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 deci