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A viral video posted to Facebook Saturday displayed police officers searched and questioned three Black boys. The video was captured by Washington D.C resident Ariel Gory, who described the encounter from a window in her home.

“I watched three police officers on bikes stop three little Black boys and push them onto my neighbors’ front yard,” Gory wrote in her Facebook post. “An officer yelled, ‘Do you have a knife? Do you have a knife?’ and that’s when I grabbed my phone and stepped out onto my front porch into the cold to record immediately.”

According to Gory, the youngest boy was 9 and the oldest was 12.

All updates to this story have been listed at the bottom of this post or included in the comments. Thank you for reading… Posted by Ariel Gory on Saturday, December 22, 2018

Gory told Hill Rag, she wanted to do something because, “the faces of unarmed Black men, women, and children who have been involved in situations like these and have ended up in jail, injured or dead came to my mind.”

Three officers arrived on the scene after an elderly man called 911 complaining the boys had threatened him with a knife WUSA9 reported. Gory told the news station the boys had a different version of the incident, “The boys — from what I was hearing — were saying that that’s not how the story went and that actually the man was threatening to hurt them.”

Gory went into further details on Facebook writing, “this must have just been a little conflict or misunderstanding and [said] that they’ll all go back down to the CVS together and apologize to the man.”

One officer saw Gory filming and told her she was welcome to follow them.

“They barely walk past two houses before a police car pulls up and a female officer comes out, stopping them right in front of Fragers Hardware Store,” Gory wrote.

Gory said as more officers came to the scene, the interrogation started all over again.

“The female officer asks, … ‘Any of these kids have weapons on them?’ Since the officers had not patted the boys down yet, they prepare for a pat-down,” Gory wrote. “Meanwhile two additional officers ride up on bikes.”

In another clip of Gory’s video, seven officers surround the three boys. The officers would proceed to pat the children down finding nothing and continue their questioning. Gory said they were eventually released to their parents after an hour of questions and searches.

“As a woman of color, an educator and simply a member of this community, I felt a responsibility to these little boys to make sure that whatever happened, good or bad, their story would be told,” Gory told Hill Rag. “I also hoped that in seeing me recording, the officers would be even just a tad more careful about the decisions they made at that time.”

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