A 9-Year-Old Girl, Pepper-Sprayed By Police: Experts Breakdown What Went Wrong - NPR

[ItsjustMe]

On a frigid late January afternoon, Rochester, N.Y., police responded to a reported domestic disturbance on the city's north side. Thirty minutes later, a 9-year-old girl was handcuffed, forced into a squad car and pepper-sprayed in her eyes.

She is Black. The officers are white. NPR is not identifying her because she is a minor.

Police body camera footage of the encounter sparked outrage and fresh scrutiny of how police treat people in distress.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/09/974896307/what-went-wrong-analysis-of-police-handcuffing-pepper-spraying-9-year-old-girl

[LuvLoogie]

1. Expert Analysis? What went wrong?

LOL. how far back should we go?

Wrong is wrong. Adults assaulting a child, for ANY supposed reason, is wrong.

Period.

[Ray Bruns]

2. I think it started around the year 1619.

[LuvLoogie]

5. The DOJ has to dismantle these fucking departments

There has to be a way to dethug the police.

[johnthewoodworker]

3. Racist Nazis love police work.

[magicguido]

4. Never Never Never call the cops for a family crisis. Never

[markpkessinger]

7. Chances are they merely called 911 . . .

. . . and unfortunately, most 911 call centers dispatch the police, irrespective of what kind of emergency it is.

[samsingh]

6. shameless. how do these cowards live with themselves?