In a Facebook comment on her attorney’s video post, Ficker reveals that police not only sprayed the girl through the open door, but they also sprayed her from the inside of the vehicle “in the mouth through the partition between the front and back seats”.
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Attorney Robin Flicker, who posted the video of the abuse on his Facebook page, said the cops reportedly grabbed the five-feet tall, 105-pound girl and physically hauled her off the bike.
The law firm wrote in the comments section: “This is a girl they think needs treatment so they mace her through the side window and then mace her in the mouth through the partition between the front and back seats”. He also said the police contacted the hospital and ordered them not to take any photos of the girl’s chemical burns.
In the video, the girl is sitting in the backseat of a police auto, having an emotional confrontation with an unidentified police officer.
An officer can be heard saying, “put your feet in the auto, OK, or you’re going to get sprayed”.
An ambulance was called and the girl told paramedics that she didn’t want to go to the hospital.
She refuses to put her feet in the auto until an officer sprays from a small aerosol can through the partially open door.
Hagerstown Police Capt. Tom Langston said on September 21 that the police department is still trying to figure out what happened three days earlier, notes HeraldMailMedia.com.
“We’re reviewing the body camera footage”, he stated.
The teen was charged with disorderly conduct, two counts of second degree assault, possession of marijuana and failure to obey a traffic stop.
She came to somewhat dazed, checked herself for injuries and then got back on her bike and attempted to ride home.
One of the officers tells a concerned bystander, “All we want to do is make sure she’s OK”. So, a cop allegedly slammed her face into a wall. They then lifted her hands above her head and slammed her face into a wall, smashing her chin into a windowsill.
Ficker posted video to his Facebook page, claiming the girl was slammed against a wall, arrested for refusing medical treatment and sprayed with mace, while handcuffed in the back of the police auto.
But Ficker says police never took her to hospital.
‘They slammed her against a wall, arrested her for refusing treatment, maced her 4 times in the police vehicle while handcuffed, and took her to the police station instead of the hospital!’ he wrote on Facebook.
The girl’s charges will be handled by juvenile court.
Meanwhile, Hagerstown Police Capt. Tom Langston told the Hagerstown Herald-Mail that his department is trying to piece together what happened.
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He says the department is preparing to release police body-camera video of Sunday’s incident. Three hours after being pepper sprayed – she was finally able to wash her eyes.
