New video shows girl saying: ‘Please don’t do this,’ to which officer replies: ‘You did it to yourself, hon’
A nine-year-old Black girl pepper sprayed by police begged “please don’t do this to me” and said “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 on Thursday.
The city of Rochester suspended police officers seen in an initial video from the 29 January detainment spraying a chemical irritant in the face of the distraught and handcuffed child. Mayor Lovely Warren said the city released almost 90 minutes of additional video in order to be transparent.
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