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Jilly_in_VA

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Sat Aug 12, 2023, 03:31 PM Aug 2023

Kenosha police to investigate after forceful arrest of wrongfully suspected father holding baby

Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, say they've launched an internal investigation into the forceful arrest of a man wrongfully suspected of fleeing a crash. The incident was caught on cell phone video inside an Applebee's restaurant.

According to a criminal complaint filed against the man for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, a copy of which was obtained by ABC News affiliate WISN, Kenosha police officers were responding to reports of a rollover crash nearby where multiple people fled the scene. The officer was looking for "an African American male and African American female" with a baby who had "run toward Kohl's or Menards," the complaint says. The woman was described as wearing a red shirt with a bun on top of her head.

Jennifer Harris, the manager at a nearby Applebee's who was on duty at the time, says the police initially went into the restaurant asking employees if they had seen any individuals that matched that description, but an employee said they hadn't. Minutes later, another employee spotted two individuals with a baby that seemed to match the description and she called the police, Harris told ABC News.

The complaint states that an officer looking for the suspects from the crash went back to the restaurant and identified a man and a woman who had a baby and matched the description of the suspects.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kenosha-police-investigate-after-forceful-arrest-wrongfully-suspected/story?id=102196591

Kenosha kops AGAIN. And pepper spraying a BABY! Shameful!

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Kenosha police to investigate after forceful arrest of wrongfully suspected father holding baby (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 OP
SHAMEFUL AND HORRIFYING! raging moderate Aug 2023 #1
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