The video shows Rochester police tackling black woman in front of toddler, pepper spray.

Police in Rochester, New York, are again under scrutiny over the use of pepper spray after the video released on Friday shows police spraying the chemical irritatingly in the face of a black woman holding the hand of her three-year-old child held. “It feels like our officers are out of control,” City Councilwoman Mary Lupien told the New York Times.

The incident took place on February 22 and took place less than a month after an uproar over police spraying a handcuffed nine-year-old man with pepper spray. Police cameras released Friday show how an officer confronted a woman who was carrying her child after a report of a shoplifter at a nearby Rite Aid. “Did you steal from that store?” says an officer to the woman. ‘Oh come on, they said you stole. What did you take? Tell me the truth! “

The woman denies that she stole anything and opened her purse to show the officer. The officer tells the woman that she should stay until the shop workers can be contacted. But the woman starts running away with her toddler. The officer catches her and goes to the ground to handcuff her all while her child can hear screaming and crying. “I did not steal anything,” the woman repeated. A second officer arrives and takes the toddler and when the woman wants to grab her child again, an officer sprays the woman in the face before tackling her again and handcuffing her. Security camera footage shows the child hanging in the air between her mother and the officer at some point before letting her mother go. ‘Stop. Oh my God, what’s wrong with her? The officer who grabbed the child can be heard from the mother.

Although the toddler was not sprayed, officials warned that this could happen and raised questions about how officers handled the toddler. “These disturbing incidents prove that the Rochester Police Department needs to fundamentally change its organizational culture,” the city’s police responsibility council said in a statement. “These incidents also confirm the call of our community to fundamentally remind public safety.” These latest pepper spray incidents come after the Rochester police station was already indignant and investigative about the death last year of Daniel Prude, a black man who died after police pinned him and put a “spittoon” over his head .