“Help Me!” Body Cam Footage Of 6-Year Old Girl Being Arrested At School Released

A police officer’s body camera captured the moment a 6-year old girl was arrested at her Orlando Florida school while pleading for help.

As we previously reported back in September, Meralyn Kirkland says she was outraged to learn that her granddaughter Kaia Rolle was removed from her Lucious and Emma Nixon Elementary Charter School by Orlando police officers and taken to the juvenile detention center.

According to reports, cops were called because Kaia was allegedly kicking and punching staff members at the school.

The family insisted that the footage of Kaia being arrested be shared so that everyone could see the terror her baby girl had to go through.

The video shows the young girl crying and begging officers not to arrest her as one fastens zip ties around her wrists.

Activist Shaun King also shared the video and he said that this incident has his blood boiling!

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I first told you all about this case months ago, but we are just now seeing the body camera footage for the very first time. SHE IS SIX YEARS OLD and has been handcuffed, put into a police car, and taken to jail. LISTEN TO ME: EVERYBODY failed this baby. The teachers and staff that sat by and allowed it to happen. The police officer. Everybody. FUCK THEM. They traumatized this baby after she misbehaved at school. And we can’t blame this shit on the white man. The whole school staff was Black and the cop was a man of color as well. My people. My people. I could say so much more, but in the meantime, please follow @grassrootslaw. I am building a team to help us in ALL of these moments. Just wait. Folk are going to wish they never crossed us again.

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Kaia’s grandmother said she hopes the footage becoming public of her granddaughter’s arrest, will garner support for a proposal to change that law by making 12 the minimum age for arrest. She said she would also like to see school resource officers receive more training and preparation, especially to work with young children.

“I knew that what they did was wrong, but I never knew she was begging for help,” Kirkland said in an interview Monday night about the video. “I watched her break.”

A short time later, Officer Dennis Turner returns to the office to talk to Lucious & Emma Nixon Academy administrators, who appear dismayed by what they have witnessed in the school office.

Officials have said that Turner also arrested a 6-year-old boy at another school on the same day as Kaia’s arrest for misdemeanor battery in an unrelated incident. However, the boy’s arrest was halted by superiors before the child made it through the full arrest process.

State Attorney Aramis Ayala said last September that she was dismissing misdemeanor battery charges against both children.

Turner violated agency policy that requires officers get supervisor approval before arresting children younger than 12, Orlando Police Department officials told the Tampa Bay Times, His decision not to do so is not illegal as Florida currently does not have a minimum age for arrest.

Turner was fired shortly after the arrest. Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon said at the time that Turner didn’t follow department policy of getting the approval of a watch commander to arrest someone younger than 12.