Rochester, MN, police examined racist viral video

Rochester – The local police have completed an examination of the viral video that was made last week, in which a woman used racist deletions against a little boy and a spectator.

Amanda Grayson, spokeswoman for the Rochester police, said on Monday morning in an e -mail that the police had forwarded their findings to the city's lawyers. It is unclear what civil servants found in the investigation.

“RPD takes all reports and allegations seriously and has to collect information thoroughly to ensure a proper procedure,” said Grayson in E -Mail. “We acknowledge that the behavior recorded in the video has expressed many concerns and we appreciate the patience of the community during the investigation and in the future.”

A spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Rochester says that her review is “deliberately, but with an appropriate feeling of urgency”. The office rejected it to give a schedule about when a decision could be made whether the woman, Shiloh Hendrix from Rochester.

The video shows a man who faces Hendrix because he calls the boy a ball on a playground in Soldiers Field Memorial Park south of downtown. She repeats the unamerted man behind the camera and told the man to take something from her and her toddler to the black child.

Social media commentators claimed that the black child is about 5 years old and autistic. The Minnesota Star Tribune was not able to confirm the boy's identity independently.

Hendrix started on Thursday shortly after the video became viral. She collected more than 650,000 US dollars on Monday morning. Many donors expressed racist or white supremacist statements.

In response, the local branch of the NAACP started a crowdfunding campaign of a separate Friday to support the legal services for the child's family. They collected more than 340,000 US dollars before ending the campaign on Saturday at the family.