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The Sacramento Police Department is facing backlash after placing a plastic bag over a 12-year-old while they were arresting him. Black Lives Matter Sacramento chapter posted the video footage of the arrest on their Facebook page.

The unidentified minor is heard yelling at the police but did not actually fight the back toward the officers. The bag placed on the preteen head is called a spit sock that is usually used when offenders spit on or toward officers.

It’s unclear if the unidentified boy committed the act. The boy reportedly suffers from respiratory issues told officers he couldn’t breathe. Witnesses heard the boy yelling and demanding to know why the boy was receiving the treatment. The video shows an officer and a private security guard handcuffing the boy. The guard is heard saying the boy had trespassed and asked people in a close by Walgreens to buy products for him according to USA Today.

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The preteen’s family has retained the services of Mark T. Harris. Harris expressed his outrage in an opinion piece for the CBM Newswire.

“Shocking. Shameful. Unconscionable. Intolerable,” he wrote. “These are just a few of the terms used in reaction to word that a 12-year-old child was recently restrained by Sacramento police officers who then placed a white plastic bag over his head and shoulders.”

Harris accused Sacramento Chief of Police Daniel Hahn, who’s African-American, of turning his back on his community.

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“Our police chief is ‘blue’ and not Black,” Harris wrote. “In addition, it appears to many of us that when you have as many incidents of questionable police conduct directed towards one singular demographic group, within an entire community, the “cat needs to be let out of the bag.” The Sacramento police department appears to be representative of a “bad orchard” as opposed to a few ‘bad apples.’”

Sgt. Vance Chandler said the boy has been released to his mother, citing him for battery against a police officer and resisting arrest.

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