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Police handcuff, pepper-spray black nine-year-old girl in US city of Rochester
US police officers who were caught on camera pepper-spraying a nine-year-old girl have been suspended while the incident is investigated.
Key points:
- Officers told the nine-year-old she was “acting like a child”
- Police said they were responding to an emergency call reporting “family trouble”
- The incident comes almost 12 months after a black man died from suffocation after Rochester police put a hood over his head
Police in Rochester, New York, said they were responding to an emergency call about a family disturbance on Friday when the incident occurred.
Body-worn camera footage showed police wrestling the girl to the ground in the snow.
“I am a child,” the girl, who appears to be black, says…
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