Cop pulls gun on unarmed Black kids

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After bogus 911 call, cop pulls gun on unarmed Black kids who were being harassed

The community has questions for police patrolling a Minnesota park after they handcuffed and drew a gun on four unarmed Black children ages 9-12 earlier this week.

Park goer Brianna Lindell re-hashed the incident in a now viral Facebook post. Lidell says she was in Minnehaha Falls Park with her partner when she came upon a white teenager verbally harassing the group of Black children with racial slurs, brandishing a metal trash can lid, and saying that he had a knife.

Police officers swooped in and amazingly the Black children were the ones put in handcuffs, with at least one officer drawing his weapon. Lindell says she asked the officer why he was arresting the kids.

“I asked the cop why he was arresting the kids as they’d done nothing wrong and he said they had received a call that the kids had a gun. We were approached by the people who had been deescalating earlier who told us that both cops had jumped out of their cars, guns already drawn, with the guns right in the children’s faces. The family was also black and the mother said her and her son had ran and hid when the police arrived because they were waving their guns around. Her little boy kept asking if they were going to be arrested too.”

The children were found to be unarmed.

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1. Same shit, different day and place...

[CincyDem]

2. "...found to be unarmed" you say. Hmmmm...what a surprise.

This kind of chit is happening 32 days a month across the country. Had one of these kids flinched for a moment, we'd be adding their names to the growing list. WTF is wrong with these people.