Pigs In New York Pepper-Spray And Arrest Black Woman Who Was With Her 3 Year Old Child....

[Simply_Black]

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/...r-pepper-sprays-mom-toddler-video/4601719001/


ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Rochester police are again facing questions over its officers' use of pepper spray — this time after spraying the irritant into the face of a woman as she held the hand of her 3-year-old child.

Video released Friday details the Feb. 22 encountes, coming less than one month after the department garnered international attention for pepper-spraying a handcuffed 9-year-old girl.

Both incidents involve police interactions with Black women and their children.

The latest occurred on Feb. 22, at a Rite Aid store, and involved an officer responding for the report of a theft.

Police responded to a reported theft from Rite Aid and encounter the woman and child on a sidewalk.

Feb. 3: Mother of 9-year-old girl pepper-sprayed by Rochester police intends to sue city

The woman denies stealing anything, opening and partially emptying her purse to show the officer. But then runs away, carrying the child, when the officer's attention is diverted, police body-worn camera footage shows. She is caught across the street, separated from the child, and taken the ground.

The child is screaming and crying and, as the woman gets up and grabs for her daughter, she is sprayed and taken down a second time. A brief, near tug-of-war then occurs over the child before the woman releases (or is forced to release) her grip.

The child was not pepper sprayed directly, but officials viewing the footage worry she could have been exposed and have questioned how police dealt with the child.

"These disturbing incidents prove that the Rochester Police Department needs to fundamentally change its organizational culture," read a statement from the city's Police Accountability Board. "These incidents also affirm our community's call to fundamentally reimagine public safety."

The woman ultimately was charged with trespassing, given an appearance ticket, "as the store confirmed she knocked a number of items off of the shelf and refused repeated requests to leave," Interim Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan wrote in a March 4 email to City Council President Loretta Scott.

Details of the case were made public by the PAB at a Friday morning press conference. As that was concluding, police released the video footage, and a statement that one officer had been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation.

 

[respiration]

Rochester police need to be dismantled. Fuck defunding.

 

[durham]

WTF is wrong with this particular Police department: angry:

 

[TENT]

She tried to run from police with a kid in her arms? Come on.

 

[Empire]

Rochester has a black mayor & a black police chief!

I thought getting black people in power positions were suppose to change things!

 

[EPDC]

The woman denies stealing anything, opening and partially emptying her purse to show the officer. But then runs away, carrying the child, when the officer's attention is diverted, police body-worn camera footage shows. She is caught across the street, separated from the child, and taken the ground.

I was ready to go off on the RPD but this has me questioning why would she try to run away?

I don't want to come off like I'm blaming the victim here but getting Pepper sprayed is an expected result if one tries to run away after getting stopped by the police.

Should the police have handled this better? Absolutely.

Should she have thought about the safety of her daughter instead of trying to run away from the cops? Absolutely.

Don't put your kids in what can be a dangerous situation if you don't have to.

 

[Cannibal]

The problem is this, it keeps happening. Now I ask myself does this happen to white people, are white 9 year old little girls getting maced when they misbehave? Maybe they don't misbehave..hmmm, maybe they are little perfect angels that follow all instructions. Do white women with children steal and resist arrest? Maybe they do, and get caught and get maced but they don't get the media attention. Not sure, but as sure as shit, this shit keeps happening to black people with media coverage at the hands of racist white men in police uniform. That lady put herself in a bad situation, but I just wonder if she had been white, would she had been maced? If Ahmad Arbury had been white? If George Floyd had been white? If Tamir Rice or Elijah McClain had been white? If the Gilliam family where children were forced to the ground a gunpoint and handcuffed by police, wonder if they had been white? I wonder if the same thing would have happened. Of course not, let's not begin to fool ourselves. Bro, these racists maced a handcuffed 9 year old for not putting her legs in the police car. You ever heard of a little white child being handcuffed? How bout a white child being maced? These motherfuckers have no compassion for us, it's 0. Meanwhile at the White House, they allowed white men to literally beat them to death and attempted to not lift a finger in defense of themselves. Don't matter bruh if she put herself in that situation or not, I don't hear about this shit happening to pink toes at the same rate and there are more of them.