul 02 2021 22:03:32 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) Providence police are investigating after complaints from residents that officers attacked them while responding to an incident Tuesday night. by John Bender
More than two-dozen officers responded to an outdoor gathering around 6pm in the neighborhood near Rhode Island Hospital. Police admit that over the course of three hours, officers pepper-sprayed people in the crowd and arrested five, including four minors.
“These children were screaming, screaming ‘I’m burning,’” Taffii Moore, a resident of the neighborhood who witnessed the incident, said at a press conference Thursday.