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A Florida mother is outraged after her teenage daughter was struck and arrested by Coral Springs police officers. The incident was caught on video and has begun to circulate through various social media platforms. However, police say the video doesn’t capture the complete story.

A 14-year-old Black teen was repeatedly punched by Coral Springs, FL officers. Full story = https://t.co/pFPSPUie5p pic.twitter.com/GpbVnRtq1N — The Black Detour (@theblackdetour) October 21, 2018

According to the police department officers were called to the mall last Thursday by mall security because there were some teens harassing people Miami CBS 4 Affiliate reported. When officers arrived a mother approached them and said one of the teens had pushed her 5-year-old to the ground.

Mall security told them that one of the teens, the 14-year-old seen in the video had hit other teen in the mall according to the department’s Twitter post.

The security officers asked the police to bar the teens from returning to the mall. As the officers were getting to leave, Coral Spring police said they received another call about another incident at the mall involving one of the teens who had just been barred from returning to the mall but did so anyway.

That teen was taken into custody. According to the police department, it was at that time the 14-year-old began cursing at the officers and “attempting to incite the other teens.”

Police say when they attempted to take her into custody, but the teen fought back.

“Due to her stature and aggressive behavior, officers took her to the ground attempting to get her to release her fists,” Coral Springs Police Department posted on Twitter. “As seen in the video she resisted arrest, and in order to have her comply she was struck in the side to release her clenched fists – she was then handcuffed.”

The officer explained in the police report that he punched her 3 times in the rib cage. He said since her hands were under her body, he was not sure if she had a weapon hidden in her waistband according to Miami CBS 4 Affiliate.

The troubling video shows one officer punching the teen twice in her ribs and grabbing her shorts. Another teen is heard yelling in the video: “Why are you hitting her? She can’t do it! She can’t do it! She can’t do that! Her hands [are] underneath her!”

The teen’s mother, Jessica Dennis told WSVN-TV Friday that her daughter wasn’t resisting.

“She clearly wasn’t aggressive. Everyone could see she was laying there,” said Dennis about her daughter. “I just want justice to be served.”

Dennis went on to say “I really couldn’t keep watching it. It was just too much because it just makes you angry. I mean, I was heartbroken.”

Meeghan Moldoff, the teen’s lawyer said the officer “just gut-shotting her, like one after another.”

Coral Springs police added as the teen was being put into the patrol car, she kicked a woman officer in the stomach.

The incident remains under investigation.

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