{"id":14884,"date":"2019-06-17T06:59:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=14884"},"modified":"2019-06-17T06:59:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:59:22","slug":"phoenix-mayor-apologises-after-us-police-threaten-to-shoot-black-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/06\/17\/phoenix-mayor-apologises-after-us-police-threaten-to-shoot-black-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix mayor apologises after US police threaten to shoot black family"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mayor of the US city of Phoenix has apologised after a video allegedly showing police threatening to shoot a black family went viral.<\/p>\n

Officers were responding to an alleged shoplifting incident last month when the video was recorded.<\/p>\n

The parents claim they did not notice that their four-year-old daughter had taken a doll from a Dollar Store.<\/p>\n

Mayor Kate Gallego said the officers’ actions were “completely inappropriate and clearly unprofessional”.<\/p>\n

In the video, officers can be seen shouting at the family to get out of their vehicle before threatening to shoot them.<\/p>\n

A woman, Iesha Harper, can then be seen emerging from the car with two young children. The children are handed to a bystander and Ms Harper is arrested.<\/p>\n

The footage also shows another man, Dravon Ames, being kicked in the legs as he is handcuffed by an officer.<\/p>\n

Ms Gallego said in a statement: “There is no situation in which this behaviour is ever close to acceptable. As a mother myself, seeing these children placed in such a terrifying situation is beyond upsetting.<\/p>\n

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“I am deeply sorry for what this family went through and I apologise to our community.”<\/p>\n

She said that the city was speeding up the implementation of body-worn cameras. A community meeting about the incident will also be held on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Ms Harper, who is pregnant, told CNN<\/a>: “I really thought he was going to shoot me in front of the kids.”<\/p>\n

She said that she gave her two children to a bystander as she “didn’t trust the police”.<\/p>\n

Phoenix police chief Jeri Williams said on local news that she was “sorry this incident happened” and that it was being investigated.<\/p>\n

The officers involved have been assigned desk duty while the investigation takes place.<\/p>\n

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