Rochester's mayor says she agrees with a review of police policy on the handcuffing of minors. Lovely Warren spoke after an incident last weekend in which a 10-year-old girl was handcuffed. Police said it was to keep her from edging into traffic after the car she was riding in was pulled over at Route 104 near Hollenbeck Street.
Warren says she and chief La'Ron Singletary agree with City Council President Loretta Scott and Council Public Safety Committee Chair Willie Lightfoot on a review of the incident and department policies. Warren says she doesn't believe children should be handcuffed.
Chief Singletary says the child was never arrested, and was placed in handcuffs to keep her from running into the road where cars were passing in excess of 55 miles per hour.
The New York Civil Liberties Union is supporting the review; the Locust Club, the patrol officers' union, issued a statement calling the words of city officials "demoralizing" to officers and saying the problem is with city leadership.