19 y/o black girl beaten by police and maliciously attacked by police dog

[EmeraldHeart 335]

On the day Tatyana Hargrove rode her bike to try to buy her dad a Father’s Day gift, temperatures in Bakersfield, Calif., had reached triple digits, so she stopped on the way home to take a drink of water in the shade.

The 19-year-old girl turned around at the intersection where she had paused and noticed three police cars. One of the officers, she said, had already drawn his gun.

What followed, according to both Hargrove and police, was a case of mistaken identity and an altercation in which police punched Hargrove in the mouth, unleashed a police K-9 dog on her and arrested her. Though the incident took place June 18, it gained wider attention this week after the Bakersfield chapter of the NAACP shared a video of Hargrove’s account on its Facebook page that garnered millions of views.

On the day police stopped Hargrove, officers had been looking for a suspect — described as a 25- to 30-year-old, bald black man standing 5-foot-10 and weighing about 170 pounds — who had threatened several people with a machete at a nearby grocery store, according to a police report.

“She appeared to be a male and matched the description of the suspect that had brandished the machete and was also within the same complex the suspect had fled to,” Christopher Moore, the arresting officer, wrote in his report.

But Hargrove is none of those things.

For starters, she is female. She stands 5-foot-2 and weighs 115 pounds “soaking wet,” according to her father in a widely shared video of Hargrove’s account of the incident posted on the Facebook page for the Bakersfield chapter of the NAACP.

In the video, Hargrove stands with a pair of crutches near the intersection where she was stopped by police and described how one of the officers demanded she give him her backpack, she said.

When she asked if they had a warrant, one of the officers gestured toward a police K-9 behind him, she said.

“I then got scared and then I was like, here, take the backpack, just take the backpack,” Hargrove added.

After that, she said in the video, the officer grabbed her by her wrist, then punched her and threw her onto the ground; shortly afterward, the police K-9 “came and started eating at my leg.”

The same officer then put his knee on her back and other knee against her head, despite her protests, she said.

“I told him ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’ and then I started yelling out, ‘Somebody help me, somebody help me! They’re gonna kill me!’” she said. “And then finally, he let me up, he tied my hands behind my back and then he tied my feet together and he threw me in the back of the car.”

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/12/i-told-him-i-cant-breathe-police-punch-teen-girl-after-mistaking-her-for-black-male-suspect/?utm_term=.e03142c36140

[Buddy 5,686]

This is disgusting 

[Lanius 1,055]

Oh My God. This is ridiculous. Please tell me the officers have been arrested and charged

[Irrelevant 20,293]

Glad she's okay

She got ****ing arrested for drinking water?

What a Father's Day

I hate this world

[DeleteMyAccount 11,881]

Nothing will ever been done about this though. And people wonder why tensions with police have been rising. Rising since forever... Also, please note that we should be very thankful that technology has allowed for us to capture police encounters. YOU have the legal right to film the police. 

[Kermit 15,807]

wtfff

[Lanius 1,055]

Those Injuries  and the fact they charged her with some bullshit resisting  arrest and assault when they acknowledge that it was mistaken Identity. Now I see why my dad told me to keep my ID on me at all times

[Burger 307]

In b4 "well she shouldn't have been black existing in public."

[EmeraldHeart 335]

Just now, Lanius said:

Oh My God. This is ridiculous. Please tell me the officers have been arrested and charged

According to the police, despite the police having guns aimed at her and police dogs, she pushed him over and then maneuvered herself to get on top of him - so he punched her and then, believing there was a machete in her backpack, set the dog on her

Of course the 19 year old girl is denying she attacked the police officer, the officer seems to have received no injuries and the community is rallying around her saying that she is responsible and such an attack would have been completely out of character.

The department has concluded already that appropriate force was used.

 

No surprises.... She is even facing potential charges for resisting or delaying an officer and aggravated assault on an officer.

 

Hopefully those charges are dismissed and she can find some justice...

[Lanius 1,055]

8 minutes ago, Burger said:

In b4 "well she shouldn't have been black existing in public."

Doubt it, the usuals avoid threads like these 

[Burger 307]

Just now, Lanius said:

Doubt, the usuals avoid threads like these 

I see we're on the same page about this.

[Lanius 1,055]

Just now, Burger said:

I see we're on the same page about this.

But watch them be in another thread quoting Black on Black Crime statistics or saying White people face police brutality too

[Lanius 1,055]

This **** makes me so angry. I hope she Lawyers us and puts those pigs behind bars

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

So disgusting 

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