Rochester Mayor Suspends Police Officers Who Restrained 9-Year-Old Girl With Pepper Spray

A still frame from a Rochester Police Department body-camera video shows a handcuffed 9-year-old girl in police custody in a police cruiser after police used pepper spray on her as she screamed for her father, in Rochester, N.Y., on Jan. 29. 2021. Rochester Police Department via AP

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has ordered the suspension of police officers who were involved in using pepper spray to restrain a young girl, the city announced late Monday.

Body camera videos released by Rochester, New York, police showed officers using pepper spray to restrain a handcuffed 9-year-old girl on Avenue B on Friday.