12\u002Dyear\u002Dold Indigenous boy was handcuffed by police at B.C. Children\u0027s Hospital
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.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.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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