Terrifying video: Police use pepper spray and handcuffs on nine-year-olds

Police use handcuffs and pepper spray against a nine-year-old girl in the US city of Rochester.

The case outraged many people - not least because the child is dark-skinned.

Rochester - These are shocking scenes that go around the world from Rochester.

A

girl screams helplessly in the back seat of a

, her hands are bandaged behind her back.

The child is vehemently opposed to the officials.

Shortly afterwards, they spray

on the girl's

face.

What begins as a common mission in a family quarrel ends with the

arresting a nine-year-old girl and

using

on her.

The

of the incident spreads online.

Many users are outraged by the extent of the police violence (* FR reported), especially since the

African-American.

Police violence against nine-year-old African American woman: "But I'm a child!"

“It's in my eyes,” screams the

and cries.

The

from the

city ​​of Rochester had

threatened

the

to use

- and then they did.

Although the nine year old

therefore begged to spare her.

According to a report in the

, the officers had previously

pushed the child into the snow to be

.

Again and again the

for her father, but the officials only replied: "Do not behave like a child".

The nine-year-old had no choice but to reply to them: “But I am a child!”.

The

came because the presumably mentally ill girl threatened to kill her mother and then herself, as Vice Police Chief Andre Anderson announced.

The video of the mission moves many people.

Numerous users comment on the YouTube clip, for example: "The police should be arrested".

The incident also sparked discussions on the subject of

.

One user wrote about: "The girl is lucky that the

did not feel threatened by her".

Otherwise the officers would have "emptied their magazines in her".

Police violence

against

is

still a big issue

in the

- and it is causing outrage around the world.

In 2013, the #BlackLivesMatter movement was formed on the internet and has been

organizing

protests against

since then

.

The last demonstration by the Black Lives Matter movement took place in 2020 when the Afro-American

killed by police officers.

In numerous German cities, too, people took to the streets for “Black Lives Matter” *.

* FR