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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A deputy used pepper spray on a 12-year-old girl and wrestled her to the ground when she ignored repeated orders to stop jaywalking. Sheriff's deputy Michael Roberto was issuing jaywalking tickets to students crossing a busy highway when he asked the girl to stand next to his motorcycle so he could give her a citation. But the girl became upset and began to curse, walked away and ignored four more orders to stop and put her hands behind her back. The girl, who is 5'1' and 134 pounds, threatened to hit Roberto and rolled her hand in a fist. The deputy repeatedly warned her that he would use pepper spray if she didn't listen. 'After the last warning and order, it became apparent that I had to choose between a physical fight and using the pepper spray,' Roberto wrote. 'I sprayed her in the face.' The girl then knocked the spray can out of Roberto's hand, so the deputy wrestled the girl to the ground and handcuffed her. The girl, who was not injured, was charged with failure to use a crosswalk and resisting arrest without violence, both misdemeanors. Leljedahl said there is no age policy for the use of pepper spray. The police report and witness accounts suggest Roberto acted within the sheriff's office's rules...
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