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New York police in the United States, which had been controversial over racial discrimination and hard-line crackdown, were on the cutting board again.
A black woman suspected of being a theft was arrested for spraying pepper spray, and a three-year-old child had to watch the scene of her mother's arrest.
Reporter Jung Hye-kyung reports.
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A police officer approaches a woman after receiving reports of suspected theft in a store in New York, USA.
[Did you steal something from that store?]
A woman holding a child strongly denies the charges and even shows her luggage.
[I didn't steal anything.
I'll show you.]
Then all of a sudden, this woman starts running with her child, and the child screams as the police catch him up.
[Mom!] It
was confirmed that the police suppressed the woman, forced her child apart, and sprayed pepper spray just before handcuffing the child.
The three-year-old boy, who watched the scene intact, is said to have been hovering around crying before another policeman arrived at the scene.
The Police Responsibility Committee, which released the video, mentioned the improvement of the system, saying, "A fundamental change is needed in the organizational culture."
When the accusations rose, the police announced that the child would be transferred to the policeman even though the child was not injured during the arrest process.
In the process of arresting a black man who had suffered from delirium in March last year, the Rochester Police in New York, USA, resigned as the chief of police was belatedly known that it was belatedly suppressed and killed for spitting.