VANCOUVER — The mother of a 12-year-old Indigenous boy who was handcuffed by police at B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver says it should have been a safe place for her son, who has autism, but he was pinned to the floor and treated like an adult.
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.
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. Brown says she respects the police, adding her son has run away from school a few times and she appreciates the officers who have helped find him.
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