A disturbing video taken from a Grand Rapids, MI, police officer's body camera shows the cop holding at gunpoint a group of 12-year-old Black kids who were simply walking home from playing basketball.The children, ages 12 to 14, can be heard
crying, wailing and begging for their lives as the officer forces them to the ground while sitting in his cruiser, holding a gun at them. The officer tells them repeatedly to "calm down." The incident occurred March 24, 2017.
The officer demands a female witness go back in her house as the children begin crying:
“Can you please put the gun down?”“Don’t shoot me.”"What did we do?"“We are not about to die; we didn’t do nothing."Grand Rapids Police Sgt. Terry Dixon has defended the cops, who stopped the boys after determining they matched the description of someone who a witness claimed earlier in the day had a gun.
It is ridiculous that the cops would come out with guns blazing before they had independently verified a gun was on the scene. A mother who can be seen in the video begging for police to leave the children alone says as much: "Y'all didn't see a gun, but y'all pulled guns on my kids."
Please sign this petition to demand the officers involved are FIRED for this act of terrorism. 