Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year. A Striking Number Are Black Girls.

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We examined dozens of incidents in which police used force on Black girls. Many started small but escalated when a girl talked back to an officer or did not immediately follow instructions.

Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year. A Striking Number Are Black Girls.
themarshallproject.org
7:56 AM · Nov 6, 2021

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/11/02/police-hurt-thousands-of-teens-every-year-a-striking-number-are-black-girls

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — On a warm September Sunday in 2016, a small Black teenager in a pink T-shirt biked through narrow city streets and rolled into an intersection. So did a Chevy Cruze, driven by an 85-year-old man heading home from church.

The next thing 15-year-old Brianna Stuart knew, she was lying dazed on the pavement, she said in an interview. The driver alerted 911 about the accident.

Her mom would be so mad at her, she thought. Her parents had warned her never to talk to police without them in this majority-White community — and told her not to bike in this part of town.

She cursed at officers trying to question her and climbed back on her Huffy.

White officers pulled the 100-pound girl off her bike by her backpack straps, a police body camera video shows. As she struggled to get away, they shoved her against a building and locked her wrists into cuffs while she sobbed and cursed and screamed.

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But the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said that Black girls have more frequent contacts with officers, as both suspects and victims of crimes, which may explain why they also experience police force more often than other girls.

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Poor kids.

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6. Shocking, unfortunately not surprising.