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Kaia Rolle was 6 years old when she was arrested at school in 2019 after throwing a temper tantrum.
The traumatizing incident shows how Black girls are criminalized in schools, experts told Insider.
A bill passed in Florida aims to prohibit children under the age of 7 from being arrested.
Meralyn Kirkland was in the delivery room when her granddaughter, Kaia Rolle, was born unresponsive. As the doctors worked to get Kaia to take her first breath, it was Kirkland who prayed over her, promising that she would be there for the baby if she pulled through.