By Missy Crane | February 25, 2020
You may recall the story of the 6-year-old little Florida girl who was arrested by Orlando police for hitting school employees several months back.
Kaia Rolle was arrested back in Septemeber after she kicked a staff member at the Lucious and Emma Nixon Elementary charter school.
Why are grown adults calling 911 on 6-year-olds?
The child was actually charged with “battery” as a result of the incident.
The little girl suffers from some medical conditions she’s being treated for and working through and her grandmother said those issues sparked her “tantrum.”
The family has just released the bodycam footage of the incident, which shows the child clearly terrified, sobbing, and begging for help as she is cuffed and placed in the back of a police SUV.
The officer on the bodycam footage was terminated for violating agency policy for arresting children younger than 12 without a supervisor’s approval. State law, however, does not cite a minimum age for arrest in Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
The footage, released by the family of Kaia Rolle late Monday, shows the first-grader breaking down as she is restrained with zip ties on Sept. 19 at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy Charter School.
“She’s going to have to come with us now,” Officer Dennis Turner tells a school employee, video shows. “Stand up, stand up … come over here.”
“What are those for?” Kaia asks.
“It’s for you,” says Turner, who was later fired for violating department policy during the arrest.
The girl starts crying uncontrollably and pleads with another officer to not put her in restraints, video shows.
“It’s not going to hurt,” the second, unidentified officer says.
“No, no, I don’t want handcuffs on!” Kaia wails. “No, don’t put handcuffs on! Please!”
The girl was then led to a waiting police SUV outside the school, where she had earlier kicked and punched three employees, according to an arrest report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel. [New York Post]
You can watch the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLAgqrUO6Vc
Look, I am not condoning kids going wild, but seriously, there wasn’t a counselor on staff that could have stepped in and helped calm down the situation and help the child?
Remarkably, she was not the only child arrested that day. There was also an 8-year-old arrested.
Perhaps the police were trying to “teach a lesson” to these kids? I don’t know, but as a mother and someone who does truly believe in accountability and rules and holding kids responsible, I think this situation could have been handled WAY better.
This piece originally appeared on WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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