The weather was well below freezing and there was snow on the ground when a 9-year-old Black girl, dressed in leggings and a hoodie, asked the Rochester police officers trying to force her into the back seat of a squad car if they could at least brush her off.
“Can you please get the snow off of me? It’s cold,” she said.
“You had your chance,” replies one of the officers. “Get in the car, now!” shouts another.
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Officers were responding to a 911 call reporting “family trouble” that snowy Friday. The 9-year-old, who hasn’t been named since she’s a minor, “indicated that she wanted to kill herself, and she wanted to kill her mom,” according to the city’s deputy police chief, Andre Anderson. During her tormented encounter with the police, which was captured on an officer’s body camera, the girl tried running away from the officers and kept screaming that she wanted her dad.
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