(WWJ) Police have released heart-wrenching video of the arrest of a small child in Florida.
Body camera footage recorded by an Orlando school resource officer last September shows 6-year-old Kaia Rolle sobbing and pleading for help as she's restrained with zip ties and led to a patrol car.
This, after staff at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy said she had a temper tantrum in class.
“Please, give me a second chance...Please, let me go,” she said, shaking and crying. “I don't want to go in the police car."
It was alleged, according to reports, that an assistant principal grabbed the child's wrists to try to calm her down, and that’s when Kaia punched and kicked.
“The restraints, are they necessary?” an employee is heard asking, in an extended version of the video, aired by local media. “If she were bigger she’d be wearing regular handcuffs,” the arresting officer, Dennis Turner, replied.
He went on to say that the girl broke his record for his youngest arrest.
Kaia was fingerprinted and had her mugshot taken, but any charges against her were expunged, according to State Attorney Aramis Ayala. WKMG reported Turner was later fired by the Orlando Police Department.
OPD policy states that if a child is under 12 years old, an officer must get approval from a watch commander to make an arrest. After this incident, the President of the Orlando Fraternal Order of Police said the guidelines were changed so that officers now need a deputy chief approval before arresting anyone under 12.