The parents of a 10 -year-old boy with special needs are demanding rebuts after “their childrens” was confined and handcuffed at a North Texas school.
“It’s disgusting that this officer is settled there to protect and help most children, and he mistreated a disabled, little boy, ” the boy’s baby, Emily Brown, told Dallas-Fort Worth’s KTVT News. “He indicated no compassion.”
She is exhorting regime and federal authorities to conduct an investigation into the incident.
According to Brown, her lad Thomas, who has autism, was tamed by a Denton Police Department school resource officer on at least two parties this year, on April 23 and April 30.
It was after the second incident, she said, that she and her husband detected their lad was covered in recognizes and discolorations. Suspecting excessive personnel was used to restrain him, the Browns solicited video from the officer’s mas camera.
Authorities on Tuesday released the footage from the April 30 occurrence. In the video, recorded by a camera worn by Officer Eric Coulston, Thomas is determined attempting to hide in a cubbyhole. A educator pulls the son out, and Coulston scoops the boy up and carries him into an empty-bellied room.
“Do you require the handcuffs? Or not? ” Coulston asks “their childrens” when they’re in the room.
Thomas repeatedly screams, “Get off, ” and strives to escape as the patrolman comprises him facedown by his neck.
Coulston can then be seen handcuffing the boy’s limbs behind his back.
“We’re back to where we were the other day, ” Coulston says. “Want to knock some more? ”
The boy’s ordeal, according to the video, goes on for approximately two hours. Though the handcuffs were removed at one point, the officer positioned them back on after Thomas tore tissues into tiny slice and threw them at a schoolteacher, police said.
“It’s abuse, the torture, and the hell that he was put through, ” Emily Brown told ABC affiliate WFAA, referring to the April 30 incident.
The Denton Independent School District’s director of communications, Mario Zavala, told HuffPost the district has protocols in place to ensure the safety of students.
“In this instance, the school aid officer( SRO) manufactured the determination, after all other efforts to de-escalate developments in the situation substantiated inept, ” Zavala said.
He was indicated that Thomas was “a detriment to his own safety and that of the other students and staff.”
Authorities said the child was acting out before being curtailed. He was being intrusive, swung a computer mouse near other children and kicked and spit on the policeman, police said.
Brown told KTVT-TV her lad was acting out because he was scared.
“He’s got a lot of nervousnes because the unusually parties that I told him to rely, he can’t, ” she said.
According to a statement released by the city, the Denton Police Department Office of Professional Standards reviewed the incident and saw no violations.
“The decision to use taboos was drawn only when the child posed a serious threat to himself or others, ” predicts the statement. “Once the child was pacified, the self-restraints were removed.”
While the Texas Education Code licenses developed staff members and resource detectives to physically restraint special educational students, they were able do so simply “to protect the health and safety of the student and others.” The regulation considerably states the suppression must be discontinued “when an emergency no longer exists.”
