Footage shows toddler with hands raised during parents’ arrest

Shocking video shows a barefoot toddler walking towards armed Florida cops with her hands up in the air during an arrest.

The startling cellphone footage shows several Tallahassee Police officers with their guns pointed towards a blue pick up truck Thursday as a man exits with his arms raised.

Then, the little girl clambers out of a side door and approaches the cops, who still have their guns aimed.

“She’s trying to get out but she can’t because she’s little,” a person says in the video. “She is out. Oh, she’s holding her hands up. Oh my God, look at that. Oh my God.”

As concern mounted in the community over whether the officers had pointed weapons at a baby, Tallahassee Police released two body camera videos Friday, providing a fuller picture.

The toddler unexpectedly got out of the car and imitated her parents, who were suspects, said TPD Chief Michael DeLeo.

Body camera footage showed officers talking with the shoplifting suspects after and trying to get the toddler and an infant, who were in the pickup, safely away from the vehicle.

“Are there any other adults in the car?” an officer asks the man who’d just surrendered.

“No sir,” the man replies. “Just my 2-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son.”

The officer tries to coax the girl to come to him. A second video shows a cop and the children’s mother, who was also a suspect, getting the infant from the back of the truck.

“The body camera footage shows the officers’ concern for the children and their compassion as they permitted the mother to care for the children,” DeLeo said. “I am proud of how officers handled the situation, how they adapted when they became aware of the children, the level of concern and compassion they showed to the family.”

Suspected shoplifters Chad M. Bom, 34, and James W. McMullen, 38, were arrested on theft charges.

Cops were told the pair might be armed but found only a pellet gun in their car.

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