Video of Teen Forced Into Van Prompts Mistaken Alarm.flv

When authorities in Stafford County, Va., saw alarming surveillance video of a teenage girl being forced -- kicking and screaming -- into a minivan, they issued an Amber Alert, believing she was abducted from a Target store parking lot.

Now Stafford County authorities are weighing whether to file charges against the girl's relatives, after the 17-year-old was found safe with her family in Jacksonville, Fla. Officials said the teen wasn't fighting off a kidnapping -- but resisting the family's move to Florida. Her family said the dramatic surveillance video actually shows the teen protesting as three relatives struggle to stuff her into their Dodge Caravan.

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• abduction
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• kidnap
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• target store
• parking lot
• teenage girl

[91bcook]

no one had any idea that they were family, people should have tried to do something until they found out for a fact that they were family instead of just ignoring the situation and going on.

[xMrJoey]

Look at those people around her that don't do anything :/

[emaresea]

@91bcook The people around probably heard her screaming "Mom, Dad, I don't want to move! I don't want to change schools! I want to stay here with all my friends!" and them screaming "Get in the van you spoiled brat!"

[donnarosanna]

I'm glad it turned out to be her family members but that shit is still scary

[ohiostate1555]

why don't anyone do anything

[VegasGuns]

hahaha.. thats too funny.

[kingkerwick]

suga fo yos pancakes... :D

[jamesg714]

Let's first address the bystanders, they probably heard what was going on, a soundless clip leaves a lot of room for speculation, and still they called the police. The fact they were able to make it to Fl. should be visited on the police, but she's merely a spoil black teen, and this is Stafford,Virginia! The 17 year old girl don't know how lucky she is to have a family that cares about her, she have no idea of the dangers in the streets, her actions proved that.

[Jerimiah1977]

@beastinitiate Target uses those things to keep idiots from driving on the sidewalks. (I've seen them do it.)

[beastinitiate]

thats at target i think?or walmart the red things in the front