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Handcuffed and sobbing, the 9-year-old girl screams “I want my dad!” repeatedly as Rochester, N.Y., police officers try to force her into a patrol car. When the girl keeps refusing to swing her legs inside, one officer pulls out his pepper spray. “Just spray her at this point,” the unidentified male officer tells a female colleague in a video of the Friday incident.
Moments later, the male officer sprays the girl himself as she shrieks in pain.
The graphic body-camera footage, which Rochester police released Sunday, left city leaders demanding answers for how a family disturbance call quickly escalated into a use of force against a young girl in obvious distress.
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