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In a news release Tuesday, Police Chief James Slayton said officers were聽interviewing a juvenile suspect on Cady Street that night. He was accused of trespassing on the properties of residents, who also had video footage of attempts by that juvenile and others to break into cars. The department had received several complaints about break-ins throughout the city in the weeks prior.

As officers interviewed the juvenile, Slayton continued, they were approached by Dedrick A. Parks, 25. He asked if the juvenile was on his property, and was told that the juvenile was indeed trespassing.

Parks then approached the juvenile and told him to stay off his property or he would "smoke" him, Slayton said. Officers placed their hands in front of Parks to keep him away from the juvenile, leading Parks to swat an officer's arm away and say, "Get the (obscenity) off of me." The officer and another then attempted to arrest Parks, who resisted despite commands to comply.

During the arrest, Slayton said, officers lifted Parks off the ground to destabilize him and take him to "a platform where he could be controlled." However, he hit his head on the concrete sidewalk and was knocked unconscious. Officers immediately called for emergency medical services and tended to Parks. After 42 seconds he regained consciousness, and was walked to a patrol car.

Due to a miscommunication, Slayton said, responders met Parks at Auburn police headquarters. He was charged with second-degree obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest.

Slayton said he released the footage due to "many misconceptions and false statements" about the arrest, in the interest of "transparency and the community having the facts."聽

"Through honesty and factual reporting of events, we want to continue to ensure the safety of the public and the officers on the street," he said.

Several community members spoke about the arrest during the public comment portions of recent meetings of Auburn City Council.

Resident Erica Manners said at council's Sept. 12 meeting that Parks, whom she called a "lifelong friend," couldn't open his mouth wide enough to eat as a result of his injury.聽

"His jawbones have been broken by the very hands that are meant to protect him," she said.

"I've known police brutality and abuse of power has gone on around the world for years, but to know it's so close to you shakes you to the core," she continued. "I just can't for the life of me understand how 'it takes a village,' but that same village is the one taking us, one by one, and breaking us and claiming it to be justified. Is there truly no other way? Is de-escalation no longer a tactic?"

Also speaking was resident Cherry Love-Duncan, aunt of Chelci Love, who was struck聽in the head several times by an Auburn police officer during an arrest recorded outside West Middle School Apartments in August. The department said the officer's strikes were "not considered excessive" and necessary to save Love's 3-year-old daughter from harm after Love wrapped her legs around her neck.

"All you're doing in this city is causing a whole lot of trouble," Love-Duncan told City Council. "A whole lot of tears. And we will not stand for it no more."

Resident Gwen Webber-McLeod, CEO of leadership development corporation Gwen Inc., noted her work as a diversity, equity and inclusion strategist with law enforcement organizations across the state. Supporting officers and keeping them safe must be balanced with making sure the communities they serve receive fair treatment, she said, and aren't punished for "simply living while Black."

"It is the birthright of every citizen in the city of Auburn, New York, to be equally protected under the law, kept safe, valued and respected as citizens coexisting in this community," she said.

"What we choose to do next as a city really matters."