Police punch teen girl after mistaking her for black male suspect

Misfit

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/‘i...staking-her-for-black-male-suspect/ar-BBEj5wP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQJkPJlnmAc



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.

“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.
 

Chris0nllyn

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The cops are going to have a tough time explaining this.

Looks like they already did.

A Bakersfield police spokesman told The Washington Post he would not comment further on the case but confirmed that the department had determined that the officers had exercised appropriate use of force on Hargrove.
 

stgislander

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So even after the police realize they have a 19-yr old girl and not a middle aged man, they still give her a beat down and arrest her?
 

Hijinx

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One would tend to think when the good Officer frisked the young lady he would have felt a pair of boobs and the lack of a Frank and beans, before she was placed in the cruiser.

Hard to tell a 5'2" woman from a man I guess. This aint over.
 

vraiblonde

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Looks like they already did.

Yeah, unless there's a whole lot more to the story, that will not be flying.

Now, it's possible that video will come out that shows her belligerent, abusive, and combative, which is why she got punched. But barring that, looks like some cops are in a lot of trouble and I'm guessing the Chief, too, since he "determined" that to be appropriate use of force.
 
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