The mother of a 13-year-old black girl with mental illness whose arrest by three white Minnesota police officers sparked an angry social media backlash says her daughter was 'basically treated like an animal.'
by St. Paul, Minnesota, police sparked an angry backlash on social media says her daughter has a mental illness and that officers were overly aggressive in handling her.
While police spokesman Steve Linders couldn’t say what the investigations were for, documents indicate all three are being investigated as part of the same incident. Graham is also subject of a second active internal affairs investigation. “Our officers go through extensive training,” Linders told The Associated Press. He said the goal in an arrest “is always to do that with the least amount of force possible and if force is necessary, the expectation is it’s reasonable and done with respect.”
“I think they used the minimal amount of force that they possibly could to get her under control,” Kuntz said. “There were no punches. ... Nothing of that nature.”
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Tracee Ellis Ross Has Proof That Diana Ross Is the Greatest Mother of All Time'From the moment I got the NBC movie of the week I have not stopped working.' TraceeEllisRoss on her career:
Read more »
Police say mother tells children to take off seat belts before purposefully crashing vanA Florida woman is facing attempted murder charges after police say she told her four children to unbuckle their seat belts and then purposefully drove a minivan into a tree yesterday.
Read more »
Mother of 2-year-old girl left in hot car is arrested in her daughter's deathThe toddler died last week after being found unresponsive inside a vehicle, where authorities said she had been left with the heater running.
Read more »
Mother sues Chicago school for putting her 9-year-old son outside in the coldYvonne Pinkston said she believes her son was punished for reporting that he was being bullied by a student at Fiske Elementary IB World School.
Read more »
North Carolina mother accused of trading her toddler for a carAlice Leann Todd allegedly gave up her 1-year-old child in exchange for a 1992 Plymouth Laser.
Read more »
Botham Jean's mother says his life was more valuable than the 10-year sentence his killer receivedAllison Jean said she respected the jury's decision to sentence the former Dallas police officer who killed her son, Botham, to 10 years in prison. But his life was 'more valuable than 10 years,' she said.
Read more »