It's getting worse. Where are the good kops?
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is defending officers who were caught on camera handcuffing and detaining a 10-year-old boy during a search for a teen suspect. “They followed all of the rules and protocols that we have in place, so I’m not concerned about that at all,” Johnson said during a Wednesday press conference. Chicago’s WMAQ-TV obtained a video that captured the June 1 incident, which shows the fourth-grader handcuffed and crying in front of a police car.
According to Johnson, the officers were investigating multiple reports of a teenager who’d allegedly been seen “passing out a gun.”
A woman in the video, whom WMAQ-TV identifies as the boy’s grandmother, can be heard on the video questioning the officers about their reason for detaining her grandson. “You can see that he doesn’t have any weapons on him,” she said in the footage. “I raised up my grandbaby’s shirt. He don’t have anything on him. Take those handcuffs off of him.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...en-for-armed-teen_us_5b1973d1e4b0bbb7a0da89af
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is defending officers who were caught on camera handcuffing and detaining a 10-year-old boy during a search for a teen suspect. “They followed all of the rules and protocols that we have in place, so I’m not concerned about that at all,” Johnson said during a Wednesday press conference. Chicago’s WMAQ-TV obtained a video that captured the June 1 incident, which shows the fourth-grader handcuffed and crying in front of a police car.
According to Johnson, the officers were investigating multiple reports of a teenager who’d allegedly been seen “passing out a gun.”
A woman in the video, whom WMAQ-TV identifies as the boy’s grandmother, can be heard on the video questioning the officers about their reason for detaining her grandson. “You can see that he doesn’t have any weapons on him,” she said in the footage. “I raised up my grandbaby’s shirt. He don’t have anything on him. Take those handcuffs off of him.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...en-for-armed-teen_us_5b1973d1e4b0bbb7a0da89af
