Seattle police maced a child... Then refused to give his badge number.

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

Holy shit.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Has he been identified yet?

This happened yesterday and has been posted on Twitter. Someone must have recognized him by now.

[captain queeg]

2. WTF is this taping over your badge number? And camera no doubt!

[gulliver]

3. I don't see proof. Yes, the cop should be fired for taping over his badge number.

Did the cop "mace the child?" If there's no proof, it should not be posted.

Also, any parent allowing their child to participate in a protest where there might be violence should be fired as a parent.

[Rebl2]

9. No children

should not be taken to protests where there is a good probability that mace/pepper spray and rubber bullets might be used. Also NO cop should be taping over their badge number and should be cause for being fired.

[demmiblue]

12. It appears that many on the police line taped their badges.

In Detroit, many people brought their children to the protest, but it was very peaceful (until the sun went down). But approaching a police line like this with your child... nope.

[doc03]

4. Did this really happen? We have two still pictures one of the girl and a separate

one of a COP. That could easily be faked. I see no evince the COP actually did it. If a video can be provided I will agree
but this is could just be faked to stir up more trouble. Too much misinformation being shared on social media.

[demmiblue]

5. ...

Video shows milk poured over face of child pepper-sprayed in Seattle protest

SEATTLE - People poured milk over the face of a distressed child Saturday afternoon as police deployed pepper spray against protesters.

Photographer Evan Hreha told Storyful that people who had seen the incident claimed that a Seattle police officer had sprayed the child with mace. The police department has been contacted for comment.

This video, filmed by Hreha, shows the child screaming as people in the vicinity attempted to help her by pouring milk over her face.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a 5 p.m. curfew for the entire city Saturday and Washingon Gov. Jay Inslee activated the National Guard after rioters torched police vehicles and spilled onto Interstate 5, forcing the freeway’s temporary closure through the central part of the Northwest’s largest city.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/video-shows-milk-poured-over-face-of-child-pepper-sprayed-in-seattle-protest

[doc03]

6. I see no evidence proving it. Besides that who brings a child to a f---g riot where

people are setting fires and cops are shooting rubber bullets and mace?

[TheBlackAdder]

22. Yeah, that seems to invite a CPS call.

[LisaM]

23. And during a pandemic?

Sorry, but that is wholly irresponsible. By the time things got going in Seattle, it was pretty clear from footage all over the resr of the country that things could get violent.

[Raster]

7. Any police officer, anywhere in this country that has tape over his badge number...

...and/or body cam should be terminated ON. THE. SPOT.

[uponit7771]

8. Need to see whole video, wouldn't put it past them seeing what happened in Miami

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. What a disgusting pig

[LakeArenal]

11. If they tape the badge number...

Are they really police? I think that no ID by police means I don’t have to obey them.

Wow. Now we need actual video for proof?
That’s bullshit. Especially if bodycam is taped or off.

How many black men will continue to die if we need video of an incident?

[cwydro]

13. This is horrible, but children should not be at the protests.

No way.

That guy will be identified. Whether he'll be punished is another case altogether.

[EllieBC]

15. And during a pandemic.

Whether you worry about them being super spreaders or about them catching it, they should not be in massive throngs of people like that.

[cwydro]

16. Jeez, yes. Very bad judgement on the parents' part.

Doesn't excuse the cop, assuming it happened.

[Ms. Toad]

21. I went to civil rights protests when I was her age.

While I agree that taking a child to an event where violence is expected is inappropriate, taking a child to what is planned as a peaceful protest is not. It is an important step in teaching your child to stand up for their beliefs by exercising their first amendment rights.

There were many daytime protests that were carried out peacefully yesterday - including some that turned violent only after police responded poorly, night was approacing, or outside agitators intervened.

[EllieBC]

14. That is awful! And what kind of parent

takes their child to protests that have been turning violent???

Children are not accessories!

[haele]

17. A parent who can't get a babysitter and may have inadvertently run into a police line when leaving.

It was still daylight. The family could have been there for the peaceful march - which was downtown where there is limited parking, from what I remember - and ran afoul of a line of pissed off police who decided to teach some "uppity, ungrateful Cits" a lesson for the disrespect shown to their choice of profession.
Lots of people take their kids to demonstrate a civic duty under the 1st. Amendment, even some DU'ers (Occupy Wall Street, Women's March, Iraq War protest, etc..)

The major cause of this girl's distress is probably not due to her parents, but with increased militarization of the role of Public Safety officer. There's a decreased attitude of " we are part of a public service" and an increased attitude of "we are warriors enforcing a comfortable status quo for be big folks in charge".
Cops are being trained to act as mercenaries for the local big wigs that hire them; taught that everyone else are animals out to get them. That they are nothing more than a fungible component of a security team.

Haele

[EllieBC]

19. We are still in a pandemic.

Half the people here as well as in real life flip their shit about people being out in groups. Suddenly it’s perfectly fine?

I think the cop needs to be found and fired. I also think the parents need a damn parenting class.

And on edit: as parents we miss out on a lot of things because we are parents. We miss out on get-togethers, concerts, movie premieres, sometimes even important things like weddings and funerals. Parents often miss out on a lot of things because we don’t have babysitters.

Children should never be at a protest. Even in the best of times it’s a dangerous situation and a stupid choice by parents with poor judgment.

[PSPS]

18. Seattle police hide/tape over their badges when doing this kind of thing. 1999 WTO protests too.

[SeattleVet]

24. Last night on the scanner I heard Seattle PD (on their TAC-2 channel)

reminding officers to 'turn off the video'. Sounded almost like they didn't want any bodycam evidence that might possibly be subpoenaed later on.

[Marrah_Goodman]

25. I hope that family sues the shit out the department

It can pay for their college.