geekandmisandry:

punkshitposts:

sugarvelvet:

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

emotionalempowerer:

Seriously. What on earth could a 3 yr old do to “warrant” a gun to the chest???

Apparently they were in the process of arresting her mother (whom they beat while handcuffed, naturally), also pointed the gun at the head of the child’s grandmother, and pointed the gun at her when she did what any toddler would do and started wailing. The incident gave her one of the worst cases of child PTSD the expert they assigned has ever seen and she’ll need therapy well into her adult years. 

Anyone with even a passing knowledge of gun safety knows that you do not point a gun at anyone you are not willing to kill. So best case scenario these officers were grossly incompetent and worst case they were willing to kill a child for crying. This settlement is the least they deserve.

^^^^ reblogging for the extra info

for anyone still argueing that “not all cops are bad/inherently bad” ~ mod Crash

I had a gun pointed at me by a police officer as a child and it is burned hard into my memory. That fear was so strong it transcended my experiences. I’d never seen a gun, they were abstract ideas, and I didn’t really think a lot about death. But I knew I was looking at death right then.

If there are people who don’t think this is a big deal (and let’s face it, there are) this is a deeply traumatic thing for a child to experience and there is NO excuse for police officers to do this.