Colorado school resource officers handcuffed, jailed 11-year-old with autism for scratching...

2 school resource officers:

1. Lyle Peterson
2. Sidney Nicholson

Pig #1 Lyle Peterson (the video below appears to have come from Pig #2's bodycam)


Pig #2 Sidney Nicholson

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Colorado school resource officers handcuffed, jailed 11-year-old with autism for scratching classmate, lawsuit says

Douglas County school resource officers handcuffed an 11-year-old boy with autism, grabbed him by the back of the neck, left him for two hours in a patrol car — where he banged his head repeatedly against plexiglass — and then booked him into a juvenile jail for scratching a classmate with a pencil, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The boy, who is identified by his initials A.V. in the lawsuit, sat calmly with the school counselor after the scratching, but began screaming as two Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputies working as school resource officers picked him up by his ...

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Officers accused of handcuffing autistic 11-year-old

Officers for a Colorado school district have been accused of wrongly handcuffing an autistic 11 year-old who “cried in pain” during his arrest. The incident, which took place at Sagewood Middle School in August 2019, was the subject of a court filing at the United District Court for Colorado on Monday, following the recent release of body camera footage. School resource officers (SROs) for Douglas County, Colorado, were accused of “aggressively” handcuffing the child for “poking his classmate with a pencil”, according to the filing. The school district was also accused of failing to prepare staff for working with disabled ...

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An 11-year-old with autism was arrested for scratching a classmate with a pencil, lawsuit says

As an 11-year-old boy with autism was sitting quietly after scratching a classmate with a pencil, sheriff’s deputies in Douglas County, Colo., pledged to the boy that they had no plans of harming the middle-school student. “I’m not going to hurt you,” one of the officers said to the boy in August 2019, according to body-cam video released this week. But not even 30 seconds passed before the officers aggressively handcuffed the boy, who shrieked out in pain as he was being detained against his will, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week. From there, the sheriff’s deputies, who ...

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