A Florida mother says a police officer trying to teach her son a lesson put the 11-year-old in handcuffs.
This comes after an incident happened at a police athletic league basketball game, where his mother says police ordered him to stop bouncing a ball–but he did not listen.
“The officer who handcuffed my son looked at me and said, ‘he was being disrespectful.’ I said, ‘well, why didn’t you come and tell me, I’m his mom?'” Mother Bummi Borisade said.
The mom says she understands her son may have been acting out but says he did not deserve to be handcuffed.
Borisade says she was in another part of the gym when this happened and that is what made police act forcefully.
She wishes they would have just come to her.
The agency says the internal affairs complaint is being reviewed.