3 white police officers abuse and pepper spray 9 year old girl in Rochester, NY

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2. This is a prime example of when social workers should be deployed with cops to...

handle out-of-control situations. The child is distraught from seeing a domestic argument/possible battering between her mother and father.

The cop is trying to control the girl when the mother arrives. The girl thinks the mother stabbed her father but the mother says the blood came from the father socking her in the nose and the girls know tha the father has hit her many times. The girl refuses to believe her and keeps yelling for her father.

It's a tough to handle situation and the cops showed restraint IMO. I watched both videos and I didn't see pepper spraying even when they got the girl in the police car. The child kept yelling for her dad and wouldn't let the female cop, who called to handle her, close the car door.

It was a sad situation. A social worker needed to be as the child was entirely out of control.