North Texas police efforts to build bridges in the community are being stifled by viral videos from across the country.
- Even as North Texas police work to build bridges in the community, there is quiet acknowledgment that viral videos from halfway across the country make that effort more difficult. The latest is from Syracuse, New York.
The video, recorded by a bystander, has been viewed some six million times in a matter of days. It shows at least three Syracuse Police officers with a sobbing 8-year-old Black boy, hands restrained behind him as he's put in a patrol car. The stranger offers to pay for the $1 bag of chips he's accused of stealing, but the bystander is met with hostility from another officer rather than de-escalation.
Syracuse Police have since released body camera footage and insist that the child was never handcuffed or arrested, and that the officers were simply taking the child home. But social media rarely waits for context; people believe what they see.
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