- Dragged over several meters, as he tries to resist the adults around him, a 12-year-old boy is finally brought near a police car.
- Lying on the ground, on his stomach, he is then covered with a mask by a police officer.
- This viral sequence arouses anger on social networks: it was filmed in the United States, as its legend indicates, but it dates back to spring 2019 and not to the events after the death of George Floyd.
The scene lasted less than five minutes, but it aroused the indignation of many Internet users, shocked by the means deployed by several police officers to arrest a young black boy.
Trailed for several meters by a security guard who keeps him at neck level, while the videographer filming the scene protests this treatment, the child, who tries to resist as best he can, is finally laid on his stomach . He remains on the ground for a few seconds before a police officer who comes in for reinforcement puts a sort of transparent bag over his head.
“Arrest of a minor by the American police in Sacramento. […] They put a sachet on the kid's head. To suffocate him? Welcome to the United States, "said a Facebook post sharing this video, when another said:" A video of the arrest of a minor surfaced Tuesday after members of Black Lives Matter Sacramento and Harris. posted on social media. "
If this arrest was filmed in Sacramento (California), it dates from a year ago and therefore has nothing to do with the recent renewed mobilization (and visibility) of the Black Lives matter movement, in the aftermath of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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The original video had indeed gone viral on social networks in May 2019, a month after the arrest of the 12-year-old boy near a carnival, in Sacramento, on April 28. Today, it has more than two million views.
Police reports reported by ABC News said that officers on patrol in the area had assisted a security guard who was trying to arrest him for street sales. The police had also justified the use of a mask to protect themselves from repeated spitting of the adolescent.
The caption for one of the videos is almost word for word from a quote from the ABC News article: "A video of the April 28 arrest appeared Tuesday after being shared by Black Lives members Sacramento and by Harris [the boy's lawyer] ”.
Almost a year later, while lawsuits are underway against local police, the boy's mother denied the allegations and told ABC 10 that his family was "still traumatized": "Nothing can erase this memory. "
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