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A heartbreaking video is going viral showing a young child repeatedly hitting and cursing at a Minnesota cop who was there to arrest a murder suspect.
The footage was captured in St. Paul, which was rocked by anti-cop riots following the deaths of George Floyd and Daunte Wright.
The child is heard calling the officer a “b***h” and telling the officer to “shut the f*** up!”
He appears to only be a few years old and wearing underwear in the street. An even younger child in a diaper is standing behind him.
“Shut up, b***h!” screamed the young child repeatedly.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has reported a dramatic crime surge which is “causing waves of anxiety and fear” for locals.
“Those ugly-ass church shoes,” the child says to the officer.
The officer was wearing a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) vest.
Sheila Qualls of Alpha News wrote, “This video is disgraceful. Heartbreaking.”
“The behavior of these children is eerily similar to the behaviors of rioters who burned and looted Minneapolis two years ago,” she wrote.
“It is unsettling to law enforcement officers who encounter this behavior daily. It should be frightening to all of us,” she said.
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The youngster hits one of the cops at least three more times in the 30-second clip, even as the officers — who remained calm throughout — start walking away.
One bystander can be heard encouraging the children and calling out that one of the officers was an “Oreo head,” a slur suggesting a black person is acting white.
The 30-second clip was just part of two minutes of footage — during which the kids also threw rocks at the cops, according to Alpha News.
The independent Minnesota news outlet said it was filmed while officers were trying to execute a search warrant for a murder suspect, without elaborating.
