At first, Kaia Rolle, 6, appeared not to understand what the police officers were doing.

“What are those for?” she said, eyeing the zip ties the officers had brought to the school office in Orlando, Fla.

“It’s for you,” one officer responded.

As he tied them on, she started to sob: “No, don’t put handcuffs on. Help me!”

Newly released body camera footage, first published by The Orlando Sentinel this week, captured these and other jarring details of how the officers arrested Kaia in September and led her through the school into the back of a police vehicle, despite her anguished pleas for them to let her go. Kaia was arrested after throwing a “tantrum” at school earlier that day in which she kicked a school staff member, her grandmother has previously said.

The arrest had already prompted fierce criticism of the rough treatment of young children by law enforcement. The officer, Dennis Turner, who also arrested a 6-year-old boy in a separate episode on the same day, was terminated from his job in September.