Children were kept at gunpoint, and a tiny teen girl was yanked from her car by her hair during a minor traffic stop.
What should be a warning to a brand new teen driver who just made her first poor decision behind the wheel morphed into an assault with nearly deadly results after cops treated a gaggle of small kids like hardened criminals? In February, 17-year-old Maliyah Clary had permission to be driving her mother’s car and had the permit to try and do so. However, she allegedly made some driving errors a pair of blocks aloof from her house so officers with the River Rouge department of local government targeted her for a traffic stop. Body camera footage released on shows what happens when a cop’s only tool could be a hammer — everything, even 105-pound children — begins to seem sort of a nail. It was a routine traffic stop that morphed into a use of force incident after the officers became unreasonably terrified of three teenage girls in their moth...