Her lawyer said she was afraid to go with police she did not know. Before he draws any conclusions or makes any determination about the actions of the police officers, the mayor reportedly wants to see “the results of a police use-of-force investigation”.
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Hagerstown Police Chief Victor Brito strongly defended the actions of the officers in a news conference Thursday, saying the girl had become “assaultive” and “combative” and would not cooperate with police.
The girl’s charges will be handled by juvenile court.
The video, which clearly shows the girl in shock and suffering from anxiety, was released on the Facebook page of the girl’s lawyer, and has since gone viral.
According to Ficker, the biracial girl was resisting when police put her in the back of the police auto which is about when the video picks up.
“Calm down”, he says repeatedly as she tearfully pleads for Zack’s assistance.
She came to somewhat dazed, checked herself for injuries and then got back on her bike and attempted to ride home. However, since she was non-compliant, officers did have to take her to the station, however they could.
Body-camera videos of police pepper-spraying a 15-year-old girl in Maryland have touched off an uproar.
Capt. Paul Kifer said Wednesday that the white officers who arrested the mixed-race girl acted properly.
“We’re trying to help you”, one officer says, explaining that they need to contact her parents, since she’s a minor.
But police did not take her to a hospital, Ficker said. He declined to identify them.
“We’re reviewing the body camera footage”, he stated. Finally, two officers cuff the girl’s hands behind her back and hold her down by her shoulders as they tell her to stop resisting.
A bystander, possibly the person filming the scene, asks why the girl is being held in the squad vehicle, and another cop tells him: “Because she’s a minor, she’s under 18, the paramedics need to take a look at her, and she can’t refuse by herself”. She continues to say that she doesn’t want to get in trouble.
The officers then shut the door, unloaded a can of pepper spray into the back seat through a cracked window as waited as the girl continued to cry, screaming that she cannot breathe.
“Put your feet in, you’re going to get sprayed, ” an officer says. “You let that badge go to your head”, one onlooker tells an officer.
The officer reports to a dispatcher that a “female got pepper sprayed” and the cruiser drives off to the station in Hagerstown, a city of 40,000 about 70 miles west of Baltimore.
Kifer says police needed to question her about the accident and find a parent to sign off on her refusal to receive medical treatment. A driver claimed that the teen ignored a traffic signal and rode her bicycle into his vehicle.
The teen, who was later charged with disorderly conduct, assault and possession of marijuana, has sought legal advice.
In this Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016 video frame grab from a body camera released by the Hagerstown (Md.) police, an officer speaks with a 15-year-old girl in Hagerstown, Md.
“This little girl, 5 ft”.
According to Flicker, the girl – who is the daughter of a white mother and a black father – was riding her bike on Sunday afternoon when she was struck by a vehicle. “They do not seatbelt her and never take her to the hospital for treatment”.
Ficker, retained by the mother, posted a bystander’s cellphone video on Facebook Tuesday.
She was then taken to the Hagerstown Police Station, where her father met up with her.
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He said she’s been unable to participate in high school soccer and wrestling practice. “He told me, ‘No, I did not, ‘” the mother said. The teen then asks to “get off the ground”, but the officer tells her she’s “staying right there”.
