PLEADING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY. WICHITANS DEMANDING JUSTICE AFTER VIDEO SHOWS AN OFF-DUTY POLICE OFFICER HITTING AND PUSHING A TEENAGER AGAINST A WALL THEN SPRAYING HIM WITH PEPPER SPRAY. THE PRESS CONFERENCE WRAPPING UP IN THE LAST 45 MINUTES. MALLEY JONES WAS THERE. MALLEY WHAT DID THEY SAY? –MALLEY– ALEXIS, EMOTIONS RAN HIGH FOR
MANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS. THERE WAS ANGER, FRUSTRATION AND CONCERN. DOZENS OF WICHITANS GATHERED AT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH TO ASK WICHITA POLICE AND CITY LEADERS TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE OFFICER SEEN IN THE VIRAL VIDEO. TO RECAP THIS HAPPENED NEW YEARS EVE AT ROLLER CITY –
POLICE SAY A TEEN GIRL WAS ASKED TO LEAVE THE ROLLER RINK.. BUT THEY SAY SHE REFUSED AND TRIED TO HIT AN OFFICER. THAT’S WHEN POLICE SAY A 16- YEAR-OLD BOY GOT INVOLVED AND HIT A SECOND OFFICER ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD… LEADING TO A FIGHT THAT WAS
CAUGHT ON VIDEO — SHOWING AN OFFICER HITTING AND PUSHING THAT TEEN. WICHITA POLICE CHIEF JOE SULLIVAN TOLD US YESTERDAY THAT THE OFFICER HAS BEEN PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES. MULTIPLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS VOICED THEY DID NOT THINK THAT WAS ENOUGH. THEY THINK HE SHOULD BE FIRED.
IT HAPPENS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND GIVEN AN OFFICER WHO COMMITS SUCH AN EGREGIOUS ACT TOWARDS A YOUTH IN OUR COMMUNITY GIVING HIM DESK DUTY AND REASSIGNMENT IS NOT AN EFFECTIVE DETERRENT. FIRING AND TAKING AWAY BENEFITS IS AN EFFECTIVE MEANS TO CURVE THIS
TYPE OF EGREGIOUS BEHAVIOR TRT 23 –MALLEY– THE TEEN BOY WHO WAS HIT BY THE OFFICER AND HIS MOM WERE AT TODAY’S PRESS CONFERENCE. HEAR WHAT THAT NIGHT WAS LIKE AND WHAT SHE HOPES TO SEE DONE COMING UP TONIGHT AT SIX. HERE FOR YOU MALLEY JONES, KSN
NEWS THREE. –ALEXIS– TORNADO WATCHES, SNOW AND DENSE
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