VANCOUVER — The mother of a 12\u002Dyear\u002Dold Indigenous boy who was handcuffed by police at B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver says it should have been a safe…
Mia Brown says she needed help with her son at a SkyTrain station Thursday because he was “pushing,” and two officers with Metro Vancouver Transit Police brought him to the hospital for assessment under B.C.’s Mental Health Act.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
She says she started recording a video, which she posted to social media, when one of the officers put his knee on her son’s back. “You have to have a high tolerance for a kid who has autism, because they have needs. I ask him what he needs and then we find a solution.”Article content “Some police know what to do with a kid who has autism, some police just treat him like an adult, because, I guess, he has autism, and we’re Indigenous,” she said, adding that she felt she and her son had been “racially profiled.”
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