By Kia Morgan-Smith, The Grio
The Orange County Florida Sheriff’s Office has fired a white deputy who violently manhandled a female middle school student.
An unnamed officer was canned after body camera video was released, showing him roughing up a Black girl by grabbing her by the hair, according to ABC News.
“You’re the one who started this s— at school. … I’m tired of this s—,” the officer said in the video.
The resource officer was sent to break up a fight that erupted between students at Westridge Middle School in Orlando, Florida.
The video appears to show the deputy also retrained the youth’s hands behind her back before dragging her to a squad car. The girl was held before being released into parental custody, according to authorities.
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“I am extremely upset, disappointed and outraged by the conduct of our deputy sheriff in this instance,” said Orange County Sheriff John Mina during a Friday press conference,
“I want the community to know that this type of behavior is not going to be tolerated at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.”
Earlier this year, a similar incident happened at a Georgia high school.
A resource officer appeared in a video allegedly using excessive force against a teenage girl.
Alma Grandy claimed her teen daughter Mikkia Grandy was involved in a fight at Newton High School in Covington, Georgia. She said a video showed the school’s research officer slamming the child into a wall while trying to break it up on August 14.
Mikkia was fighting another student when the resource officer arrived to break up the altercation.
This article originally appeared in The Grio.
