The family of a 6-year-old Florida girl who was handcuffed at an Orlando school is filing a lawsuit

The lawsuit filed in Florida Circuit Court alleges that Rule was subjected to excessive force, false arrest and malicious prosecution. At a news conference in Orlando today, lawyers for Rule and his family, as well as civil rights activists, also called on Florida to raise the minimum age for arresting children.

“This happened,” Rolle’s attorney, Bobby DiCillo, said as he held up a photo of Rolle crying in the back of a police car with her wrists handcuffed behind her. “This is happening all over America.”

Rolle’s alleged crime was throwing a tantrum and beating three employees at an Orlando-area charter school.

Body camera footage The incident showed former Orlando Police Officer Dennis Turner and another officer placing zip ties around the little girl’s wrists and leading her outside to a police car as she cried and begged to be let go.

“what are these?” Rolle, who was in the front row at the time, asked as the officer pulled out his ties.

“They’re for you,” Turner replied.

Rule was charged with misdemeanor battery. The charges were quickly dropped.

The national condemnation that poured in after the story broke led to the officer’s conviction shootingAfter two years of pressure from Rule’s family and other advocates, Florida set a minimum age for arresting children.

like a reason he have Previously mentionedIn many states, there is no minimum age for a child to be arrested and charged with a crime, although incidents like Rolle’s have prompted many states to strengthen protective measures for children in recent years.

In 2021, the city of Rochester, New York, released body camera footage of officers Pepper spraying a handcuffed 9-year-old girl.

In North Carolina, an investigation conducted by Raleigh News and Observer open That children as young as 6 years old have been accused of committing crimes. The main storyline of the story involves a 6-year-old boy accused of destruction of property for picking tulips.

However, the new minimum age for arrest in Florida is 7 years. Roll almost immediately became outside the law named after her.

“The law we fought so hard to put in place doesn’t even protect her,” Meralyn Kirkland, Rule’s grandmother, said at the news conference.

Rolle’s family and juvenile justice advocates are calling for the minimum age of arrest in Florida to be raised to 14.

This article first appeared on Reason.com.