article_snippet: Melissa was charged with resisting and hindering police but was later found not guilty as the magistrate said officers had used an 'inordinate amount of force' in her daughter's arrest, ABC ABC reports.
article_snippet: Melissa was charged with resisting and hindering police but was later found not guilty as the magistrate said officers had used an 'inordinate amount of force' in her daughter's arrest .
article_snippet: The teenager's mother, Judy Timbery, told the ABC 'couldn't believe' how the police treated the teen daughter during her daughter's arrest and will be lodging a civil claim. '
article_snippet: I was appalled,' her daughter said. '
article_snippet: Seeing how he handled her daughter, we're supposed to trust the police, and when you see something like that, who can you trust?'
article_snippet: Noeleen Kane were unnecessary and that the arrest of Melissa and her friend 
article_snippet: Noeleen Kane should have been issued court attendance notices instead.
article_snippet: Ms Kane, who was 16 at the time, was arrested for swearing but was later released.
article_snippet: Redfern Legal Service lawyer David Porter told the ABC: 'the force used was not only unnecessary but the situation in which the police officer used force was created by the police officer failing to use the police officer powers of arrest properly'.
article_snippet: Ms Timbery further told the ABC Ms Timbery daughter had a history of self-harm, alcohol and drugs.
highlights_snippet: The Aboriginal girl was found not guilty in August 2012 of resisting and hindering police .
  