Font Size: An eleven year old girl defended herself against an armed man that attempted to kidnap her Tuesday morning at a bus stop, video surveillance footage shows. The attacker exited his white Dodge journey and ran towards the eleven year old with a knife in hand attempting to kidnap her in West Pensacola, Florida, footage shows. Escambia County Sheriff Chip W. Simmons announced that the man has been arrested, referring to him as an “animal” at a Tuesday press conference. “We are here to announce that we have caught the animal that tried to kidnap an eleven-year-old girl this morning. At about seven o’clock this morning a white van pulled up to an eleven-year-old girl, stopped the van, looked around, and then a man left that vehicle, ran toward the eleven year old victim with something in his hand that is reported to be a knife,” Simmons said at a press conference Tuesday.