CHICAGO�A 10-year-old Black girl and her parents recently filed a complaint with the police department�s Office of Professional Standards, charging officers chased and slammed their daughter to the ground and took her to jail after she threw a piece of candy at a squad car.

One activist called the incident an example of how city neighborhoods are policed by officers who have little regard, respect or self-control when it comes to residents.

"It�s quite clear to me that what�s happening in the Black community is psychological warfare. Any time an officer, who happens to be white, body slams a 10-year-old for allegedly throwing a piece of bubble gum at a police vehicle, indicates that the atmosphere of control of Blacks is a design, as lynching was by the Ku Klux Klan," said Rev. Paul Jakes, chairman of the Christian Council on Urban Affairs, who has led anti-police brutality protests.

Calvin Miles and Palestine Gordon, the parents of Henrietta Miles, have now retained a lawyer to represent the family in future possible legal matters.

On the night of Nov. 10, Mr. Miles said police detained him in front of his mother�s home, where he was supposed to meet his daughter. While opening the gate to his mother�s front yard, Mr. Miles said two male white officers asked what was in his hands, and he told them his keys and a cellular telephone. He said police apprehended him, threw him to the ground and then handcuffed him to a gate.

Saying the incident was under investigation, police officials declined to comment.

According to Ms. Gordon, when she arrived in her car with their daughter, both saw Mr. Miles handcuffed to the gate. Henrietta became distraught. She yelled for the police to let her father go, threw a bubble gum-filled sucker at the squad car and ran, after a police officer started towards her.

In the official OPS report obtained by The Final Call, the 10-year-old gave full details about the incident.

"After the one officer started chasing me, I saw about six officers chasing me. The officer who was chasing me before the others, picked me up by my neck and slammed me down to the ground. I was on the ground on my back after the officer slammed me to the ground, when the same officer with the glasses put his arm around my neck and started dragging me to the squad car ... I was trying to get away ... The same officer slammed me against the car," the report read.

Henrietta said the officer took her legs, bent them backwards so her feet touched her buttocks and hand cuffed her. At the same time, she said, "he was smothering me ... I couldn�t catch my breath ... The officer said to me "you want to throw rocks at the f---n police" and he pushed my head against the window," the report continued.

Henrietta described the officer that allegedly slammed her to the ground as hefty, muscular, white, with glasses, brown hair and in uniform.

The 5-3, 116 pound girl said her shoes and a sock fell off as she was forced into a police cruiser by the officer.

While in the back of the squad car, the girl said the officer placed his knee in her neck. A white female officer with blonde hair drove the car, said "we should hang this little b---h," according to the OPS complaint.

Ms. Gordon, Henrietta�s mother, didn�t see her daughter throw the gum or run. She did see approximately seven or eight white officers around her daughter, while the girl lay on the ground.

When she ran to the child�s aid, as her daughter screamed "Mom," Ms. Gordon said she was hit in the head and maced by police. An ambulance took Ms. Gordon to the hospital; her daughter was taken to a nearby police station.

When they got to the precinct, the female officer opened the door and the male officer dragged her out, grabbing her left shoulder and left leg, Henrietta charged. She said she told the officer her shoes were in the car and the female officer began calling her names.

According to the 10-year-old, she was placed in a room and another white officer came in, took off the handcuffs, and asked if she was OK. Minutes later, she said, her father walked past the door, yelling "let go of my daughter!"

The female officer who drove the squad car then took her in the room with her dad, where she was finger printed, photographed and told she might be sent to a juvenile detention center, sent home or given a court date.

Henrietta then asked for her grandmother. Both her fraternal and paternal grandmothers came to the jail and took her to a hospital. She complained of a sore neck and throat and a gash in her left leg. Although the hospital staff took her blood pressure and temperature and her leg wound was cleaned, no x-rays were taken, Henrietta said.