Image of girls on the ground causes storm. Winter Haven published video

The Winter Haven police attracted criticism after the pictures were distributed by a young girl who lay down with his face during a arrest.
The police released Body Camera film material that the girl shows who imitated her mother, complied with the police commands.
The child was not tied up with handcuffs and the officer's weapon was not aimed at her.

The Winter Haven police looked like a fiery counter -reaction on Wednesday after pictures of a arrest were taken on the social media that included a young girl who was lying on the floor with her hands behind her back, an officer who was drawn to the girl and her mother with his firearm.

Shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, when the picture on social platforms quickly exploded, the Body Camera film material department published the arrest and said that the young girl, who was apparently less than 5 years old, imitated her mother when the police ordered the woman to the ground. The mother and daughter were in a car with a team that the police were looking for in connection with a disturbance with a firearm.

In a press release in which the video was accompanied, the police said that the civil servants' weapons had been withdrawn from caution because of the probability of a firearm, and “the weapon of the officer was directed towards the child, as confirmed by several cameras.”

According to the press release, the incident occurred on Tuesday when the officers have a report on a disturbance with a firearm on the Santiago market, 898 Havendale BLVD. Nw.

Godfrey Hercules II, 29, was in a discussion of a shop employee in the parking lot and was observed with a weapon, the police said. Hercules left the parking lot on the USA 17. The police left a warning message for a red Nissan Altima with Hercules as a driver, as a female passenger and a small children's passenger.

The officials found the vehicle in the American Legion, 300 Ave. M NW, Winter Haven, said the police, and Hercules, the woman and the child had climbed out of the car. The police said Hercules had been found alongside the building and was quickly arrested.

Ms. Mariah Banks (27) was ordered to the ground, and she kept up immediately, the police said, and the little child grazed the mother's actions. Banks were tied up with handcuffs, as shown in the video. The police said a Diamondback 9mm semi -automatic pistol was found in the vehicle.

“Officials reacted with reasonable caution because there was a weapon that wanted to solve the situation,” said the department in the publication. “When he approached Hercules and Banks, the officials could not know who was in possession of the firearm. As soon as the official who approached the banks, he immediately pointed out his firearm on the floor in a low position.

“At no point in the officer's weapon was directed at the child, as confirmed by several cameras,” says the press release.

The counter -reaction on social media on the image of the girl that lies next to her mother was intense. Much of them focused on belief that the officer pointed his gun on the child or that the child had been tied up with handcuffs.

A Facebook post for Black Lives Matt Restoration Polk Inc. said: “The Winter Haven police have 24 hours to apologize for this little girl on the floor, or it's about this black child.”

“You have 24 hours to spend a public apology to this little girl and family. And I would like to know why she is on the floor. Why is she in handcuffs when she is in handcuffs and why she has her hands behind her back. Where the training that does not pick up the baby from this floor.”

A user on X, the platform known as Twitter, said: “The police from Winter Haven with German Shepard, hand clamp and mother in Florida.”

Another contribution presented a picture of the statue in front of the police headquarters.

“This statue is called” The Protector “and is a dead center of WHPD. It is modeled on a young African -American girl and a police officer.

The young girl was never captivated in the film material of the police bodies or a video from social media with handcuffs. In the video recorded by viewers, an officer can be seen who has tied up banks with handcuffs while the other comes back. His weapon clearly pointed to the floor and fingered the trigger.

In the body camera shots, the officials move while the officers move around a vehicle, with pulled people and showed them in the direction of the banks and ordered them to the ground, an officer from the frame. The officer, whose body camera is shown, has pulled his gun, but the weapon is out of the frame. When the officer clarifies the vehicle and the banks come into the picture, she falls to the ground and the little girl who was hidden behind her comes in sight for a second. In this second, the video seems to show the barrel of the officer's weapon, which previously gets out of the frame into the frame and points down directly onto the ground.

Hercules and banks were released together with the child because the employee had rejected the shop employee for a criminal offense, the police said. The department submitted an affidavit from the public prosecutor's office for Hercules for affray and improper exhibition of a weapon. There was also a complaint for the shop employee for affray.

The police said that the Ministry of Children and Families had been informed about the incident “because it was a violent crime that was committed in the presence of a child”.

The department said that it would hold a press conference in the police on Thursday at 10 a.m. with police chief Vance Monroe, the deputy city administrator for public security, Charlie Bird and City Manager T. Michael Stavres.

Image of girls on the ground causes storm. Winter Haven published video

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