Tiny wrists in cuffs: How police use force against children
19 October 2021
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19 October 2021
Royal Smart remembers every detail: the feeling of the handcuffs on his wrists. The panic as he was led outside into the cold March darkness, arms raised, to face a wall of police officers pointing their guns. He was 8 years old. Neither he nor anyone else at his family’s home on Chicago’s South Side was arrested on that night two years ago, and police wielding a warrant to look for illegal weapons found none. But even now, in nightmares and in waking moments, he is tormented by visions of officers bursting through houses and tearing rooms apart, ordering people ...
Tiny wrists in cuffs: How police use force against children
CHICAGO (AP) — Royal Smart remembers every detail: the feeling of the handcuffs on his...