A federal lawsuit accuses a Laramie County, Wyoming, deputy of violating an 8-year-old boy's rights by tackling him to the ground and restraining him at school when he hadn't done anything wrong. The deputy then deleted body camera footage of the assault, the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit emphasizes that the boy was not suspected of any crime, was not under arrest and did not have a weapon.
According to the lawsuit, when the boy's father asked why the deputy put his hands on J.D. when he wasn't hurting anyone, the deputy said "Because, as a law enforcement officer, that's my primary function."
When J.D. got up to go back to class, the lawsuit says, the deputy grabbed him by the arm, "forcibly wrestled" him into a conference room and "repeatedly slammed J.D. face down onto the floor of the conference room, causing multiple bleeding facial injuries." He then climbed on top of the boy and pinned him facedown on the floor, causing him to struggle to breathe, and screamed threats at him, the lawsuit says. Wyoming law prohibits the use of prone restraint in schools, the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit says the portion of the body camera video showing the assault was deleted by the deputy. The details come from a report filed by the principal.
Body camera video that wasn't deleted shows the boy pinned under the deputy as the boy "screams and cries in pain and fear," the lawsuit says. It also shows him bleeding from wounds on his face. The assault continued for "many minutes," the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit says the boy was not suspected of any crime, was not under arrest and did not have a weapon.
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Tell me Lord-Humungus what would you do if this were your son?