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Federal Civil Rights Suit Filed After School Resource Officer Handcuffed, Pinned Down and Taunted a Seven Year Old for 38 Minutes

JMD attorney Alex Heroy recently filed a civil rights law suit for the family of a 7 year old child who was handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a resource school officer for nearly 40 minutes. The incident that occurred in 2018 was filmed by a body-cam. In the video you can hear the child screaming and yelling that he was in pain.

To read more, please visit this link to the full The Washington Post article https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/13/school-police-handcuffs-autism/