Rochester Police officers handcuff and pepper-spray a 9-year-old girl after call of 'family trouble'

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/us/rochester-police-pepper-spray-child/index.html

(CNN)Police officers in Rochester, New York, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl on Wednesday while responding to what a police official called a report of "family trouble" in an incident sharply criticized by city officials.

Two body camera videos of the incident released by the police department on Sunday show officers restraining the child, putting her in handcuffs and attempting to get her inside the back of a police vehicle as she repeatedly cries and calls for her father.

After the girl fails to follow commands to put her feet inside the car, the officers are then seen pepper-spraying her.

The girl was transported to Rochester General Hospital, where she was later released, according to Rochester Deputy Police Chief Andre Anderson.

The incident has troubling similarities to the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in March after Rochester police pinned him to the ground and placed a hood over his head as he experienced a mental health crisis.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. FTP. ACAB.

[dawg day]

2. This is why there should be a social worker unit-

A social worker or counselor would have known how to deal with a child in distress without pepper spray or handcuffs.