Maryland girl, 15, pepper sprayed, charged after bike crash

The Hagerstown Police Department released late Wednesday night two body-worn camera videos from officers who were on the scene after the accident involving a 15-year-old bicyclist striking a auto on Sunday. The video released late Wednesday shows officers grabbing the girl as she rides away and struggling to handcuff her as she screams at the officers not to touch her.

He also claimed police officers told hospital staffs not to take photos of the girl, who is mixed race, while she was there.

Demonstrators protest police treatment of a 15-year-old girl who was pepper-sprayed during an arrest Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 in Hagerstown, Md.

The girl’s lawyer, Robin Ficker, posted a video of his young client’s arrest, showing what appears to be a very disturbing interaction between the teenager and police officers. Kifer refused to publicly identify her, citing privacy concerns.

On the almost 15 minutes of police body camera recordings, the girl can be seen and heard becoming hysterical as she’s being detained. She refuses to help them, saying she will get in trouble. Three hours after being pepper sprayed – she was finally able to wash her eyes.

Police body camera video footage of the incident will be released under state law. A second officer’s recording then shows her continuing to resist as they put her in the cruiser.

A Hagerstown, Maryland, police spokesman says several officers involved in the pepper-spray arrest of a 15-year-old girl remain on duty while the department investigates. “And she’s going to come over here and fight us when all we want to do is make sure she’s OK”. In the video, she’s heard screaming and crying and begging for relief (“I can’t breathe”), which she did not receive.

The officer reports to a dispatcher that a “female got pepper sprayed” and the cruiser drives off to the station in Hagerstown, a city of 40,000 about 70 miles west of Baltimore.

In the video, the girl said she didn’t need medical treatment several times, and didn’t answer when officers asked her name. He points out several scratches on his vehicle door.

Instead of taking her to a hospital, as they had previously hinted, the police took her to the station to charge her with disorderly conduct, two counts of second-degree assault, possession of marijuana and failure to obey a traffic device.

The teen is being represented by the Robin Flicker Law Office who posted the video of the encounter on its social media page.

“This little girl, 5 ft”.

Even after police seat the handcuffed girl in the squad auto, she refuses to pull her feet into the vehicle, body camera footage shows.

Instead of taking the girl to the hospital like they initially told her, police took her to the police station for interrogation.

Ficker said she wasn’t admitted to the hospital but suffered sprained muscles and soreness everywhere, including her wrists from being handcuffed.

The girl pleaded with the police officers – who were all white – to call a black officer who knows her family named “Zack”.

He said she’s been unable to participate in high school soccer and wrestling practice.

“What happens…when she’s like, ‘I’m fine, ‘ right, and has a brain injury or something like that, and then she could die later?” the officer said.