Updated at 4:14 p.m. ET
City officials in Rochester, N.Y., released police body camera footage showing an encounter between officers and a 9-year-old girl who they handcuffed and later pepper-sprayed when she did not move fully inside a police vehicle.
Officials said that police were responding to a family disturbance on Friday and that the girl was suicidal and upset. They said officers detained the minor in order to get her assistance.
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