You mean to tell me this is a whole different situation of a little girl getting “arrested” or this is the same situation from a couple weeks ago?
You mean to tell me this is a whole different situation of a little girl getting “arrested” or this is the same situation from a couple weeks ago?
why are grown ass adults calling the police on little CHILDREN in the first place tho?..
SMFH disgusting
That was a black cop?
The arrest made headlines and led to Turner’s dismissal when it first occurred in September 2019. Kaia was charged with battery for kicking and punching three school employees that day—a result of her being exhausted from her sleep apnea condition, her grandmother Meralyn Kirkland said at the time.
Kirkland has been outspoken about the arrest—it was the second time that day Officer Turner arrested a child (he also attempted to arrest a 6-year-old boy at the same school, but employees prevented the arrest from being completed—details of that arrest have not been made public)
The video, shared by Kaia’s family with the Orlando Sentinel on Monday night, begins with the young girl sitting quietly in a room with a school employee, listening to a story being read to her. The employee, spotting two officers in her doorway, then tells Kaia that she has to go with the men.
“What are those for?” she asks, spotting the zip ties in the officer’s hand.
“They’re for you,” another officer responded, before fastening them onto her wrists.
As soon as she’s cuffed, Kaia begins wailing, “Help me!”
“Please let me go,” she gasps between cries. “I don’t want to go in the police car.”
Employees at the Lucious & Emma Nixon Academy expressed concern to Officer Turner after Kaia was marshaled into the car.
“The restraints, are they necessary?” one staffer asked, as others held their hands to their faces in disbelief.
“Yes,” Turner said, “If she was bigger, she would have been wearing regular handcuffs.”
Later, Turner bragged about the number of people he had arrested in his career—6,000 people, including children as young as 7, he said. When one of the employees pointed out Kaia was 6 years old, Turner responded: “Now she has broken the record.”