A 9-year-old girl is in the back of a police car, handcuffed and crying after being pepper-sprayed amid a struggle with several officers who had been trying to detain her. “Officer,” she says between sobs to a female officer in the front of the car, “please don’t do this to me.”The officer’s matter-of-fact reply shows no sign of empathy. “You did it to yourself, hon,” she says. The exchange was included in extended police body-camera video of the Jan. 29 incident that Rochester, N.Y., officials released on Thursday, offering a fuller look at the troubling episode and touching off a fresh burst of fury over the officers’ treatment of a child in distress.

Source: International New York Times February 12, 2021 02:48 UTC