January 16, 2025 | 8:08am
A frightened 11-year-old New York girl broke into tears when upstate deputies placed her in handcuffs for several minutes after mistaking her for a car thief, footage of the mix-up shows.The girl was walking home from Brighton Academy Middle School in Syracuse with a group of friends on Monday afternoon when two deputies from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office stopped her five blocks from where a group of teens had ditched a stolen Kia, Syracuse.com reported.The deputies placed the shocked girl in handcuffs for seven minutes, claiming that she was wearing the same pink puffer jacket, camo pants and white sneakers one of the alleged thieves was described as wearing, video taken by the girl’s cousin shows.
