>> I wanna warn you the footage that we are about to show you is incredibly graphic.
If you believe that it might be triggering, feel free to skip ahead or turn away.
But that said, here's the video.
>> I'm a mother of a murdered child, because I'm stepping back.
I am moving, you're violating my rights, because you're on my property.
>> So we're gonna have more video for you.
But what you're seeing right there is an incident of the family of Mariah Hereford and a number
of cops, this is in Hemet California.
The cops came in and not only harass them, began to get incredibly physical with them
with their property, also with their dogs.
And so an absolutely horrendous night being documented, thanks to the fact that people
have cameras these days, we might otherwise never have found out about this, and we will
as I said, have more footage.
But a federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Mariah, her mother Monett,
and her fiance as well saying that the police that you could see moving around there illegally
searched Garrison's car, and then violently arrested Hereford, and her mother for filming
the encounter.
According to the lawsuit, Hemet police initiated traffic stop as Gadison, the fiance was pulling
into his driveway on the night of March 31st of last year.
Quote with no reasonable suspicion or probable cause the Hemet officers asked Plaintiff for
permission to search his vehicle.
When Plaintiff Gadison refused officers forcibly removed him from his vehicle and began to
aggressively handcuffed and detain him.
That was around the time that Monett started recording what was going on.
An officer apparently saw that she was doing so smacked the phone out of her hand, which
not only is violent, of course, they're not allowed to do that.
You are allowed to record these things, they're supposed to be in most areas recording these
as well.
The officer slam Mariah's head into the ground, she was taken to the hospital that night and
treated for a quote closed head injury, left shoulder pain, low back pain, neck pain, and
whiplash.
And you can in fact, see a little bit of the bruising in these photos here.
That video that you just saw that we acquired from the Lake Worth Police Department shows
a lake worth police officer, Jonathan Granado striking Dustin Bates with his vehicle.
And a lawsuit was filed just yesterday against this former police officer accusing him of
running Dustin over back in November of 2020.
Now, as you can imagine, that's gonna do a lot of damage to a person.
That's what any reasonable person would expect if you're a cop and you don't wanna have to
chase after anyone, then what do you care?
I guess you just run them down.
But anyway, that caused Dustin Bates to suffer three fractured ribs, a broken right leg,
and a fractured spine.
Bates was later charged with evading arrest and drug possession, but the charges were
dismissed in August at prosecutorial discretion.
Granado resigned from the department in December of last year.
So he actually hung around for about one year after that event.
During a press conference just yesterday, Lake Worth Police Chief JT, and I'm not even
gonna try said the Granado tried to break, but his vehicle slid on the wet grass and
struck Bates at about 45 MPH.
Granado had previously been suspended from the force for unsafe operation of his vehicle.
That's just context, feel free to think that's relevant or not, that he had already done
things like this.
Anyway, they said the video of the Bates incident showed him that Granado used poor judgment.
Well, yes, clearly.
>> What are you doing?
Are you like a baby to me?
So what's going on then?
I don't know what I just came up and see.
>> Okay, what you see?
>> I see y'all snatching them up the back like you're grown as man, and he said, it
wasn't here talking about doing what you're doing.
You stole some chicks, I'll pay for it, I'll pay for them, you don't even know where you
live.
>> That's what they do, they come here.
>> Leave him alone.
>> So that's a video that entirely understandably has gone viral in the past few days of a kid
that might be being identified there by one person is being around ten years old alleged
to have potentially stolen a bag of chips being harassed and carted away by the Syracuse
Police Department.
Now, they now say there's a lot of misinformation around this, and we're looking into exactly
what happened, maybe we'll read their statement and a bit Adrian.
But what it looks like is a needlessly cruel provocative like we needed another display
from the cops, it's a kid, the stakes are chips, and they're carting him away.
Like the guy said in the video, as if he was a full grown adult.
>> Yeah, and this is something that unfortunately black children often run into the adultification
of black children.
This thought that you are less innocent, and you are less deserving of the same opportunities,
and just a second chances that we give white children.
And so even if this kid did steal a bag of chips, children steal when they're younger
and they're supposed to learn a lesson.
But it shouldn't be one that involves police law enforcement intervention, especially when
black children grow up in this country already realizing that the cops are not necessarily
your friends.
And that there's a chance that they may kill you, and that chance is kinda high, it seems
are higher than it is for your white friends.
And so to terrorize that child even more as opposed to simply teaching him a lesson by
saying, do not do this this isn't okay, I'm sending you home or I'm calling your parents.
That's something that just is cruel and completely and totally unnecessary, but absolutely on
par for the United States when it comes to law enforcement.