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The Phoenix Police Department has opened an investigation into some of its officers and how they handled a shoplifting-theft incident.
The decision comes after cell phone video was released showing an officer sweeping the leg of a handcuffed man.
A family spokesperson says the two were considered shoplifting suspects, stemming from their daughter taking a doll from a dollar store.
Ames says the officer never identified himself and never signaled them with the lights and sirens.
"A police officer, we don't know who he is, a guy, random guy came up to the door banging on the window with a gun, says he's going to shoot us in our face, telling us to get out of the car. He hasn't alerted us that we're being pulled over anything," Ames said.
Phoenix police investigating officers caught sweeping handcuffed man’s leg and pointing gun at car with children inside
Once when I was around 6 or so, I stole a pack of gum from the local pool hall. My mother marched me back and made me return it. And apologize.
Now I know, 10 cops should have pulled her over and assaulted her while her partner aimed a weapon at me...
A doll, at the dollar store, probably cost 1.06 after tax.
Or is it common, where you live to call the cops on a kid that shoplifts?
Really can't wait to hear what the authoritarian bootlickers have to say on this one.
Because this isn't the only incident we got of cops pulling guns on kids.
A Utah police chief defended an officer who pulled his gun on a 10-year-old black boy, saying the officer believed the child might be an armed suspect and will keep working during an independent review.
Hrubes has said her son didn't have any toys or objects in his hands. The officer told DJ to put his hands in the air and get on the ground and told him not to ask questions. After Jerri Hrubes confronted the officer, he got in his car and left, she said.
Soffe said the officer was part of a group chasing suspects after authorities received reports of a shooting and were told the suspects were black, Hispanic or Polynesian, he said.
Police officer pulls gun on black boy, 10, in Woods Cross, Utah
Check out the description the cop was going on when he decided to pull a gun on a ten yo boy in his own yard. But left right quick when his white mother comes out.