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“We want to make sure that the greater Sacramento community, the state of California and the world is aware of what happened to this young man, who was doing nothing more than trying to enjoy the benefits of a neighborhood carnival,” Harris said in a video he posted of the incident on social media. One man is heard in the video yelling, "Look at that, look at that, police brutality."
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near a carnival and drew the attention of passersby who began filming the incident with cellphones and yelling at police. "Yeah, I spit on you all," the boy is heard saying in the video as a female officer is seen wiping her cheek. A struggle ensues and the boy is seen in the video spitting in the officers' face before he is taken to the ground and the spit mask is placed over his head. In a cellphone video taken by a citizen, a private security guard is seen chasing the child before two police officers join in and detain the boy, whose name has not been released. (MORE: Stephon Clark protests result in more than 80 arrests in Sacramento) The mask is a synthetic, mesh bag used by police officers to protect them against bodily fluids. It wasn't something else and we want to make sure our entire community knows what a spit mask is." "The juvenile spit in the face of our officer multiple times. Vance Chandler told ABC affiliate KXTV in Sacramento. "The facts are that our officers were in the area and they observed a security guard who was chasing someone and our officers were simply trying to help that security guard," Sacramento Police Sgt. As the child continued to struggle, curse and asked repeatedly what he was being arrested for, the officers forced him to the ground and put the white bag over his head, the footage shows.
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Hahn authorized the public release of police body camera footage of the incident that showed the boy struggling with officers as they handcuffed him and tried to put him in the back of a police car. Bodycam video released on May 22, 2019, by the Sacramento, California, Police Department shows putting a “spit bag” over the head of a handcuffed 12-year-old boy they alleged spit in the face of an officer during an Aparrest.