“We want you to beat him:” Maryland police seen in body camera footage handcuffing 5-year-old boy – By Michael George (CBS News) / Mar 28 2021
Newly released body camera footage shows Maryland police officers handcuffed and screamed at a 5-year-old boy during a January 2020 incident, telling the boy’s mother she should “beat him.”
The 51-minute body camera video, which the Montgomery County Police Department released Friday, sheds new light on an encounter that’s now the subject of a lawsuit filed by the boy’s mother.
Montgomery County police officers found the kindergartener after he wandered away from his Maryland school. In body camera footage, an officer can be seen putting the boy in the back of his police squad car, and the boy sobs as he is driven back to school.
After the officers returned the boy to the school, the video shows, both stayed at the school and spoke with school employees. At one point, an officer can be heard calling the boy “a little beast.”
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