12-year-old speaks out about ‘traumatic’ wrongful detention by Lansing police – By Deena Zaru and Stefan Joyce (ABC News) / Aug 14, 2023
Police apologized for what they say was a case of mistaken identity.
A 12-year-old who was wrongfully handcuffed and detained by police in Lansing, Michigan on Thursday while he was taking out the trash spoke out in an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America” about what the family says was a “traumatic” experience.
“When it happened, I was really, like, shocked and frightened about like the situation, and how it happened,” Tashawn Bernard said in an interview that aired on “GMA” Monday.
“This has been a very traumatic and emotional experience for him and his entire family,” family attorney Rico Neal told “GMA.”
Tashawn’s father, Michael Bernard, said that the incident happened when he asked his son to take the trash out to the dumpster at their apartment complex.
