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Orlando officer ties 6-year-old girl's hands with zip locks, puts her in back of police car in disturbing video

Officer Dennis Turner, who had arrested another six-year-old in the same week, was fired almost immediately after the incident
PUBLISHED FEB 25, 2020
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ORLANDO, FLORIDA: Newly-released bodycam footage shows a highly controversial incident where a police officer arrested a six-year-old girl at her school and put zip ties around her wrists even as she begged him to let her go.

The footage, which was given to WESH by the attorney for the child's family, captured the confrontation between Orlando police officer Dennis Turner and six-year-old Kaia Rolle at the Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy on Sept. 19, 2019. The video shows Kaia sitting with a woman inside an office in the academy as Turner walks into the room and is seen putting zip ties on the child's wrists with her arms behind her back even as she asks, "What are those for?"

She then cries and says, "Don't put handcuffs on," and "Help me, help me, please help me."

As Turner walks her outside, she continues crying and begs, "Please let me go," and "I don't want to go in the police car." In response, the officer tells her that she "had to" and then puts her in the back seat of his vehicle. After putting the child into the vehicle, he goes back inside the school, where one distressed employee is seen wiping away tears. "Are the restraints, are they necessary," another employee asked him.

"Yes," Turner replies. "And, if she was bigger she would've been wearing regular handcuffs."

The police report for the incident stated that Turner had been responding to the academy on a report that a six-year-old had "battered three staff members by kicking and punching them." The girl was charged with battery in connection to the incident as well, but those charges were not pursued. It then emerged that Turner had arrested another six-year-old in the same week, and he was fired within days of him arresting Kaia.

Orlando police chief Orlando Rolon said he was shocked by Turner's actions and that he had apologized directly to the children involved and their families.

"As a grandfather of three children less than 11 years old, I can only imagine how traumatic this was for everyone involved," he shared. "We were all appalled. We could not fathom the idea of a 6-year-old being put in the back of a police car."

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