Published Tuesday, February 2, 2021 6:16AM EST Last Updated Tuesday, February 2, 2021 4:01PM EST (CNN) Three Rochester, New York, officers have been removed from patrol duty after an incident in which a 9-year-old girl was handcuffed and pepper-sprayed, Interim Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan said. Body camera videos of Friday s encounter released by the police department over the weekend showed officers restraining the child, putting her in handcuffs and attempting to get her inside the back of a police vehicle as she repeatedly cries and calls for her father. The officers were responding to what police called a report of family trouble in an encounter sharply criticized by city officials. The incident led to protests in the community.
The family of the 9-year-old girl pepper-sprayed by at least one Rochester Police officer Friday filed the first step in a lawsuit against the City of Rochester and the Rochester Police Department.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. Officers of the Rochester Police Department have reportedly been suspended for their alleged involvement in a Friday incident where a hysterical 9-year-old girl was handcuffed and pepper-sprayed.
The announcement was made Monday by the city’s Director of Communications, Justin Ro
Rochester Mayor Suspends Police Officers Who Restrained 9-Year-Old Girl With Pepper Spray
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has ordered the suspension of police officers who were involved in using pepper spray to restrain a young girl, the city announced late Monday.
Body camera videos released by Rochester, New York, police showed officers using pepper spray to restrain a handcuffed 9-year-old girl on Avenue B on Friday.
The city did not specify how many police officers were suspended. The suspensions will continue until an internal police investigation is completed.
“What happened Friday was simply horrible, and has rightly outraged, all of our community,” Warren said in a statement.
Well, that escalated quickly.
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In the latest outrage provoking example of police overreach and brutality to go viral, the Rochester Police Department in New York are under scrutiny after last Friday officers responded to a family disturbance call which ended up in the police pepper-spraying a deeply distraught 9-year old girl as they tried to detain her.
Amid a public outcry the department released two videos from body cameras. Especially driving public anger is the fact that the child was already handcuffed when an officer sprayed her with pepper-spray at close range. This occurred after an apparent struggle while the child was begging for her father to come, and as she was already in the backseat of the police car, but one female officer struggled to get her to put her feet into the vehicle.Â