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dalton99a

(81,708 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 10:32 PM Feb 2021

Cops 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-emts

Feb. 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 don’t 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
As a white old guy that gives a fuck...... OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2021 #1
: onecaliberal Feb 2021 #2
WTF?! sakabatou Feb 2021 #3
Only one word for these cops,,, world wide wally Feb 2021 #4
OMG leftofthestorm Feb 2021 #5
I don't come unglued much anymore. But this would do it. Jail that sadistic cop. marble falls Feb 2021 #6
No Dorian Gray Feb 2021 #7
ACAB. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2021 #8
That poor child. You DON'T do that kind of stuff. electric_blue68 Feb 2021 #9
Sadism. I predict he has a long career ahead of him. Fckng sadistic bastard. Hekate Feb 2021 #10
I can't bring myself to click through. It's bad enough imagining what that child went through. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #11
Two words malaise Feb 2021 #12
Yes. This ⬆⬆ Duppers Feb 2021 #13

OAITW r.2.0

(24,774 posts)
1. As a white old guy that gives a fuck......
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 10:38 PM
Feb 2021

we need new community based policing standards. That is where it matters.

Dorian Gray

(13,535 posts)
7. No
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 10:46 PM
Feb 2021

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.

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