Numerous police officers arrived on the scene as a Black family of five in a sport utility vehicle (SUV) was stopped, handcuffed, detained at gunpoint on the ground in a shopping center parking lot on Sunday because they were allegedly mistaken for a stolen motorcycle from out-of-state. “I want my mother!” the smallest child, 6 years old and wearing a pink crown, cries out as the police detain the family. Another fear-stricken child repeatedly pleaded for her sister. “There’s no excuse why you didn’t handle it a different type of way,” Brittney Gilliam said. Gilliam told local NBC affiliate KUSA-TV that she was taking her daughters and nieces out for a spa day. “You could have even told them ‘step off to the side let me ask your mom or your auntie a few questions so we can get this cleared up.’ There was different ways to handle it,” she said. Multiple videos of the incident have been viewed millions of times as of this writing–prompting the Aurora Police Department to apologize for their widely criticized behavior. https://lawandcrime.com/high-profil...ily-of-five-in-suv-for-one-stolen-motorcycle/
Ah yes, like all leftist articles the devil really is in the details. The title is a lie and editorialized to race bait. The real details are at the bottom: Vehicle had been reported stolen, returned by the police, but obviously due to a clerical error was never marked returned. Now, handcuffing the kids was probably excessive but a stolen vehicle is very serious and should be treated seriously. Should it be actually stolen just "asking the adult to step out of the car" could lead to a dangerous chase that results in deaths. In fact, the policy is clearly stated in the article: I think the best part was how far this terrible "journalist" had to stretch the truth to arrive at this conclusion: Cop cars have front mounted cameras that automatically run plates. Don't write about what you don't know. Try harder bud. Repeat after me: QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. Cops did their job to the exact description of the policy.
Did you just jump to conclusions that said cop car was equipped with expensive ALPR while accusing the journalist of jumping to conclusions?
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/alprpra_aurorapd_auroraca (3).pdf ACLU says they have them.
The question isn't if every PD or this department has it, the question is if this new & expensive tech is ubiquitous enough in this county to just assume this unit had it.