A Florida mother is accusing a Jacksonville police officer of using excessive force after she was arrested outside her daughter's school, an encounter that was caught on video and has now gone viral.

The incident happened the afternoon of Oct. 7 outside an IDEA charter school in Jacksonville's Riverview neighborhood.

Erika McGriff, 39, had parked her car in an intersection and left it running while picking up her 9-year-old daughter in the rain, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

"I asked the principal what was the proper procedure when picking up the walkers whenever it was raining," McGriff later said in a press conference on Tuesday. "He explained to me the procedures. I then went to pick up my daughter."

JSO officers said McGriff's driver's license had been revoked i

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