“Wait till your a--es turn 18, then you’re mine,” the officer appears to tell the students.
By Michael Brice-Saddler Michael Brice-Saddler General Assignment Reporter Email Bio Follow April 3 at 10:36 PM Cameron Hilliard was walking with some friends after school Thursday when someone nearby blurted out an expletive about the police.
“Even if we did say it, that’s our choice of words,” one of her friends is heard telling the officer. Moments later, he appears to respond with profane language of his own. “I felt threatened. We were shocked,” Cameron said, speaking to a Washington Post reporter along with her mother. She thought to herself, “ ‘Can he say that? Why would he say that to us, when we’re not the ones who said it?' ”
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney addressed the viral video Friday, writing in a statement that the officer’s remark “will not be tolerated by any employee of the city.” Richmond police confirmed Wednesday an internal investigation was underway and said in a statement that the department “takes these concerns very seriously.” Police reported to other media outlets that the officer was a white man but declined to give his name or additional information.
But the mother isn’t pushing for the officer to be fired, she said. Instead, she’d like to sit down with him to understand the reason he addressed a group of children the way he did, regardless of context.
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