'I'm absolutely disgusted,' said the boy's mother
Police are conducting an internal review following an eruption of anger on a street where mobile phone footage appears to capture an officer aiming a punch at a boy of 15.
Pictures taken later in hospital show the boy, who the M.E.N. is not naming, with cuts and grazes to his back, arm and head. Footage captures officers pinning her son onto the pavement beside a parked car after he reacts furiously to the arrest of the other youth. He can be heard screaming and repeatedly asking the officers 'have you got kids?' and pleading with the officers to 'get off me'.
As he urges cops to 'get off my face', one officer tells him: "We'll sort you out and sit you up but we need you to stay calm. Are you listening to me? Are you listening?" His mother added: " didn't commit any criminal damage. He didn't assault any police officer. In fact, it was the opposite way around. It's heart-breaking for a mother to have to stand there and watch this."
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