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Deputy Police Chief Andre Anderson said Sunday the girl &#8212; who has not been named &#8212; had been suffering from a serious mental health emergency, reportedly threatening to take her own life and that of her mother. The incident is the second time in a year that Rochester has come under national scrutiny for police violence against African-Americans, following the killing last March of Daniel Prude, who died after police hooded and forced him face down on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1076,1539],"tags":[17235,2799,17224,765,33678,1003],"class_list":["post-77000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-girl","tag-new-york","tag-pepper-spray","tag-police","tag-rochester","tag-us","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US police pepper-spray a 9-year-old girl in Rochester, New York - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/us-police-pepper-spray-a-9-year-old-girl-in-rochester-new-york\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US police pepper-spray a 9-year-old girl in Rochester, New York - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A nine-year-old Black girl was handcuffed and pepper-sprayed by police in the US city of Rochester, footage shows, sparking new outrage over excesses committed by the country&#039;s law enforcement. 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