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In a news release Tuesday, Auburn Police Chief James Slayton said the officer delivered "several close hand strikes" toward the shoulder of Chelci Love, 39, the morning of Aug. 14 outside West Middle School Apartments. The officer, whom Slayton identified to The聽Citizen as Kenneth Tillapaugh, struck Love because she had wrapped her legs around the neck of her 3-year-old daughter during a visit by Child Protective Services. After previous attempts to free the child were unsuccessful,聽Tillapaugh used force because he heard distress in the child's voice and feared for her life.

"Our goal is to get the best possible outcome for our citizens of this community," Slayton said. "The officers in this instance had to use tactics that some, without knowing all the facts, may consider unreasonable. The officers in this case had to consider the health and safety of a 3-year-old child that got caught up in the middle of an arrest that was resisted by their mother."

The department also released body camera footage from Love's arrest on Tuesday. While Tillapaugh's footage begins after he struck her, footage from the other two officers who arrested her captures the incident. As she's restrained, the child can be seen approaching Love's left leg. She then moves that leg forward, prompting officers to ask her to release the child, though the nature of her grip is unclear because the child is blurred for privacy. The child can be heard crying as the officers continue asking Love to release her, at which point Tillapaugh yells, "Let go of the f--king baby!" and strikes Love.

What led to the incident

Slayton, in his release, said officers Sarah Howard and Morgan Flickner responded to the scene that morning to assist Child Protective Services with making a safety plan for Love and her two children, ages 3 and 6, who had been sleeping on a floor at West Middle School Apartments for a few days. The local daytime mobile crisis team was also at the scene for Love, who had recently lost her father.聽

After the officers and Love discussed housing options for about an hour she became "visibly upset," Slayton said, then gathered her belongings from the apartment building and tried to leave with her children. CPS advised the officers that they could not let the family leave, and informed Love there was an emergency removal order for her children if she would not voluntarily turn them over.

The officers radioed for backup, Slayton continued, and she told them she would hurt anyone who tried to take her children. After threatening a CPS worker who tried to hand her the removal order, she was told by officers Howard and Flickner that she was under arrest. Each of her arms was restrained by an officer, but they were only able to apply handcuffs to one wrist due to her resistance.

Around this time, Slayton said, Love wedged her 3-year-old daughter between her legs. The child yelled and cried as the two officers verbally commanded Love to release her. Fearing injury to the child's ribs and interference with her ability to breathe, the officers radioed for backup to hurry up but decided to wait for more officers to arrive before proceeding with the arrest.

Tillapaugh soon arrived and observed the child's distress and difficulty breathing, Slayton said. He applied pressure to Love's thumb to try to force her to release the child from her legs. She wouldn't, however, and he stopped out of fear he would break her thumb. As Tillapaugh gave more verbal commands, she tightened her legs. He then struck her with his hand, aiming for her shoulder but making contact in the area of her head and neck due to his focus on the child. Her grip loosened, and the officers pulled the child to safety and handed her over to CPS as Love was taken into custody.

Both the child and Love were seen by medical personnel. The latter said she did not need medical attention, but was evaluated for pain in her left shoulder and head at Auburn Community Hospital.

Slayton told 新加坡多多开奖记录 he did not have any information on Love's current medical condition, and added that she is not in custody.聽

"We hope that Chelci can reunite with her children at some point when she has a safety plan in place and that all three of them get the assistance they may need to get past this," he said.

Love was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest, all misdemeanors, and second-degree harassment, a violation.

Concluding the department's review of the incident, Slayton said Tillapaugh followed his training to meet the objective of protecting the child from harm.

"The force applied was not considered excessive under the circumstances the officers were presented with at the moment," the police chief said.

Tillapaugh, Howard and Flickner will not receive any discipline as a result of the incident, Slayton told 新加坡多多开奖记录.聽

"The officers are deemed to have followed the policy and procedure of the Auburn Police Department and laws of the state of New York," he said.

Local NAACP responds

The Auburn/Cayuga Branch of the NAACP, which criticized the department for allowing Tillapaugh to work during the review, told 新加坡多多开奖记录 in a statement that Slayton's news release follows a "script."

"It feels familiar to us in that in every incident where the Black community experiences what we believe to be excessive force, police departments justify the use of said force. It is a national pattern of police response. We've seen this happen in every national incident and incidents in our own community. Black leaders refer to this type of response as 'the script,'" the branch said.

"(We) will not allow an internal examination of this incident or Chief Slayton's response to distract us from pursuing our desired outcome as presented to Chief Slayton in a recent meeting. The NAACP remains concerned about APD and state policies that would conclude this incident as a justified use of force. We have yet to review the report and body cam. Once we do, we will have additional comments. However, it is clear that a review of policies that our police department uses to protect and serve needs immediately review. We intend to ensure that happens to keep our community safe.鈥�