Mother claims deputies pointed gun at her 8-year-old

We will want to begin in Gwinnett County with that deputy facing some very serious allegations this afternoon after a mother claims that a gun was pointed at her eight-year-old daughter during a warrant execution. The mother says deputies were at the wrong home and chased the frightened child onto her property. Let's get out to Angelique Proctor following up on this story live in Gwinnett for us this afternoon. Angelique. Good afternoon to you, Tom. Yeah, this Norcross family just traumatized and really disgusted by what they say happened to them and really this eight-year-old daughter and granddaughter of theirs as she was at home playing in her own front yard. Now, the deputies did have a warrant for her uncle, it turns out, but what they say happened to this little girl, they say, is terribly unacceptable. Now, According to the Poole and Jones families, the deputies swarmed their property on Langley Drive in Norcross Monday afternoon about 5:40. They say they got a few surveillance pictures of the officers in the aftermath of everything that happened. Now, the family says the eight-year-old little girl was playing outside in the front yard when deputies arrived with that warrant for her uncle. She immediately started scurrying. She was frightened and ran, ran, ran right next door, which is where she lives. Her grandmother is in one house. Her mom and dad are in the house next door. Now, Grandma Amy Poole says she was just looking out of her window and couldn't believe what she saw. All of a sudden, I see my granddaughter run, and I saw an officer chase after her with a loaded weapon. A loaded weapon. What was your reaction? Of course, I sprung from my bed and ran out the front door. And I'm yelling at him, she's a child. Stop. What did he say? He just proceeded. By then, I saw that he had my son. And my son, he was like, what are you reaching for? And my son said, it's a phone. It's a phone in my pocket. I couldn't believe what I was actually witnessing. My grandkids are always out here playing. How does an 8-year-old look like a 31-year-old man? We are traumatized. My granddaughter is having nightmares. I'm having nightmares. I'm having a hard time sleeping. What grandmother should have to even witness that? A loaded gun pointing at a child that has done absolutely nothing wrong? She can't even play in her own yard or her grandmother's yard and feel safe? She hasn't been outside since. My daughter came running inside, and she was screaming, the police are after me, they're chasing me. And she was crying, she was shaking, she was crying. Both me and her father were like, what do you mean? We didn't even give her a chance to finish, I'm not even going to hold you. We didn't even give her a chance to explain. We ran outside to see what she meant and what was going on. He's like, hey, no, who pointed a gun at my child? Who did that? and you know he's asking one by one each of the deputies that are that are out here and they're like he's like i didn't do it i didn't i didn't point a gun at your child okay but somebody did another deputy did so who did it they didn't want to answer that question they didn't want to answer that question they told us that we needed to calm down how you tell a parent to calm down when you just chase my eight-year-old with a gun she's eight she's a little girl she's afraid she's crying she's scared this is her father and i'm her mother and behind them behind our kids we have to advocate for them so no i'm not going to calm down i'm not yelling at you i'm not cursing at you we're coming at you we just want answers these are very very serious allegations we reached out to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's office to get their side of this story we have yet to hear back from them as for this family they say they are so traumatized the entire family plans to get some kind of counseling or therapy. Tom? You can hear the emotion in that family's voice. They want some answers as to how all of this happened. Is it too early to talk about any kind of lawsuit against the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office or any sort of legal venue for that family for culpability and, you know, bringing this child into this conflict? Well, the first thing they did, Tom, was reported to Internal Affairs. And so the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office needs to sort of investigate themselves. And then we will find out what they come up with. They certainly have come to the media. They are not sure about an attorney. Right now, they say really what they want is for that officer to be held accountable. They want the officer to receive some kind of punishment. They said they even think he should lose his job. So they're kind of taking it internally right now and haven't talked yet about hiring an attorney, but they are very, very upset. You can understand why. And we're just glad that child is okay this afternoon. Angelique Proctor, live for us in Gwinnett County. Angelique, thanks so much.