Round Five: Hogtied Black woman begged for help in police cruiser, video shows

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By Associated Press | October 1, 2020 at 3:59 AM CDT - Updated October 1 at 3:59 AM
DENVER (AP) - A suburban police agency near Denver is facing more scrutiny for its officers' treatment of Black people after a video emerged showing a woman begging to be lifted up after she fell to the floor in the back of a police cruiser with her hands and feet cuffed behind her.

In the police body camera video, she says she can’t breathe several times and calls the officer “master” as she pleads with him at one point.

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While hobbled and laying in the back of the cruiser, Kelly, who says she was intoxicated, screams and berates Huffine but then pleads with him not to let her ride that way. Eventually she slips off the seat, her head tilting down behind Huffine’s seat and her legs in the air. Kelly says she cannot believe she is “suffering like this for being Black,” her neck is about to break and she is sorry.

“How many times to I have to beg you master? Master, I’ll be good,” she says shortly before arriving at jail, where a female detention officer who opens the car door says, “Honey, why are you head down like that?”

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