Saturday, April 23, 2005

Video of Police Handcuffed 5-Year-Old Girl Released

Remember this story? Well, there's been an update.
The 30-minute tape shows the child appearing to calm down before three officers pinned her arms behind her back and put on handcuffs as she screamed, "No!"

The camera was rolling March 14 as part of a classroom self-improvement exercise at Fairmount Park Elementary, attorney John Trevena said.

Trevena, who provided the tape to the media this week, said he got it from police.

"The image itself will be seared into people's minds when you have three police officers bending a child over a table and forcibly handcuffing her," said Trevena, who represents the girl's mother, Inga Akins.
I have this bad feeling this will come as another black mark for the men in blue. Unfortunately, I have yet to see the video myself, and there was no link to it on Yahoo!

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