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A young child is going viral after she stood up for her mother who she said was falsely accused by police of stealing sunglasses.
In a now-viral TikTok video, the mother-daughter duo appeared to be standing outside of a store as the child yelled at New York Police Department officers for allegedly making false theft accusations.
"Leave my mother alone," the young girl shouted.
In the video, the theft suspect was described as a Black female with long braids and a white shirt. The description didn't match the woman who was stopped by police.
"What glasses did I steal?" the mother asked an officer.
The woman's daughter then berated police for their alleged mistake. She also accused her aunt of stealing the sunglasses.
"My aunt stole glasses it wasn't her," the child said of her mother. "Does she have a f*****g white t-shirt on? No."
The girl again yelled at officers to "Leave my mother alone."
"On my dead father she don't have nothing," the woman's child said. "I'm going to kill somebody," she added.
In a follow-up video, the young girl pleaded with cops that her mother was innocent as they put the woman in handcuffs. The mother and daughter embraced after she was put in a police car.
It's unclear what unfolded after the videos. The incident garnered over 1 million views on TikTok as of Tuesday (May 28).
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