Shocking bodycam footage shows the moment a six-year-old girl had her hands tied behind her back and was arrested at school.
Little Kaia Rolle begged for help and cried out as she was led out of her school in Orlando, Florida, after she misbehaved in class.
The officer has now been sacked for not following protocol and getting his supervisor's approval for arresting anyone under the age of 12.
In the footage, officer Dennis Turner can be seen getting out a set of zip ties to restrain Kaia, who before he arrived was calmly sitting in school office.
The six-year-old asks: "What are those for?" and the officer replies coldly: "There for you."
The child can be heard crying out and begging for help and a second chance, as she is led away to a police car.
The officer carries the girl into the back seat and puts on her seatbelt before driving away.
Kaia Rolle then had her fingerprints and mugshot taken at the police station before she was finally returned to her devastated family.
Kaia’s grandmother Meralyn Kirkland told WKMG in the US: "How do you do that to a six-year-old child and because she kicked somebody? A literal mugshot of a six-year-old girl.
"No six-year-old child should be able to tell somebody that they had handcuffs on them and they were riding in the back of a police car and taken to a juvenile centre to be fingerprinted and to have a mug shot taken."
The Orlando Police Department said Kaia was one of two children arrested that day, the other was an eight-year-old child.
Kaia was taken into custody after she was reported by her school for having a tantrum and kicking a teacher. She was taken to a juvenile centre on charges of battery.
Lawyers for her family at Smith and Eulo Law Firm told the BBC that the family chose to release the footage and an internal investigation resulted in an officer being fired.
The incident took place in September but has only just come to light following release of the bodycam footage.
It follows a similar case of six-year-old Nadia King also from Florida, who was taken against her mum's wishes after teachers say she had a tantrum at school.
Nadia was put in a mental health unit for 48 hours after being taken out of school by police officers.
