VIDEO: The mother of a 13-year-old black girl whose arrest in Minnesota has provoked a social media outcry says her daughter is 'no angel' but was treated unfairly by police. Read full story here:
Davida Conover, mother of a 13-year-old girl whose videotaped arrest in St. Paul, Minn., has sparked an angry backlash on social media, poses for a photograph, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, at the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota office in Minneapolis. Conover told The Associated Press that her daughter is "no angel" but was treated unfairly by police.
The AP does not generally identify family members by name when doing so could identify a juvenile charged with a crime, but Conover has spoken publicly and does not share her daughter’s last name.of the Sept. 26 arrest at a UPS store in St. Paul, Minnesota, that shows three white officers struggling to arrest the girl as she screams and thrashes on the floor.
“And she’s only 13. You know, she’s not 30 years old. She’s not a man. They were aware of her mental illness, so they could have honestly did things way differently,” the mother added.
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