Arizona: After a 4-year-old took a doll from a store, video shows Phoenix police pulling a gun on

After a 4-year-old took a doll from a store, video shows Phoenix police pulling a gun on her parents

Recently released video of Phoenix officers drawing their weapons on a family and threatening to shoot has led to an internal police investigation and a $10 million lawsuit against the city and its police department. In a statement posted online Saturday, Phoenix police offered their own account of the incident, which began with allegations of shoplifting. The police chief, however, said she was “disturbed by the language and the actions” of the officers, and Mayor Kate Gallego called for change. “There is no situation in which this behavior is ever close to acceptable,” Gallego said in a statement posted to ...

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Phoenix police chief responds after cops pull gun, threaten parents of alleged 4-year-old shoplifter

The mayor and police chief of Phoenix are apologizing to a family that filed a $10 million civil rights lawsuit over an incident caught on video. Dravon Ames and his pregnant fiancée Iesha Harper say they are still shaken three weeks after their encounter with Phoenix police. “I’m not able to sleep. I keep having pictures of guns pointed at my face,” said Ames. “I was injured a lot mentally and physically, me and my children,” said Harper. Cell phone video from May 27 shows officers cursing and pointing guns, threatening to shoot, after responding to a report of shoplifting. ...

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