Excerpt from Washington Post
By Daniel Wu | Read the full story here.
Naomi Lopez was having dinner when she received a startling text from her 15-year-old daughter, Carmen: She was under arrest.
That didn’t make sense, Lopez recalled thinking. Carmen should have been just blocks away from their San Francisco home, where she had planned to watch skateboarders ata July event at Dolores Park.
“We thought it was a joke, and we’re like, ‘Ha-ha, very funny,’” Lopez told The Washington Post. “And then like a few minutes later, she’s like, ‘No, for real. I think they’re arresting me.’”
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“Police were supposedly responding to safety concerns about this skateboarding event,” said Rachel Lederman, an attorney for the teenagers and their families. “But in fact it was police that endangered children by surrounding them on the street and holding them in the cold and darkness.”
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Officers detained the group, which mostly contained minors aged 13 to 17, for over three hours on the street and did not provide shelter, blankets or jackets, according to the lawsuit. Members of the group were allegedly handcuffed with zip ties and not permitted to go to the bathroom.