Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrated outside Rochester police station on Monday night. Demonstrators overturned barricades as they protested the pepper-spraying of a girl, 9.
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.
Despite heavy winter storms, protesters chanted "Black Lives Matter" and "No justice, no peace" while overturning barricades outside the police station.
NY police suspended for pepper-spraying young girl
SYNDICATED 1 months ago A Black Lives Matter rally marched to a police station in Rochester, New York on Monday in protest over the pepper-spraying of a 9-year-old girl.The same day, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren ordered the immediate suspension of the police officers involved.In a message posted on Twitter, Warren said the suspensions would continue at a minimum until police complete an internal investigation of the incident,Neither the mayor nor the police department have clarified how many officers would be suspended.Police have said the officers involved were responding to a family disturbance call on Friday.In police body-cam footage released after the incident, unnamed officers are seen wrestling a 9-year-old girl, who appears to be Black, to the ground in the snow.The officers then handcuff her and struggle to put her in the back of the police car, as the girl screams for her father, before pepper-spraying her in the eye