Children were kept at gunpoint, and a tiny teen girl was yanked from her car by her hair during a minor traffic stop.

What should be a warning to a brand 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 gaggle 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 try and do so. However, she allegedly made some driving errors a pair of blocks aloof from her house so officers with the River Rouge department of local government targeted her for a traffic stop.

Body camera footage released on shows what happens when a cop’s only tool could be a hammer — everything, even 105-pound children — begins to seem sort of a nail.

It was a routine traffic stop that morphed into a use of force incident after the officers became unreasonably terrified of three teenage girls in their mother’s car. rather than simply allowing the girl to travel get her mother, who was just two blocks away, the officers decided to pull the tiny child from the car, grabbing her by her hair within 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 abreast of a 17-year-old weighing 105 pounds.”

“I wasn’t understanding why they were asking me to induce out of the car,” Clary said. “So i used to be trying to ask them, why, what’s wrong? But they solely grabbed me out of the car.”

After the 2 250-pound cops assaulted the tiny child, one amongst them decided to tug his gun on the opposite two children still inside the vehicle, Maliyah’s 14- and 15-year-old cousins.

“I thought he was visiting shoot us because we tried to induce out the car,” Clary’s cousin Nevaeh Anderson said.

Instead of issuing Clary a warning, like most cops would have done, Clary was arrested and charged with reckless driving, battery, and disobeying a stop sign.

The department said they need since opened an inquiry into the matter but stated the officers were never disciplined because the family never filed a complaint. Holding innocent children at gunpoint mustn't need a complaint behind it to issue discipline, however. The family’s attorney agrees.

“Why does one need the family to complain after you see officers mistreating kids like this,” Fortner said. “These are babies.”

FOX 2, who first reported on the video, reached intent on several police experts to urge their tackle matters. Steve Dolunt, a retired assistant captain from the Detroit department of local government, noted the completely unnecessary escalation of force by these cops. He agrees with our take that the girl should’ve been given a warning and her mother called.

“Ok, ‘So let me see your permit, here’s the deal – everyone steps out of the car,'” he said. “‘Do you have got any contraband, any weapons within the car. Where does one live? Two blocks away? Leave the car here, go get your mother, have her get the car. this is often a warning.'”

Law enforcement trainer Darnell Blackburn also weighed in and said simply because the cops are legally allowed to use the force within the video below, there was no reason to try to do so.

“I think the purpose of it's, that simply because something is justified, doesn’t make it just,” Blackburn said. “Did he have every reason to try to do everything he did? Absolutely, he had a reason as a political candidate, but it doesn’t necessarily make it just.”

We agree.