Footage of an 8-year-old unnamed Black child in Northside, Syracuse being detained by white police officers over stealing a bag of chips went viral last week.
Now that much of the hype and subsequent outrage has died down, locals in Syracuse are reflecting on the state of community policing and the underlying “distrust” that still needs to be addressed in the city.
In a later press conference the mayor released police footage aiming to give more context to the situation. In the police videos, the child was placed in the back of a patrol car and he and his brothers were taken home to their father. They discussed the incident all together without filing any charges. “What occurred demonstrates the continuing need for the city to provide support to our children and families and to invest in alternative response options to assist our officers,” said Walsh.
He felt that the cops and the bystander who filmed the incident, Kenneth Jackson, didn’t do a great job in de-escalating the situation at all. Ryan said the majority of the officers will let kids go in the case of petty theft, especially if they have a preexisting relationship, but that still doesn’t justify a cop “manhandling” a child. He said he would have handled the situation differently as a bystander as well. Both the cops and the bystander could have been more “professional,” he said.
Ryan as well as others have engaged the police in forums about community policing and holding racism dialogues with cops to get a grasp on the community’s history of distrust. Hill has two kids; one is 22 and one is 13. She thinks the cops did the right thing bringing the child home, but criticized the way they did it. She said “yoking up” a young kid isn’t a proper process even if they know him and he has committed other minor offenses. Hill said as a Black mother of Black children she could understand reacting viscerally to seeing a Black child seemingly getting arrested, but as a leader she believes in taking a deep breath to analyze a situation.
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