Police video recorded two officers yelling at 5-year-old boy and saying he should be beaten
The 2020 incident, as recorded by a body camera one of the officers was wearing,, showed them berating and insulting the child after he’d fled from his school, and telling him he deserved to be beaten. The money will come from the county’s self-insurance fund, officials said.
The mother of the child sued the county last year, asserting among other claims that the officers’ behavior left her son with PTSD. Attorneys for theA trial had been set to begin Jan. 23. Among the central claims that were expected to be heard by a jury: The officers put the child in such immediate fear of being hurt that it amounted to assault. “Boy I’m telling you,” one of them loudly said to him, according to the video, “I hope your momma let me beat you.
Attorneys James Papirmeister and Matthew Bennett, who represented the child’s mother, said all money received by the family will go into a trust that the boy will have access to when he turns 18. “Our client is glad to put this litigation behind her,” Papirmeister said. “Her son will have money put away for his future, and she won’t have to continue to go through a difficult and sometimes painful process.”
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