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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCops do this to 9-year-old white girls all the time, no?
https://hosted.ap.org/article/9a86bf7fca7399cb1602f577688c7f01/new-video-captures-pepper-sprayed-girls-wait-emtsFeb. 11, 2021 8:15 PM EST
New video captures pepper-sprayed girl's wait for EMTs
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) A 9-year-old Black girl pepper sprayed by police pleaded please dont do this to me and it burns as she waited handcuffed in the back seat of a police cruiser for 16 minutes, according to new police body camera footage released Thursday.
The city of Rochester suspended police officers seen in an initial video released Sunday spraying a chemical irritant in the face of the distraught and handcuffed child. Mayor Lovely A. Warren said the city released almost 90 minutes of additional video from the Jan. 29 detainment in order to be transparent.
In the video, the girl can be heard wailing and whimpering that she wants her dad and saying her eyes are burning as an officer tells her an ambulance is on its way but has been slowed by the snowy roads.
Officer, please don't do this to me, she says at one point.
You did it to yourself, hon, the officer responds.
The girl asks multiple times when the ambulance will come to clean the pepper spray from her eyes and begs to have the handcuffs removed as the liquid runs into her mouth.
If you stick your head towards the window the cold air is going to feel nice, an officer tells her as the wait stretches on.
It's burning too bad, she says.
It's supposed to burn. It's called pepper spray, she is told.
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Cops do this to 9-year-old white girls all the time, no? (Original Post)
dalton99a
Feb 2021
OP
I don't come unglued much anymore. But this would do it. Jail that sadistic cop.
marble falls
Feb 2021
#6
I can't bring myself to click through. It's bad enough imagining what that child went through.
Hermit-The-Prog
Feb 2021
#11
OAITW r.2.0
(24,774 posts)1. As a white old guy that gives a fuck......
we need new community based policing standards. That is where it matters.
onecaliberal
(33,008 posts)2. :
sakabatou
(42,204 posts)3. WTF?!
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)4. Only one word for these cops,,,
Pigs
leftofthestorm
(939 posts)5. OMG
How horrible. I have no other words
marble falls
(57,537 posts)6. I don't come unglued much anymore. But this would do it. Jail that sadistic cop.
Dorian Gray
(13,535 posts)7. No
this would never happen to a nine year old white child.
This is horrifying, and the cops who did this will probably never see any consequence.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,522 posts)8. ACAB.
electric_blue68
(15,030 posts)9. That poor child. You DON'T do that kind of stuff.
A white child would not have been pepper sprayed. Shame!
Hekate
(91,039 posts)10. Sadism. I predict he has a long career ahead of him. Fckng sadistic bastard.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,563 posts)11. I can't bring myself to click through. It's bad enough imagining what that child went through.
malaise
(269,328 posts)12. Two words
Trump terrorists
Duppers
(28,134 posts)13. Yes. This ⬆⬆