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Sunday morning was meant to be a girls outing for the Gilliams, as cousins, sisters, aunts and nieces piled into an SUV to go get their nails done together in suburban Denver.
But before they could even find an open salon, the familys four children were ordered at gunpoint to lay facedown on the parking lot, and two were handcuffed. The Black girls, who range from 6 to 17 years old, broke down into tears and screams as a group of White police officers hovered over them.
I want my mother, one of them can be heard wailing on a video of the incident, gasping for air between sobs. Cant I have my sister next to me?
Auroras police chief apologized on Monday night and launched an internal investigation after video of the incident quickly went viral. Police blamed a misunderstanding: The license plate number on a stolen motorcycle matched the familys blue SUV, and that car had been reported missing earlier this year, too.
But Brittney Gilliam, who had been driving her relatives to the salon, said the mix-up did not justify forcing her young relatives onto the pavement or putting two of them, ages 12 and 17, in handcuffs. She has since filed a complaint.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/colorado-police-apologize-over-viral-video-of-cops-handcuffing-black-girls-in-a-mistaken-stop/ar-BB17xHqX?li=BBnb7Kz
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)I always see motorcycles with giant, car-sized plates.
Lying idiots.
ProfessorGAC
(65,319 posts)They didn't know they were looking for a motorcycle?
Somebody gave them a license plate number but didn't mention the vehicle had only 2 wheels?
Besides, you know the cops could avoid apologizing?
Quit arresting kids because they're not white.
Simple!
spooky3
(34,510 posts)and apparently middle class or above, and told the police they were on their way to a salon, the police would have worried that there was a mixup before handcuffing anyone.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)uponit7771
(90,370 posts)... cause they're black, no doubt.
malaise
(269,237 posts)It is deliberate
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,475 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,226 posts)Police also clarified that another vehicle bearing the same license plate number as the Gilliams car was reported stolen on Sunday. That vehicle was a motorcycle from Montana, the Associated Press reported.
From another news source that this one did not include.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)"mixups" occur from dispatchers/headquarters getting things wrong.
I think Breonna Taylor's murder was a "mixup" from headquarters. No excuse.
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)Its highly unusual for a stolen vehicle to be packed full of grade school kids.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Not a single person in the world can view that as normal.