The truth is uncomfortable but it needs to be said, the problem is that police did not view this little Black girl as a child. She was clearly in trouble. She posed no danger. She needed to be calmed and helped, not handcuffed and pepper-sprayed. I have to ask myself — even as the answer is clear — if police would have handled the situation differently if the 9-year-old had looked like me, White and blond 😔 😡.