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Police officers in New York have apologized over what they say was a case of mistaken identity which saw officers handcuff an 11-year-old Black schoolgirl in Syracuse on Monday afternoon as she walked home from school.

Two deputies from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office were out looking for a female suspect who had been spotted joyriding in a stolen gray Kia when they stopped the Brighton Academy student just five blocks from the site where the car had been abandoned, according to Syracuse.com.

The girl happened to be wearing clothing that closely matched the pink puffy winter jacket, camouflage trousers and white trainers mentioned in the description from which the deputies were working.


Having detained and handcuffed the child, who was clearly shocked and upset by the incident, the deputies questioned her for around seven minutes while the girl’s cousin filmed the scene playing out in the snowbound suburban street, helping to lighten the mood by keeping calm and joking with the parties involved.

The relative also worked hard to persuade the deputies that they had the wrong person, pointing out that the suspect in the photo the officers had since been sent, retrieved from the car’s dashcam, had lighter skin, longer hair and different shoes to the person stood before them.

“Girl, you gonna tell me this ain’t you?” one of the deputies asked the handcuffed girl as she presented her with the image on a phone.

“It is what it is,” her partner added. “If you’re honest, it will make it easy.”

But the officers ultimately realized their mistake and released her.

“I’m sorry about it, but you matched the description pretty clearly,” they told the student as they freed her.……

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ned-car-theft-syracuse-new-york-b2680194.html