Posted on 09/22/2016 12:51:37 PM PDT by Theoria
Police pepper-sprayed a 15-year-old girl and charged her as a juvenile with assault and disorderly conduct after her bicycle hit a car, prompting disagreement Wednesday about whether the officers acted properly.
Hagerstown Police Capt. Paul Kifer said the white officer who arrested the mixed-race girl had to subdue her with chemical spray to get her into a cruiser for a ride to the police station Sunday.
Kifer said the girl had refused to cooperate with police trying to question her about the accident and find a parent to authorize her refusal to receive medical treatment from paramedics on the scene.
"The investigation had to be done," Kifer said. He said that while she appeared uninjured, police also wanted to make sure the girl wasn't hurt and find out who she was.
"At that point, as would be even with an adult, if you're refusing to give us information on a traffic situation, at that point you can be arrested until we determine who you are," he said.
Kifer said investigators determined that the girl caused the accident. She's also charged with failure to obey a traffic device and marijuana possession. Kifer refused to publicly identify her, citing privacy concerns.
Several officers involved in the girl's arrest remain on duty while the department investigates, Kifer said. The department is preparing to release police body-camera video of the incident, he said.
Attorney Robin Ficker, retained by the mother, said police should have taken the diminutive girl to a hospital, as her father did after picking her up at the station. Ficker said she wasn't admitted but suffered sprained muscles and soreness everywhere, including her wrists from being handcuffed. He said she's been unable to participate in high school soccer and wrestling practice.
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Another one that will be making the rounds.
15 year old out of control with bag full of pot. Good role model for next protest.
Yeah, the natives are all restless, already.
I even saw this on Fox 5 news this AM, but with a totally incorrect spin...”poor little girl gets hit by car, then brutalized by cops”.
Utter BS.
Riots sell advertising.
TV lady has to make a living too.
But our cops are not like other cops.
They expect to bring this crap to Hillbilly Heaven.
It’s not going to work out like they planned.
Already, the cops are being backed by most of the locals.
Some good news for a change.
Obey police instructions, or get sprayed, tased or shot.
Your choice.
Looks like a major waste of equipment to me, like justifying next year’s larger budget.
Re : Post #8 ~ Obey police instructions, or get sprayed, tased or shot.
Your choice.
Exactly!
Dumbass kid...
‘mixed-race girlz’
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She part white? If so, I’m gonna loot. Tiffany’s, BMW dealership - here I come!!
Should have shot the bitch.
Now I sent 15 minutes watching the video. Illuminating. Her parents should be embarrassed and apologizing to the police and the community, not complaining. And, drugs on her, of course she should be out of school events, isn’t there a zero-tolerance policy in that regard?
The police were concerned with her safety, so they decided to take her to the police station and charge her instead of a hospital from what I can tell.
Won’t be the last time she sees the backseat of a police car.
People out here support our sheriff’s department-the only ones who don’t are the meth cookers/dealers, and their customers...
I don’t see that s*** working out in any rural area-aka redneck country-people who get too radical in an argument are usually dealt with by neighbors-no need to bother the sheriff-imported looters and rioters would be dealt with just like anyone else trespassing to steal stuff-with a warning to get off the property-and a shotgun pointed in their direction...
The officers acted with great patience and restraint for many minutes.
I think that once they had her in the patrol car they could have made her put her feet inside without pepper-spraying her by having an officer on the other side haul her over. But that would mean closing that door near her head which might be against department policy.
And perhaps they might have explained more clearly at the beginning: “Legally, we do not have the option to let you go. Because you are a minor, we are required to release you to your parents. Your parents, not you, must decide if you should go to the hospital.” But she was so out of control she might not have processed that. Too bad. IMO the screams were a total put on.
I have been at a number of scenes where adolescents had to be released to their parents, whether they were uninjured at the scene of an accident, or they were intoxicated but not so much as to require hospitalzation. None of them were resistant, abusive, or stupid like this.
Well, she has her ten minutes now.
Robin Ficker
That immense jackass is still around. He was a moron when I lived there decades ago.
Common hood rat.
Marko
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