Protesters upset by a viral social media videos of Kansas City Police Department officer arresting a pregnant Black woman have now occupied the lawn in front of City Hall for more than five days.
The footage shows an officer kneeling on the back of a pregnant woman during an arrest. Her lawyer disputes the police version of the events leading to her arrest.
The Kansas City Police Department said in a statement that police were called to the area on September 30th shortly before 11 p.m. by a security at the gas station and convenience store who stated there were “fifteen to twenty individuals fighting on the business’s property.” When officers arrived minutes later, the owner told officers that “he wanted everyone off the property who wasn’t buying anything,” according to the statement.
Security footage released by police of the incident shows as many as a dozen people gathered at the business, some pushing each other.
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