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I would have immediately put out a county wide call for as many female cops as possible, when 3 or 4 show up, have them play angry mommy on her and throw her in the vehicle.

The reason that child was rigid with terror is that she is already living with an angry mommy and is in a state of severe neglect. Somebody needed to play loving mommy.

It was a disgrace that the cops were asking each other after 15 minutes of harassing that child what her name was. Why didn't one of the cops ask the child herself what her name was immediately, before ordering her around? That's just basic respecty for human dignity. First, recognize that she is not basically defiant, but basically terrified. Become her ally in a bad situation with her parents and tell her what steps are going to happen and enlist her cooperation, reassuring her that they are going to get her some people to help her while her parents are having difficulty. Get a blanket from the car and wrap it around her shoulders and give her a side hug to help her get a hold of herself. She was obviously an intelligent child, which makes this worse on her.

Instead, they spoke contemptuously like—forgive the expression—nazis. Rolled her in the snow and then cuffed her so she couldn't brush it off her bared stomach, even though she begged for the chance. Threatened her instead of using quiet, confident reassuraing voices. Quite a contrast from those hoked-up cop reality shows where the officers call degenerate hippie drunks "sir" and speak ever so sweetly when they know they're going to be on TV.

Somebody needed to play loving mommy.

Ya, they should have done a donut run code 3, and brought back some hot chocolate and cream filled chocolate donuts to alleviate the situation.

Seriously now, they should have sent in a college professor, and a couple of social workers. In fact, they should send in these people for every domestic dispute. I would pay to watch those videos.☺

I think becoming ally of the child is impossible in that situation. Her repeated calls for her dad tell me that is a canned response she was told to make in this situation. Definitely a sign that she sees them for the Nazi’s.

Cops are going into this without any cooperation by anyone involved. My question is why they were even arresting a 9 year old? Sounds like they should either have left or stayed and gotten the second parent and social worker involved.