The city of Philadelphia has reached a $2 million settlement with Rickia Young, a young Black mother whose toddler was used for police propaganda, her lawyers say, after she was violently ripped from her SUV alongside her 16-year-old nephew and beaten last year. “I will not forget what those officers did to us that night,” Young said at a news conference Tuesday. “This child was lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness,” the caption on the since-deleted post read. “The only thing this Philadelphia Police Officer cared about in that moment was protecting this child.”1/ This post by @GLFOP is a lie. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney called the incident “appalling” in a statement on Tuesday and said he hoped the “settlement and investigations into the officers’ actions bring some measure of closure to Ms. Young and her family.”

Source: Huffington Post September 16, 2021 18:00 UTC