US : Police officers, seen spraying pepper spray on 9-year-old girl

Rochester Police on Sunday released two videos of police officers' body cameras, in which officers are seen spraying something to control a nine-year-old girl and also have her hands tied. Police say it was pepper spray. Lovely Warren, Mayor of Rochester, reported the Democrat and Chronicle, "has expressed concern about the girl who suffered the incident on Friday."

She said, "I also have a 10-year-old daughter .... As a mother you would never want to watch this video." According to the news, on Friday, a total of nine officers reached the spot after receiving news of the family dispute. While trying to separate from her father, the baby girl is heard screaming in the video. On Sunday, Deputy Police Chief Andre Anderson described the girl as suicidal. He said, "She wanted to kill herself and she wanted to kill her mother too."

He said officers tried to put her in a patrol car but he started kicking them. The police department stated that this action was necessary to control the girl child. He said that the girl's hands were tied after the minor's security and parent's request and she was seated in a police vehicle until an ambulance arrived. Police chief Cynthia Harriet Sullivan reported on Sunday that the pepper spray was 'sprayed' on the child. However, he did not defend this action of the officials.

He said, "I am not going to stand here and say that it was okay to spray pepper on a nine year old girl .. because it is not so. "It does not reflect what we are as a department and we will work to ensure that it does not happen again," he said.

 Police said the girl was later taken to 'Rochester General Hospital. She was treated there and later handed over to the family. The Rochester Police Department also came under accusation last year in the case of Daniel Prude after some of his officers covered Prud's head with a cloth and his mouth on the sidewalk.