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June 12, 2020

13-Year-Old Handcuffed and Arrested for "Jaywalking" in Empty Tulsa Street
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, newly released bodycam footage shows two officers
pressing a 13-year-old African American teenager face first against a
curb and handcuffing him, after he allegedly jaywalked in a quiet street
with no sidewalk on June 4.

Teenager: "Why are you arresting him? Why are you putting handcuffs on
him?"

Police officer: "Because!"

Teenager: "Why are you putting handcuffs on my friend? He doesn't have
anything on him, sir."

Police officer: "All he - all he was doing was jaywalking. We just want
to talk with him."

In the video, the teenager calls officers racist and says, "You want to
see me in jail or dead." Tulsa police say the incident is "under
investigation."


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