Ohio officer who Tasered girl 'violated department policy'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Ohio officer who Tasered girl 'violated department policy'

6 September 2018

A Cincinnati police officer who deployed a stun gun on a 11-year-old girl suspected of shoplifting violated department policy, investigators say.

Officer Kevin Brown, 55, was also heard on bodycam video telling the girl that actions like hers were "why there's no grocery stores in the black community".

His comment prompted an internal probe that found he violated four policies.

Officer Brown, 55, had been working as a theft prevention officer at a supermarket when the incident occurred.

Cincinnati police released bodycam footage of the 6 August arrest as part of a use of force report, showing the girl, who is African American, crying as Taser barbs are removed from her back.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45429185

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. The physical and emotional abuse he laid on her is shameful.

A reminder that including POC in a systemically oppressive system simply makes a systemically oppressive system diverse.

[Ohiogal]

2. Yet the far Right still believes Colin Kaepernick

is wrong........