{"id":314989,"date":"2021-02-12T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=314989"},"modified":"2021-02-12T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:48:29","slug":"nine-year-old-black-girl-begged-us-police-for-help-after-being-pepper-sprayed-new-video-reveals-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=314989","title":{"rendered":"Nine-year-old black girl begged US police for help after being pepper sprayed, new video reveals | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"
A nine-year-old black girl pepper sprayed by police begged “please don’t do this to me” and “it’s burning my eyes” as she waited handcuffed in the back seat of a police car for 16 minutes, according to new police bodycam footage.<\/p>\n

Officials in Rochester, New York, suspended the officers involved following the 29 January incident – and have now released almost 90 minutes of additional video to be transparent, said the city’s mayor, Lovely Warren.<\/p>\n

It comes amid growing anger following the release of footage at the time showing officers – responding to a report of “family trouble” – restraining the girl, who was distraught and screaming for her father.<\/p>\n

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At one point, an officer is heard telling her to “stop acting like a child”, to which she cried: “I am a child.”<\/p>\n

The new footage released on Thursday showed the wait until an ambulance arrived for the girl.<\/p>\n

It shows officers growing increasingly impatient with the child as they tried to get her into the police car.<\/p>\n

“I want a girl officer,” pleads the child, as one officer comes forward and urges the girl to lift her legs into the car and “sit back”.<\/p>\n

“I want to see my dad,” the girl cries.<\/p>\n

“I am going to go and get your dad,” replies the officer. “I will call him. Come on, sit back.”<\/p>\n

“They are losing their patience,” she says, apparently referring to the other male officers at the scene.<\/p>\n

“I can’t find your dad until you sit back and I close the door… I will find your dad, so sit back, I promise… just sit, hun.<\/p>\n

“I am going to pepper spray you and I don’t want to, so sit back,” the officer continues.<\/p>\n

“Sit back, come on. This is your last chance otherwise pepper spray is going in your eyeballs. Come on. Let’s go.”<\/p>\n

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The child, wearing flowered leggings and a black sweatshirt, refuses and is sprayed with a chemical irritant and begs the officer to “stop” and screams: “My eyes! Wipe my eyes, please!”<\/p>\n

“Officer, please don’t do this to me.”<\/p>\n

“You did it to yourself, hun,” replies the policewoman.<\/p>\n

“It’s burning my eyes,” says the girl.<\/p>\n

“That’s the point of a pepper spray, The ambulance is on it’s way and they will clear your eyes out,” the officer responds.<\/p>\n

“The pepper spray is burning my eyes… It’s going into my mouth,” cries the child.<\/p>\n

At one point, a male officer can be heard saying “it’s supposed to burn”.<\/p>\n

The girl also complains “the handcuffs are too tight” several times.<\/p>\n

“Get it out my eyes, it hurts,” she cries, referring again to the chemical, and asks several times when the ambulance will arrive to clean her eyes.<\/p>\n

The child is eventually driven away from the scene by paramedics, and is accompanied by the policewoman who reassures her that she is with an all-female ambulance crew, suggesting the girl’s eyes are shut tight because of the pepper spray.<\/p>\n

The girl’s mother said she called police during an argument with her husband, but asked officers to call mental health services when it became clear her daughter was very upset.<\/p>\n

The police body camera video shows numerous police cars and officers at the scene.<\/p>\n

Police said the girl disobeyed commands to put her feet in the car and that an officer was then “required” to spray an “irritant” in the handcuffed girl’s face.<\/p>\n

Governor Andrew Cuomo said the new footage was “even more shocking and disturbing” than the first video.<\/p>\n

“New Yorkers in every corner of the state are sickened by these actions and as a father of three daughters, I’m furious,” he said in a statement.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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