Police in Rochester, New York handcuffed and pepper sprayed a 9-year-old girl on Wednesday. Jan. 27 while responding to a call regarding “family trouble.”
Body camera footage the police department released on Sunday, Jan. 31 show officers restraining the girl in handcuffs and trying to put her in the back of a police car. After she does not follow their commands to put her feet inside of the car, the officers pepper-spray her. A total of nine officers and supervisors responded to the scene, the Democrat and Chronicle reports.
At a press conference on Sunday, Interim Rochester Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan spoke about the incident.
