A California mother is facing two counts of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, and felony evading after police told her that she could not take her 5-year-old child from his foster parents.
One responding officer is now under investigation to determine if his use of force was appropriate in the child custody dispute that erupted into chaos.
Newly released footage, taken on Oct. 1, shows Miesha Scott’s temper getting the best of her when officers from the Los Angeles Police Department verify that her son should stay with his foster father, her cousin.
The cops were called to the parking lot of a Target store at Gaffey Street and Capitol Drive in San Pedro to help settle the dispute between Scott and her relatives. The biological mother refused to return the young child to his guardians after a state-appointed visit.
Police video shows Scott with her hands raised, telling the officers, “Don’t walk straight up on me like that. I’m in distress.”
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As the officers try to calm her down, she continues to beg them not to come closer and to give her some space.
The 39-year-old appears to be agitated. The more officers try to inquire about how they can support her, the more she pushes back and interrupts them.
Finally, she shares, “I’m having a hard time co-parenting with my cousin here.” She adds that he has been “urging” her to bring her son back to his care, and she doesn’t want that.
Still unclear on what is going on and why they were called, the police take control of the back and forth, asking her details about the boy in a vehicle she is standing in front of a white Chevrolet U-Haul truck.
“What’s the custody situation with your son,” one officer asks.
She responds, “The custody situation with my son is that my cousin would take care of my son and protect him by all causes until his mother gets out of jail and able to … obtain custody…
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