A Saratoga County Sheriff’s deputy was videotaped tackling a teenager to the floor in a local Target department store in New York state. The relatives of the boy tried to inform the officer of what they say is the teen’s autistic condition, however, when they were ignored the conflict escalated, resulting in the cop being hit in the face with a soap dish.

The incident reportedly was prompted after deputies were told the boy was a theft suspect, but later store employees shared with witnesses they just wanted the child removed.

 

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On Monday, April 18, two of Chante Ware’s children, her 14-year-old son, and 17-year-old daughter, were involved in an altercation with the deputy while shopping at the Clifton Park branch of the popular retail franchise. Without waiting for a guardian, the officer handcuffed the boy despite his sister advocating for her sibling.

Ware said her daughter called, telling her the police had detained her child. The mom explained, “At the moment, I knew that whatever had happened, it was bad because of the way she was crying. My anxiety went from two to one million.”

Ware said she had to remain steady because her children, who were both minors, needed her as “their voice.”

She said, “mentally and emotionally, I’m not OK, but for my children, I have to be strong because I am their voice.”

The sheriff’s department did not release the reason why the boy, whose name is withheld because he is a minor, was a suspect. But the Target representative said a security employee called law enforcement “after a guest entered the store who had previously threatened physical violence against one of our team members.”

Ware alleges that was not what she was told when she asked why were her children “being treated like this?”

“He’s like, ‘We were told they were suspects in a larceny.’ I said, ‘if they were suspects in a larceny, they would have been arrested already. They had money. My son had his wallet in his hand,” she recalled.

Source: ‘These Are Children!’: NY Teen Arrested While Attempting to ‘Protect’ Her 14-Year-Old Autistic Brother Who Was Tackled by a Sheriff’s Deputy In a Chaotic Scene Captured In a Target Store