‘How do you do that to a 6-year-old child?’ Cop’s bodycam footage shows girl’s arrest
A 6-year-old was arrested after a tantrum at her school in Orlando and the incident was all caught on video.
The girl’s arrest occurred on Sept. 19, 2019, at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy; the bodycam footage was released by the family’s lawyers Tuesday.
You can see Kaia Rolle pleading not to be arrested as she is being cuffed and put into a patrol car outside the school.
“Don’t put the handcuffs on! I don’t want to go in the police car!” the child pleads through tears. “Please give me a second chance!”
The cop, identified as school resource officer Dennis Turner, is seen talking to teachers afterward saying she was the youngest person he has ever arrested in his career.
Turner was later fired after an internal investigation.
The girl had reportedly had a tantrum and kicked at least one school official who tried to calm her down.
The girl was transferred to a juvenile detention center, where she was processed.
The child’s grandmother Meralyn Kirkland told Click Orlando that her granddaughter acted out due to lack of sleep from a medication for an unknown condition.
“How do you do that to a 6-year-old child and because she kicked somebody?” Kirkland asked a reporter. “No 6-year-old child should be able to tell somebody that they had handcuffs on them and they were riding in the back of a police car and taken to a juvenile center to be fingerprinted, mug shot.”
The court record for this case was reportedly later expunged.
Orlando police Chief Orlando Rolon formally apologized for the incident.
“As a grandfather myself I understand how traumatic this incident was for the children and everyone involved,” he said in a statement released on social media. “Additionally I have taken steps to ensure that this does not occur in the future.”
This story was originally published February 26, 2020 at 5:30 PM.
