Did you guys hear about that 15 year old girl who got hit by a car but then felt okay and refused medical treatment so cops at the scene forcibly arrested her, handcuffed her, picked her up and threw her in the back of a cop car and then pepper sprayed her four times.
But yeah, “the police are really working on protecting the public.”
¯_(ツ)_/¯
The police cannot release a potentially injured minor child to the general public without approval of the parents. She refused to give contact information to the police for her parents stating “they watching a football game.” and “I’ma get in trouble.”
When they asked for her parent’s information again she tried to get on her bike and flee the scene. The police are in a bind at this point as if she goes home injured they are liable for any complications or her death should that arise. She was reportedly struck by a car and was not wearing a helmet so there was (IMO) a possibility of a head injury or spinal injury that even the girl may have been unaware of. The officer simply took her by the arm and told her she couldn’t leave until her parents showed up. She kicked him and struggled with him for several minutes until he made the decision to cuff her. At that point she started screaming and struggling and it took two officers to put the cuffs on. Several passers-by started to interfere at this point and the officers tried to put her in the police car where she started deliberately blocking the car door from closing by putting her limbs in the way and became more combative.
The pepper spray was an attempt to get her to cooperate. It is painful and annoying but doesn’t do permanent harm.
The irony of this situation is that people are pissed off because the police are bound by law and regulation to detain children for medical evaluation in an accident because children were released before and were found to be injured or died from undetected injuries without anyone knowing they were hurt.
The police were bound by law to do what they did and it was for the protection of children in the first place. Her attacking the police and throwing the tantrum was the wrong done here.
It used to happen all the time with head trauma. Kids fall at school and get a bump on the head with a small cut and they were sent home and died that night when they went to sleep because they had a brain bleed or some other undetected injury that killed them.
Now every anarchist with toddlers and every anarchist with no kids will jump in and call me a bootlicker but those of us who have raised kids older than toddlers understand that the kids will take a vicious blow to the head and be in real pain but so interested in playing or going somewhere they will act unhurt and then suffer complications and even die. Car versus bike accidents kill two people a day and injure 50,000 people a year. This is no joke and if that was my daughter or my son at that age they would have already been told to just give the police my cell and other contact information and make sure they call me before they get into the police car, but not to fight with police officers. That is not a way to get a positive outcome from the situation.
Tag yourself, I’m “the pepper spray was an attempt to get her to cooperate”.
@iamsineater·, meanwhile, is this entire caterwauling somersault of an attempt to defend the police en masse
by defending its individual members
by arguing the outcome of that situation was the result not of personal iniquity on the part of those officers
but of following standard procedure.
tl;dr “they arrested and pepper-sprayed an injured child” “IT’S OKAY, THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO.”