‘I told him I can’t breathe’: Police punch teen girl after mistaking her for black male suspect

‘I told him I can’t breathe’: Police punch teen girl after mistaking her for black male suspect
And the fanciful tale that, while guns were drawn at her, she knocked a cop over and jumped on top of him. "On the day police stopped Hargrove, officers had been looking for a suspect — described as a 25- to 30-year-old, bald black man standing 5-foot-10 and weighing about 170 pounds — who had threatened several people with a machete at a nearby grocery store, according to a police report. “She appeared to be a male and matched the description of the suspect that had brandished the machete and was also within the same complex the suspect had fled to,” Christopher Moore, the arresting officer, wrote in his report. But Hargrove is none of those things. For starters, she is female. She stands 5-foot-2 and weighs 115 pounds “soaking wet,” according to her father in a widely shared video of Hargrove’s account of the incident posted on the Facebook page for the Bakersfield chapter of the NAACP."