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The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts) Tue Feb 2, 2021, 09:52 AM Feb 2021

The police just don't get it. [View all]

Police tell 9 year old you are acting like a child. She screams I am a child.
They pepper spray her. That will teach her.
The filthy cop gets out of the car and say "unbelievable". Yea it is unbelievable, that you pepper sprayed a CHILD.
How the fuck do we solve this on going stupidity by police.

This situation was a perfect example of why mental health experts need to be part of every police department. This CHILD was having a mental health crisis and the police made it way worse. I don't see how you can call yourself a human and not understand what that CHILD was going through.

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The police just don't get it. [View all] The Jungle 1 Feb 2021 OP

She was in cuffs, no danger to them. safeinOhio Feb 2021 #1

Who cuffs a nine year old? 33taw Feb 2021 #4

That is very true. Stand back and let her calm down. The Jungle 1 Feb 2021 #5

Last year a family in my town called the police for their emotionally-disturbed son Binkie The Clown Feb 2021 #2

I remember reading that. How sad. And how horrible. CurtEastPoint Feb 2021 #3

I am guessing that was the Philadelphia case. The Jungle 1 Feb 2021 #6

Nope. Eugene/Springfield Oregon. And now that I think of it, it might have been 2 years ago. nt Binkie The Clown Feb 2021 #7

First, we call it for what it is. Child abuse WhiteTara Feb 2021 #8

We need to set up a system by which mental health experts will be available to assist police, and Nitram Feb 2021 #9