Video surfaces of a D.C. cop forcibly handcuffing a 9-year-old

[Satanica]

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The video, which aired on WTTG, shows an officer chasing after a small boy who was leaning against a car and apparently talked back to the officer. Racine called the video "obviously concerning."

It depicts the boy "being horse-collared by the officer," DC Councilman Charles Allen told CNN. He said the video would cause "distrust and damage," for the whole community's relationship with law enforcement.

A spokeswoman for DC's Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to CNN that "MPD officers were in the vicinity during their normal patrol, making contact with residents when the incident occurred. The nine year-old boy was not charged with any crimes. As with all use of force incidents, this is currently under internal investigation."

She pointed to MPD's general orders, posted on the department's website, which discuss police procedures for handling juveniles.
MPD hasn't released the name of the officer who made the arrest.

"Even if the officer complied with the procedures, this still happened," Allen said.
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The video comes after a similar incident in March, in which a 10-year-old was arrested.

Allen wants to make sure these run-ins between cops and kids don't keep happening.

He chairs the DC Council's judiciary and public safety committees, and due to juvenile confidentiality laws in the district, could not discuss the child's name or further details about the case.

Racine announced his office will take a number of steps, including surveying practices across the country to "identify best practices related to police interaction with children."

Racine's office will compare those findings with DC's current methods and propose changes if necessary.

"We look forward to working together with MPD and the Mayor's office to ensure District children are treated with the highest level of care and safety," Racine said.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/us/washington-dc-police-handcuff-boy-trnd/index.html

 

[Maurice Les]

Figures, cops need to exercise their inner bullies every day just to stay happy. They handcuff 9 year olds after beating them down with blackjacks, not to mention waterboarding 6 month olds and pepper spraying preemies. They go home, bite their dogs, smack their wives, eat a good anabolic steroids dinner, do 5000 push ups, and jack off to BestGore before getting 15 minutes of sleep, getting up at midnight and going back to work patrolling the halls of local nursing homes, seeing whose catheter bag they can rip out just for kicks. But guardians of law, justice, and protectors of the life and well being of citizens they ain't!!!

 

[Sejanus]

Oh yes nothing like a badge of firearm and beating up on a nine-year-old kid. Really makes you feel like a man gets the juices flowing! He must feel so good about himself god what a tough fella. So what's his follow-up?
Take a taser to his nuts until they turn into popcorn