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Nine-year-old led away in handcuffs by Portland police prompts outrage, push for policy changes
Two uniformed Portland police officers showed up at the home of a 9-year-old girl last May, questioned her on the front porch about a fight at a youth club six days earlier, then handcuffed her as she stood in a blue-and-white bathing suit.
They drove her to police headquarters in downtown Portland, where she had her fingerprints and mugshot taken.
Latoya Harris couldn’t believe what was happening as she watched the officers head off with her daughter in the back seat. The girl was still wet after running through a neighborhood sprinkler, wearing flip flops and a pink Velco wrap-around towel over her swimsuit.
“When they put handcuffs on, I thought, ‘Wait a minute, this has got to be a joke,’ ” Harris recalled Monday. “The look on my daughter’s face went from humiliation and fear, to a look of sheer panic.”
Harris is speaking out publicly after she complained to the city’s Independent Police Review Division and no significant discipline resulted …. http://www.oregonlive.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2014/05/nine-year-old-led-away-in-handcuffs-by.html
