this brave action by the thin blue line may have saved you from an untimely death, or maybe not, but i'm sure when you read thru this you'll have an opportunity to come away with a new view of cops;

River Rouge, MI — What should have been a warning to a 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 group 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 do so. However, she allegedly made a few driving errors a couple of blocks away from her house so officers with the River Rouge Police Department targeted her for a traffic stop.

Body camera footage released this week shows what happens when a cop’s only tool is a hammer — everything, even 105-pound children — begin to look like a nail.

It was a routine traffic stop that morphed into a use of force incident after the officers became unreasonably fearful of three teenage girls in their mother’s car. Instead of simply allowing the girl to go get her mother, who was just two blocks away, the officers decided to drag the small child from the car, grabbing her by her hair in the process.

“They snatched her out by her hair,” Michael Fortner, the family’s attorney said. “This girl weighs 105 pounds, if that, soaking wet. You’ve got 250-pound officers beating up on a 17-year-old weighing 105 pounds.”

“I wasn’t understanding why they were asking me to get out of the car,” Clary said. “So I was trying to ask them, why, what’s wrong? But they just grabbed me out of the car.”

After the two 250-pound cops assaulted the small child, one of them decided to pull his gun on the other two children still inside the vehicle, Maliyah’s 14- and 15-year-old cousins.

“I thought he was going to shoot us because we tried to get out the car,” Clary’s cousin Nevaeh Anderson said............read and watch more.......