A Black mom in Maryland will receive a $275,000 settlement for how her then five-year-old child was detained after walking away from school two years ago.
The yelling happened in 2020 when the boy apparently got upset in class and threw a clipboard that hit his teacher. The cops claimed the boy was defiant when they tried to take him back to school.
Newly released records show two police officers were suspended without pay after berating a 5-year-old boy, calling him a shepherd of the devil and threatening him with a beating.
A parent from Montgomery County, Maryland, has settled with the county over how her young child was aggressively detained by police after he walked away from school two years ago.